Category Archives: Students

Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas, Vasileios Gkioulos, Runar Ostnes
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cybersecurity of the Integrated Bridge System (IBS) on Conventional Vessels

Ph.D. started in: 2021
Expected year of graduation: 2025
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Frank Alexander Kraemer, Kerstin Bach, Bernd-Christian Renner
Research area: Secure Hardware
Project title: Machine Learning for Cognitive Power Management in IoT

Ph.D. started in: 2021
Expected year of graduation: 2024
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sule Yildirim-Yayilgan
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: PhD candidate in modelling and simulation of social impact and acceptability of modern border control technologies

Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2024
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bernhard Hämmerli, Sokratis Katsikas, Nils Kalstad, Janne Merete Hagen
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Resilient Future Smart Grid Ecosystem – Upcoming Steps in Innovation, Business Cases, its Regulation and Supervision

Ph.D. started in: 2020
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sule Yildirim-Yayilgan
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cybersecurity of IoT enabled Smart Grids

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Future Proofing Cryptographic Voting Systems

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Mary Ann Lundteigen, Bjørn Axel Gran, Sokratis Katsikas
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: ICT Security in Safety Instrumented Systems as applied in critical infrastructures

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2024
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd, Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Lightweight Cryptography for Future Smart Networks

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jiaxin Pan
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Formal treatment of practical signature schemes

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stig Frode Mjølsnes, Colin Boyd
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Lightweight Cryptography for Future Smart Networks

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bian Yang, Christoph Busch
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Modelling Healthcare Staffs’ Mental State to Minimize Cybersecurity Risk

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen, Colin Boyd
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Secure, Usable and Robust Cryptographic Voting Systems

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cyber-physical security of power plants within the smart grid

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katina Kralevska, Norvald Stol, Danilo Gligoroski
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Network Slicing in 5G

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Standards for digital evidence

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bjarne Helvik
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Networking impact and support for blockchains

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Mariusz Nowostawski
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Rights and Identity on Blockchains, Trust and Transparency in Digital Society Through Blockchain Technology

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bian Yang
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Healthcare Security Practice Analysis, Modeling and Incentivization

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stewart Kowalski, Basel Katt
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Societal safety in transformation – digitalization and information security awareness in civil society and civil emergency

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stephen Wolthusen
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Understanding the Resilience of Software Defined Networking for Industrial Control Networks

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jingyue Li, Sokratis Katsikas, Stig Ole Johnsen
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Cybersecurity, Safety, and Resilience of Smart Cities

Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski, Katina Kralevska, Colin Boyd
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Innovative Cryptography for Innovative Blockchain Services

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Sokratis Katsikas
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Communication and Cybersecurity for autonomous passenger ferry

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Trust and Transparency in Digital Society Through Blockchain Technology

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski, Kristian Gjøsteen, Colin Boyd
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Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post-quantum primitives

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd, Kristian Gjøsteen
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post-Quantum Key Exchanges

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Raghavendra Ramachandra
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Robust Biometric Authentication using 3D Information

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2023
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post Quantum Cryptography

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Guttorm Sindre
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Modelling of cyber attacks and economic incentives

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Zeno Geradts, G.P. (Jeanne) Mifsud Bonnici
Research area: Privacy
Project title: Privacy by Design in Large Scale Digital Forensics

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Finn Arve Aagesen, Otto Jonassen Wittner
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Policy – based network applications and service configuration

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Poul Heegaard
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Developing a low-latency, secure and dependable communication architecture for Microgrid protection and Control

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Harald Øverby, Stewart Kowalski
Research area: Security Management
Project title: Information Security Economics

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Basel Katt
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Modelling and Analyzing Attack-Defence Scenarios for Cyber Ranges

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jingyue Li
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Research area: Security Management
Project title: Integrated safety and security analysis of cyber-physical systems using system engineering approach

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Patrick Bours
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Chat room security

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Raghavendra Ramachandra, Christoph Busch
Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Presentation Attack Detection in Iris and Ocular biometrics

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Jingyue Li
Research area: Network Security
Project title: CIRCit

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Colin Boyd
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Securing emerging network technologies with homomorphic encryption

Ph.D. started in: 2017
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Slobodan Petrovic, Katrin Franke
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Detecting Dynamic Attack Patterns in Large and Diverse Data Sources

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Habtamu Abie, Stefan Axelsson, Andrè Årnes
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Digital forensics and resource-constrained, Internet-connected systems

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Katrin Franke, Stefan Axelsson, Thomas Walmann
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Data Mining and Network Analysis for Financial Crime Detection and Investigation

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stefan Axelsson
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Security vulnerability research for use in digital forensic acquisition

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Stefan Axelsson, Hallstein Hansen, Katrin Franke
Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Investigative quality in digital forensics

Ph.D. started in: 2018
Expected year of graduation: 2021
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Poul Heegaard, Morten Hovd
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Research area: Network Security
Project title: Application of New Sensors and Controllers for Distribution Grid Operation

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Hanno Langweg, Basel Katt
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Opportunities of Insecurity Refactoring for Training and Software Development

Ph.D. started in: 2016
Expected year of graduation: 2019
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Geir Olav Dyrkolbotn
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Research area: Digital Forensics
Project title: Advanced Machine Learning Techniques in Malware Analysis Applications

Ph.D. started in: 2015
Expected year of graduation: 2018
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Christoph Busch, Raghavendra Ramachandra
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Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Secure and Privacy Preserving Biometrics for Transaction Authentication

Ph.D. started in: 2013
Expected year of graduation: 2017
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Danilo Gligoroski
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: Increasing the performance, robustness, reliability and security of web services

Ph.D. started in: 2012
Expected year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Bian Yang
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Research area: Authentication and Biometrics
Project title: Template protection for multi-biometrics