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Funded Research Projects 

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Our group's research is fortunate enough to be supported by both UK scientific bodies (UKRI: EPSRC, InnovateUK), Royal Society, and EU scientific bodies, UK & US government (DSTL, US Air Force), as well as many charitable bodies (Lloyds Register).

You can find the details of most of UK funded grants I have led/co-led here: UKRI Grant Profile Page
 

Grant Capture:
 

• PI on £8.2m to host institution

• Investigator on £35.6m of external research grant funding (91% as institution/project PI)

• Funders: EPSRC, EU H2020/Horizon, InnovateUK, Royal Society, DSTL, USAF, Alan Turing Institute.

• Active Grants: 2 EPSRC, 1 EU, 1 InnovateUK, 1 DSTL, 1 Industrial, 3 EPSRC Studentships
  Current Investigator Time: 64%

• Management Team (2023-26) on £3+8m EPSRC Communications Hub: CHEDDAR
  Co-Director (2020-24) on £3m EPSRC TAS-S node
  Coordinator (2017-19) on €1m H2020 project DAWN4IoE
  Management Team (2017-19) on £3.9m EPSRC CDT Urban Science

• Supervisor Experience: 57+ PDRA FTE years, 24+ funded PhD studentship years

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UKRI: EPSRC

• EPSRC CHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research 
  (EP/X040518/1) (EP/Y037421/1)
  CI (PI for host) Total: £3+8.5m 2023-26 Link-Hub Link-TMF Project [Active]
  J. McCann (Coordinator), W. Guo (Cranfield lead), M. Imran (Glasgow lead), S. Zaidi (Leeds lead), H. Sun (Durham lead), P. Yadav (York lead), 20 other CIs .
  Key Papers: [ORAN Network Stability, IEEE Globecom] [LLM-driven 6G Specification]

• EPSRC TAS-S: Trustworthy Autonomous Systems: Security (EP/V026763/1) 
  CI (PI for host) £1.2m (Total: £3m) 2020-24 Link Project [Active]
  N. Suri (Coordinator, Strand 1 Lead), W. Guo (Co-Director, Strand 2 Lead), C. May-Chahal (Co-Director, Strand 3 Lead),
  P. Angelov, A. Tsourdos, G. Inalhan, D. Hutchison, V. Giotsas, C. Easton, J. Deville, L. Dorn
  Key Papers: [Control Layer Security, IEEE VTM] [Adversarial IRS, IEEE T-IFS] [Low Shot Learning, Neural C&A]

• EPSRC MACRO - Mobility as a service: MAnaging Cybersecurity Risks across Consumers, Organisations and Sectors (EP/V039164/1)
  CI (WP lead) £122k (Total: £550k) 2021-24 Link
  N. Ozkan (Coordinator), S. Li (PI for Kent), W. Guo, C. Long, A. Zagorecki
  Key Papers: [Spoofing MA-DRL, IEEE T-DSC] [Private Federated DRL, IEEE T-ITS] [Fair DRL, Neural C&A]

• EPSRC (PETRAS) GraphSec: Physical Graph Based Wireless IoT Security with No Key Exchange
  PI £235k 2021-23 Link  W. Guo (PI)
  Key Papers: [Graph Layer Security, Sensors] [DRL Key Mining, IEEE ICSIP]

• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress (EP/L016400/1)
  CI £3.9m 2014-23 Link 
  H. Ferhatosmanoglu (Current Coordinator), S. Jarvis (Coordinator), I. Guymer, J. Coaffee, R. Procter, G. Cormode, W. Guo, X. Geng, M. Gillie
  Key Papers: [Google Trend Diabetes, Nat. Sci. Rep.] [Historical Impact Urban Entropy, IEEE Smart City]

• EPSRC CoTRE - Complexity Twin for Resilient Ecosystems (EP/R041725/1)
  PI £238k 2018-20 Link W. Guo (PI)
  Key Papers: [Joint Graph & Dynamic Resilience, Nat. Sci. Rep.] [Uncertainty in Networked Resilience, IEEE Sys. J] [Probabilistic Stability, IEEE Sys. J]

• EPSRC (ENCORE+) Nature Inspired Routing for Resilient Networked Systems
  PI £9.6k 2017-18 ​W. Guo (PI), L. Varga (CI)
  Key Paper: [Railway Topological Resilience, Royal Soc. OS]
  
                                                                                                       EPSRC Studentships
   

• EPSRC (iCASE with Thales UK) PhD Studentship: Human-Drones Teaming for Autonomous Rescue with Fast Reinforcement Learning (EP/X52475X/1) (2788094)
  Supervisor 2022-27 Link [Active]
  W. Guo (supervisor), D. Panagopoulos (student) 

• EPSRC (DTP with Saab UK) PhD Studentship: AI-based framework for drone intent classification using a non-cooperative radar system (EP/T518104/1) (2744569)
  Supervisor 2023-27 Link [Active]
  W. Guo (supervisor), R. Brown (student) 

• EPSRC (DTP with Saab UK) PhD Studentship: AI for Radar in an Air Traffic Management System (EP/T518104/1) (2535755)
  Supervisor 2021-25 Link [Active]
  W. Guo (supervisor), D. Holt (student) 

• EPSRC (DTP) PhD Studentship: Patterns of City Formation and Development (EP/N509796/1) (2109287)
  Supervisor 2018-22 Link
  W. Guo (supervisor), M. Mazzamurro (student) 
  Key Paper: [Historical Impact Urban Entropy, IEEE Smart City] [Network Entropy for Industrial Revolution, Env. & Planning B]

• EPSRC (DTC) PhD Studentship: The Human Ecosystem: Social Interactions underlying Conflict and Cooperation (EP/L015374/1) (1643787)
  Supervisor 2015-19 Link
  W. Guo (supervisor), G. Mosquera (student) 
  Key Paper: [Gang Graph Models in Colombia, Plos One]

• EPSRC (DTC) PhD Studentship: De-biasing Social Media Data to understand Citizen Engagement with Government Services (EP/L016400/1) (1723233)
  Supervisor 2016-18 Link
  W. Guo (supervisor), N. Gupta (student) 
  Key Papers: [Urban Happiness, IEEE Smart City]

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UKRI: InnovateUK​

• InnovateUK ATI: LANDOne - Landing Advances for a New Decade One (10002411)
  CI £3.5m (Total: £23.6m) 2022-26 [Link] [Active]
  M. Skote (PI), G. Inalhan (CI), A. Tsourdos (CI), W. Guo (CI), H. Shin (CI), A. Zolotas (CI), D. Ignatyev (CI)

• InnovateUK National Timing Centre: DSQTA - Disseminated Secure QuanTime Autonomy (10038140)
  CI £120k (Total: £401k) 2022-24 [Link] 
  I. Petrunin (PI), A. Tsourdos (CI), M. Samie (CI), W. Guo (CI) 
  Key Paper: [Hardware in Loop Time Dissemination]

• InnovateUK Future Flight: Fly2Plan – Enabling a new model aviation data system-of-systems (70883)
  CI £250k (Total: £4.7m) 2020-22 Link
  D. Panagiotakopolos (PI), W. Guo (CI) 
  Key Paper: [Blockchain enabled XAI for Air Traffic Management]

• InnovateUK & Ranplan ODIN - Online Data Integrated Network (KTP10734)
  PI, £199k (£123k KTP with £75k company contribution) 2018-20 Link
  W. Guo (Academic PI), R. Procter (CI), J. Zhang (Commercial Lead)
  Key Paper: [Geo-Tagging Consumer Sentiment, IEEE Smart City]

• InnovateUK COCKPIT 5G - Crowd Blackspot Intelligence for 5G Rollout (29634)
  PI, £104k (Total: £210k) 2019-20 Link
  W. Guo (Academic PI), R. Procter (CI), J. Zhang (Commercial Lead)
  Key Paper: [Mapping Consumer Sentiment, IEEE Access]

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EU: H2020 & Horizon

• EC Horizon SAPHIR-READY - Obtain flight mission readiness, enabling rapid intervention for healthcare and critical infrastructure, leveraging all value chain actors and U-Space services (101114855)
  CI (Total: €9.2m) 2023-26 Link [Active]

• EU H2020 DAWN4IoE - Data Aware Wireless Network for Internet-of-Everything (778305)
  PI & Coordinator €270k (Total: €1.1m) 2017-21 (extended to 23) Link 
  W. Guo (Coordinator & SiC), Y. Chen (Current Coordinator), Z. Jie (Co-Coordinator), X. Chu, M. Fiore, K. Tsagkaris
  Key Papers: [5G Mobility Models, IEEE VTM] [Proactive 5G Optimisation, IEEE Access] [Twitter Teleco Traffic Prediction, IEEE WCL]

• EU H2020 Green Machine Learning for 5G and Beyond Resource Optimisation (891221)
  PI €225k 2020-22 Link 
  W. Guo (SiC) 

• EU H2020 Mo-IoNT - Molecular Internet-of-Nano-Things (792799)
  PI €195k 2018-20 Link
  W. Guo (SiC), L. Lin (fellow)
  Key Papers: [Molecular Physics for 6G, IEEE CM] [Molecular Cyberattack, IEEE IoTM] [Intelligent NanoNet, IEEE T-NBS]

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UK & US: Defence & Security​​

• DSTL (DASA) Cognitive Multimodal Interface for Human Situation Awareness Augmentation (ACC6042032)
  CI £295k 2023-25  [Active]
  Y. Xing (PI), A. Tsourdos (CI), W. Guo (CI)

• USAF (AFOFSR) Networked Social Influence and Acceptance in a New Age of Crises (FA8655-20-1-7031)
  PI $220k 2020-23 
  W. Guo 
  Key Paper: [Social Influence Network, IEEE/ACM ASONAM]

• USAF (AFOFSR) MolSig - Molecular Signalling in Complex Environments (FA9550-17-1-0056)
  PI $166k 2017-21 Link
  W. Guo (PI), P. Thomas (CI)
  Key Paper: [Cybersecurity of Mol-Com, IEEE T-NBS]

• DSTL (DASA) UNSURE - Unstable Behaviour on the Edge of Communities (ACC6005162)
  PI £100k 2019 Link
  W. Guo 
  Key Paper: [Conflict on Social Networks, ACM MEDES]

• Alan Turing Institute Turing Fellowship (0.4 FTE, 2017-19) + Extension (0.3-0.5 FTE, 2020-21) + Modern Slavery (0.1 FTE, 2020-21)
  PI £49k + £112k + £7k 2017-21 
  W. Guo (Fellow)

• Alan Turing Institute (D&S) GUARD - Global Urban Analytics for Resilient Defence
  PI £250k 2017-19 Link
  W. Guo (PI), A. Wilson (CI)
  Key Papers: [Dynamic Networked Conflict Prediction Models] [Causal AI for Climate-Conflict Model, IJCAI] [Statistical Patterns in Conflict, Royal Soc. OS] [Imperial Dynamics Historical Model, Cliodynamics] [AI for Conflict Prediction, Nature]

• DSTL (DASA) MEDE - Molecular Communications for Electromagnetic-Denied Environments (ACC102665)
  PI £90k 2017-18 Link 
  W. Guo (PI), P. Thomas (CI)
  Key Papers: [Mol-Signal Tracking, IEEE T-MBMC] [Experimental Mol-Com, ACM NanoCom] [Vertical Mol-Com, IEEE ICC]

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Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Charities, Government

• RAEng (IC) Antifragility for secure air traffic control
  PI £170k 2023-25 Link [Active]
  D. Panda (fellow), W. Guo (mentor)

• RAEng (IC) Drone intention prediction based on semi-supervised learning of flight physics
  PI £170k 2021-23 Link
  A. Perrusquia (fellow), W. Guo (mentor)
  Key Papers: [Phy-ML for Trajectory Inference, IEEE T-AC, IEEE T-SMC, IEEE T-Cybernetics] [Control Phy-ML for Intention, Nat. Comm. Eng.]

• Department for Transport  National Security and Science Research Programme
  CI £1m 2022-23 (extendable to 2026)
  PA Consulting (PI), S. Harwood, A. Tsourdos, G. Braithwaite, D. Barry, J. Pelham (Fellow), W. Guo (CI) 

• Department for Transport S-TRIG: Drone Classification: 1-Shot Rapid Learning via Explainable AI
  PI £27k 2020-21 
  W. Guo (PI)
  Key Paper: [Low Shot Learning, Neural C&A]

• Alan Turing Institute (Lloyds Register Data Centric Engineering) CHANCE - Coupled Human And Natural Critical Ecosystems
  PI £290k 2018-20 Link​
  W. Guo (PI), A. Wilson (CI), J. McCann, M. Musolesi, R. Silva
  Key Papers: [Neural Graph Transform for Monitoring, ACM T-IT] [Graph Fourier Sampling of WDN, IEEE T-NSE] [Resilience of WDN, ASCE J-WRPM]

• Lloyd's Register (ICON) PhD Studentship: Towards Invisible Nanoscale Chemical Tagging (ICON-23)
  CI 2017-21 Link
  A. Eckford (PI & Supervisor), W. Guo
  Key Paper: [Molecular Barcode, IEEE ICC]

• Royal Society SmallTalk - Talking between Small Thing
  PI £11k 2016-18 Link​
  W. Guo (PI), C. Zhao (PI - BUPT)
  Key Papers: [Low Complexity Blind Mol-Signal Detector, IEEE T-Com]

• Royal Society Nanocommunications for Smart Cities (IE130762)
  PI £5k 2012-14 
  W. Guo (PI), A. Eckford (PI - York)
  Key Papers: [Tutorial for Mol-Com, IEEE Comm. Survey & Tutorials] [Tabletop Experiment, Plos One]

• British Council Urban Science and Information Engineering (INB/CONT/0165)
  PI £5k 2013-15 
  W. Guo (PI), M. Jain (PI - IIT-B)

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Industrial Funders

• Leonardo-Cranfield Co-Fund CDAS Fellows Explainable AI and Autonomy for Alternative Navigation Solutions On Unmanned Rotary-Winged Aircraft
  PI £180k 2023-25 [Active]

• BAE Systems Swarm Autonomy with Natural Language Commands
  PI £140k 2024-25 [Active]

• Marshall Aerospace

• Ultra-CSS

• Saab UK

• Thales UK

• QinetiQ

• Ranplan