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On 28 May 2024, Peter Fratric successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: A simulation-driven approach to non-compliance. Peter’s PhD work was supervised by Tom van Engers, Sander Klous, and Giovanni Sileno.

As is tradition, this years volleybal tournament once again contained an SNE team, including members of CCI and PCS. To prolong last year’s achievement, the team dressed up as bus drivers, including a pen in their breast pocket and a safety vest to stand out.

After a successful recommencement in 2023, IFIP Working Group 11.4 “Network & Distributed Systems Security” gathered to a workshop in Ghent on 15-17 May 2024. Security researchers from several countries discussed cutting-edge research in network and distributed systems security, including the security of distributed machine learning, privacy in distributed systems, and security of the Internet of Things.

At the 10th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), Ana and Pepijn organise a workshop on Sustainable Privacy Enhancing Techniques!

The project LICORICE (reLIable and sCalable tOols foR self-sovereIgn identity and data proteCtion framEwork) is a pan-European cooperation of research and industry players, focusing on developing the next generation of tools and technologies for identity management and data protection.

On 4 April 2024, Mostafa Mohajeri Parizi successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: An Agent-based Approach to the Governance of Complex Cyber-Infrastructures. Mostafa’s PhD work was supervised by Tom van Engers, Sander Klous, and Giovanni Sileno.

The project Challenges in Cyber Security is a cooperation of five Dutch institutions (CWI, RU, TU/e, UvA, and VU) with the aim of making fundamental contributions to security research. It is one of the seven projects in the Netherlands to receive an NWO Gravitation grant this year, providing altogether 21.

The article Assessing data remnants in modern smartphones after factory reset, published in September 2023 in the journal Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, has won the Best Paper Award 2023. The paper was selected from a list of high-quality research papers published in FSI:DI over the past two years.

Join our team! We have an open Assistant Professor position in the area of Future Cloud Computing Technologies. Potential research topics include green cloud computing, data management in cloud computing, security and privacy in cloud computing, cloud services for machine learning, sovereignty of cloud services, software engineering for cloud-based software, cloud-to-edge continuum.

On 16 February 2024, Xin Zhou successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled “From Empowering to Motivating: Enhancing Policy Enforcement through Process Design and Incentive Implementation”. Xin’s PhD work was supervised by Cees de Laat and Tom van Engers, and co-supervised by Adam Belloum and Sander Klous.