About the SYSTRON Lab

Who We Are

The SYSTRON Lab is an established research laboratory with a multidisciplinary team of around 20 researchers, focused on advancing secure, resilient, and intelligent distributed systems for future digital infrastructure. Our work addresses key UK and global priorities across telecommunications, IoT, edge-cloud systems, AI-native networking, Internet governance, and cyber security, with a strong emphasis on interoperable, deployable, sustainable, and societally relevant solutions.

What We Research

We tackle fundamental challenges facing modern networked systems, including scalability under uncertainty, trust and security in open and autonomous systems, machine-speed automation, and resilience across heterogeneous and interconnected environments. Our research integrates foundational methods with experimental validation, ensuring that new ideas are rigorously tested against real-world constraints and contribute to both scientific understanding and practical capability.

Our Collaborations

We work closely with industry partners, standards bodies, and national and international research programmes, contributing to areas such as 5G/6G security, Open RAN, zero-trust and zero-touch network management, edge intelligence, and sustainable digital systems. Through these collaborations, we translate research outcomes into economic, societal, and policy impact, supporting the UK's leadership in secure digital infrastructure and future communications.

Our Aims

Alongside research excellence, Systron Lab is committed to capacity building, skills development, and inclusive research practice, supporting doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. We aim to create an open, supportive environment where researchers at all career stages can thrive, while delivering trusted, adaptive, and resilient systems by design that have impact beyond academia.

Dr Poonam Yadav

SYSTRON Lead

Current research is on making the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing systems resilient, reliable and robust.


Vijon Baraku

PhD Student

Current research on data protection and the GDPR, ontologies, and blockchain technology.


Dr Sebati Ghosh

Research Associate

Primary research interests are in cryptography and cybersecurity. Within SystronLab, current work centres on improving the security, resilience, and trustworthiness of communication and networked systems, particularly in the context of O-RAN architectures and IoT environments.


Rehab Alawadh

PhD Student

Researching on enhancing resilience in software-defined Internet of Things networks against link failure.


Reem Alhabib

PhD Student

Current research on data sharing in Autonomous vehicles through blockchain technologies.


Dr Panos Papanastasiou

Research Associate

Dr Panagiotis (Panos) Papanastasiou is a Research Associate within the SYSTRON Lab. His interest is Quantum Cryptography and specifically how we can enhance Network security by using hybrid settings of PQC and QKD in wireless communications.


Dr Olufemi Olayiwola

Affiliate / Research Fellow

Project lead on green communications for 6G networks


Mohit Bidikar

Research Software Engineer

Building 5G and 6G research testbeds with a focus on Open RAN and cloud native telecom systems.


Joshua Levett

PhD Student

Current research is on networking protocols and routing, and Internet architectures and governance.


Jinkun Zhang

Research Associate

Primarily works on decentralized/semi-decentralized resource allocation and dynamics of edge caching and computing networks. Current research on security-aware network orchestration for MEC and edge AI.


Hasan Abo Dihin

PhD Student

Current research focuses on the security of next-generation mobile networks, with a particular emphasis on O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) architectures and 6G security. This work investigates threats, vulnerabilities, and defensive mechanisms in open and disaggregated RAN environments, contributing to building more secure and trustworthy future wireless infrastructure.


Evangelos Barmpas

PhD Student

Current research is on application interoperability over heterogeneous IoT spaces.


Dema Williams

Research Support Assistant

Research Support Assistant, focusing on areas within O-RAN and Machine Learning within forecasting renewable energy sources.


Dr Bidushi Barua

Research Associate

Current research is on making 6G networks energy-efficient and secured


Anthony Moulds

Senior Experimental Officer

Researching on embedded systems, FPGA Design, high-speed digital design, ultra low-power sensor systems.


Amit More

PhD Student

PhD researcher specialising in energy-efficient AI systems, carbon-aware computing, and intelligent orchestration for large-scale machine learning workloads. My research focuses on building sustainable and resource-efficient foundations for modern AI infrastructure, particularly in the areas of LLM serving, micro-service optimisation, and distributed edge-cloud environments.


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