Research Doctoral Education

Doctoral supervisors

Computer science and computer engineering

  • Sallam ABUALHAIJA

    Requirements engineering, regulatory compliance, applied natural language processing, and generative AI

  • Mohammad ALAEEKERAHROODI

    Radar Signal Processing, Waveform Design and Optimization, Hardware Implementation, USRP/mmWave COTS,

  • Djamila AOUADA

    Signal and image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and data modelling

  • Domenico BIANCULLI

    My research area is software engineering, with particular emphasis on the specification, verification and validation of software systems. My research interests include: trace checking and run-time verification of temporal properties, log analysis, compliance checking, modeling and enforcing of access control policies, program analysis for security, incremental verification techniques, and verification of service-oriented systems.

  • Tegawendé BISSYANDÉ

    Software engineering, software security, program repair, NLP and AI for code

  • Holger VOOS

    Control Engineering, Automation, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Industry 4.0, Space Systems, Cybersecurity

  • Alex BIRYUKOV

    Cryptology and/or security of information systems

  • Jean BOTEV

    Collaborative Socio-Technical Systems, Mediated Reality, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Human-Computer Interaction

  • Thomas ENGEL

    Computer Networking, Network and System Security, Vehicular Communications (V2X), Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Quantum Networking, Telecommunications

  • Dimitra ANASTASIOU

    Computational Linguistics, Human Computer Interaction, Multimodal Systems, Multilingualism

  • Xavier BESSERON

    Parallel and distributed programming, High-Performance Computing (HPC)
    Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and their applications
    Parallel coupling of HPC applications, in particular CFD-DEM
    Software engineering, verification, testing, and debugging of numerical simulations and HPC software
    Distributed systems, Cloud computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT)
    Fault Tolerance, dynamic reconfiguration and monitoring of distributed systems
    Data processing & analysis, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence applied to Industry

  • Pascal BOUVRY

    High Performance Computing (HPC)
    Parallel Computing and Optimisation

  • Mats BRORSSON

    Cloud Computing, Parallel Computing, Computer Architecture, Computer Systems, Machine learning

  • Jordi CABOT

    Computer Science with a special empahsis on software engineering and AI (and how one impacts the other).
    Keywords: low-code, open-source, language engineering, software modeling, ethics, Generative AI

  • German CASTIGNANI

    AI, Data Science, Vehicular Technologies, Wireless Networking, Data Spaces Technologies, Digital Twins

  • Symeon CHATZINOTAS

    Communication Systems, Networking, Satellite Communications, 6G, Quantum Communications

  • Maxime CORDY

    • Machine learning
    • Software engineering
    • Software trustworthiness
    • Model checking
    • Artificial intelligence
  • Jean-Sébastien CORON

    Cryptographie LACS

  • Marcos DA SILVEIRA

    Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Graph Technologies

  • Grégoire DANOY

    artificial intelligence, optimisation, swarm intelligence, metaheuristics, Unmanned Autonomous Systems, automated algorithm design

  • Vladimir DESPOTOVIC

    Biomedical signal processing; Medical image processing; Bioinformatics

  • Eva LAGUNAS TARGARONA

    General Wireless Communications, Satellite Communications, Network optimization, Radio Resource Management

  • Sébastien FAYE

    5G-6G wireless networking, wireless network design and planning, connected mobility, mobile and ubiquitous computing

  • Jérôme FRANCOIS

    Networking; Cybersecurity; Artifiial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Network softwarization

  • Raphaël FRANK

    Connected and Automated Driving

  • Gilbert FRIDGEN

    Information Systems Engineering

  • Mohammad GHONIEM

    Visual Analytics Information Visualization Software Visualization Data Visualization Human-Computer Interaction

  • Nicolas GUELFI

    Software engineering, requirements engineering, intelligent systems, software engineering for neural networks, formal methods, semi-formal methods, dependable systems, concurrent systems modeling

  • Vu Nguyen HA

    His research interests include radio resource management (RRM) and emerging enabling technologies for 5G wireless systems with a special emphasis on heterogeneous small-cell networks, Cloud RAN, massive MIMO communications, mobile edge computing, 802.11ax WiFi, beam-hoping, SatCom, Semantic Communications.
    He also aims to apply Machine Learning/Deep Learning and Optimization-based tools/solutions for RRM problems in MAC/PHY layers of several wireless communication systems.

  • Andreas HEIN

    Space Systems Engineering – disruptive future space systems

  • Carlos KAVKA

    Optimisation, Decision Making, Business Processes.

  • Pierre KELSEN

    Software Engineering, Formal Methods

  • Djamel KHADRAOUI

    ICT Security Risk Management Information and Communication Technology Enterprise Informatics Enterprise Risk Management

  • Jacques KLEIN

    Software engineering, Software Security, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing,

  • Sylvain KUBLER

    Internet of Things, Networking, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Decision Support Systems

  • Yannick NAUDET

    • Cyber-Physical Systems (Cognitive and Social)
    • Human Digital Twin
    • Human-centric systems
  • Yves LE TRAON

    • software engineering
    • applied machine learning
    • software security
    • software testing
  • Luis LEIVA

    Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing

  • Gabriele LENZINI

    Computer Security, Security analysis and design, Sociotechnical Systems, Privacy / Transparency technology, Online deception, GDPR compliance solutions.

  • Franck LEPREVOST

    Algorithmic Number Theory, cryptology

  • Valérie MAQUIL

    Human-Computer Interaction; Interactive Tabletops; Tangible User Interfaces; Large Interactive Surfaces; Collaboration

  • Réka MARKOVICH

    Computational law, formal models of legal reasoning, AI&Law, machine ethics, deontic logic and normative reasoning

  • Carol MARTINEZ LUNA

    Robotics; Computer Vision; Artificial Intelligence; Robotic Manipulation; Robotic Vision; Space Robotics; Machine Learning;

  • Sjouke MAUW

    Security and trust of software systems

  • Nicolas MAYER

    Cybersecurity, Information security, Compliance, Risk management

  • Roderick MCCALL

    Human-computer interaction, Computer science, usability testing

  • Fintan MCGEE

    Visual Analytics, Network Visualization, Immersive Analytics, Augmented Reality, Information Visualization

  • Jorge Augusto MEIRA

    Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Databases, Big Data

  • Juan Carlos MERLANO
    DUNCAN

    Electrical Engineering Digital Electronics Electronics and Communication Engineering Information and Communication Technology Communication Engineering

  • Decebal Constantin
    MOCANU

    Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Deep Learning

  • Wassila MTALAA

    Optimization_Operations Research_Metaheuristics_Intelligent
    Transport Systems_ Vehicle Routing Problems_Location
    Problems_Planning and Scheduling

  • Volker MÜLLER

    Computational number theory
    Algorithms for mathematics

  • Bhavani Shankar MYSORE
    RAMA RAO

    Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Satellite Systems, Radar Systems, Fast Algorithms

  • Nicolas NAVET

    Dependable systems, real-time systems, risk assessment

  • Konstantinos NTONTIN

    Performance analysis of wireless communication networks, multipleantenna communication systems, transceiver design, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

  • Miguel Angel OLIVARES
    MENDEZ

    Unmanned aerial systems, computer vision, sensor fusion, vision-based control, soft-computing control techniques and robotics and automation

  • Hichem OMRANI

    Cellular Automata Land Cover Fuzzy Land Use Modelling Residential Mobility

  • Björn OTTERSTEN

    Signal processing
    Wireless communications

  • Maria Rita PALATTELLA

    Communication Networks; Internet of Things (IoT), Satellite Networks; Integrated IoT satellite networks, 5G-6G systems; resource allocation and scheduling techniques; MAC protocol optimisation

  • Jun PANG

    Modelling and analysis of complex systems, formal methods, information security & privacy, social media mining, machine learning (mainly on graph representation learning), computational systems biology, complex networks (such as social, biological, technological
    networks), data science

  • Michail PAPADAKIS

    AI, Software Engineering, Software Security, Evolutionary Computation

  • Fabrizio PASTORE

    Software Engineering

  • Cedric PRUSKI

    Artificial Intelligence, knowledge engineering, semantic web

  • Jorge QUEROL

    Wireless communications, Satellite communications, Satellite
    navigation, Remote sensing

  • Peter ROENNE

    Cryptography
    Applied Security

  • Steffen ROTHKUGEL

    Distributed collaborative systems, Educational technologies

  • Andy RUPP

    Provable Security, Cryptographic Protocols, Cryptographic Primitives with Advanced Properties, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Location Privacy, Payment Systems, Anonymous Communication, Lawful Interception

  • Peter Y A RYAN

    Information assurance/security, cryptography, secure voting systems

  • Jose Luis SANCHEZ LOPEZ

    Robotics, Aerial Robotics, Ground Robotics, Automous Systems, Multirobot systems, Artificial Intelligence, Situational Awareness, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Perception, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Trajectory Planning, Motion Control, Trajectory Tracking

  • Christoph SCHOMMER

    Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and its application, Cognitive Systems, Data Science, Knowledge Discovery, Information Retrieval – and its applications in Medicine, Humanities, and Finance.

  • Seung Yeob SHIN

    Software Engineering, Model-Driven Engineering, Simulation, Testing,
    Model Checking, Metaheuristic Search, Machine Learning

  • Ulrich SORGER

    Digital communication, Error correcting codes, Information theory

  • Jean-Sébastien SOTTET

    Software Engineering, System Modelling, Human-Computer Interaction

  • Radu STATE

    Network Management and Cyber Security

  • Bernard STEENIS

    Microelectronics

  • Qiang TANG

    Security Encryption Cryptography Information Security Data Security

  • Martin THEOBALD

    Databases, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Big Data Analytics

  • Ion TURCANU

    • Cooperative and Distributed Networked Systems
    • Next-generation wireless networks (5G/6G, Wi-Fi 7/8)
    • Network communication protocols
    • Vehicular Networks
    • Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility
    • Time-Sensitive Networking
  • Leon VAN DER TORRE

    Computer science, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, social robotics, legal informatics

  • Marcus VÖLP

    Computer science, resilient computing, operating systems, dependability, real-time systems, cyber-physical systems

  • Thang Xuan VU

    Wireless communications systems, Signal processing and machine
    learning for communications, Beyond 5G, Integrated
    Terrestrial/Satellite Networks

  • Denis ZAMPUNIERIS

    Battery Level, Robotic System, Anaerobic Threshold, Beats Per Minute, Cardiac Patients, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Cardiac Rehabilitation
    Program, Control Mode, Creation Time, Database Schema, Decision making Scenarios, Destination Point, Development In Patients, Example Of Implementation, Exercise Sessions, Global Scenarios, Health Parameters, Heart Arrhythmia, Heart Rate Reserve, Heart Rate Values, IT Systems, Independent Tasks, Inertial Unit, Learning Management System, Level Of Expertise