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UDE FREE ZONE promotes research with excellence to make a significant academic and industrial impact and improve QS ranking. Our innovative areas will cover thematic areas spanning from ICT and Big Data to Business Strategy and Law and regulations.

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Exploit AI and IoT technologies to develop new solutions and patents able to transform the world by fundamentally altering the way people and goods are moved.

  • V2V and V2I communication
  • V2V and V2I GPS spoofing applications
  • Advanced driving assist systems
  • Telematic operations for autonomous vehicles
  • Testing platform for AV technologies

Cyber-Physical Systems

Development of new hardware architectures, algorithms, signal processing techniques and communication protocols to help computers interact directly and effectively with the physical world.

  • Agent-based smart home environments
  • Remote patient monitoring
  • Well-being of animals
  • Personalized health care
  • Data driven digital twins

AI for Financial Applications and Digital Economy

Development of novel computational intelligence algorithms for cryptocurrency analysis and financial time series applications and outperform classical statistical and financial models.

  • Deep Learning-based time series financial analysis
  • Cryptocurrency price trend and exchange rate forecasting
  • Big Data analytics and Sentiment analysis for financial applications

Enterprise Process Optimization

Investigate new technologies that can be applied to help businesses support enterprise decision making  and optimize business operations.

  • Machine learning and AI for business operations
  • Automatic customer segmentation and sentiment analysis
  • Optimized production
  • Intelligent decision support systems

Smart and Green City

This IP will integrate information, IoT and communication technologies to optimize the efficiency of city operations and services to citizens.

  • Traffic management and congestion forecasting
  • Urban flood monitoring and forecasting
  • Energy grid optimization and demand forecasting

Computer Vision for Industry 5.0 and Health Informatics

This innovation will develop new technologies to enable computers gain understanding and extract knowledge from digital images or videos to support the development of next generation Industry 5.0 and Health Informatics applciations.

  • Accurate object classification within a scene
  • GDPR compliant computer vision
  • Intelligent data annotation algorithms

Space Technology and Applications

Explore the synergy of the latest sensory, AI and communication technologies to deliver novel space technologies and applications.

  • Sensors, instruments, handling and command systems.
  • Robotics and mechanical systems.
  • Satellite communication and mission analysis.

Spacecraft control and energy storage

Metaverse and Digital Twin

Investigate algorithms and IoT technologies able to accurately virtually represent physical objects and processes.

  • 3D modelling
  • Virtual reality and augmented reality applications
  • IoT sensors and real time data transmission
  • Animal centred digital twin

Cyber Security

Develop new practices, network technologies and algorithms for protecting critical systems and sensitive information from digital attacks.

  • Computer, wireless and sensory network security
  • Deep learning based abnormal behaviour detection
  • Automotive hacking
  • Encoding algorithms

Smart Education

Explore modern pedagogical practices and state of the art IoT technologies to support the development of next generation student-centered learning environments.

  • Intelligent learning support systems
  • Smart classroom/campuses
  • Student sentiment analysis
  • Modern Pedagogical frameworks.