Category : Recherche

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    Two FnR Inter Grants Awarded to SnT

    We’re pleased to announce that the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and their partners at Luxembourg’s Funds Nationale de la Recherche (FNR) have awarded two of our own — Professor Jean-Sebastien Coron and Professor Sjouke Mauw — with their prestigious INTER Grant. The INTER Grant is a highly competitive grant that is open…

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    It Wasn’t Me: Deniability in a Post-Quantum World

    The quantum supremacy — the point at which quantum computers will begin to outperform traditional computers — is just around the corner. Quantum supercomputers will be able to execute ultra-complex calculations so fast, it will leave our laptops looking like abacuses, and their processing power will drive dramatic advances in fields such as pharmaceutical, AI…

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    I Came to SnT to Create Something from Scratch

    Professor Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo joined SnT in 2014. He previously led a research unit at the University of Lisbon and came to Luxembourg to build a new group focused on tackling extreme threats to critical infrastructures. We sat down with him to find out what keeps him looking for new challenges.

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    Saving Lives at the Sharp End of Software Engineering

    According to the last major study in IT project failures, conducted by McKinsey and University of Oxford, half of all large IT projects “massively blow” their budgets. These large projects (defined as IT projects starting out with a budget of over $15 million) on average exceed their budgets by about 45%. In fact, the 5,400…

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    Cybersecurity Buffet with Diversity on the Menu

    In 1986, two programmers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, started receiving phone calls from all over the world. Angry phone calls, from angry IBM PC users demanding that the brothers disinfect their machine from a virus that was slowing down the floppy disk drive.

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    How to Stop Ransomware in its Tracks? Take Away its Tools

    Right around the time that the WannaCry ransomware began to wreak havoc globally, SnT’s Ziya Alper Genç, had a big idea. ‘It became my obsession,’ says Genç. ‘I had this idea that I just couldn’t let go.’ What Genç dreamt up was a method for preventing ransomware from encrypting files in the first place —…

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    I Joined by Chance, but Won’t Be Leaving

    Tegawendé Bissyande took an unorthodox path to SnT before joining in 2013 to work on mobile security and automated program repair.

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    3D Tech for Stroke Survivors

    Walking into the 4th-floor conference room at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), I was expecting to see something big and unusual

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    Smart Schoul 2025

    Every morning the students of the Lycee Edward Steichen at Clervaux (LESC) walk through the front doors and past something rather unusual — a round platform partially enclosed by two white screens.

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    I was Attracted by SnT’s Industry Collaboration Model

    We welcomed researcher Mike Sabetzadeh to SnT in 2012, and ever since he’s been at the heart of our work in software requirements engineering. Having studied in Canada and held research positions in both the United Kingdom and Norway, he set his sights on Luxembourg and SnT for the international and collaborative environment.

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