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Ravi Jhawar

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Employment and Education

July 2014 -- present:
Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust of University of Luxembourg
Project: FNR CORE project Attack-Defense Trees: Theory Meets Practice (ADT2P)
Supervisor: Prof. Sjouke Mauw
I am member of the Security and Trust of Software Systems (SaToSS) research group

January 2011 -- March 2014:
PhD in Computer Science from University of Milan, Italy
Thesis: Dependability in Cloud Computing
Supervisors: Prof. Vincenzo Piuri and Prof. Pierangela Samarati
I was a member of the Security, Privacy, and Data Protection (SPDP) Lab

September 2009 -- September 2010:
MSc in Information Security from University College London, UK
Thesis: GrIDsure Testbed
Supervisor: Prof. Angela Sasse

July 2005 -- May 2009:
BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India
Thesis: Implementation of RADIUS protocol

Project Acquisition and Management

• Research collaborator and co-proposer of the Ministry of Defense, UK project on Cyber-Defense Responses. Duration: 1 year starting from January 2015
• Member and co-proposer of the Huawei-University of Luxembourg joint project. Duration: 1 year starting from April 2015

Research Activities

• Summer 2012 and Fall 2013: Visitor at George Mason University, Virginia, USA, at the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS), in collaboration with Prof. Sushil Jajodia and Prof. Massimiliano Albanese

Teaching Activities

• I am teaching Network Security with Prof. Sjouke Mauw for Master in Management of Computer Security (professional) program in the summer semester since 2016
• 2016 Winter Semester: I am teaching Introduction to IT Security with Prof. Sjouke Mauw, Dr. Olga Gadyatskaya and Zachary Smith, Bachelor in Computer Sciences (professional) program
• Since 2014 I have been assisting Prof. Sjouke Mauw and Dr. Jun Pang for the masters course on Distributed systems

Supervision

• PhD: I'm co-supervising Karim Lounis with Prof. Sjouke Mauw on quantitative security analysis using Attack-Defense Trees
• Master students:
  • Domenico Cantatore, Information security vs Cybersecurity: a comparative study from a CISO perspective (CSSF/UL, ongoing)
  • Pablo Bellissimo, Threat analysis on Blockchain implementations (UL, ongoing)
  • Francois Lange, Cyber risks correlation analysis and response (Telindus/UL, ongoing)
  • Iva Toshkova, Studying readability and understandability of attack trees (UL, completed in Jan 2017)
  • Martin Popp Fredslund, Automated synthesis of Attack-Defense Trees using a library of component attacks, (UL, completed in Sep 2015)

Professional Activities

Editorial Board Member of

• International Journal on Advances in Security
• IEEE Systems Journal - Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Complex Systems

Program Committee Member of

• 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2017), July 3-5, 2017, Gdynia, Poland
• 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2016), August 2-5, 2016, Sinaia, Romania
• The Third International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2016), June 27, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal
• The Ninth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE 2015), August 23-28, 2015, Venice, Italy
• The Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2015), July 13, 2015, Verona, Italy
• The Fourth International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART 2015), June 21-26, 2015, Brussels, Belgium
• The Eleventh International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2015), May 24-29, 2015, Rome, Italy
• The Sixth International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence (EMERGING 2014), August 24-28, 2014, Rome, Italy
• IEEE 2014 Second International Workshop on Cloud Security Auditing (CSAW2014), June 27-July 2, 2014, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
• IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2014), June 23-25, 2014, Alberobello, Italy
• The 6th FTRA International Symposium on Advances in Computing, Communications, Security, and Applications (ACSA-14), April 23-25, 2014, Busan, Korea
• The Eighth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE 2014), November 16-20, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
• The Third International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART 2014), July 20-24, 2014, Paris, France
• The Tenth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2014), April 20-24, 2014, Chamonix, France
• 10th European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications (EuroPKI 2013), September 9-13, 2013, Egham, UK
• The Seventh International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE 2013), August 25-31, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
• 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA 2013), July 15-17, 2013, Milan, Italy
• The Second International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART 2013), June 23-28, 2013, Rome, Italy
• The Ninth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2013), March 24-29, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
• The 7th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2012), November 21-23, 2012, Suzhou, China
• The 15th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2012), October 3-5, 2012, Paphos, Cyprus
• The Security and Privacy Special Track at the IEEE-AESS Conference in Europe about Space and Satellite Communications (ESTEL-SEC 2012), October 2-5, 2012, Rome, Italy
• 9th European PKI Workshop: Research and Applications (EuroPKI 2012), September 13-14, 2012, Pisa, Italy
• The Sixth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE 2012), August 19-24, 2012, Rome, Italy
• The 2012 Summer FTRA International Symposium on Advances in Cryptography, Security and Applications for Future Computing (FTRA ACSA 2012 Summer), June 26-28, 2012, Vancouver, Canada
• The First International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART 2012), May 27 - June 1, 2012, Stuttgart, Germany
• The Eight International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2012), March 25-29, 2012, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
• The Fifth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE 2011), August 21-27, 2011, Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France
• The 6th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-11), November 16-18, 2011, Changsha, China

Publicity Chair of

• The Second International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2015), July 13, 2015, Verona, Italy
• The Security and Privacy Special Track at the IEEE-AESS Conference in Europe about Space and Satellite Communications (ESTEL-SEC 2012), October 2-5, 2012, Rome, Italy

Local Arrangement Chair of

• 2011 IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications (BioMS 2011), September 28, 2011, Milan, Italy

Reviewer for (international conferences)

• The 19th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2016), November 30-December 2, 2016, Seoul, Korea
• 12th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2016), September 26-27, 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• 10th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP 2016), September 26-27, 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• The 18th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2016), June 9-10, 2016, San Francisco, USA
• The 19th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2015), November 25-27, 2015, Seoul, Korea
• The 18th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2015), November 25-27, 2015, Seoul, Korea
• The 21st IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2015), November 18-20, 2015, Zhangjiajie, China
• Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA 2015), November 4-6, 2015, Nanjing, China
• Fifth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2015), March 2-4, 2015, San Antonio, TX, USA
• The 17th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2014), December 3-5, 2014, Seoul, Korea
• The 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2013), July 8-11, 2013, Philadelphia, USA
• 20th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS Symposium 2013), February 24-27, 2013, San Diego, California, USA
• 2012 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2012), December 3-7, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
• 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2012), December 3-6, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan
• The 14th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2012), October 29-31, 2012, Hong Kong
• 8th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2012), September 3-5, 2012, Padua, Italy
• European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2011), September 12-14, 2011, Leuven, Belgium
• 8th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus'11), August 29 - 02 September, 2011, Toulouse, France
• The 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2011), July 27-29, 2011, Waterloo, Canada
• International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2011), July 18-21, 2011, Seville, Spain

Reviewer for (international journals)

• Elsevier Computers & Security Journal
• International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
• International Journal on Mobile Information Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
• Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences