Author Archives: Hanno Langweg
Aybars Oruc
Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas, Vasileios Gkioulos, Runar Ostnes
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cybersecurity of the Integrated Bridge System (IBS) on Conventional Vessels
Hafiz Areeb Asad
Ph.D. started in: 2021
Expected year of graduation: 2025
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Frank Alexander Kraemer, Kerstin Bach, Bernd-Christian Renner
Research area: Secure Hardware
Project title: Machine Learning for Cognitive Power Management in IoT
Sarang Shaikh
Ph.D. started in: 2021
Expected year of graduation: 2024
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sule Yildirim-Yayilgan
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: PhD candidate in modelling and simulation of social impact and acceptability of modern border control technologies
Øyvind Toftegaard
Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2024
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bernhard Hämmerli, Sokratis Katsikas, Nils Kalstad, Janne Merete Hagen
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Resilient Future Smart Grid Ecosystem – Upcoming Steps in Innovation, Business Cases, its Regulation and Supervision
Doney Abraham
Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sule Yildirim-Yayilgan
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cybersecurity of IoT enabled Smart Grids
Issam Maarouf
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Eirik Rosnes
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Coding for DNA-based storage
Roberto Parisella
Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Helger Lipmaa
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Efficient NIZK under trusted assumptions
COINS Ph.D. student seminar 2020 (Online)
This year’s COINS Ph.D. student seminar will be held online, followed by NISK, the Norwegian Information Security Conference. Agenda Monday 23/11-2020 We colocate with NISK. Since NISK moved from Sundvollen to an online conference owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, we … Continue reading
Syed Moeen Ali Naqvi
Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Leon Moonen
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Towards Self-Healing Software through Anomaly Detection and Adaptive learning
Nicolas Costes
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Martijn Stam, Øyvind Ytrehus
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: High Performance Power Analysis Attacks
Benjamin Chetioui
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Jaakko Järvi, Magne Haveraaen
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Building High-Integrity Software using Property-Based Testing
Reent Schlegel
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Eirik Rosnes
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Private Edge Computing
Ermes Franch
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Chunlei Li
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Code base Cryptography
Kelsey Moran
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Future Proofing Cryptographic Voting Systems
Arne Tobias Malkenes Ødegaard
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Helger Lipmaa, Øyvind Ytrehus
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post-quantum zk-SNARKs
Balint Teglasy
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Mary Ann Lundteigen, Bjørn Axel Gran, Sokratis Katsikas
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: ICT Security in Safety Instrumented Systems as applied in critical infrastructures
Lise Millerjord
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2024
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd, Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Lightweight Cryptography for Future Smart Networks
Magnus Ringerud
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jiaxin Pan
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Formal treatment of practical signature schemes
Sonu Jha
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stig Frode Mjølsnes, Colin Boyd
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Lightweight Cryptography for Future Smart Networks
COINS Ph.D. student seminar 2019 (Narvik)
This year’s COINS Ph.D. student seminar will be held in Narvik, followed by NISK, the Norwegian Information Security Conference. Agenda Monday 25/11-2019, Narvik Map 1300-1315 Welcome, introduction, presentation of participants 1315-1400 Lessons learned from doing a Ph.D. Seraj Fayyad, Princess Sumaya … Continue reading
Altynay Kadyrova
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Marius Pedersen, Stephen Westland, Arjan Kuiper, Vlado Kitanovski
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Research area: Secure Hardware
Project title: Quality Assessment for Material Appearance
Muhammad Ali Fauzi
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bian Yang, Christoph Busch
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Modelling Healthcare Staffs’ Mental State to Minimize Cybersecurity Risk
Morten Solberg
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen, Colin Boyd
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Secure, Usable and Robust Cryptographic Voting Systems
Aida Akbarzadeh
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cyber-physical security of power plants within the smart grid
Ali Esmaeily
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katina Kralevska, Norvald Stol, Danilo Gligoroski
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Network Slicing in 5G
Radina Stoykova
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Standards for digital evidence
Min Zhang
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Frank Eliassen, Yan Zhang, Amir Taherkordi, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Design, analysis and implementation of P2P energy trading platform based on fog computing and blockchain technology
Befekadu Gebraselase
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bjarne Helvik
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Networking impact and support for blockchains
Abylay Satybaldy
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Mariusz Nowostawski
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Rights and Identity on Blockchains, Trust and Transparency in Digital Society Through Blockchain Technology
Prosper Yeng
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bian Yang
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Healthcare Security Practice Analysis, Modeling and Incentivization
Alessandro Melloni
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Martijn Stam
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Security of Protocols and Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Sara Mohammadi
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Yan Zhang, Frank Eliassen
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cyber-attack detection in smart grids with prosumers using machine learning
Hans Heum
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Martijn Stam
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Side-channel attacks in a multi-user setting
Grethe Østby
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stewart Kowalski, Basel Katt
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Societal safety in transformation – digitalization and information security awareness in civil society and civil emergency
Borger Ormiskangas Vigmostad
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Nils Gruschka
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Web Service Security
Livinus Obiora Nweke
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stephen Wolthusen
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Understanding the Resilience of Software Defined Networking for Industrial Control Networks
Nektaria Kaloudi
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jingyue Li, Sokratis Katsikas, Stig Ole Johnsen
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cybersecurity, Safety, and Resilience of Smart Cities
Tamás Bisztray
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Nils Gruschka
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Privacy by Design in Digital Infrastructures
Mayank Raikwar
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski, Katina Kralevska, Colin Boyd
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Innovative Cryptography for Innovative Blockchain Services
Morten Øygarden
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Øyvind Ytrehus, Håvard Raddum
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Quantum Safe Cryptography
Ahmed Amro
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Communication and Cybersecurity for autonomous passenger ferry
Shuang Wu
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Trust and Transparency in Digital Society Through Blockchain Technology
Thor Tunge
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Quantum-Safe Cryptography for the Internet of Things
Mattia Veroni
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski, Kristian Gjøsteen, Colin Boyd
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post-quantum primitives
Åvald Åslaugson Sommervoll
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Audun Jøsang, Leif Nilsen, Thomas Gregersen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Consequences of machine learning and quantum computing in the field of cryptology
Bor de Kock
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd, Kristian Gjøsteen
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post-Quantum Key Exchanges
Johanna Johansen
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Olaf Owe
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Research area: Privacy
Project title: Human Aspects of Privacy in IoT
Georgios Kavallieratos
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas, Slobodan Petrovic, Edmund Førland Brekke, Hao Wang
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Security of the Cyber-Enabled ship
Jag Mohan Singh
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Raghavendra Ramachandra
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Robust Biometric Authentication using 3D Information
Tjerand Silde
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post Quantum Cryptography
Per Håkon Meland
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Guttorm Sindre
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Modelling of cyber attacks and economic incentives
COINS summer school on network security in Metochi 2018
The fourth COINS summer school was held successfully at the Metochi Study Centre on the Greek island of Lesvos, operated by University of Agder, one of the consortium members of COINS. The topic of the summer school was network security. … Continue reading
Merve Bas Seyyar
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Zeno Geradts, G.P. (Jeanne) Mifsud Bonnici
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Privacy by Design in Large Scale Digital Forensics
Marija Gajic
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Finn Arve Aagesen, Otto Jonassen Wittner
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Policy – based network applications and service configuration
Kalpanie Mendis
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Poul Heegaard
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Developing a low-latency, secure and dependable communication architecture for Microgrid protection and Control
Dhanya Therese Jose
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Security and privacy for data-driven energy informatics
Nikita Karandikar
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Driving behavior change by incentivizing households to trade renewable energy in a gamified community level marketplace
Aida Mehdipour Pirbazari
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Predictive Analytics for power stability in smart communities
Debesh Jha
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Tromsø
Supervised by: Håvard D. Johansen, Pål Halvorsen, Michael Riegler, Dag Johansen
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Research area: Privacy
Project title: Secure and Privacy Preserving Machine-Learning Methods for Disease detection and reporting on Medical Multimedia Data
COINS Ph.D. student seminar 2018 (Svalbard)
This year’s COINS Ph.D. student seminar will be held in Longyearbyen (Svalbard), followed by NISK, the Norwegian Information Security Conference. Agenda Tuesday 18/9-2018, Radisson Blu Polar Hotel Spitsbergen Map 1300-1315 Welcome, introduction, presentation of participants 1315-1415 Lessons learned from doing … Continue reading
Mazaher Kianpour
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Harald Øverby, Stewart Kowalski
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Information Security Economics
Steven Hardey
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Craig Valli, G.P. (Jeanne) Mifsud Bonnici
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: A Computational Reasoning Framework for Legal Analysis of Digital Forensic Evidence
Peter Davis
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Lee Andrew Bygrave, Tobias Mahler
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Research area: Law and Regulations
Project title: Regulation of Cryptography: Logical, Legal and Normative Limits
Muhammad Mudassar Yamin
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Basel Katt
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Modelling and Analyzing Attack-Defence Scenarios for Cyber Ranges
Jin Zhang
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jingyue Li
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Integrated safety and security analysis of cyber-physical systems using system engineering approach
Sachin Valera
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Matthew Geoffrey Parker
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Quantum Machine Learning
Wrya Kadir
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Chunlei Li
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Code Based Cryptography
Jon-Martin Storm
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Audun Jøsang
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Efficient Cybersecurity Mechanisms for ICS and SCADA
Parisa Rezaee Borj
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Patrick Bours
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Chat room security
Benjamin Knox
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas, Kirsi Helkala, Stefan Sütterlin
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Cyberpower praxis: a study of how to improve understanding and governance in the cyber domain
Martha Norberg Hovd
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Håvard Raddum
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Security of Homomorphic Encryption
John Petter Indrøy
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Håvard Raddum
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Application of Compressed Right Hand Sides on AES
Albin Severinson
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Eirik Rosnes, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Øyvind Ytrehus
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Coding for Distributed Computing
Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Roman Vitenberg, Hein Meling
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Scalable and secure storage of healthcare blockchain
Dan Zhang
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Matthew Geoffrey Parker
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Self-dual quantum codes
Diana Davidova
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Lilya Budaghyan
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Construction and properties of cryptographic Boolean functions
Hareesh Mandalapu
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Raghavendra Ramachandra, Christoph Busch
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Presentation Attack Detection in Iris and Ocular biometrics
Ali Khodabakhsh
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch
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Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Automated Authentication of Audiovisual Contents: A Biometric Approach
Maghsoud Morshedi Chinibolagh
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Josef Noll
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Application specific routing for managed wireless access
Eivind Kristoffersen
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jingyue Li
Research area: Network Security
Project title: CIRCit
Alessandro Budroni
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Igor A. Semaev
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Cryptoanalysis on LWE
Enio Marku
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Securing emerging network technologies with homomorphic encryption
Farzane Karami
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Olaf Owe
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Language-Based Security, Addressing Active Object and Distributed Systems
Hamed Arshad
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Christian Johansen, Olaf Owe
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Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Attribute Based Access Control
COINS summer school on secure implementation of cryptographic software in Metochi 2017
The third COINS summer school is over. It was held successfully at the Metochi Study Centre on the Greek island of Lesvos, operated by University of Agder, one of the consortium members of COINS. The topic of the summer school … Continue reading
Nikolay Kaleyski
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Lilya Budaghyan
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Properties of optimal Boolean functions
SWITS@COINS at the Ph.D. student seminar in Oslo 2017
This year, we hosted our annual COINS Ph.D. student seminar in Oslo, together with SWITS, the Swedish IT Security Network for Ph.D. Students. We had two and a half days packed with presentations, discussions, exchange of experiences, and networking opportunities … Continue reading
Luca Tosoni
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Lee Andrew Bygrave
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Research area: Law and Regulations
Project title: Regulating Cybersecurity: Challenges, Limits and Regulatory Options
Worku Gedefa Urgessa
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Lee Andrew Bygrave
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Research area: Law and Regulations
Project title: The Role of IGOs and International Law in Securing Cyberspace
Kyle Porter
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Slobodan Petrovic, Katrin Franke
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Detecting Dynamic Attack Patterns in Large and Diverse Data Sources
Ogerta Elezaj
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sule Yildirim-Yayilgan
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Intelligent techniques to improve data pre-processing
Cristina Heghedus
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty
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Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Dara driven energy informatics
COINS/SWITS Ph.D. student seminar 2017 (Oslo)
This year’s COINS Ph.D. student seminar will be held in Oslo, together with the annual seminar of SWITS, the Swedish IT Security Network for PhD Students. Wednesday 7 June is mainly planned for COINS, Thursday+Friday are SWITS/COINS. Registration forms: Registration for … Continue reading
Isaac Canales Martinez
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Igor A. Semaev
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Algebraic analysis of Stream ciphers
Flávia Dias Casagrande
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Evi Zouganeli, Jim Tørresen
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Research area: Privacy
Project title: Self-learning systems for Assisted Living Technologies
Ramtin Aryan
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Paal Engelstad
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Software-Defined Networking Policy Conflict Detection: a holistic approach
Pawel Drozdowski
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch, Christian Rathgeb
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Efficient privacy-preserving identification in large-scale multi-biometric systems
Elahe Fazeldehkordi
Ph.D. started in: 2017
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Christian Johansen
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Semantic Modelling and Measuring of Privacy for IoT in Smart Home
Irene Villa
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Lilya Budaghyan
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Optimal Boolean Functions
Jens-Petter Sandvik
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Habtamu Abie, Stefan Axelsson, Andrè Årnes
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Digital forensics and resource-constrained, Internet-connected systems
Andrea Tenti
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Igor A. Semaev, Tor Helleseth
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Analysis of Macaulay matrices over finite fields
Jan William Johnsen
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Stefan Axelsson, Thomas Walmann
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Data Mining and Network Analysis for Financial Crime Detection and Investigation
Gunnar Alendal
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stefan Axelsson
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Security vulnerability research for use in digital forensic acquisition
Navid Ghaedi Bardeh
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Tor Helleseth, Sondre Rønjom
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Cryptographic Primitives
Stig Andersen
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stefan Axelsson, Hallstein Hansen, Katrin Franke
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Investigative quality in digital forensics
Ashish Rauniyar
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Paal Engelstad, Boning Feng, Do Van Thanh
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Towards a Secure, Energy Efficient and Resilient Internet of Things
Desta Haileselassie Hagos
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Paal Engelstad, Øivind Kure
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Security Attack Analysis
Vasileios Mavroeidis
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Audun Jøsang
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Cyberthreat Detection and Analysis
Shukun Tokas
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Olaf Owe, Martin Steffen, Toktam Ramezanifarkhani
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Security For Communicating Object Systems
Romina Muka
Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Poul Heegaard, Morten Hovd
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Application of New Sensors and Controllers for Distribution Grid Operation
Yao Jiang
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Cryptographic Tools for Cloud Security
Kamer Vishi
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Audun Jøsang
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Multimodal Biometrics in Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Adam Szekeres
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes, Laura Georg
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Human motivation and the security of Internet of Things
Siri Bromander
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Audun Jøsang, Christian Johansen, Martin Eian, Katrin Franke
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: TOCSA
COINS Ph.D. student seminar 2016 (Bergen)
This year’s COINS Ph.D. student seminar will be held in Bergen, followed by NISK, the Norwegian Information Security Conference. Agenda Sunday 27/11-2016, UiB Høyteknologisenteret, Thormøhlensgate 55 – be there on time, because the building is locked on Sunday How to … Continue reading
Felix Schuckert
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Hanno Langweg, Basel Katt
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Opportunities of Insecurity Refactoring for Training and Software Development
Sergii Banin
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Geir Olav Dyrkolbotn
Links:
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Advanced Machine Learning Techniques in Malware Analysis Applications
Jayachander Surbiryala
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong, Chunlei Li
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Information Security in Cloud Computing
Songpu Ai
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Smart Energy System using (Big-)data Analytics and Prognostics
Manish Shrestha
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Christian Johansen, Josef Noll, Davide Roverso
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Measurable security and privacy for services on the Smart Electricity Grid
COINS summer school on authentication in Metochi 2016
The second COINS summer school is over. It was held successfully at the Metochi Study Centre on the Greek island of Lesvos, operated by University of Agder, one of the consortium members of COINS. The topic of the summer school … Continue reading
COINS@SWITS Linköping 2016
SWITS is in several aspects like COINS, or, more precisely, COINS continues to learn a lot from SWITS – the Swedish IT Security Network for Ph.D. Students. We visited the annual SWITS seminar, this time in Linköping. Bo Sun participated … Continue reading
Siddhartha Kumar
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Eirik Rosnes, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Øyvind Ytrehus
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Secure and Reliable Distributed Storage Systems
Patrick Schuch
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Representation Learning for Fingerprint Recognition
Pankaj Wasnik
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch, Raghavendra Ramachandra
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Presentation Attack Detection for Smartphone Based Biometric Authentication System
Shao-Fang Wen
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stewart Kowalski, Rune Hjelsvold
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Hyper Contextual Information Security Management
Dimitra Anastasopoulou
Shahram Rasoolzadeh
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Håvard Raddum
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Key Primitives
Srimathi Varadharajan
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Håvard Raddum
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Application of BDD to Cryptography
Bjørn Greve
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Øyvind Ytrehus, Håvard Raddum, Tor Helleseth
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Secure and low voice communication, and other cryptographic aspects
Dmytro Piatkivskyi
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Expected year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Mariusz Nowostawski, Stefan Axelsson
Links:
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Anonymity of the off-chain transactions in Bitcoin
Martin Stokkenes
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Expected year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch, Raghavendra Ramachandra
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Secure and Privacy Preserving Biometrics for Transaction Authentication
Herman Galteland
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: On the usage of cryptography in malware
Kyrre Wahl Kongsgaard
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Federico Mancini, Nils Agne Nordbotten
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: data exfiltration detection and prevention
Xiaojie Zhu
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Expected year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Roman Vitenberg
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: ConSeRNS
Harsha Sandaruwan Gardiyawasam Pussewalage
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Agder
Supervised by: Vladimir Oleshchuk
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Attribute based Methods to Enforce Security and Privacy in E-health Solutions
Samson Yoseph Esayas
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Lee Andrew Bygrave, Inger Berg Ørstavik
Links:
Research area: Law and Regulations
Project title: Data Privacy and Competition Law in the Age of Big Data: The Commercialization of Personal Data and its Theoretical and Practical Implications on the Foundations and Policy Boundaries of Data Privacy Law and Competition Law
Håkon Gunleifsen
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Thomas Kemmerich
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: A communication model of distributed Network Controllers in a virtualized environment
Martin Strand
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Fully homomorphic encryption
Yan Li
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Expected year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Ketil Stølen, Ragnhild Kobro Runde
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: A lightweight security risk management approach for web applications and an industrial guideline
COINS Ph.D. student seminar 2015 (Stockholm)
This year’s COINS Ph.D. student seminar will be held in Stockholm, followed by NordSec and the CySeP winter school. Agenda Sunday 18/10-2015, KTH main campus Valhallavägen, building Osquars Backe 2, 5th floor, room 1537 – be there on time as … Continue reading
First COINS summer school completed in Metochi 2015
The first COINS summer school on cloud security is over. It was held successfully at the Metochi Study Centre on the Greek island of Lesvos, operated by University of Agder, one of the consortium members of COINS. The topic of … Continue reading
COINS@ENISA 2015
ENISA is the European Network and Information Security Agency. Their objective is to provide input to the European Commission on policy level and to coordinate activities of member states with respect to information security. Most of the COINS students attending … Continue reading
COINS@SWITS Västerås 2015
Like in the past two years, we attended the SWITS seminar with a COINS delegation this year. SWITS is the Swedish IT Security Network for Ph.D. Students, in many ways a network of Ph.D. students and faculty like COINS. Samson … Continue reading
Christian Otterstad
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Øyvind Ytrehus, Kjell Hole
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Low-level exploitation mitigation through dynamic code mutation and selected low-level attacks
Joseph Twayigira
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Expected year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: University of Agder
Supervised by: Vladimir Oleshchuk
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Using Mobile Cloud Computing for Crisis and Emergency Management: Securty and Privacy Aspects
New t-shirt design
Britta Hale volunteered to come up with new design proposals for the next release of COINS t-shirts. Students: Answer her poll on http://foodl.org/foodle/COINS-Design-Change-54f47 and email your suggestions to Britta. (The picture shows the current 2013 version of t-shirts.)
Dat Le Tien
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Expected year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Frank Eliassen, Audun Jøsang
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Trade-off between performance and security in networked systems
Antonio Gonzalez Burgueño
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Peter Ölveczky, Audun Jøsang
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Formal analysis for security ceremonies
Ijlal Loutfi
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Audun Jøsang
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Secure and Robust Network-based Systems
Stian Fauskanger
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Expected year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Igor A. Semaev, Tor Helleseth
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: New properties of DES and linear cryptanalysis of lightweight cipher with multiple linear approximations
Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: University of Tromsø
Supervised by: Johan Gustav Bellika, Anders Andersen, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Fred Godtliebsen, Gro Berntsen, Stein Olav Skrøvseth
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Snow Stat: Secure Multi?party Statistical Computations in Health Environments
Vasileios Gkioulos
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stephen Wolthusen, Slobodan Petrovic
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Distributed security policy mechanisms for tactical Service oriented Architectures
Ambika Chitrakar
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Slobodan Petrovic, Katrin Franke
Links:
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Approximate search techniques for big data analysis
2014 COINS Ph.D. student seminar in Tromsø: 13-15 October
Agenda (Note that order of presentations might change) Monday, 13th of October 2014 (location: UiT, Nedre lysthus, Auditorium) 1200-1300 Lunch [served at cafeteria Teorifagsbygget] 1300-1315 Welcome to COINS Ph.D. Student Seminar 2014 [Ragnar Soleng] 1315-1400 Session 1: Speed dating [chair: … Continue reading
COINS@SWITS Uppsala 2014
We attended the SWITS seminar with a COINS delegation also this year. SWITS is the Swedish Network of IT Security Students, in many ways a network of Ph.D. students and faculty like COINS. Berglind Smaradottir, Vivek Agrawal, and Yi-Ching Liao … Continue reading
Seraj Fayyad
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Josef Noll, Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Measurable Security for Sensors in the Internet of People, Things and Services (IoPTS)
Vivek Agrawal
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Cloud Based Conflicting Incentives risk analysis
Tetiana Yarygina
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Kjell Hole
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Robust and secure cloud services
COINS around the world
Upload your pictures where you have a public appearance with your COINS t-shirt! A trophy will be awarded to those sending us pictures from the highest number of places, most exotic location, largest audience, or most embarrassing place to wear … Continue reading
Chris Carr
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd, Kristian Gjøsteen
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Protection in Complex Cyber Systems
Britta Hale
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Modelling and Analysis of Real-World Cryptographic Authentication and Key-Exchange Protocols
Berglind Smaradottir
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: University of Agder
Supervised by: Vladimir Oleshchuk
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Usability evaluation and security management of health care information systems
Andrii Shalaginov
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke
Links:
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Application of soft computing for information security
Bikash Agrawal
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Tomasz Wiktor Wlodarczyk, Chunming Rong
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Secure data storage and sharing in the cloud
Nabeel Albahbooh
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Expected year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Patrick Bours
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Enhancement of Authentication Protocols through Biometric Authentication on Mobile Devices
Antorweep Chakravorty
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Safer@Home Analytics: a Big Data Analytical Solution for Smart Homes
Dijana Vukovic
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Expected year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Increasing the performance, robustness, reliability and security of web services
Martin Aastrup Olsen
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Fingerprint Image Quaity
Mohamed Abomhara
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Agder
Supervised by: Geir Koien
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Security and Privacy in Context
Håkon Jacobsen
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Constructing Efficient Multivariate and Code-based Public-Key Algorithm
Edlira Martiri
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bian Yang
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Template protection for multi-biometrics
Ctirad Sousedik
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Fake Resistant Fingerprint Biometrics
Nils Ulltveit-Moe
Ph.D. started in: 2009
Year of graduation: 2014
COINS consortium member: University of Agder
Supervised by: Vladimir Oleshchuk
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Privacy Enhanced Network Monitoring
Kjetil Kjernsmo
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Martin Giese, Arild Waaler, John Tyssedal
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Data Profiling in SPARQL Federation Optimizations
Mohsen Toorani
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Øyvind Ytrehus, Tor Helleseth
Links:
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Security protocols and related topics
COINS@FRISC Industrial Advisory Board 2013
Hanno Langweg gave a presentation on COINS for the FRISC Industrial Advisory Board. FRISC is the Norwegian Forum for Research and Innovation in Security and Communications. Feedback from representatives of the Industrial Advisory Board is expected to improve transition of … Continue reading
Simona Samardjiska
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Multivariate Public Key Algorithms Produced by Quasigroups
COINS Ph.D. student seminar 2013 (Stavanger)
COINS invited 35 active Ph.D. students in information security in Norway to a seminar, and 14 attended (40%). The seminar was co-located as a satellite event with NISK, the annual Norwegian information security conference under the auspices of the FRISC … Continue reading
COINS@NIK
NIK is the annual Norwegian Computer Science Conference (Norsk Informatikkonferanse). Einar Snekkenes gave a talk in the session on Pedagogy and Teaching on COINS and its contribution to Ph.D. training in Norway. COINS is the only ICT-related national research school … Continue reading
Gaute Wangen
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Conflicting Incentives Risk Analysis
Kiran Bylappa Raja
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch, Raghavendra Ramachandra
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Smartphone Based Hand Biometrics
Sandra Khan
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Expected year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stephen Wolthusen
Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Active Adversary Modelling
Aryan TaheriMonfared
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong
Links:
Research area: Network Security
Project title: Building Network Security Services Using Software Defined Networking
COINS participates in hack.lu CTF 2013, comes in 176th of 708
For 48 hours this week, several COINS students formed a team to compete with 707 teams from all over the world in a contest in applied information security (hack.lu CTF). The goal of this “Capture the flag” competition in information … Continue reading
Waqas Aman
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Context Aware Risk Analysis for Adaptive Security in Internet of Things
Yi-Ching Liao
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Hanno Langweg, Katrin Franke
Links:
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Process tracking for forensic readiness in OS
Takashi Watanabe
Ph.D. started in: 2009
Expected year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Slobodan Petrovic
Links:
Research area: Secure Hardware
Project title: Preventing side-channel information leakage from display unit
Bo Sun
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Lilya Budaghyan, Nian Li, Chunlei Li
Links:
Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Cloud Computing Security
Pankaj Pandey
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Using Theories from Economics and Finance to Address Information Security Risk Management
COINS@MyPhD Hamburg 2013
We attended MyPhD in September to explore their concept of Ph.D. student workshops and to learn from their experience. MyPhD is an informal network of professors and Ph.D. students in applied IT security in Germany. There is no legal entity … Continue reading
Soumik Mondal
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Patrick Bours
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Continuous Authentication using Behavioural Biometrics
Huihui Yang
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: University of Agder
Supervised by: Vladimir Oleshchuk
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Privacy Policies for Online Services
Break codes and hack systems in Norway’s largest CTF team in October
You are invited to participate in a COINS team in the hack.lu CTF Capture-the-flag competition, starting 11:00 on Tuesday 22 October and lasting 48 hours. The competition is “challenge-based”, i.e. there will be ca. 20-30 challenges of various difficulty. The … Continue reading
Goitom Weldehawaryat
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stephen Wolthusen
Links:
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Resilient Consensus, Interdependencies, and Optimisation in Sparse Networks
Call for election of Ph.D. students representatives for the COINS steering committee
There are two open positions for student representatives on the COINS steering committee (“SC”). The SC is responsible for all the research training issues and for resource management. It consists of the scientific director, one representative from each of the … Continue reading
Jayson Mackie
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Expected year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke
Links:
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Interactive Evolutionary Computing
Oleksandr Kazymyrov
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2014
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Tor Helleseth, Oleksandr Kholosha, Lilya Budaghyan
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Generation Methods of Basic Components for Symmetric Cryptosystems
Anika Pflug
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: 2D and 3D Ear Recognition
Kashif Habib Sheikh
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Risk-based adaptive security for internet of things in eHealth
Samson Gejibo
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Khalid Mughal
Links:
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Security Aspects of Mobile Health system
Ebenezer Paintsil
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2013
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Lothar Fritsch, Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Privacy and Security Risks Analysis in Identity Management Systems
Maria Bartnes
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski, Poul Heegaard
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Managing information security incidents in Smart Grid environments
Guoqiang Li
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch, Bian Yang, Patrick Bours
Links:
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Biometric indexing
Jan Roksvold
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: University of Tromsø
Supervised by: Hugues Verdure, Trygve Johnsen
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Matroidal structures
Chunlei Li
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2014
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Tor Helleseth
Links:
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Secure Boolean Functions for Coding and Cryptography
COINS Steering Committee meeting 2013-08-15
Kjære styremedlemmer, dere inviteres herved til møte i COINS Steering Committee. Styret er konsortiets øverste organ, og har ansvar for viktige strategiske beslutninger og disponering av ressurser, omdisponering av budsjettmidler mm. Forslag til agenda: Agenda Referat fra epost-møte i juni … Continue reading
Lisa Rajbhandari
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2013
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
Links:
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Risk Analysis Using “Conflicting Incentives” as an Alternative Notion of Risk
COINS Steering Committee meeting 2013-06-19
Kjære styremedlemmer, dere inviteres herved til epost-møte i COINS Steering Committee. Styret er konsortiets øverste organ, og har ansvar for viktige strategiske beslutninger og disponering av ressurser, omdisponering av budsjettmidler mm. Det finnes åtte forslag til vedtak: møtereferat, logo, aktivitetsmeny, … Continue reading
Collection of experiences with existing research schools
We wanted to have a good start in the right direction with COINS. Hence, we explored what other research schools had tried before us, what worked and what didn’t. For our first trip, we selected five research schools in the … Continue reading
University of Agder and University of Stavanger join COINS as new partners
The COINS Steering Committee voted unanimously in favour of accepting University of Agder and University of Stavanger as new project partners in COINS. Welcome.
COINS Steering Committee meeting 2013-04-23
Kjære styremedlemmer, dere inviteres herved til styremøte i COINS. Styret er konsortiets øverste organ, og har ansvar for viktige strategiske beslutninger og disponering av ressurser, omdisponering av budsjettmidler, endringer av konsortieavtalen, aksept av nye konsortiedeltakere og eventuelle problemer knyttet til … Continue reading
COINS Academic Advisory Board meeting 2013-04-22
Dear members of the COINS Academic Advisory Board, We hereby invite you to the 2013 meeting, this year at the beautiful Finse 1222 hotel. The advisory board meeting is co-located with the Finse winter school in information security, a Norwegian … Continue reading