Interview with Siraj Shaikh

Siraj ShaikhDr. Siraj Ahmed Shaikh is a Reader in Cyber Security in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. He leads the Digital Security and Forensics (SaFe) Group. Siraj has been involved in researching large-scale distributed secure systems for over thirteen years.

The final nail in the crash test dummy’s coffin?

Crash Test Dummy Model

As the automotive industry moves towards autonomous safety systems – enabling a car’s breaking system to react to safety threats without human involvement – Coventry University’s researchers are questioning whether current crash test dummies are up to the challenge of modelling safety requirements for the future.

Professor George Martin seeks some new thinking on how to make our 25 million homes more energy efficient

Henry Ford at the Model T Launch

The UK has some of the oldest – and leakiest – housing stock in the western world. The vast majority of it will still be standing in 2050, the year by which the government has set itself a target to cut UK carbon emissions by 80% in comparison to 1990 levels.

Mind the Performance Gap… Orbit Housing and the Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre

Elena Gaura, Cogent Computing

Innovation often comes at times of great need, as evidenced by the plethora of new technologies emerging to tackle the UK’s 80% carbon reduction target by 2050. For the housing sector, it is essential that any technologies built into homes are as usable and efficient as possible.