Researchers

Ahto Buldas

Ahto Buldas received his Ph.D in Exact Sciences from Tallinn University of Technology in 1998. He is working as a senior research researcher at Cybernetica, as well as Professor in Tallinn University of Technology. He has been Professor of Cryptography in the University of Tartu (2003–2010). His research interests include applied cryptography (hash functions, signature schemes, time-stamping) and risk analysis (game-theoretical attack-tree semantics). Current research interests: complexity-theoretic foundations of cryptology with applications to time-stamping, practical risk analysis of complex systems. Previously worked on time-stamping and PKI, algebraic graph theory, testing of Boolean circuits.

He has participated in the development of blockchain-based timestamping systems, and in the design of the SplitKey Authentication and Digital Signature Platform.

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Alisa Pankova

Alisa Pankova received her PhD in computer science from University of Tartu, Institute of Computer Science in 2017. Her research interests include language-based security, formal protocol analysis, and secure multiparty computation. In the past, she has done some research on private outsourcing of linear systems.

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Jan Willemson

Jan Willemson received his PhD in computer science from University of Tartu, Institute of Computer Science in 2002. His research interests include practical risk analysis of complex systems and privacy-preserving data mining. He has worked on applications of combinatorial graph theory in time-stamping and robotics. He has participated in many Estonian e-government development activities like the Estonian Electronic Document Management Programme, risk analysis of Estonian e-voting infrastructure, and development of Estonian state middleware for secure database cross-usage, X-Road. He has published more than 50 research papers in leading venues of security and cryptography, including Crypto, ACM CCS, ESORICS, International Journal of Information Security (Springer) and Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier).

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Kristjan Krips

Kristjan Krips received his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Tartu in 2012. He is currently a PhD student in University of Tartu and a junior researcher in Cybernetica. He teaches the information security course and his research is focused on the formal verification of cryptographic primitives and protocols.

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Liina Kamm

Liina Kamm received her PhD in computer science from the University of Tartu in 2015. Her research focus has been on enabling privacy-preserving statistical analysis for social sciences and genomics. She started her professional career at Quretec, designing software for the Estonian Genome Foundation and for cross-border clinical trials. She was the Quretec site leader for the FP7 cancer diagnostics project COBRED. After joining Cybernetica, she started working on Sharemind and led the FP7 UaESMC project dealing with usable and efficient secure multi-party computation.

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Martin Pettai

Martin Pettai received his Master’s Degree in computer science from the University of Tartu in 2008. His research interests include language-based security and differential privacy.

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Mohammad Anagreh

Mohammad Anagreh received his Master’s Degree in computer science from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2012, Penang - Malaysia. He is currently a PhD Student in University of Tartu and a junior researcher in Cybernetica. He has worked as a lecturer of Computer Skills and Information Technology in PSAU, KSA. His research interests are in Parallel Computing, Distributed Systems and Information Security. His PhD research is in privacy-preserving parallel computation.

Peeter Laud

Peeter Laud received his PhD in engineering (computer science) from University of Saarland (Saarbrücken, Germany) in 2002. His research interests include language-based security, formal methods for cryptographic protocol analysis, quantitative measures of privacy, and secure multiparty computation. He has participated in the development of blockchain-based timestamping systems, and in the design of the SplitKey Authentication and Digital Signature Platform. He has performed a protocol analysis for the Estonian mobile-ID protocol. He regularly publishes in leading venues for information security, as well as serves in the program committees for these venues.

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Pille Pullonen

Pille Pullonen received her master’s degree in the NordSecMob programme from Aalto University and University of Tartu in 2013. Since then she is a PhD student in University of Tartu and a junior researcher in Cybernetica. Her PhD research focuses on security proofs in secure multiparty computation. In addition, she studies joining business processes and privacy requirements or technologies to better acknowledge and address privacy risks in real systems.

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Saif Ur Rehman Malik

Saif U. R. Malik is currently working as a Senior Researcher at Cybernetica AS, Estonia. He did his Ph. D. from North Dakota State University, USA. Previously, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad Pakistan. Dr. Saif research interest includes Formal Methods and its application in and Large-Scale Computing Systems, Distributed Computing Systems, Fault-tolerance in Communication Networks, Data Centers, and Formal Analysis of Security and Privacy of Data.

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