About nasc research
nasc research at University College Cork is a research group that is advancing technology for connecting people and systems. We are making future networked systems secure, dependable and autonomous, enhancing the digital fabric on which modern society relies.
In the Irish language Gaelic, "nasc" means to connect or link, which is the ultimate goal in computer networking. For us, the individual letters in nasc also correspond to Networking, Autonomous Systems, and Cybersecurity, thereby also capturing the essence of our research.
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Recent News
22 Jun 2026
Dr Mohamed Seliem receives Best Paper Award at the IoTIME workshop
Congratulations to Mohamed Seliem, Utz Roedig, Cormac Sreenan and Dirk Pesch’s paper entitled "Towards Diagnosable TSN: Preliminary Fault Localization Using Timing and Replication Observables" which received the Best Paper Award at the IoTIME workshop, co-located with IEEE WoWMoM, held in June 2026, Bologna, Italy.
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22 Jun 2026
Paper Presentations at IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) in Montreal, June 9th
Tengfei Lyu presented his paper “Quality over Quantity: Value-Driven Distributed Congestion Control for the Collective Perception Service” at the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) in Montreal, Monday June 8th. Tengfei is supervised by Dr Aisling O’ Driscoll, Prof Dirk Pesch and Dr Md. Noor-a-Rahim. Nasrin Shamaeian presented her paper “Machine Learning Based Hybrid Trust Framework for Misbehaviour Detection in Vehicular Communication Networks” at the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) in Montreal, Tuesday June 9th. Nasrin is supervised by Prof Dirk Pesch. Both Tengfei and Nasrin are Advance CRT students associated under the nasc research centre.
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19 Jun 2026
Summer Conferring - MSc and PhD students under nasc research centre who recently graduated.
Congratulations to the following MSc and PhD students under nasc research centre who graduated at UCCs summer conferring ceremony on Friday, 19th June 2026. MSc (Science) Farhan Khan (in absentia), ADVANCE, Profs. Dirk Pesch and Cormac Sreenan (supervisors). Yuliya Verbishchuk (in absentia), Dr. Fatima Gunning (Tyndall) and Prof. Cormac Sreenan (supervisors). PhD (Science) Leila Sedghi, Profs. Dirk Pesch & Ken Brown (supervisors) Julie Raulin Dr. Fatima Gunning (Tyndall) and Prof. Cormac Sreenan (supervisors)
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18 Jun 2026
Vacancies for Temporary Part time Research Support Staff
The project is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and will involve five personnel who will help in developing Research Proposals. Payment will be as per Feb 2026 scales for Student Help Per hour. Suitable for PhD/ MSc students. The students will be based in the nasc research Centre in WGB, part of the School of Computer Science & Information Technology.
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