Annual Lero-Open University Research Workshop held in Limerick

Research teams from The Open University’s Software Engineering & Design (SEAD) research group and Lero’s Security, Privacy, Adaptation & Requirements Engineering (SPARE) research group met at the University of Limerick (UL) for their annual “away days” research workshop on 17-20 July 2017. The workshop programme  included working groups discussing software engineering, security, privacy and digital...

Lero DkIT spinout company Nova Leah to create 78 jobs

Medical device cybersecurity company targets $50 billion global connected medical device market   Lero researchers from the Regulated Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology have launched a new medical device cybersecurity company that plans to create 78 jobs over the next four years. The Lero DkIT spinout company, Nova Leah (www.novaleah.com) has developed an expert...

Lero PhD student wins commercialisation award for Cloud9

Cloud9, an early-stage big data venture, has won a University College Dublin (UCD) commercialisation award. Cloud9 is developing a new software service to enable organisations to effectively and efficiently desensitise personal data in-house before uploading it securely to the cloud for processing.The founder of Cloud9 is Vanessa Ayala-Rivera, a PhD student with Lero, based in...

Irish research programme to investigate if new social media platform can address challenges and opportunities for those aged 50+

– Lero programme seeks volunteers aged 50+ to participate – “More than a LinkedIn, Facebook or online water cooler for all aged 50+” Lero, IBM Ireland and ISAX (Ireland Smart Ageing Exchange) have announced a two year research programme which could result in a new social media platform which would allow older people to offer...

Lero research highlights need to build in forensics to identify cause of cyber attacks and catch the perpetrators

– Study launched on back of recent global cyber attack Dr George Grispos of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre New research from Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, finds that many organisations are failing to consider the threat of cyber attacks when they design and develop software systems. The news follows on from the...

DCU Presidents Award for Industrial Engagements

Dr Marksu Helfert (Project Leader), Marija Bezbradica and Manoj Kesavulu have received the prestigious DCU Presidents Award for Industrial Engagement for their project with IBM on “Usage Analytics – User level SaaS-based Usage Analytics”. The project goal is to investigate user-level usage analysis in cloud systems analysing customer usage data. The team investigates approaches for...

Annual Lero – NI – OU workshop

The annual NII-Lero-OU workshop was held this year at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, between 7-8th April 2017. This year’s workshop theme was “Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems”. Bashar Nuseibeh from Lero co-chaired the workshop, together with Professor Ernesto Damiani, Director of the Information Security Centre at Khalifa University. Professor Nobukazu Yoshioka, an Associate Professor...

Scratch 2017 Finals

2017 Scratch Competition Lero is hosting  the 2017 Scratch Competition National Finals in the Kemmy Business School on Wednesday April 26th from 11:00-3:00pm. This year there are 30 finalists who have been selected from 545 entries. The 30 projects are created by students aged 5-18. All od the projects will be on display in the...

Bashar Nuseibeh at Buckingham Palace

Bashar Nuseibeh attended a reception at Buckingham Palace on 27th February 2017, hosted by Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, and The President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Professor Bai. The reception focused on promoting the International Talent Programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (PIFI), which aims to enhance the internationalization of...

Lero, Fraunhofer Centre Sign Research Agreement

Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software, and the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering at the University of Maryland, are set to embark on an extensive research collaboration focussing on evolving critical systems and digital transformation. At the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering (CESE) and...