Student collaboration

Graduate students

• Roman-Valentyn Tkachuk, enrolled in PhD program from 2019-2023. Co-advising with Prof. Kurt Tutschku (main advisor). Research in the area of security, with focus on orchestration and marketplace security architectures, with emphasis on blockchains. His research was highlighted in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences list IVA’s 100 list that advertises research projects from Sweden with the potential to create value through commercialization, business and method development or societal impact. Later worked a few years with Calabrio and Outpost24 in the cybersecurity domain, then returned to BTH as assistant university lecturer ;-)
  
  
• Erik Bergenholtz, was enrolled in PhD program from 2017-2021. Co-advising with Dr. Emiliano Casalicchio (main advisor). Research in the area of security, with focus on detection of malware with self-modifying code. Prior research was on IPv6 network scanning algorithms. Previously worked as cyber security consultant at Truesec, Sweden, now cyber security consultant at Combitech, Sweden. Erik has resumed his PhD research.
  
  
• Vida Ahmadi Mehri, enrolled in PhD program 2017-2019. Co-advised Vida up to Licentiate degree together with Prof. Kurt Tutschku (main advisor).  Research in the area of security with focus on privacy and DRM requirements for an AI marketplace. Worked as security analyst at City Network in Karlskrona, Sweden, now Data & AI Governance Officer at Electrolux.
  
  
• Sogand Shirinbab, enrolled in PhD program 2012-2019. Co-advised Sogand together with Prof. Lars Lundberg (main advisor) 2013-2019, through Licentiate degree and PhD degree. Research in the area of performance of computer systems, with focus on virtualization solutions. Currently employed as data scientist at Ericsson in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Student co-authors

• Louise Bergman Martinkauppi and Qiuping He, "On the Design and Performance of Chinese OSCCA-approved Cryptographic Algorithms", 2020.  Louise works as a system developer at Mimer Information Technology in Uppsala, Sweden. Qiuping is currently a Cyber Engineer at IKEA in Malmö, Sweden.
  
  
• Vishnubhotla Venkata Krishna Sai Datta, "On Designing a Cost-Aware Virtual CDN for the Federated Cloud", 2016. Sai Datta was a PhD student at BTH in Karlskrona, Sweden. His research interests include human aspects in software engineering, machine learning, cloud computing and virtualization. Currently employed as senior software engineer at Sinch, Sweden.
  
  
• Mattias Forsman and  Andreas Glad, "Algorithms for Automated Live Migration of Virtual Machines", 2015.  They are currently Software Engineers with Ericsson, in Karlskrona, Sweden.
  
  
• Solomon Kassahun and Atinkut Demessie, "A PMIPv6 Approach to Maintain Network Connectivity During VM Live Migration Over the Internet", 2014. Solomon is now with Hughes Network Systems in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA working as Principal Engineer I - Software. Atinkut is a Software Engineer at Capital One in Plano, Texas, USA.
  
  
• Charles Mugga and  Dong Sun, "Performance Comparison of IPv6 Multihoming and Mobility Protocols", 2014. Dong Sun is now working for Lionbridge Games from Jinan City, Shandong, China as Software Development Engineer in Test.

Rewards

• Marcus Armstrong Kicklighter and Hugo Nordenström received Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronans yearly award in 2025 for their MSc thesis "Detecting LLM usage in primary memory digital forensic", which I had the honor to advise.