PhD Students

• Erik Pohle, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Lightweight MPC-friendly Symmetric Ciphers. 

• Martin Zbudila, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning. 

• Omid Mirzamohammadi, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Privacy-Preserving Computations in Decentralised Identity Systems

• Leonard Schild, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: FHE-based Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

• Kevin Bogner, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Quantum Distance Bounding

• Varesh Mishra, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Secure distributed AI at the Edge

PhD Assessor/Member of the Supervisory Committee

Current:

• Irfan Bulut, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Advanced Malware Detection via AI

• Seyyed Mahdi Sedaghat, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Distributed Consensus Protocols and Blockchain 

Former:

• Akash Madhusudan, PhD Thesis: Design of Scalable and Secure Decentralized Applications, COSIC, KU Leuven, defence on 5 June 2024. 

• Alan Szepieniec, PhD Thesis: Mathematical and Provable Security Aspects of Post-Quantum Cryptography, COSIC, KU Leuven, defence on 21 December 2018. 

Master Thesis supervision:

Pinar Çomak De Cnudde, "Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts", Master Thesis, KU Leuven, 2023

Jordy Raeman, "Privacy-preserving data collection: from IoT to the cloud", Master Thesis, KU Leuven, 2022

Yoshi Vermeire, "Collaborative Mobile Authentication", Master Thesis, KU Leuven, June, 2021.

Soumita Dawn, "Privacy preserving intrusion detection using multiparty computation." Master Thesis, KU Leuven and Indian Statistical Institute, 2020. 

Ruben Dedoncker, “On security of deterministic secure quantum communication.” Master Thesis, KU Leuven, 2019.  

Henri De Plaen, “Privacy-friendly machine learning algorithms for intrusion detection systems.” Master Thesis, KU Leuven, 2019. Currently, PhD student at ESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven.

Teaching:

KU Leuven: 

Quantum Computing, PhD Course, Spring of 2022, 2023, ...

H0E91a: P&O ICT Security and Networks (Spring of 2020)

H09M0a: P&O Embedded Systems and Multimedia (Spring of 2017, 2018,  2019)

Linköping University:

TSIT03: Cryptology (2010, 2011, 2012)

TSIT02: Computer Security (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

TSIT01: Datasäkerhetsmetoder (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

TATA41: Single Variable Calculus (2009)

TATA31: Linear Algebra (2007, 2008, 2009)

Editorial Board Member:

• Journal of Mathematical Cryptology

PC member:

• USENIX 2024, USENIX 2023

• NDSS 2022, NDSS 2021

• CYBER 2022, CYBER 2020, CYBER 2017

•  SECURWARE 2022, SECURWARE 2021, SECURWARE 2020, SECURWARE 2017

Journal reviews:

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)

• IEEE Communication Letters

• IEEE Systems Journal

• IEEE Access

• IET Biometrics

• Design, Codes and Cryptography

• Quantum Information & Computation 

• Quantum Information Processing

• Communications of ACM

• Computers & Security

• Journal of Information Security and Applications

• Sensors

Conference reviews:

CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, ACNS, SAC, ACM SAC, ARES, CSL-LICS, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICASSP, IFIPSEC, IEEE WIFS