Open PhD Forum
FOSAD invites submissions from PhD students who are willing to present their novel and ongoing research ideas and contributions.
Proposals (title and abstract) are due through the application form and can be uploaded and updated at any time, no later than August 7, 2026.
The proposals will be reviewed by the scientific committee of FOSAD.
The accepted proposals must be presented at the summer school during the open session of the PhD forum (15 min. per talk plus question time).
Program
Monday 24 - 11:30
Fabian Hauck - Formal Security Analysis of the OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant with DY*
Gelieza Kötterheinrich - From Vulnerability Prioritization to Online Remediation Scheduling: Towards Dynamic Cyber Risk Remediation Planning
Fatimah Faraji - Cyber Resilience by Design for Critical-Infrastructure Information Systems: A Three-Phase Framework for Systemic Risk Assessment, Management, and Recovery
Gökcan Cantali - Sustainable Cybersecurity in Future Networks via Distributed Learning Methods
Luca Petrillo - An Explainable Method for Automatic Extraction of Natural Language Access Control Policy Key Components
Giovanni Ciaramella - Packed and Unpacked Malware Detection by Means of Explainable Federated Machine Learning
Wednesday 26 - 16:15
Marc Bourdelles - Formal modeling of an electronic voting ceremony
Thomas Vandermotten - Software Engineering Techniques for Coordination-Free Resilient Decentralized Systems
Robbe De Greef - Automatic Migration of C Software to Memory-Safe Rust
Nguyen Khanh Son - Agentic AI in Fileless Malware Detection
Thursday 27 - 17:15
Peehul - Enhancing Phishing Email Detection through AI and Eye-Tracking-Based Human Behavioral Analysis
Damini Siwan - Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Security and Cybersecurity
Ranik Goyal - VR-SAFER: A Virtual Reality Paradigm for Studying Human Decision-Making Under EV Charging Cyberattacks
Dawit Berhan - A Bridged Sandbox–Honeypot Architecture for Behavioral Analysis of ICS Malware