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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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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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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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PhD Defense: Assessment and Improvement of the Practical Use of Mutation for Automated Software Testing

Members of the defense committee:Dr. Jacques Klein, Université du Luxembourg, chairmanDr. Mike Papadakis, Université du Luxembourg, vice chairmanProf. Dr. Yves Le Traon, Université du Luxembourg, supervisorProf. Dr. Serge Demayer, University of Antwerp, Belgium, memberProf. Dr. Paolo Tonella, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland, member

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PhD Defense: Integrity and Confidentiality Problems of Outsourcing

Members of the defense committee:Prof. Dr. Yves Le Traon, Université du Luxembourg, chairmanDr. Qiang Tang, LIST Luxembourg, vice-chairmanProf. Dr. Peter Y.A. Ryan, Université du Luxembourg, supervisorA-Prof. Dr. Melek Önen, EURECOM France, memberA-Prof. Dr. Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven, Belgium, member