Dr Thomas Newe

Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering

Dr. Thomas Neww is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Engineering in the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The University of Limerick. He holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering, a Masters in Engineering in Security Protocol Design and a PhD in Formal Logics for Security Protocol Verification. He has been a University of Limerick faculty member since 1994. During this time he graduated a number of PhD students in the broad area of network security and IoT and his students are funded from a variety of sources including: EU, SFI, IRC, Internationally and industrially funded.


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Dr Thomas Newe
Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering
Networking Systems & IoT

Thomas is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering in the University of Limerick, group leader of the IoT/ WSN Security activities in the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre and the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and a FI in the MaREI , CONFIRM and Lero - SFI National Research Centres.
Dr. Newe is a Funded Investigator with CONFIRM.

• PhD in Formal Logic for the Verification of Hybrid Security Protocols and its application, University of Limerick
• MEng in Minimum-Knowledge Identification and Digital Signature Scheme, University of Limerick.
• BEng in Computer Engineering, University of Limerick

• IEEE Member: Conference Chair, Organiser, TPC member of many IEEE Conferences
• Reviewer for multiple Journals (See Publons Profile for full information)

Dr. Newe’s background as an embedded systems designer and programmer affords him insight into the problems that can occur with bringing Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing solutions to the Irish manufacturing sector. Toms experience in this area allows him to deliver secure solutions across a diverse range of Smart Manufacturing issues both within his own research groups and in collaboration with researchers from other expert areas across the centre.

• Tom has performed local consulting services for the IDA and Enterprise Ireland in the Shannon region for data security and embedded systems related queries
• He came to academia from the electronics/software product design industry where he was a senior software developer and project manager

• Cyber Physical systems
• IoT Security
• Wireless Sensor Systems and Networks
• Security protocol design for Data and the Cloud
• Network Security
• Security protocol formal verification methods
• Cryptography/Encryption algorithms
• Embedded system programming
• Digital design
• Programming languages
• Operating systems

• Mathur, A., Newe, T., Elgenaidi, W., Rao, M., Dooly, G., Toal, D., “A secure end-to-end IoT solution”. 2017. Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2017.06.019 • Duraibabu, D.B., Leen, G., Toal, D., Newe, T., Lewis, E., Dooly, G., “Underwater depth and temperature sensing based on fiber optic technology for marine and fresh water applications”. 2017. Sensors (Switzerland). DOI: 10.3390/s17061228 • Rao, M., Newe, T., Grout, I., Mathur, A., ”An FPGA-based reconfigurable IPSec AH core with efficient implementation of SHA-3 for high speed IoT applications”. 2016. Security and Communication Networks. DOI: 10.1002/sec.1533

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