Dr Lito Michala

  • Lecturer (Computing Science)

telephone: 01413302074
email: AnnaLito.Michala@glasgow.ac.uk

405, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Glasgow Systems Section (GLASS), School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 18 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QN​​

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7821-1279

Biography

I am currently a lecturer within the school of computing science. I am a member of the Glasgow Systems Section (GLASS), a member of the ACM, and a mentor under the Athena SWAN Mentorship Scheme. I have previously worked as an RSE/SE Enterprise Fellow  and as a Researcher on the AnyScale Applications EPSRC funded project under the supervision of Dr Jeremy Singer and Prof Phil Trinder.

During my PhD at the University of Strathclyde, I investigated the use of commodity hardware, wireless communications and edge processing in Condition Monitoring of Industrial machines particularly on Ship applications. Through work experience I have also used data collection and processing for large scale applications in industrial building utility monitoring. Furthermore, I have worked on several embedded software applications such as Cube satellites.  Moreover, I have worked on medical devices for monitoring of health and delivery of treatment for diabetic patients, where as a director of Clydescope Health Ltd.  Previously, I acquired my MSc in 2008 on Biomedical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde and my Bachelor degree in 2007 in Computer Science from the University of Crete were I had worked at the FORTH instituted of research at the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory during my undergraduate thesis. 

You can find more information on my personal website.

Research interests

As part of the Glasgow Systems Section (GLASS) my interests focus on:

  • Large scale, complex, cyber-physical systems engineering
  • Machine learning and data fusion applications with a focus on federated learning
  • Edge computing
  • Distributed systems
  • Heterogeneous architectures and autonomous systems

Packs of autonomous Robots

For further information on current research, interests and publications please follow the link to my personal web page

Publications

Selected publications

Guo, X. et al. (2021) Smartphone-based DNA diagnostics for malaria detection using deep learning for local decision support and blockchain technology for security. Nature Electronics, 4(8), pp. 615-624. (doi: 10.1038/s41928-021-00612-x)

Michala, A. L. , Vourganas, I. and Coraddu, A. (2022) Vibration edge computing in maritime IoT. ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 3(1), 6. (doi: 10.1145/3484717)

Cano, J. , White, D. R., Bordallo, A., McCreesh, C. , Michala, A. L. , Singer, J. and Nagarajan, V. (2018) Solving the task variant allocation problem in distributed robotics. Autonomous Robots, 42(7), pp. 1477-1495. (doi: 10.1007/s10514-018-9742-5)

Lazakis, I., Michala, A. L. and Turan, O. (2016) The European Commission's role in marine materials, equipment and components mutual recognition certification. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 12(3), pp. 754-772.

Xu, R. (C.), Michala, A. L. and Trinder, P. (2022) CAEFL: composable and environment aware federated learning models. In: Erlang 2022: Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Erlang, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11-16 Sep 2022, pp. 9-20. ISBN 9781450394352 (doi: 10.1145/3546186.3549927)

Aljabri, J., Michala, A. L. and Singer, J. (2022) ELSA: a keyword-based searchable encryption for cloud-edge assisted industrial internet of things. In: 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2022), Taormina (Messina), Italy, 16-19 May 2022, ISBN 9781665499569 (doi: 10.1109/CCGrid54584.2022.00035)

All publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
Number of items: 25.

2023

Azam, N., Michala, L. , Ansari, S. and Truong, N. (2023) Data privacy threat modelling for autonomous systems: a survey from the GDPR’s perspective. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 9(2), pp. 388-414. (doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2022.3227336)

2022

Alhaizaey, Y., Singer, J. and Michala, A. L. (2022) Optimizing Heterogeneous Task Allocation for Edge Compute Micro Clusters Using PSO Metaheuristic. In: 2022 Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), Paris, France, 12-15 Dec 2022, ISBN 9798350334524 (doi: 10.1109/FMEC57183.2022.10062755)

Xu, R. (C.), Michala, A. L. and Trinder, P. (2022) CAEFL: composable and environment aware federated learning models. In: Erlang 2022: Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Erlang, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11-16 Sep 2022, pp. 9-20. ISBN 9781450394352 (doi: 10.1145/3546186.3549927)

Aljabri, J., Michala, A. L. and Singer, J. (2022) ELSA: a keyword-based searchable encryption for cloud-edge assisted industrial internet of things. In: 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2022), Taormina (Messina), Italy, 16-19 May 2022, ISBN 9781665499569 (doi: 10.1109/CCGrid54584.2022.00035)

Michala, A. L. , Attar, H. and Vourganas, I. (2022) Secure Data Transfer and Provenance for Distributed Healthcare. In: Chakraborty, C. and Khosravi, M. R. (eds.) Intelligent Healthcare: Infrastructure, Algorithms and Management. Springer: Singapore, pp. 241-260. ISBN 9789811681493 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8150-9_11)

Vourganas, I., Attar, H. and Michala, A. L. (2022) Accountable, Responsible, Transparent Artificial Intelligence in Ambient Intelligence Systems for Healthcare. In: Chakraborty, C. and Khosravi, M. R. (eds.) Intelligent Healthcare: Infrastructure, Algorithms and Management. Springer: Singapore, pp. 87-111. ISBN 9789811681493 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8150-9_5)

Michala, A. L. , Vourganas, I. and Coraddu, A. (2022) Vibration edge computing in maritime IoT. ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 3(1), 6. (doi: 10.1145/3484717)

Aljabri, J., Michala, A. L. and Singer, J. (2022) ELSA: Edge Lightweight Searchable Attribute-based encryption Multi-keyword Scalability. In: 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2022), Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 June 2022, ISBN 9781665421416 (doi: 10.1109/DSC54232.2022.9888846)

Chia, W. M. D., Keoh, S. L. , Michala, A. L. and Goh, C. (2022) Infrastructure-based pedestrian risk tagging methodology to support AV risk assessment. IEEE Access, 10, pp. 71462-71480. (doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3188306)

2021

Guo, X. et al. (2021) Smartphone-based DNA diagnostics for malaria detection using deep learning for local decision support and blockchain technology for security. Nature Electronics, 4(8), pp. 615-624. (doi: 10.1038/s41928-021-00612-x)

Alhaizaey, Y., Singer, J. and Michala, A. L. (2021) Optimizing Task Allocation for Edge Micro-Clusters in Smart Cities. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2), 07 Jun 2021. pp. 341-347. ISBN 9781665446525 (doi: 10.1109/WoWMoM51794.2021.00062)

Bader, J. and Michala, A. L. (2021) Searchable encryption with access control in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2021, 5555362. (doi: 10.1155/2021/5555362)

Chia, W. M. D., Keoh, S. L. , Michala, A. L. and Goh, C. (2021) Real-time Recursive Risk Assessment Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Operations. In: 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), 25-28 Apr 2021, ISBN 9781728189642

2019

Vourganas, I., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L. and Michala, A. L. (2019) Evaluation of home-based rehabilitation sensing systems with respect to standardised clinical tests. Sensors, 20(1), 26. (doi: 10.3390/s20010026) (PMID:31861514) (PMCID:PMC6982997)

2018

Cano, J. , White, D. R., Bordallo, A., McCreesh, C. , Michala, A. L. , Singer, J. and Nagarajan, V. (2018) Solving the task variant allocation problem in distributed robotics. Autonomous Robots, 42(7), pp. 1477-1495. (doi: 10.1007/s10514-018-9742-5)

2017

Michala, A. L. and Vourganas, I. (2017) A Smart Modular Wireless System for Condition Monitoring Data Acquisition. In: 16th International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries: COMPIT 2017, Cardiff, UK, 15-17 May 2017, pp. 212-225. ISBN 9783892207016

2016

Michala, A.L. , Barltrop, N., Amirafshari, P., Lazakis, I. and Theotokatos, G. (2016) An intelligent system for vessels structural reliability evaluation. In: Bakker, J., Frangopol, D. M. and van Breugel, K. (eds.) Life-Cycle of Engineering Systems: Emphasis on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2016), 16-19 October 2016, Delft, The Netherlands. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, pp. 1891-1898. ISBN 9781138028470

Michala, A.L. and Lazakis, I. (2016) Ship machinery and equipment wireless condition monitoring system. In: International Conference on Maritime Safety and Operations. University of Strathclyde Publishing: Glasgow, pp. 63-69. ISBN 9781909522169

Michala, A.L. , Lazakis, I. and Dikis, K. (2016) Storing maintenance and incident records: is there space for improvement? In: International Conference on Maritime Safety and Operations. University of Strathclyde Publishing: Glasgow, pp. 113-119.

Dikis, K., Lazakis, I., Michala, A.L. , Raptodimos, Y. and Theotokatos, G. (2016) Dynamic risk and reliability assessment for ship machinery decision making. In: Walls, L., Revie, M. and Bedford, T. (eds.) Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice. CRC/Taylor & Francis Group: London, pp. 685-692. ISBN 9781138029972

Lazakis, I., Dikis, K., Michala, A. L. and Theotokatos, G. (2016) Advanced ship systems condition monitoring for enhanced inspection, maintenance and decision making in ship operations. Transportation Research Procedia, 14, pp. 1679-1688. (doi: 10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.133)

Michala, A. L. , Lazakis, I., Theotokatos, G. and Varelas, T. (2016) Wireless Condition Monitoring for Ship Applications. Smart Ship Technology 2016, London, UK, 26-27 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781909024502

Lazakis, I., Michala, A. L. and Turan, O. (2016) The European Commission's role in marine materials, equipment and components mutual recognition certification. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 12(3), pp. 754-772.

2015

Michala, A.L. , Lazakis, I. and Theotokatos, G. (2015) Predictive Maintenance Decision Support System for Enhanced Energy Efficiency of Ship Machinery. International Conference on Shipping in Changing Climates, Glasgow, UK, 24-26 Nov 2015. pp. 195-205.

Lazakis, I., Turan, O. and Michala, A. L. (2015) Study on Article 10.1 of Regulation (EC) 391/2009 : Study on the level reached in the process of harmonising the rules and procedures and on Mutual Recognition (MR) of certificates for materials, equipment and components, pursuant to Article 10.2 of Regulation (EC) 391/2009. Project Report. European Commission.

This list was generated on Tue May 30 00:57:57 2023 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Research Reports or Papers | Conference or Workshop Item | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 25.

Articles

Azam, N., Michala, L. , Ansari, S. and Truong, N. (2023) Data privacy threat modelling for autonomous systems: a survey from the GDPR’s perspective. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 9(2), pp. 388-414. (doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2022.3227336)

Michala, A. L. , Vourganas, I. and Coraddu, A. (2022) Vibration edge computing in maritime IoT. ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 3(1), 6. (doi: 10.1145/3484717)

Chia, W. M. D., Keoh, S. L. , Michala, A. L. and Goh, C. (2022) Infrastructure-based pedestrian risk tagging methodology to support AV risk assessment. IEEE Access, 10, pp. 71462-71480. (doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3188306)

Guo, X. et al. (2021) Smartphone-based DNA diagnostics for malaria detection using deep learning for local decision support and blockchain technology for security. Nature Electronics, 4(8), pp. 615-624. (doi: 10.1038/s41928-021-00612-x)

Bader, J. and Michala, A. L. (2021) Searchable encryption with access control in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2021, 5555362. (doi: 10.1155/2021/5555362)

Vourganas, I., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L. and Michala, A. L. (2019) Evaluation of home-based rehabilitation sensing systems with respect to standardised clinical tests. Sensors, 20(1), 26. (doi: 10.3390/s20010026) (PMID:31861514) (PMCID:PMC6982997)

Cano, J. , White, D. R., Bordallo, A., McCreesh, C. , Michala, A. L. , Singer, J. and Nagarajan, V. (2018) Solving the task variant allocation problem in distributed robotics. Autonomous Robots, 42(7), pp. 1477-1495. (doi: 10.1007/s10514-018-9742-5)

Lazakis, I., Dikis, K., Michala, A. L. and Theotokatos, G. (2016) Advanced ship systems condition monitoring for enhanced inspection, maintenance and decision making in ship operations. Transportation Research Procedia, 14, pp. 1679-1688. (doi: 10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.133)

Lazakis, I., Michala, A. L. and Turan, O. (2016) The European Commission's role in marine materials, equipment and components mutual recognition certification. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 12(3), pp. 754-772.

Book Sections

Michala, A. L. , Attar, H. and Vourganas, I. (2022) Secure Data Transfer and Provenance for Distributed Healthcare. In: Chakraborty, C. and Khosravi, M. R. (eds.) Intelligent Healthcare: Infrastructure, Algorithms and Management. Springer: Singapore, pp. 241-260. ISBN 9789811681493 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8150-9_11)

Vourganas, I., Attar, H. and Michala, A. L. (2022) Accountable, Responsible, Transparent Artificial Intelligence in Ambient Intelligence Systems for Healthcare. In: Chakraborty, C. and Khosravi, M. R. (eds.) Intelligent Healthcare: Infrastructure, Algorithms and Management. Springer: Singapore, pp. 87-111. ISBN 9789811681493 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8150-9_5)

Michala, A.L. , Barltrop, N., Amirafshari, P., Lazakis, I. and Theotokatos, G. (2016) An intelligent system for vessels structural reliability evaluation. In: Bakker, J., Frangopol, D. M. and van Breugel, K. (eds.) Life-Cycle of Engineering Systems: Emphasis on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2016), 16-19 October 2016, Delft, The Netherlands. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, pp. 1891-1898. ISBN 9781138028470

Michala, A.L. and Lazakis, I. (2016) Ship machinery and equipment wireless condition monitoring system. In: International Conference on Maritime Safety and Operations. University of Strathclyde Publishing: Glasgow, pp. 63-69. ISBN 9781909522169

Michala, A.L. , Lazakis, I. and Dikis, K. (2016) Storing maintenance and incident records: is there space for improvement? In: International Conference on Maritime Safety and Operations. University of Strathclyde Publishing: Glasgow, pp. 113-119.

Dikis, K., Lazakis, I., Michala, A.L. , Raptodimos, Y. and Theotokatos, G. (2016) Dynamic risk and reliability assessment for ship machinery decision making. In: Walls, L., Revie, M. and Bedford, T. (eds.) Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice. CRC/Taylor & Francis Group: London, pp. 685-692. ISBN 9781138029972

Research Reports or Papers

Lazakis, I., Turan, O. and Michala, A. L. (2015) Study on Article 10.1 of Regulation (EC) 391/2009 : Study on the level reached in the process of harmonising the rules and procedures and on Mutual Recognition (MR) of certificates for materials, equipment and components, pursuant to Article 10.2 of Regulation (EC) 391/2009. Project Report. European Commission.

Conference or Workshop Item

Alhaizaey, Y., Singer, J. and Michala, A. L. (2021) Optimizing Task Allocation for Edge Micro-Clusters in Smart Cities. 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2), 07 Jun 2021. pp. 341-347. ISBN 9781665446525 (doi: 10.1109/WoWMoM51794.2021.00062)

Michala, A. L. , Lazakis, I., Theotokatos, G. and Varelas, T. (2016) Wireless Condition Monitoring for Ship Applications. Smart Ship Technology 2016, London, UK, 26-27 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781909024502

Michala, A.L. , Lazakis, I. and Theotokatos, G. (2015) Predictive Maintenance Decision Support System for Enhanced Energy Efficiency of Ship Machinery. International Conference on Shipping in Changing Climates, Glasgow, UK, 24-26 Nov 2015. pp. 195-205.

Conference Proceedings

Alhaizaey, Y., Singer, J. and Michala, A. L. (2022) Optimizing Heterogeneous Task Allocation for Edge Compute Micro Clusters Using PSO Metaheuristic. In: 2022 Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC), Paris, France, 12-15 Dec 2022, ISBN 9798350334524 (doi: 10.1109/FMEC57183.2022.10062755)

Xu, R. (C.), Michala, A. L. and Trinder, P. (2022) CAEFL: composable and environment aware federated learning models. In: Erlang 2022: Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Erlang, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11-16 Sep 2022, pp. 9-20. ISBN 9781450394352 (doi: 10.1145/3546186.3549927)

Aljabri, J., Michala, A. L. and Singer, J. (2022) ELSA: a keyword-based searchable encryption for cloud-edge assisted industrial internet of things. In: 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2022), Taormina (Messina), Italy, 16-19 May 2022, ISBN 9781665499569 (doi: 10.1109/CCGrid54584.2022.00035)

Aljabri, J., Michala, A. L. and Singer, J. (2022) ELSA: Edge Lightweight Searchable Attribute-based encryption Multi-keyword Scalability. In: 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2022), Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 June 2022, ISBN 9781665421416 (doi: 10.1109/DSC54232.2022.9888846)

Chia, W. M. D., Keoh, S. L. , Michala, A. L. and Goh, C. (2021) Real-time Recursive Risk Assessment Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Operations. In: 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), 25-28 Apr 2021, ISBN 9781728189642

Michala, A. L. and Vourganas, I. (2017) A Smart Modular Wireless System for Condition Monitoring Data Acquisition. In: 16th International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries: COMPIT 2017, Cardiff, UK, 15-17 May 2017, pp. 212-225. ISBN 9783892207016

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Grants

RSE/SE Entrepreneurial Fellow

 

Supervision

  • Alhaizaey, Yousef Hassan A
    Optimizing Task Allocation for Edge Computing Micro-Clusters
  • Naila, *
    GDPR-Compliance Threat Modelling Technique for Autonomous Car Systems
  • XU, RUOMENG
    Federated Learning With Self-Organizing, Local-Grouping and Collaborative Multi-Robot Systems

Teaching

Honours Level courses:

  • Operating Systems (H) 2019-present
  • Advanced Systems Programing (H/M) 2022-Present
  • Systems Programming (H) 2019-2021
  • Computing Systems (level 1) 2019-2020

 

Summer School:

  • CS class of Summer School 2017 - present

Guest lectures: 

  • Operating Systems 
  • Computing Systems 

Additional information

Luke Foster Prize for the Best JCER Article of 2016 runner-up for the article "The European Commission’s role in marine materials, equipment and components certification mutualisation"

Recipient of the Best Poster, First Place in the SICSA event of the 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC 2022) for the article "Aljabri, J., Michala, A. L., and Singer, J. (2022). ELSA: Edge Lightweight Search- able Attribute-based encryption Multi-keyword Scalability"

 


Anna Lito Michala