Cybersecurity (CYBER)

The division Cybersecurity is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. It consists of several research groups, each of which has its own research profile. Note: the division is undergoing restructuring from 2026-01-01 and this webpage will be updated. 

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Research Groups

The Air and Ground Information Security Group

This group conducts research on air security including manned air communication systems and drone identification and communication, as well as ground IT security including industrial internet, smartgrids, security and monitoring of vehicular systems (cars, ships, rails) and 6G. Read more about our group

The Communications for Networked Intelligent Systems Group

This group performs research on communication networks, such as semantics-aware goal-oriented communications, timeliness of information, tactile internet, wireless energy harvesting networks, performance analysis and stochastic modeling, and physical layer security. An important research direction is how to utilize the traffic properties and characteristics to increase the performance of wireless networks by reducing the amount of information that is generated, transmitted, and processed in a network. Typical examples include content caching and timing properties and requirements of traffic, which are crucial aspects towards 6G communications. Read more about our group.

The Database and Web Information Systems Group

This group conducts research on storage, management, search and integration of data. Important application areas are materials science and the life sciences.
Currently, our research focuses on: ontology engineering (alignment, debugging, evolution, visualization), efficient data management for the web, querying linked data, graph databases and sports analytics. Read more about our group.

Real Time Systems (RTSLAB)

Dependable systems and networks, including reliability, safety and security, resource efficiency with respect to computation capacity, memory, bandwidth and energy. Read more about our group..

The Security and Networks Group

Research within this group is done on a broad range of topics, spanning security, networks, and related areas such as performance evaluation and multimedia systems. Read more about our group.

The Sports Analytics Group

Sports analytics deals with using data related to sports events to obtain insights about the sport and its surroundings. In our group we interpret this broadly. The insights can relate to such things as player and team performance, strategies, training, injuries, and rules of the game. The group was started at the end of 2017. We are researchers from different labs at Linköping University, primarily from the Department of Computer and Information Science with a common interest in various aspects of sports analytics. Read more about our group

News at CYBER

News and major articles

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Best research paper award for foundational work on knowledge graph construction

Olaf Hartig, Dept of Computer and Information Science, has won the Best Research Paper Award at the ESWC 2025 conference, which is one of the top conferences on knowledge graphs and semantic web technologies, a subfield of artificial intelligence.

Mikael Asplund in the cybersecurity lab.

New cybersecurity lab at LiU

The new cybersecurity lab is a milestone in Linköping University´s investment in education in this field. The students should feel that "wow, it's possible to do something exciting here", said Vice-rector Matts Karlsson at the inauguration on 7 May.

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The researchers who need to be one step ahead

Today’s society rests on cyber security and the ability to be one step ahead of hackers. In recent years, a new threat has emerged – AI. However, according to researchers Elisa Bertino and Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, AI could also be part of the solution.

Research activities at CYBER

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Cybersecurity

Welcome to the cybersecurity platform at the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University. Here you can find information about research and education in cybersecurity, as well as researchers and teachers active in the field.

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WASP at Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

WASP, Wallenberg AI autonomous systems and software program, is the largest individual research investment in Sweden in modern times. One of the WASP research environments at LiU is located at the Department of Computer and Information Science.

Adaptive Software for the Heterogenous Edge-Cloud-Continuum - ASTECC

ASTECC is a 5-year cooperative research project in software systems at the Department of Computer and Information Science. It is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF).

Wireless Optimization and Analytics

The research develops new models, concepts, and solution algorithms for performance optimization in wireless networking and data analytics.

Sports Analytics

Sports analytics deals with using data related to sports events to obtain insights about the sport and its surroundings. The insights can relate to player and team performance, strategies, training, injuries, and rules of the game.

Resilient Information and Control Systems (RICS)

Relying on service continuity for societal functions starts by understanding the complex socio-technical systems that must operate to deliver electricity, water, heat and other critical services to society.

Security and Networks

The Security and Networks Group focuses on getting the right information to the right people at the right time. Information security is an important part of this aim: for a system to be trusted, it must also be secure.

Database and Web Information Systems

The Database and Web Information Systems Group conduct research on storage, management, search and integration of data. Important application areas are materials science and the life sciences.

Latest publications

2026

Pouya Agheli, Nikolaos Pappas, Marios Kountouris (2026) Pull-Based Query Scheduling for Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 74, p. 3845-3857 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Reyhane Falanji, Mikael Asplund, Niklas Carlsson (2026) MoMEP: A formally verified protocol with modifiable signed messages Journal of Information Security and Applications, Vol. 98, Article 104378 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Navya Sivaraman, Niklas Carlsson, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (2026) JKA-HT: A Provably Secure Replay-Resilient Authentication Protocol for IoD
Zhiling Yue, Yuting Tang, Nikolaos Pappas, Yaru Fu, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard H. Yang (2026) On the Timeliness of Radio Channel Access: Random Access or Scheduled Access? IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 25, p. 2255-2270 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jiaqi Zhu, Bikramjit Das, Yong Xie, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang (2026) Rethinking Federated Learning Over the Air: The Blessing of Scaling Up IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 25, p. 7443-7457 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Bowen Li, Junting Chen (2026) Radio Map-Assisted Routing and Predictive Resource Allocation Over Dynamic Low-Altitude Networks IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 25, p. 9955-9970 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Uppalapati Somalatha, J. Deeraj Kumar, Nikolaos Pappas, Parthajit Mohapatra (2026) On the Secure Stability Region of Two-User NOMA Under Finite Blocklength Regime IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, Vol. 10, p. 697-711 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Hagl, Supathida Boonsong, Tim-Heiko Stelkens-Kobsch, Tim Ruediger, Andrei Gurtov, Gurjot Singh Gaba (2026) Fake Aircraft, Real Threats: Training Air Traffic Controllers for Cyberattacks Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2026): Disruptive and Innovative Technologies, p. 148-158 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Patrick Lambrix, Niklas Carlsson (2026) Data-Driven Player Performance Metrics in Ice Hockey Sports Data Analytics: Techniques, Applications, and Innovations, p. 211-229 (Chapter in book) Continue to DOI

2025

Marcelo Arenas, Enrico Franconi, Janik Hammerer, Olaf Hartig, Katja Hose, Laura Koesten, George Konstantinidis, Leonid Libkin, Wim Martens, Yuya Sasaki, Stefanie Scherzinger, Katherine Thornton, Hsiang-Yun Wu (2025) Exploring Exploratory Querying Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 18, p. 5731-5739 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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