Author Archives: Urszula Nowostawska

Internship at KTH

Mazaher Kianpour went to KTH, Sweden, for a short research exchange and participation at FAG3006 course at KTH, from 15 December 2020 to 30 January 2021. He wanted to join a research group working on decision analysis and economics at … Continue reading

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Ali Khodabakhsh graduated

Ali Khodabakhsh successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 18th of June 2021, and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security and Communication Technology. The title … Continue reading

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Georgios Kavallieratos graduated

Georgios Kavallieratos successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 16th of June 2021, and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security and Communication Technology. The … Continue reading

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Aida Mehdipour Pirbazari graduated

Aida Mehdipour Pirbazari successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Stavanger, the 31st of May 2021 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Predictive Analytics for Maintaining Power System … Continue reading

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Manish Shrestha graduated

Manish Shrestha successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo on Tuesday, the 11th of May 2021 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “LightSC: A … Continue reading

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Yao Jiang graduated

Yao Jiang successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Monday, the 26th of April 2021, and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Sciences. The title of her … Continue reading

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Irene Villa graduated

Irene Villa successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Bergen, on the 4th of January 2021, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Analysis, classification and construction of … Continue reading

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Andrea Tenti graduated

Andrea Tenti successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Bergen, on the 25th November 2019 and on the 18th of December 2019, respectively, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his … Continue reading

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Elahe Fazeldehkordi graduated

Elahe Fazeldehkordi successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo on Tuesday, the 16th of March 2021 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is … Continue reading

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Ashish Rauniyar graduated

Ashish Rauniyar successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo on Tuesday, the 2nd of March 2021 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Exploring and Enhancing … Continue reading

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Cristina Viorica Heghedus graduated

Cristina Viorica Heghedus successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Stavanger, the 7th of February 2020 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Dynamic Machine Learning Approaches for Data … Continue reading

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Flávia Dias Casagrande graduated

Flávia Dias Casagrande successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo on Friday, the 13th of December 2019 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Sensor Event and … Continue reading

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Siri Bromander graduated

Siri Bromander successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo on Friday, the 19th of March 2021 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Understanding Cyber … Continue reading

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Shukun Tokas graduated

Shukun Tokas successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Friday, the 19th of February 2021 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Analysis and Enforcement … Continue reading

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Songpu Ai graduated

Songpu Ai successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Stavanger, the 30th of April 2019 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Household energy management system in energy … Continue reading

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Adam Szekeres graduated

Adam Szekeres successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Tuesday, the 1st of December 2020, and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security and Communication Technology. The … Continue reading

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NISK 2020 (Online)

The 13th annual Norwegian Information Security Conference (NISK) 2020 was 100% digital and took place on 23-25 November 2020, co-located with the NIKT conferences. The aim of the annual NISK conference series was to be presenting new research and developments … Continue reading

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ACM CCS 2020 (Online)

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference brought together information security researchers, practitioners, … Continue reading

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Antonio Gonzalez Burgueño graduated

Antonio Gonzalez Burgueño successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Wednesday, the 18th of June 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Formal Analysis … Continue reading

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Srimathi Varadharajan graduated

Srimathi Varadharajan successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Bergen, on the 22nd November 2019 and on the 28th of April 2020, respectively, and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her … Continue reading

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Samson Yoseph Esayas graduated

Samson Yoseph Esayas successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Monday, the 20th of April 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Data Privacy … Continue reading

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Desta Haileselassie Hagos graduated

Desta Haileselassie Hagos successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Wednesday, the 15th of April 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Discovering the … Continue reading

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Benjamin James Knox graduated

Benjamin James Knox successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 29th of May 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security and Communication Technology. … Continue reading

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Shao-Fang Wen graduated

Shao-Fang Wen successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 20th of May 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security and Communication Technology. The … Continue reading

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GDPR Ready training

GDPR Ready 4-Day Bundle took place in London, UK in December 2-5, 2019. GDPR enforcement has begun, and your organization can’t afford inadequate compliance. As of July 2019, data protection authorities have announced 360 million euros in fines against organizations … Continue reading

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Pawel Grzegorz Drozdowski graduated

Pawel Grzegorz Drozdowski successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 6th of May 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security and Communication Technology. … Continue reading

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Asiacrypt 2019

Asiacrypt 2019, the 25th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, took place at Kobe Portopia Hotel in Kobe, Japan on December 8-12, 2019. The Asiacrypt conference is an international conference on all aspects … Continue reading

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Herman Galteland graduated

Herman Galteland successfully completed his fully digital PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 15th of April 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Sciences. The title of … Continue reading

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Navid Ghaedi Bardeh graduated

Navid Ghaedi Bardeh successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Bergen, on the 6th of March 2020 and the 2nd of December 2019, respectively, and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title … Continue reading

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Norsk Kryptoseminar 2020

Norsk Kryptoseminar took place on Thursday, January 30, 2020, in Kjeller, Norway. Norsk Kryptoseminar (The Norwegian Crypto Seminar) is an event that was started in 1998. The purpose was to bring together the cryptology environments in Norway to promote theory … Continue reading

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Håkon Gunleifsen graduated

Håkon Gunleifsen successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Monday, the 20th of January 2020 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security and Communication Technology. The … Continue reading

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Jayachander Surbiryala graduated

Jayachander Surbiryala successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Stavanger, the 2nd of December 2019 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Information Processing in the Cloud. Resource … Continue reading

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NISK 2019

The 12th annual Norwegian Information Security Conference, NISK 2019, took place in Narvik 25-27 November 2019, co-located with the NIKT conferences. The aim of the NISK conference series was to be the principal Norwegian research venue for presenting and discussing developments in the field … Continue reading

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Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar graduated

Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Thursday, the 14th of November 2019 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security. The title … Continue reading

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Decentralized 2019

The 3rd annual Decentralized Conference, which took place in Athens, Greece, on 30 October – 1 November 2019. Decentralized has established itself as Europe’s premier conference on blockchain and digital currencies. Decentralized 2019 is one of the most popular events … Continue reading

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IEEE Nordic Student and Young Professionals Congress 2019

IEEE Nordic Student and Young Professionals Congress 2019 took place on October 25, 2019  – October 28, 2019, on a ship from Helsinki, Finland to Stockholm, Sweden. The 3rd biannual IEEE Nordic Student and Young Professionals Congress 2019 was co-hosted … Continue reading

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Patrick Schuch graduated

Patrick Schuch successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 16th of October 2019 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security. The title of … Continue reading

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8th Training School on Network Models, Architectures and Applications for 5G

The 8th Training School on Network Models, Architectures and Applications for 5G took place on the 7-11 October 2019 in Moscow, Russia The Training School featured a program of lectures delivered by leading experts in the area of 5G networks, … Continue reading

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GDPR Course in Brussels

GDPR Ready through four days of in-person classes that included the IAPP’s European Data Protection and Privacy Program Management training. IAPP faculty with academic and practice experience taught the essentials of envisioning, designing and executing a comprehensive privacy management program … Continue reading

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7th OSM Hackfest

ETSI’s Centre for Testing and Interoperability and the OSM community organized the 7th OSM Hackfest on 9-13 September 2019. The event was hosted by University of Patras in Patras, Greece), co-located with the OSM Mid-Release#7 meeting. This OSM Hackfest offered … Continue reading

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PAN at CLEF 2019

CLEF 2019 was hosted by the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, 09-12 September 2019. CLEF 2019 was the 10th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access … Continue reading

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1st International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies

The 1st International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies was jointly organized by members of TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Princeton University, and SBA Research. In its first edition, it was hosted by … Continue reading

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The Fourth Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy (ISP 2019)

The Fourth Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy (ISP 2019) took place on September 1-6, 2019 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The interdisciplinary summer school on privacy provided an intensive one-week academic post-graduate programme teaching privacy from a technical, legal and social perspective. The … Continue reading

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5th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech’19)

5th World Congress on New Technologies (NewTech’19) took place on August 18-20 in Lisbon, Portugal. NewTech was aimed to become one of the leading international annual congresses in the fields of new technologies. The congress was composed of 4 conferences. … Continue reading

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Blockchain Summer School 2019

The Blockchain Summer School was held at IT University of Copenhagen on 12-16 August 2019. The Summer School was an initiative of the European Blockchain Center and run jointly for the fourth year by faculty members from IT University of … Continue reading

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DeepLearn 2019: 3rd International Summer School on Deep Learning

DeepLearn 2019: 3rd International Summer School on Deep Learning took place on the 22-26 July 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. DeepLearn 2019 was a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in … Continue reading

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IACR Summer school “Euclidean lattices: theory and applications”

IACR Summer school on post-quantum cryptography: Euclidean lattices: theory and applications took place on the 15-19 July 2019 in Kaliningrad, Russia. The summer school was organized by Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad. COINS supported Thor Tunge and Bor … Continue reading

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Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Security School

International Summer School on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Security (BCS) took place at the University of Padua, Italy, from June 24th to June 28th, 2019. The school was open to graduate students, researchers, and practitioners from academia and industry. The school … Continue reading

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Summer School on real-world crypto and privacy 2019

Summer School on real-world crypto and privacy took place in Šibenik, Croatia, June 17–21, 2019. The summer school was jointly organized by the Digital Security (DiS) group, Radboud University (The Netherlands), ETH Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (Switzerland) and … Continue reading

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19th Seminar of the Swedish IT-Security Network for PhD students (SWITS)

The purpose of SWITS: – To enhance cooperation between Swedish PhD candidates and research labs – To identify PhD courseware usable on national level and make these available to participating departments – To identify existing PhD courses at Swedish Universities/ … Continue reading

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Theory and Practice of Blockchains 2019 (TPBC19)

From May 27 to May 29, 2019, Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University hosted the workshop on Theory and Practice of Blockchains 2019 (TPBC19) bringing together researchers working on the theory and implementation of blockchains. The program included recent … Continue reading

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Boolean Functions and their Applications (BFA) 2019

Boolean Functions and their Applications (BFA) 2019 took place in June 16-21st, 2019 in Florence, Italy. Boolean functions and more generally all the discrete structures used in error correcting coding, cryptography or communications, are highly active areas of research. The … Continue reading

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5th International Winter School on Big Data

BigDat 2019: 5th International Winter School on Big Data took place in January 7-11th, 2019 in Cambridge, UK. BigDat 2019 was a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the … Continue reading

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Ijlal Loutfi graduated

 Ijlal Loutfi successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Friday, the 14th of June 2019 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Trusted Execution … Continue reading

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EUROCRYPT 2019

EUROCRYPT 2019 was the 38th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques. Eurocrypt is one of the three flagship conferences of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Eurocrypt 2019 took place in Darmstadt, Germany on May 19-23 2019. It was organized by … Continue reading

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The 2nd ZKProof Workshop 2019

Zero Knowledge Proof Standardization Workshop took place in April 10-12th, 2019 in Berkeley, USA. Zero Knowledge Proofs are a cutting edge cryptographic tool that is starting to see adoption. This breakthrough technology form the basis of several cryptographic applications, improving … Continue reading

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IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2018 Privacy training

The IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2018 Privacy training took place on 26-27 November, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in force. The course helped to understand what it takes to handle personal information, from … Continue reading

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School on Applied Cryptography and its Impact on Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The School on Applied Cryptography and its Impact on Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship was the last event organised by the ECRYPT-NET Research Network and took place on 5-8 February, 2019 in Malaga, Spain. The school has focused on novel and … Continue reading

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Global Solutions Summit 2019

G20 Think Tank Initiative for Global Governance, the Global Solutions Summit 2019 took place on the 17th – 19th March, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. The annual Global Solutions Summit held by the Global Solutions Initiative brought together international research organizations, … Continue reading

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Oxford Post-Quantum Cryptography Workshop

Oxford Post-Quantum Cryptography Workshop took place in March (18-22th), 2019 at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK. The event brought together the top researchers in the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography for a week of fruitful discussions and exchange of … Continue reading

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6th Training School on Machine and Deep Learning Techniques for (Beyond) 5G Wireless Communication Systems

6th Training School on Machine and Deep Learning Techniques for (Beyond) 5G Wireless Communication Systems took place in Barcelona, Spain, April 8–11, 2019. Over the last decade we have witnessed a series of impressive breakthroughs in data science and AI … Continue reading

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Pankaj Shivdayal Wasnik graduated

Pankaj Shivdayal Wasnik successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 8th of May 2019 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. The title … Continue reading

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2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology took place in Amman, Jordan, April 9–11, 2019. JEEIT 2019 provided a unique forum to discuss practical approaches and state of the art findings in using the applied … Continue reading

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Mathematical foundations of asymmetric cryptography

Winter school on the mathematical foundations of asymmetric cryptography took place in Aussois, France, March 17–22, 2019. This winter school on the mathematical foundations of asymmetric cryptography lasted 5 days. Diverse and particularly active aspects of this research area were … Continue reading

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Harsha Sandaruwan Gardiyawasam Pussewalage graduated

Harsha Sandaruwan Gardiyawasam Pussewalage successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Agder on Thursday, the 2nd of May 2019 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Attribute … Continue reading

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Christopher Alan Carr graduated

Christopher Alan Carr  successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Thursday, the 30th of April 2019 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is … Continue reading

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Summer School on real-world crypto and privacy 2018

Summer School on real-world crypto and privacy took place in Šibenik, Croatia, June 11–15, 2018. The summer school was jointly organized by the Digital Security (DiS) group, Radboud University (The Netherlands), ETH Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (Switzerland) and … Continue reading

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First Nepal Winter School in AI

First Nepal Winter School in AI took place during 20-30 December 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The school provided students/professionals with the prerequisite fundamentals of mathematics, statistics, programming and paper reading skills required for starting a career in AI research and … Continue reading

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Number Theory and Coding Theory

Summer school: Number theory and coding theory – contemporary applications in security was organized at Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland on 28th May -1st of June 2018. The school has aimed at students at all levels (BSc/MSc/PhD) and postdocs. The school … Continue reading

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Real World Crypto 2019

Real World Crypto 2019, took place in San Jose Marriott, San Jose, USA on January 9-11, 2019. Real World Crypto 2019 was organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Real World Crypto Symposium aimed to bring together cryptography … Continue reading

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IEEE SmartGridComm 2018

IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids took place during 29-31 October 2018 in Aalborg, Denmark. Smart grid technology is currently entering the electrical market by the deployment of smart meters. Electric vehicles introduce new challenges on … Continue reading

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Symmetric Proof Techniques

This IACR school provided a comprehensive coverage of proof techniques used in symmetric cryptography. It was targeted at Ph.D. students and post-docs who were primarily working in this area. The school took place between 29 July 2018 and 3 August … Continue reading

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Mohamed Ali Saleh Abomhara graduated

Mohamed Ali Saleh Abomhara successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense on Tuesday, the 18th of December 2018 at the University of Agder and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is … Continue reading

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Bjørn Møller Greve graduated

Bjørn Møller Greve successfully completed his PhD trial lecture on Friday, the 23rd of November 2018 and thesis defense on Friday, the 7th of December 2018 at the University of Bergen and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The … Continue reading

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NordSec 2018

NordSec 2018: The 23rd Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems was held in Oslo, Norway, 28. – 30. November 2018. NordSec addressed a broad range of topics within IT security with the aim of bringing together computer security researchers and … Continue reading

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ITNAC 2018

The 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2018) was an international conference and forum for the presentation of research outcomes covering timely and relevant aspects concerning modelling and simulation of distributed, mobile, cognitive and cloud computing, computer and … Continue reading

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Kashif Habib graduated

Kashif Habib successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Thursday, the 15th of November 2018 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Context-Aware … Continue reading

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International Workshop on Boolean Functions and their Applications 2018

The 3rd International Workshop on Boolean Functions and their Applications (BFA) took place in Loen, Norway during June 17-22, 2018. Boolean functions and more generally all the discrete structures used in error correcting coding, cryptography or communications, are highly active … Continue reading

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Emil Artin International Conference

Emil Artin International Conference was held in Yerevan, the Republic of Armenia, May 27-June 2, 2018 The Conference was dedicated to the memory of Emil Artin, an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent. He was one of the leading mathematicians of the … Continue reading

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NISK 2018

The 11th annual Norwegian Information Security Conference, NISK 2018, took place at Svalbard 18-20 September 2018, co-located with the NIKT conferences. The aim of the NISK conference series was to be the principal Norwegian research venue for presenting and discussing … Continue reading

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SSIC 2018

SSIC 2018 : Third International Conference on Security of Smart Cities, Industrial Control System and Communications (SSIC’2018) was held on the 18-19 October in Shanghai, China. SSIC’2018 was the third conference in the area of cyber security focusing on the … Continue reading

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CrossFyre 2018

CrossFyre 2018: The 8th international workshop on cryptography, robustness, and provably secure schemes for female young researchers was held on the 13-14 September 2018 in Guildford, UK. CrossFyre aimed to bring together female researchers in cyber security (e.g., in cryptography, … Continue reading

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ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics in Systems

This inaugural summer school on advanced topics in systems was held on the 30th anniversary of the renowned Arctic 88 Advanced Course on Distributed Systems. It was held on the picturesque and secluded island of Sommarøy located 36 km (22 … Continue reading

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International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC)

The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) 2018 was held on July 16-19, 2018, at the CUNY Graduate Center and Courant Institute, New York, USA. ISSAC 2018 was the premier conference for research in symbolic computation and computer … Continue reading

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2018 IEEE ComSoc Summer School on Fog Computing

2018 Summer School on “Fog Computing” was held in Shanghai, China, on ShanghaiTech University campus, from June 26 to 29, 2018. The goal of this summer school was to bring together the world-class researchers in Fog Computing with undergraduate, graduate … Continue reading

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Siddhartha Kumar graduated

Siddhartha Kumar successfully completed his PhD trial lecture on Wednesday, the 3rd of October 2018 and thesis defense on Wednesday, the 17th of October 2018 at the University of Bergen and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title … Continue reading

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Seraj Fayyad graduated

Seraj Fayyad successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Friday, the 11th of October 2018 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Measurable Security for … Continue reading

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Vivek Agrawal graduated

    Vivek Agrawal successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 4th of October 2018 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis … Continue reading

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Tetiana Yarygina graduated

Tetiana Yarygina successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defence on Monday, the 1st of October 2018 at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is … Continue reading

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Bo Sun graduated

Bo Sun successfully completed her PhD trial lecture on Monday, the 11th of June 2018 and thesis defence on Friday, the 22nd of June 2018 at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of … Continue reading

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EUROCRYPT 2018

EUROCRYPT 2018 was held in Tel Aviv, Israel during  29 April – 3 May, 2018. EUROCRYPT 2018 is the 37th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques. Covering all aspects of cryptology, including theoretical foundations, deployment of … Continue reading

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Global Solutions Summit 2018

Global Solutions Summit 2018 was held in Berlin, Germany during May 28-29, 2018. Over 1,100 participants, official delegates from T20 Argentina 2018 and T20 Japan 2019, Nobel Laureates and German Chancellor Angela Merkel – this was the Global Solutions Summit … Continue reading

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COST Training School on Symmetric Cryptography and Blockchain

COST Training School on Symmetric Cryptography and Blockchain was held in Torremolinos, Spain during February 19-23, 2018. The training school was co-organised with the COST action IC1306 “Cryptography for Secure Digital Interaction” and contained lectures on symmetric cryptography as well … Continue reading

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NISK 2017

The NISK 2017 conference was held in Oslo, Norway during November 27-29, 2017. The Norwegian Information Security Conference (no. Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse – NISK) is a national conference that brings together researchers in IT-security, mainly from national community, but also from the international community. … Continue reading

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Christian Wilhelm Otterstad graduated

Christian Wilhelm Otterstad successfully completed his PhD trial lecture on Wednesday, the 20th of September 2017 and thesis defense on Friday, the 13th of October 2017 at the University of Bergen and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title … Continue reading

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Offensive Security Conference

Offensive Security Conference 2018 was held in Berlin, Germany during February 16-17, 2018. OffensiveCon Berlin was a highly technical international security conference focused on offensive security only. The aim of OffensiveCon was to bring the community of hackers together for high … Continue reading

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Andrii Shalaginov graduated

Andrii Shalaginov successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 16th of February 2018 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Advancing … Continue reading

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Vasileios Gkioulos graduated

Vasileios Gkioulos successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 9th of February 2018 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Securing … Continue reading

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Martin Strand graduated

Martin Strand successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Thursday, the 1st of February 2018 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Fully … Continue reading

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Ctirad Sousedik graduated

   Ctirad Sousedik successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Tuesday, the 30th of January 2018 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is … Continue reading

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Kyrre Wahl Kongsgård graduated

Kyrre Wahl Kongsgård successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Wednesday, the 20th of December 2017 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Data Loss … Continue reading

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BlockchainUA

BlockchainUA conference was held in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 22, 2017. 22nd of September Kyiv became an epicentre of blockchain-insights and expertise. Leading world and Ukrainian experts shared relevant information on successful applications of advanced blockchain technology in various industries and told … Continue reading

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Britta Hale graduated

Britta Hale successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Tuesday, the 5th of December 2017 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Low-Latency … Continue reading

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Håkon Jacobsen graduated

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Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2017

Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2017 was held in Taipei, Taiwan during September 25-28, 2017. CHES is the leading conference on hardware security and the largest international cryptography conference. The annual CHES conference highlighted new results in the design … Continue reading

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Data Science for Cyber-Security

The Data Science for Cyber-Security conference was held in London, the United Kingdom during September 25-27, 2017. The use of data science for cyber-security applications is a relatively new paradigm. This includes deployment of statistical methodology, machine learning, and Big Data analytics for … Continue reading

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Mathematical Methods for Cryptography (MMS)

The Mathematical Methods for Cryptography workshop was organized by Selmer Center, Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen. It was dedicated to celebrate Prof. Tor Helleseth’s 70th birthday. The MMS workshop was held in Svolvær, in the archipelago Lofoten, Norway during September 4-8, … Continue reading

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ESORICS 2017

ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. This was the 22nd symposium in the … Continue reading

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Secure Cloud Services and Storage Workshop 2017

Secure Cloud Services and Storage Workshop 2017 has focused on recent research in securing cloud services and storage. International experts in cloud security have gathered to explain their work, promote discussion and foster future collaboration. The Secure Cloud Services and Storage Workshop … Continue reading

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The 2nd International Workshop on Boolean Functions and their Applications (BFA)

The workshop Boolean Functions and their Applications (BFA) provided a forum for researchers who are working on discrete functions and structures, particularly on Boolean functions, to exchange ideas and interests in open problems, and to further explore their applications in … Continue reading

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Bikash Agrawal graduated

Bikash Agrawal successfully completed his trial lecture and PhD thesis defense at the University of Stavanger on Monday, the 13th of March 2017 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Scalable Data Processing and … Continue reading

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Cybersecurity and Privacy (CySeP) Summer School

The Summer School took place in June (19-22nd), 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. It reflected and elaborated on how to best go from research and teaching to solving real-world problems. Prominent experts from academia and industry addressed a set of diverse … Continue reading

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Gaute Bjørklund Wangen graduated

Gaute Bjørklund Wangen successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 14th of June 2017 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is … Continue reading

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Spring School on Lattice-Based Cryptography

The Spring school took place in March (20-24th), 2017 at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. It aimed at covering lattices, their role in modern cryptography, and their potential use in the post-quantum era. Namely, it covered the basics of lattices, “hard” lattice … Continue reading

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European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated … Continue reading

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Codes, Cryptology and Information Security Conference in Rabat, Morocco

“Codes, Cryptology and Information Security” Second International Conference in honor of Professor Claude Carlet was hosted by the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, April 10 -12, 2017. The conference paid tribute to Pr. Claude CARLET for the significant contributions … Continue reading

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Goitom Kahsay Weldehawaryat graduated

Goitom Kahsay Weldehawaryat successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Thursday, the 6th of April 2017 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is … Continue reading

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Kjetil Kjernsmo graduated

Kjetil Kjernsmo successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Wednesday, the 14th of December 2016 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis was “SPARQL on the Open, … Continue reading

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Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw graduated

Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Tromsø on Tuesday, the 10th of January 2017 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Towards Practical … Continue reading

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Security Divas 2017

The Security Divas 2017 conference took place on the 26th and 27th of January at Strand Hotell in Gjøvik for seven years in a row and collected over 160 women. Women with an interest in information security and ICT were … Continue reading

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BIP001 conference in Kiev, Ukraine

BIP001 2017 conference took place on the 12 January 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine, a city that is very well known as beeing the biggest Blockchain community in Eastern Europe. International Conference BIP001 was a focused and compact meeting of blockchain professionals, dedicated to discussing the application of Blockchain technology to existing problems in the society. The aim of the conference … Continue reading

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NISK 2016 in Bergen

NISK 2016 was organised by the Department of Computing, Mathematics, and Physics and the ICT engineering research programme at Bergen University College on the 29-30 November 2016. The conference was comprised of the NIK, NOKOBIT, NISK, and UDIT conferences which are … Continue reading

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Yi-Ching Liao graduated

Yi-Ching Liao successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 16th of December 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Process … Continue reading

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Kiran Bylappa Raja graduated

  Kiran Bylappa Raja successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 11th of November 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Robust … Continue reading

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Guoqiang Li graduated

Guoqiang Li successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Thursday, the 27th of October 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Innovative methods … Continue reading

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Berglind Fjóla Smáradóttir graduated

Berglind Fjóla Smáradóttir successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Agder on Monday, the 17th of October 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “User-centered Design and … Continue reading

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Summer school on real-world crypto and privacy 2016

Hold in Šibenik, Croatia  from June 5th – 10th 2016. The school brought together PhD students, postdoc researchers and security experts from industry of Secure hardware and physical security Cryptography for the Internet Formal methods in cryptography Wireless security Crypto for systems security … Continue reading

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Arctic Crypt 2016

  The northernmost crypto workshop ever organised, Arctic Crypt 2016, took place in the period of July 17-22 in spectacular arctic surroundings under the midnight sun in Longyearbyen, Svalbard at 78° north. The program was constructed around a series of 10-12 … Continue reading

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IACR Summer School Blockchain Technologies

Hold in Corfu, Greece, at the elegant Corfu Imperial Hotel from May 30th – Jun 2nd 2016. IACR Summer School on Blockchain Technologies “From cryptographic e-cash to modern cryptocurrencies” was the the first summer school on blockchains and cryptocurrencies. The schooling was focused on … Continue reading

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Pankaj Pandey graduated

Pankaj Pandey successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Monday, the 4th of July 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Using Theories from … Continue reading

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Huihui Yang graduated

Huihui Yang  successfully completed her PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Agder on Tuesday, the 28th of June 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of her thesis is “Cryptographic Enforcement of Attribute-based Authentication” and … Continue reading

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Waqas Aman graduated

Waqas Aman successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Friday, the 27th of May 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Adaptive Security … Continue reading

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WICYS Women in Cybersecurity

Took place in March 31st- April 2nd 2016 in Dallas, Texas, USA. Half of the US workforce is women and yet only 8-11% is in cybersecurity. So, to address the undeniable critical shortage of cybersecurity professionals in this country, it only … Continue reading

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ICISSP Doctoral Consortium

Took place in February 19th-21st 2016 in Rome, Italy.  The International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy aimed at creating a meeting point for researchers and practitioners that address security and privacy challenges that concern information systems, especially in organizations, … Continue reading

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HackCon conference

Took place in February 17th-18th 2016 in Oslo, Norway. HackCon is the national Norwegian cyber security conference and was established in 2005 by the network of Norwegian security experts. The goal of the conference is to create practical cyber security courses combined with a … Continue reading

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SECENTIS Winter School

Took place in February 8th-12th in Trento, Italy. It has provided an innovative training to tackle the scientific and technical security challenges raised by the combination of new technologies (e.g., cloud computing, mobile applications, and the Software-as-a-Service paradigm) and to manage the impact … Continue reading

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Soumik Mondal graduated

Soumik Mondal successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, the 24th of February 2016 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is Continuous User … Continue reading

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Cloud Security Alliance conference

Took place in June 15th-16th in Oslo, Norway, where participants got to experience world-class speakers like Raj Samani, Rik Fergusson and Ramsés Gallego, a fantastic three-track program, lots of perks and extras, and a hard-hitting rock-festival-party in the evening! Some … Continue reading

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Martin Aastrup Olsen graduated

Martin Aastrup Olsen successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the Gjøvik University Collage on Thursday, the 17th of December 2015 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Fingerprint Image Quality … Continue reading

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Mohsen Toorani graduated

Mohsen Toorani successfully completed his PhD thesis defense at the University of Bergen on Monday, the 14th of December 2015 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Security protocols and related topics ”.   … Continue reading

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NISK 2015 in Ålesund

The 8th Norwegian Information Security Conference, NISK 2015, took place at Ålesund University College in Ålesund in the period 23 – 25 November 2015. NISK 2015 was organised in conjunction with NIK 2015 and NOKOBIT 2015, and was sponsored by the FRISC network … Continue reading

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Aryan TaheriMonfared graduated

Aryan TaheriMonfared successfully completed his trial lecture and PhD thesis defense at the University of Stavanger on Monday, the 26th of October 2015 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Software-defined networking architecture framework … Continue reading

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Antorweep Chakravorty graduated

Antorweep Chakravorty successfully completed his trial lecture and PhD thesis defense at the University of Stavanger and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Privacy preserving analytics on large scale data from smart … Continue reading

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Samson Gejibo graduated

Samson Gejibo successfully completed his trial lecture and PhD thesis defense at the University of Bergen on Thursday, November 5th, 2015 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The title of his thesis is “Towards a Secure Framework … Continue reading

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NordSec 2015 and CySeP 2015 in Stockholm

COINS supported participation of students at NordSec 2015 and CySeP winter school 2015 in Stockholm. The conferences were co-located with the COINS Ph.D. student seminar. Here are their pictures and reflection reports. Andrii Shalaginov Dijana Vukovic Ambika Shrestha Chitrakar Huihui Yang … Continue reading

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Maria Bartnes Line graduated

Maria Bartnes Line successfully completed her trial lecture and PhD thesis defense on Monday, September 28th, 2015 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Telematics). The title of her thesis is “Understanding information security incident management practices: … Continue reading

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