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Strategic Recruitments

TSS has decided to support strategic recruitments in Cybersecurity with 16 MSEK, together with a 20% visiting professor in Theoretical Computer Science. In addition, TSS funds eight research projects with 6 MSEK each, alongside seven pre-studies, each receiving 500k SEK. New recruitments and projects are underway. Additionally, TSS is launching a website and communication support to create accessible, engaging content based on scientific research for diverse audiences.

Cybersecurity

The journey to strengthen our cybersecurity expertise at Mälardalen University began in 2022 with the recruitment of a professor and research leader specializing in core cybersecurity. Our goal was to complement our already extensive cybersecurity research in related fields while also ensuring strong teaching capabilities for the new Cybersecurity Master’s program launched in 2024.

In September 2023, Shahid Raza, a renowned national leader in cybersecurity research, joined us part-time, bringing valuable expertise. We also welcomed two tenure-track Associate Senior Lecturers, Abbas Araghavi and Giuseppe Nebbione, to strengthen our research and teaching.

By mid-2024, after accepting a prestigious Chair in Cybersecurity, Raza transitioned to a strategic advisory role at MDU. In response, we launched the recruitment of two Senior Lecturers, with aim to reinforce teaching, research, and leadership in cybersecurity.

Professor:

Shahid Raza

Shahid’s research interests include but are not limited to security and privacy in IoT, secure interconnection of clouds and IoT, and threat intelligence at the edge of IoT. His work on cybersecurity is published in top journals and conferences and has received 6000+ citations. Shahid received Industrial PhD degree in 2013 from Mälardalen University Sweden for his work on IoT security in RISE. He also holds a Master of Science degree in cybersecurity from KTH The Royal Institute of Technology (2009). Shahid is currently supervising 4 PhD students and 2 postdocs as the main supervisor, and 2 PhD students as a co-supervisor.

Associate Senior Lecturer:

Abbas Araghavani

Abbas received a Ph.D. in Computer Science, from the Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand, in 2019. From 2020 to 2022 he was a postdoc with the Signal and Systems division, Electrical Engineering Department, Uppsala University, Sweden. Now he is an associate senior lecturer with the cyber security group, at Mälardalens University (MDU), Sweden. His research interests include Cyber Security, Computer Networks, Wireless Communications, Sensor Networks, and Quantum Communication.

Associate Senior Lecturer:

Giuseppe Nebbione

Giuseppe's research is mainly focused on Machine Learning applied to Computer Systems Security and Threat Modeling.

Specialties:
Penetration Testing, Network Security, Web Application Security, Wireless Security, OSINT, Red Teaming Activities, Android Security (Basics), Electronics, Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.

Theoretical Computer Science

In further developing our scientific excellence, strengthening the competence in fundamentals is essential. This motivated us to recruit a world-leading professor in theoretical computer science as visiting professor: Parosh Aziz Abdulla from Uppsala University.


Professor:

Parosh Aziz Abdulla

Prof. Abdulla is a Chaired Professor at Uppsala University’s Department of Information Technology. His research focuses on algorithmic program verification, particularly in verifying concurrent programs. He has contributed to parameterized verification and stateless model checking.

He teaches courses on Algorithmic Program Verification and Concurrent Algorithms and Data Structures. He has received multiple awards for his contributions to formal verification and theoretical computer science.

At MDU, Prof. Abdulla will give an advanced course on Parallel algorithms and datastructures, be involved in research on machine learning in formal verification and test, and contribute to funding applications.