Our vision is to develop methodologies for designing intelligent autonomous decision-making systems that are secure and resilient against malicious adversaries and natural failures.
Our research incorporates elements from cybersecurity, control theory, optimization and machine learning, reinforcement learning, game-theory and networked / distributed systems. You can find an overview of some of our research themes at our Research page.
We are a dynamic research group at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden. We exchange ideas and work with our colleagues from the several of the Department’s research areas, namely Cybersecurity, AI, Data Science, and Control Systems. We also have ongoing collaborations with our neighboring Department of Electrical Engineering. We are driving local research initiatives related to cybersecurity, through the Graduate School in Cybersecurity and the Cybersecurity Arena.
We are looking for driven new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (more info) !
We are grateful for the early-career funding from Uppsala University, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Academy Fellow), the Swedish Research Council (Starting Grant), and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Future Research Leaders Grant).
See our funding and ongoing projects at our Funding page.
27 November 2025
André was awarded a WASP Industrial PhD project grant, together with Zenseact, for the project titled ‘‘Federated Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Safe and Scalable Autonomous Driving’’.
25 November 2025
We have two journal articles recently accepted to IEEE Trans. Automatic Control and to European Journal of Control, one developing scalable protection deployment schemes against stealthy attacks in networked control systems, and another on impact-aware design of observers against stealthy bias injection attacks. See the details at Publications.
03 November 2025
Welcome Filipe P. de Farias as a new PhD student to our group! Filipe will be working on the WAF grant from Knutt and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, on topics related to security of control systems under uncertainty.
26 August 2025
We have two papers recently accepted to CDC2025, one on characterizing vulnerabilities of nonlinear systems against stealthy attacks, and another on cognitive security games in networked control systems. See the details at Publications.
22 August 2025
Tung Nguyen received the Best Paper Award at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS 2025). Congratulations!
