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

• Peter Schwarz, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Privacy-Preserving Protocols

PhD Assessor/Member of the Supervisory Committee

Current:

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

Former:

• Seyyed Mahdi Sedaghat, COSIC, KU Leuven, topic: Distributed Consensus Protocols and Blockchain, defence on 9 July 2024.

• 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. 

Editorial Board Member:

• Journal of Mathematical Cryptology

• IACR Communications in Cryptography

PC member:

• IEEE S&P 2025

• Security Standardisation Research Conference 2024

• USENIX 2024

• USENIX 2023

• NDSS 2022 

• NDSS 2021

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