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For students:

If you are a student with an interest in the fields of cybersecurity or cryptography and are seeking supervision for your degree project, feel free to contact me. We can delve deeper into your specific interests, and I can offer a selection of potential topics that align with your project ambitions.

For researchers:

Vacant position: Researcher in AI Security and Privacy We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher ****(2-year fixed-term) at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Campus Kongsberg, in the Research Council of Norway funded project UTOPIA. Location: Kongsberg, Norway Application link and more information: **https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/302803/researcher-in-ai-security-and-privacy**
I support applications for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow within Cryptography and/or Cybersecurity for applicants outside Norway. Please contact me for further details.

Current thesis projects (ongoing):

Main supervisor for the following PhD theses (tentative titles):
- Decentralized, Secure and Privacy-Preserving Sharing of Health Data, USN.
Main supervisor for the following master’s theses (tentative titles):
- Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption for Healthcare, USN.
- Self-Sovereign Identities for Healthcare, USN.
- Privacy Attacks on Clinical Language Models: Membership Inference and Training-Data Extraction, USN.
- Benchmarking the Security of Modern LLM Systems Against Multi-Vector Attacks, USN.
- Tool-Supported Threat Modeling for Security and Privacy in Healthcare AI Systems, USN.
- Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks in AI Training Pipelines for Healthcare Applications, USN.

Previous thesis projects (completed):

Main supervisor for the following master’s theses:
- Secure Aggregation for Privacy-preserving Federated Learning on Clinical EEG Data, USN, May 2026.
- Anonymization Techniques for Clinical EEG Data: Privacy and Utility Evaluation, USN, May 2026.
- Automating Cyber Threat Intelligence: Leveraging Large Language Models and Retrieval Augmented Generation for ATT&CK Technique and Tactic Classification, USN, May 2025. (Industrial Master @Simula) (Recipient of the 2025 Best Master’s Thesis Award)
- Development of an AuditEngine for Enhanced Security and Privacy in Log Data Management, USN, May 2025. (Industrial Master @Telenor)
- Smart Parking with IOTA Tangle: A Decentralized Approach to Self-Sovereign Identity in IoT, USN, Nov. 2024.
- Secure Identification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, USN, Nov. 2024.
- Exploring Over-the-Air Updates in Multi-Controller Embedded Systems, USN, Nov. 2024. (Industrial Master @Semcon)
- Blockchain-based Access Control for Electronic Health Records, USN, May 2024. (Recipient of the 2024 Best Master’s Thesis Award)
- Circumventing Internet Censorship, USN, May 2024.
- Blockchain-based Decentralized Identity Management for Healthcare Systems, USN, May 2023. (Recipient of the 2023 Best Master’s Thesis Award)
- Authentication, Key Exchange, and Subscriber Privacy in Mobile Networks, USN, May 2023.
- Collaborative Drug Discovery with Blockchain Technology, Lund University, April 2020.
Co-supervisor for Ph.D. thesis:
- Studies on the Security of Selected Advanced Asymmetric Cryptographic Primitives, University of Bergen.

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