External employers

All COINS students are enrolled in Ph.D. programmes with one of the consortium members. In addition, they might be employed by another institution. COINS welcomes cooperations with industry and the public sector. Here is a list of employers that are not consortium members, and of the students employed by them:

• CASED
1. Martin Aastrup Olsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Fingerprint Image Quaity (graduated: 2015)
2. Anika Pflug (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): 2D and 3D Ear Recognition (graduated: 2015)
• Dermalog
1. Patrick Schuch (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Representation Learning for Fingerprint Recognition (graduated: 2019)
• Eidsiva bredbånd
1. Håkon Gunleifsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): A communication model of distributed Network Controllers in a virtualized environment (graduated: 2020)
• EyeNetworks
1. Maghsoud Morshedi Chinibolagh (University of Oslo): Application specific routing for managed wireless access (graduation expected: 2021)
• FFI
1. Stian Fauskanger (University of Bergen): New properties of DES and linear cryptanalysis of lightweight cipher with multiple linear approximations (graduation expected: 2017)
2. Kyrre Wahl Kongsgaard (University of Oslo): data exfiltration detection and prevention (graduated: 2017)
• FFI, NSM
1. Bjørn Greve (University of Bergen): Secure and low voice communication, and other cryptographic aspects (graduated: 2018)
• Forsvaret
1. Benjamin Knox (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Cyberpower praxis: a study of how to improve understanding and governance in the cyber domain (graduated: 2020)
• HTWG Konstanz
1. Felix Schuckert (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Opportunities of Insecurity Refactoring for Training and Software Development (graduation expected: 2020)
• Hochschule Darmstadt
1. Pawel Drozdowski (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Efficient privacy-preserving identification in large-scale multi-biometric systems (graduated: 2020)
• Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus
1. Ramtin Aryan (University of Oslo): Software-Defined Networking Policy Conflict Detection: a holistic approach (graduation expected: 2020)
2. Flávia Dias Casagrande (University of Oslo): Self-learning systems for Assisted Living Technologies (graduated: 2019)
3. Desta Haileselassie Hagos (University of Oslo): Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Security Attack Analysis (graduated: 2020)
4. Ashish Rauniyar (University of Oslo): Towards a Secure, Energy Efficient and Resilient Internet of Things (graduated: 2021)
• Mnemonic
1. Siri Bromander (University of Oslo): TOCSA (graduated: 2021)
• NR
1. Ebenezer Paintsil (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Privacy and Security Risks Analysis in Identity Management Systems (graduated: 2013)
2. Kashif Habib Sheikh (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Risk-based adaptive security for internet of things in eHealth (graduated: 2018)
• National Criminal Investigation Service
1. Jens-Petter Sandvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Digital forensics and resource-constrained, Internet-connected systems (graduation expected: 2020)
• Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate – Norwegian Energy Regulatory Authority
1. Øyvind Toftegaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Resilient Future Smart Grid Ecosystem – Upcoming Steps in Innovation, Business Cases, its Regulation and Supervision (graduation expected: 2024)
• Oslo Police District
1. Stig Andersen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Investigative quality in digital forensics (graduation expected: 2020)
• SINTEF
1. Per Håkon Meland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Modelling of cyber attacks and economic incentives (graduation expected: 2020)
• SINTEF IKT
1. Maria Bartnes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Managing information security incidents in Smart Grid environments (graduated: 2015)
• Simula Research Laboratory
1. Syed Moeen Ali Naqvi (University of Oslo): Towards Self-Healing Software through Anomaly Detection and Adaptive learning (graduation expected: 2023)
• Simula School of Research and Innovation
1. Debesh Jha (University of Tromsø): Secure and Privacy Preserving Machine-Learning Methods for Disease detection and reporting on Medical Multimedia Data (graduation expected: 2021)
2. Siddhartha Kumar (University of Bergen): Secure and Reliable Distributed Storage Systems (graduated: 2018)
• Simula UiB
1. Nicolas Costes (University of Bergen): High Performance Power Analysis Attacks (graduation expected: 2022)
2. Hans Heum (University of Bergen): Side-channel attacks in a multi-user setting (graduation expected: 2021)
3. John Petter Indrøy (University of Bergen): Application of Compressed Right Hand Sides on AES (graduation expected: 2021)
4. Arne Tobias Malkenes Ødegaard (University of Bergen): Post-quantum zk-SNARKs (graduation expected: 2022)
5. Alessandro Melloni (University of Bergen): Security of Protocols and Privacy Enhancing Technologies (graduation expected: 2022)
6. Roberto Parisella (University of Bergen): Efficient NIZK under trusted assumptions (graduation expected: 2023)
7. Reent Schlegel (University of Bergen): Private Edge Computing (graduation expected: 2021)
• Sopra Steria
1. Eivind Kristoffersen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): CIRCit (graduation expected: 2021)
• The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
1. Jon-Martin Storm (University of Oslo): Efficient Cybersecurity Mechanisms for ICS and SCADA (graduation expected: 2021)
• The University of Groningen
1. Merve Bas Seyyar (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Privacy by Design in Large Scale Digital Forensics (graduation expected: 2020)
• University of Rwanda
1. Joseph Twayigira (University of Agder): Using Mobile Cloud Computing for Crisis and Emergency Management: Securty and Privacy Aspects (graduation expected: 2017)
• University of Tirana
1. Edlira Martiri (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Template protection for multi-biometrics (graduation expected: 2020)