Author Archives: Dmytro Piatkivskyi
ISC 2015 : The Eighteenth Information Security Conference
COINS supported Tetiana Yarygina, Håkon Gunleifsen, Martin Strand and Yi-Ching Liao to attend the ISC conference in Trondheim. Here are their travel reports: ISC2015_report by Tetiana Yarygina ISC2015 report by Håkon Gunleifsen ISC2015 report by Martin Strand ISC2015 report by Yi-Ching Liao
Jan Roksvold graduated
A COINS member, Jan Roksvold, has publicly defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Some combinatorial invariants determined by Betti numbers of Stanley-Reisner ideals”. The defense took place at University of Tromsø 8th of September. Evaluation Committee: Associate Professor Johan Peder Hansen from … Continue reading
Simona Samardjiska graduated
Simona Samardjiska successfully completed her trial lecture and PhD thesis defence on Mon Jun 22 2015 and will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Telematics). The title of her thesis is “Multivariate public key cryptosystems produced by quasigroups” … Continue reading
Anika Pflug graduated
Anika Pflug defended her doctoral thesis in Information Security at Gjøvik University College (GUC) on Friday 19th of June. Pflug is associated to NISlab (Norwegian Information Security laboratory) at Gjøvik University College. The dissertation is titled “Biometric Identification using 2- … Continue reading
Nils Ulltveit-Moe nominated for dissertation award
The COINS Research School of Computer and Information Security assembles 47 active Ph.D. students in security in Norway. Out of the 2014 graduates, Nils Ulltveit-Moe was nominated for the SIGSAC Dissertation Award with the thesis on “Privacy-enhanced network monitoring“. The ACM Special … Continue reading
COINS @CCIS board meeting presentation
Hanno Langweg gave a presentation on COINS for the CCIS board. CCIS is the Center for Cyber and Information Security at Gjøvik University College. Ph.D. students affiliated with CCIS partners account for almost half of all student members in COINS. … Continue reading
Ijlal Loutfi attended NDSS
Ijlal Loutfi attended the NDSS symposium on network and distributed system security with COINS funding. The programme was very relevant to her research interests, especially in authentication. Discussing with active researchers in the field was greatly valuable. Attendance helped Ijlal … Continue reading
COINS seminar on Multivariate Cryptography at UiB
Simona Samardjiska held a seminar with Ph.D. students and researchers at the Selmer Center (University of Bergen). The topic was «Linear attacks in MQ cryptography». In the past two decades, as a result of the advancement in quantum algorithms, the … Continue reading
Security Divas 2015
NorSIS organised «Security Divas» for the fifth time in Gjøvik, 15th and 16th January 2015. There were approximately 110 female participants from across the country this year. One of the speakers was Sofie Nystrøm, member of the COINS academic advisory … Continue reading
Oleksandr Kazymyrov graduated
Another COINS student, Oleksandr Kazymyrov, has graduated having defended his doctoral thesis on «Methods and Tools for Analysis of Symmetric Cryptographic Primitives». The defence took place at University of Bergen on the 1st of December, 2014. Six weeks before that, … Continue reading
Spanish Cybercamp
The Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute INCIBE organised a CyberCamp in Madrid 5-7 December 2014. COINS supported Andrii Shalaginov, Mohsen Toorani, and Vivek Agrawal to participate in the event. The CyberCamp provided lecture, tutorials, a hackathon, reverse engineering, and a doctoral … Continue reading
COINS team participates in hack.lu 2014 CTF competition
More COINS students than ever got together to participate in the hack.lu Capture the Flag (CTF) competition from 21st to 23rd October 2014. In an effort to practice their skills in applied IT security, seven COINS students formed a team and … Continue reading
National seminar on research schools 20/21 October 2014
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) invited delegates from all 21 existing research schools funded under various of RCN’s schemes to the annual seminar. COINS participated with steering committee members Stig Frode Mjølsnes (NTNU), Vladimir Oleshchuk (UiA) and Pankaj Pandey … Continue reading
Chunlei Li graduated
Chunlei Li is the second COINS student who has graduated this year. The thesis defense took place at the University of Bergen on Monday 16th of June. Title of the dissertation: “Sequences and Linear Codes from Highly Nonlinear Functions”. The … Continue reading
Andrii Shalaginov approaches access control as a data streams mining problem
The Summer School was organized by the SFB 876 research center at the TU Dortmund, Germany, during the 29.09. – 02.10.2014. It was focused towards the Machine Learning application using multi-core parallel optimization under constraints of the limited resources. The … Continue reading
ECTS for COINS events
HIG is the first COINS consortium member to get approval for the course descriptions covering COINS events. HiG’s Ph.D. students that have registered for COINS can now formally include these courses as part of the taught component of their Ph.D. … Continue reading
COINS supports the Ph.D. movie sequel Kickstarter project
The Norwegian Research School of Computer and Information Security (COINS) backs the Kickstarter project to produce a sequel to the famous and popular Ph.D. movie, based on the comic series by Jorge Cham. COINS supports the project as an Associate … Continue reading
Nils Ulltveit-Moe graduated
Nils Ulltveit-Moe defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Agder (UiA) 8 April 2014. Data surveillance techniques can be problematic from a privacy perspective, even if the intentions behind the surveillance might be commendable. Surveillance of computer systems is … Continue reading
Security Divas 2014
“The competence of these IT students is very important”, said senior consultant Tone Hoddø Bakås of the Norwegian Centre for Information Security (NorSIS) at the information security conference Security Divas. Security Divas is an information security conference with and for … Continue reading
COINS student Waqas Aman receives best paper award
The paper written by Waqas Aman (picture on the right) who was supervised by Einar Snekkenes on “An Empirical Research on InfoSec Risk Management in IoT-based eHealth” won the best paper award. The picture on the left shows professor Einar Snekkenes, Waqas … Continue reading
COINS Steering Committee meeting 2013-12-18
Dear COINS SC members, you are invited to participate in SC meeting on Skype. The Steering Committee is the highest body of the consortium, and has responsibility for important strategic decisions, distribution of resources, shaping the budget etc. Proposed agenda: … Continue reading
Lisa Rajbhandari graduated
Lisa Rajbhandari is associated to NISlab (Norwegian Information Security laboratory) at Gjøvik University College. Title of the dissertation: «Risk Analysis Using “Conflicting Incentives” as an Alternative Notion of Risk» She is the second student affiliated with COINS Research School of … Continue reading
National seminar on research schools 24/25 October 2013
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) invited delegates from all 18 existing research schools funded under various of RCN’s schemes to the annual seminar. COINS participated with steering committee members Hanno Langweg (HiG), Audun Jøsang (UiO) and Ragnar Soleng (UiT). … Continue reading
Ebenezer Paintsil graduated
Ebenezer Paintsil defended his doctoral thesis about information security on Thursday 12th of September. Ebenezer Paintsil is associated to NISlab (Norwegian Information Security laboratory) at Gjøvik University College. Title of the dissertation: Privacy and Security Risks Analysis of Identity Management Systems. … Continue reading
Funding for security research in Tromsø
University of Tromsø (UiT) decided to grant a Ph.D. scholarship to the Faculty of Science and Technology, among other factors because of its membership in COINS. Congratulations to UiT for strengthening its research activity in computer and information security.
Become a student member of COINS
The registration page for the COINS Research School of Computer and Information Security has now opened. Membership is free of charge and is a prerequisite to enjoy the benefits COINS has to offer. Continue reading
NISK 2013 in Stavanger
The 6th Norwegian Information Security Conference (NISK) will be sponsored by the FRISC network and will take place from 18/11 to 20/11 in Stavanger. The conference will be co-located with the Norwegian Computer Science Conference (NIK). NISK brings together people … Continue reading
NordSec 2013 in Greenland
The 18th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems will take place at the Arctic Hotel in Ilulissat, Greenland, from 18th to 21st October 2013. NordSec addresses a broad range of topics within IT security with the aims of bringing together … Continue reading
COINS@SWITS Malmö 2013
We travelled to Malmö early this month to find out how SWITS operates their annual seminar. SWITS is the Swedish IT Security Network for Ph.D. Students, similar to the COINS research school of computer and information security we are setting up … Continue reading
