Young researchers in focus at CyberSweden

There were many exciting Rising Stars and Pitches in total – here is the Chalmers crew:
Flash session Rising Stars – Assistant Professors in dialogue
Four young researchers at Chalmers University of Technology presented their work in short, forward-looking talks. Here they share their perspectives on current research challenges:

Christoph Egger, Assistant Professor in Computing Science, spoke about his research on cryptographic security notions:
“When comparing different definitions of security in cryptography, the question arises whether they are truly distinct or in fact equivalent. For example, selective opening security in public key encryption has turned out to be equivalent across several seemingly different notions. I am particularly interested in extremely lossy functions, which appear to sit between public and symmetric key cryptography, and in distributional collision resistance for hash functions, which is weaker than classical collision resistance but still not implied by symmetric cryptography.”

Md Masoom Rabbani, Assistant Professor in Computer and Network Systems, described his work on trust in connected systems:
“My research focuses on remote attestation – enabling a device to prove its trustworthiness by verifying its software and firmware. I am exploring swarm attestation, where groups of devices such as drone fleets, vehicles or IoT nodes can be collectively verified. This is crucial for future transport systems, 6G networks, and other highly connected environments where security and trust are essential.”

Muoi Tran, Assistant Professor in Computer and Network Systems, leads the Secura Lab:
 “At Secura Lab, we aim to enhance the security of computer and networked systems. Our work focuses on Internet routing, blockchain peer-to-peer networks, and network infrastructures. The research is carried out in close collaboration within the Chalmers Security & Privacy Lab and in partnership with the University of Gothenburg.”

Benjamin Lundblad, researcher in Computing Science, presented his work on automated vulnerability detection. His research focuses on novel methods for automatically finding and fixing vulnerabilities in complex software ecosystems.

During the conference, Chalmers President Martin Nilsson Jacobi emphasised the importance of supporting young researchers: "Chalmers contributes to areas where we are academically strong, and we are further strengthening this research by recruiting young talent. In this way, we build long-term capacity and play our part, while other universities across Sweden focus on different sub-areas of this highly complex field.”
 

Flash Poster Pitches

PhD students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers, also participated and presented their ongoing research projects in short pitches. Their contributions highlighted the breadth of cybersecurity research, spanning from 5G security to AI and real-time systems:

• Mohamed Hashim Changrampadi – Accelerating Transformer-Based Network Traffic Classification: Hybrid Architectures for Real-Time Performance
• Atmane Ayoub Mansour Bahar – How Feasible are Passive Network Attacks on 5G Networks and Beyond? A Survey
• Daniel Freiermuth – EagerTAP: Pre-evaluation for data minimization on TAPs
• Syed Umer Bukhari – Making Moving Target Defense Practical
• Samuel Kajava – Detecting Prototype Pollution in Client-side JavaScript
• Xiuqi Zhang – Time Predictability vs. Security: Randomizing Schedules for Real-Time DAG Tasks
• Torbjörn Livén (Volvo Trucks & Chalmers) – Automating Automotive IDS
• Yenan Wang – Federated Learning with Efficient Privacy-Preserving Training

All poster abstracts are available here: cyberswedenconf.se/poster-presentations