Organisation : Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)

  • News

    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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  • Events

    PhD Defense: Towards Optimal Real-Time Bidding Strategies For Display Advertising

    Members of the defense committee:Prof. Dr Björn Ottersten, University of Luxembourg, ChairmanDr Vijay Gurbani, Vail Systems, USA, Vice-ChairmanA-Prof. Dr Radu State, University of Luxembourg, SupervisorProf. Dr Mats Brorsson, University of Luxembourg, MemberProf. Dr Petko Valtchev, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, Member

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    PhD Defense: From Persistent Homology to Reinforcement Learning With Applications for Retail Banking

    Members of the defense committee:Prof. Dr Björn Ottersten, University of Luxembourg, ChairmanDr Jean Hilger, BCEE Luxembourg, Vice-ChairmanA-Prof. Dr Radu State, University of Luxembourg, SupervisorDr Djamila Aouada, University of Luxembourg, MemberDr Vijay Gurbani, Vail Systems, USA, Member

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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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  • Events

    PhD Defense: Access Control Mechanisms Reconsidered with Blockchain Technologies

    Members of the defense committee:Prof. Dr Ulrich Sorger, University of Luxembourg, ChairmanProf. Dr Thomas Engel, University of Luxembourg, Vice-ChairmanA-Prof. Dr Radu State, University of Luxembourg, SupervisorDr Thomas Scherer, Telindus, Luxembourg, MemberDr Stefan Hommes, ZF Friedrichshafen, Germany, MemberProf. Dr Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, Expert in Advisory Capacity

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