Research

TAQOS research connects quantum and post-quantum engineering, cybersecurity, secure data systems, and resilient digital infrastructures. These themes reflect recurring technical directions across the project portfolio.

Quantum and Post-Quantum Engineering

TAQOS works on the transition to post-quantum security and on secure engineering methods for quantum software and hardware. Current projects address crypto-agility, migration tooling, development workflows, and interoperable quantum runtime environments.

  • Post-quantum migration
  • Quantum software
  • Crypto-agility

Cybersecurity and Assurance for AI-Enabled Systems

Research includes protecting AI-enabled systems against adversarial behaviour and supporting explainable security decisions. It also examines compliance, privacy, robustness, and assurance where AI is used within data and service ecosystems.

  • Adversarial AI
  • AI security
  • Compliance and assurance

Secure, Open, and Interoperable Data Systems

Current projects address governed data sharing, semantic interoperability, secure transactions, and compliance-aware data infrastructures. The work also covers open interfaces that help heterogeneous digital and quantum systems operate together.

  • Data spaces
  • Interoperability
  • Secure transactions

Resilient Distributed and Cyber-Physical Systems

TAQOS investigates resilient networking and monitoring across distributed, connected, and cyber-physical environments. Portfolio evidence includes multi-UAV cooperation, aerial-terrestrial communications, and secure transition planning for critical digital infrastructures.

  • Distributed systems
  • UAV networks
  • Infrastructure resilience

Secure-by-Design Development, Validation, and Assurance

A cross-cutting research direction is the integration of security, compliance, testing, and assessment throughout system development. Projects apply this approach to AI-enabled services, data ecosystems, quantum engineering, and other security-sensitive digital systems.

  • Secure development
  • Validation
  • Security assurance
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