Category Archives: Alumni
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Navid Ghaedi Bardeh
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Tor Helleseth, Sondre Rønjom
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Cryptographic Primitives
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
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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
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Security Attack 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
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Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Security For Communicating Object Systems
Yao Jiang
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Cryptographic Tools for Cloud Security
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
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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
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Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: TOCSA
Jayachander Surbiryala
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong, Chunlei Li
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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
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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
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Research area: Privacy
Project title: Measurable security and privacy for services on the Smart Electricity Grid
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
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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
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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
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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
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Hyper Contextual Information Security Management
Srimathi Varadharajan
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Håvard Raddum
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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
Herman Galteland
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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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
Harsha Sandaruwan Gardiyawasam Pussewalage
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: University of Agder
Supervised by: Vladimir Oleshchuk
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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
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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
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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
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Fully homomorphic encryption
Christian Otterstad
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Øyvind Ytrehus, Kjell Hole
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Low-level exploitation mitigation through dynamic code mutation and selected low-level attacks
Antonio Gonzalez Burgueño
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Peter Ölveczky, Audun Jøsang
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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
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Secure and Robust Network-based Systems
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
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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
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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
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Approximate search techniques for big data analysis
Seraj Fayyad
Ph.D. started in: 2014
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Oslo
Supervised by: Josef Noll, Einar Snekkenes
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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
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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
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Robust and secure cloud services
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Secure data storage and sharing in the cloud
Antorweep Chakravorty
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong
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Research area: Privacy
Project title: Safer@Home Analytics: a Big Data Analytical Solution for Smart Homes
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
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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
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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
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Constructing Efficient Multivariate and Code-based Public-Key Algorithm
Ctirad Sousedik
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch
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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
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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
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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
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Research area: Models and Protocols
Project title: Security protocols and related topics
Simona Samardjiska
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Multivariate Public Key Algorithms Produced by Quasigroups
Gaute Wangen
Ph.D. started in: 2013
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
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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
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Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Smartphone Based Hand Biometrics
Aryan TaheriMonfared
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2015
COINS consortium member: University of Stavanger
Supervised by: Chunming Rong
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Building Network Security Services Using Software Defined Networking
Waqas Aman
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
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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
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Process tracking for forensic readiness in OS
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
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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
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Using Theories from Economics and Finance to Address Information Security Risk Management
Soumik Mondal
Ph.D. started in: 2012
Year of graduation: 2016
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Patrick Bours
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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
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Research area: Privacy
Project title: Privacy Policies for Online Services
Goitom Weldehawaryat
Ph.D. started in: 2011
Year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stephen Wolthusen
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Resilient Consensus, Interdependencies, and Optimisation in Sparse Networks
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Secure Boolean Functions for Coding and Cryptography
Lisa Rajbhandari
Ph.D. started in: 2010
Year of graduation: 2013
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Einar Snekkenes
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Risk Analysis Using “Conflicting Incentives” as an Alternative Notion of Risk