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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dimitra Anastasopoulou
Shahram Rasoolzadeh
Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Håvard Raddum
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Key Primitives
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
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Anonymity of the off-chain transactions in Bitcoin
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
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: A lightweight security risk management approach for web applications and an industrial guideline
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
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Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Enhancement of Authentication Protocols through Biometric Authentication on Mobile Devices
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
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
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Research area: Secure Hardware
Project title: Preventing side-channel information leakage from display unit
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
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Interactive Evolutionary Computing