TAQOS Team Trustworthy AI, Quantum, Open and Secure Systems

Trustworthy AI, Quantum, Open and Secure Systems Team

TAQOS Team

Trustworthy AI, quantum technologies, and secure open systems for resilient digital infrastructures.

TAQOS Team is a research team within the Industrial Systems Institute (ISI), Athena Research Center. The team contributes to European collaborative projects in cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, post-quantum technologies, quantum software engineering, digital forensics, secure data ecosystems, IoT/UAV systems, and resilient cyber-physical systems.

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The Team

Applied research across secure intelligent systems

TAQOS stands for Trustworthy AI, Quantum, Open and Secure Systems. The team works across cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, secure data ecosystems, quantum-facing software, and cyber-physical systems. The site presents only high-level, public-safe descriptions while project status, people, publications, and contacts remain under review.

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Research Areas

Selected technical focus areas

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Trustworthy AI and AI Security

Assessment, protection, and explanation of AI-enabled systems under adversarial and operational uncertainty.

  • Trustworthy AI
  • Adversarial AI
  • Explainability

Cybersecurity for Critical and Cyber-Physical Systems

Security methods for connected services, cyber-physical infrastructures, and resilient technical environments.

  • Cybersecurity
  • CPS
  • Resilience

Post-Quantum Security and Quantum Software Engineering

Migration, crypto-agility, and secure engineering methods for emerging quantum software ecosystems.

  • Post-quantum
  • Quantum software
  • Crypto-agility

Secure Data Spaces, Compliance, and Interoperability

Compliance-aware data sharing, semantic interoperability, and trustworthy data ecosystem architectures.

  • Data spaces
  • Compliance
  • Interoperability

Project portfolio

European collaborative research themes

Draft cards show high-level scope, programme, duration, provisional status, and source-derived team role signals.

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AIAS

AIAS

AI-ASsisted cybersecurity platform empowering SMEs to defend against adversarial AI attacks

AIAS focuses on adversarial AI, AI-system protection, deception concepts, explainable AI, and cybersecurity methods that help organisations assess and defend AI-enabled services.

Role
Partner; WP2 lead
Status
To be confirmed
  • Adversarial AI
  • Cybersecurity
  • Digital twins
  • Explainable AI
REFINE

REFINE

Real-time Fine-grained Air Quality Monitoring with Intelligent and Robust Multi-UAV Networks

REFINE explores real-time air-quality monitoring through multi-UAV cooperation, aerial-terrestrial networking, edge/cloud analysis, and lightweight AI methods.

Role
Partner; WP1 leader
Status
To be confirmed
  • UAV systems
  • Air-quality monitoring
  • Edge/cloud
  • Wireless networks

PQ-NEXT

Post-Quantum Networks for Energy-eXfficient Transitions

PQ-NEXT addresses migration toward post-quantum secure communications, crypto-agility, quantum-resilient network planning, and tooling for assessing post-quantum cryptographic approaches.

Role
Partner; technical contributor
Status
To be confirmed
  • Post-quantum security
  • Crypto-agility
  • Network security
  • Quantum software
RegulAIze

RegulAIze

A Smart, Automated, and Trustworthy Data Ecosystem

RegulAIze develops concepts for compliance-aware data ecosystems, including machine-readable compliance evidence, data-space interoperability, semantic layers, and trustworthy AI/data services.

Role
Partner; WP5 lead
Status
To be confirmed
  • Data spaces
  • Compliance
  • Interoperability
  • Trustworthy data

Technical activities

Capabilities that support research prototypes

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Research engineering / Project-based

System Architecture and Requirements Analysis

Public-safe activity area covering requirements, architecture design, and technical alignment for collaborative research prototypes.

  • Architecture
  • Requirements
  • Research prototypes

Technical validation / Project-based

Prototype Integration and Validation

Integration and validation of research components in controlled prototype settings, with emphasis on reproducibility and clear technical evaluation.

  • Integration
  • Validation
  • Demonstrators

Technical support / Continuous

Compliance, Interoperability, and Standardisation Support

Support for compliance-aware architectures, interoperability patterns, and alignment with relevant technical and regulatory ecosystems.

  • Compliance
  • Interoperability
  • Standardisation

Infrastructure / Project-based

HPC/Cloud-Enabled Experimentation

Use of edge, cloud, and high-performance computing resources for controlled experimentation in AI, data, quantum, and security research.

  • HPC
  • Cloud
  • Experimentation

News & Events

Conservative public updates

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Research ·

Research portfolio expanded with European collaborative projects

TAQOS Team is preparing public-safe website summaries for collaborative research across cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, data ecosystems, digital forensics, and cyber-physical systems.

Activities ·

Work continues on AI security, forensic digital twins, and secure data ecosystems

Draft public update on activity areas connecting trustworthy AI, digital forensics, compliance-aware data spaces, and secure technical demonstrators.

Research ·

Team contributes to post-quantum and quantum software research

Draft public update covering research directions in post-quantum security, quantum software engineering, secure development workflows, and HPC-supported experimentation.