Student Supervision

I am lucky to have personally supervised or been involved in the supervision of the following students (sorted chronologically):

PhD Students

(Read my advice here if you are looking for a PhD)

Current

• Mohammed Alghazwi (2019-): Blockchain/DLTs for Genomic Data Handling
• Arya Dharmaadi (2023-): Web API Fuzzing
• Ali Satvaty (2023-): Security and Privacy of LLMs
• Pablo Sorrentino (2024-): Security and Privacy of Neuromorphic Computing
• Marco Antonio Marques (2025-): Secure and Flexible Security Tokens

Alumni

• Ali Reza Ghavamipour (2019-2024, now at the University of Maastricht): Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning over Distributed Data (defended on 03.12.2024)
• Nafiseh Soveizi (2019-2024) (co-supervised with Dimka Karastoyanova): Security and Privacy in Adaptable Workflows (defended on 04.03.2025)
• Teimour Hosseinalizadeh (2020-2024) (co-supervised with Nima Monshizadeh): Privacy-preserving Cyber-physical Systems (defended on 18.02.2025)
• Tariq Bontekoe (2022 - 2025): Verifiable Privacy-preserving Computing and its Applications to Genomics

MSc

(needs to be updated!)

• Thijs Klooster, "Effectiveness and Scalability of Fuzzing Techniques in CI/CD Pipelines", RUG, 2021, [Paper]
• Xiya Duan, "Property Inference attack against generative adversarial networks", RUG, 2021
• Daan Opheikens, "On the Security of Link Sharing", RUG, 2021
• Nivin Pradeep Kumar, "Blockchain Based Trustworthy Electronic Voting System", RUG, 2021
• Loran Oosterhaven, "Invocation tracing to extract Kotlin language features", RUG (together with Fadi Mohsen),2020 [Paper at MobileSoft'21]
• Aida Plocco, "Multi-Party Logistic Regression with Sharemind Protocols", UvA, 2017
• Max Grim, "Security and Performance Analysis of Encrypted NoSQL Databases", UvA, 2017
• Abe Wiersma at UvA
• Jorian van Oostenbrugge at UvA
• Redouane Darfoufi at TU/e
• Andre van Schoubroeck at TU/e

BSc

(needs to be updated!)

Rayyan Jafri (with Mohammed Alghazwi), David Boerema (with Ali Reza Ghavamipour), Hessel van Oordt (with Mohammed Alghazwi), Sytse Oegema (with Mohammed Alghazwi), Sytse Oegema (with Mohammed Alghazwi), Tjaart de Vries, Wim de Jager (with Fadi Mohsen), Sytze Tempel