Senior Researchers

To be recruited

Post-doc
Secure federated learning, Adversarial attacks
[2024 - yet to start]

PhD Students

Sabine Houy

Ph.D. Candidate
Andriod vulnerabilities, Fuzzing
[Co-supervisor with Alexandre Bartel, 2021-ongoing]

Anindya Sundar Das

Ph.D. Candidate
Anomaly detection, Secure machine learning, Complex data
[Main supervisor, 2022 - ongoing]

Obaidullah Zaland

Ph.D. Candidate
Federated learning, Robotic manipulation
[Main supervisor, 2023 - ongoing]

Pim Kerkhoven

Ph.D. Candidate
Responsible machine learning,
[Main supervisor & Virginia Dignum as Co-supervisor, 2023 - ongoing]

Deepanjan Mitra

Ph.D. Candidate
Serverless computing, Systems security
[Co-supervisor, enrolled in University of Calcutta, India, 2023 - ongoing]

Yinuo Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate
DDoS attacks, Cloud-edge continuum
[Main supervisor, 2024 - yet to start]

To be recruited

Ph.D. Candidate
Serverless Edge AI, Systems security, Cloud-edge continuum
[Main supervisor, 2025 - yet to start]

Ongoing MS thesis

• Edvin Hellquist, MS in Interaction Technology and Design, Autumn 2024 (Evaluating Security for JavaScript-based Front-End Frameworks), Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden
• Sajjad Haydar, MS in Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2024 (AI-based Blind Image and Video Quality Estimator), Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden
• Jakob Lindehag, MS in Computing Science and Engineering, Spring 2025 (Predicting Urban Population Distribution Using Deep-Learning and Geospatial Data for Enhanced 5G Network Simulations), Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden

Ongoing Interns

• Anatasia Brinati, Erasmus+, Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy. [Period: August 2024 – January 2025]
• Samith Va, B.S. in Information Engineering student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. [Period: July 2024 - present]
• Devvjit Bhuyan, B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering final year student at Tezpur University (a Central University), India. [Period: October 2022 - present]

PhD Grading Committee Member

• Sana Imtiaz, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral candidate in Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2021.

PhD Thesis Evaluator

• University of Malakand, Pakistan, 2021