Expertise

i4S is led by a strong alpha team, which over the past 25 years has built up fundamental and functional knowledge in both crime and insecurity phenomena. In addition, broad insight has been acquired into both the technological and digital needs of the private and public security stakeholders (including private security companies, police, justice, intelligence and inspection services) and the legal and privacy-related preconditions for the implementation of technological and digital solutions in the security market.

i4S brings together diverse technological expertise in a wide range of topics such as security and privacy (blockchain technology, cybersecurity, industrial security, data privacy), applied artificial intelligence (NLP and computer vision), analytics and machine learning in the cloud, Internet of Things, human interface technologies and wearables, AR/VR/XR, gaming technologies and many more.

i4S unites researchers with a legal, criminological, social sciences or STEM profile around social issues and developments in the context of privacy, information exchange, law enforcement and surveillance.