Welcome to Yevhen Perehuda, who is visiting Vincent Rijmen's team: "I chose COSIC because of its excellent reputation in cryptography and security research. I see this stay as a great opportunity to learn, improve my skills, and work in an inspiring academic environment."
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Welcome to Dongwon Lee, who is visiting Frederik Vercauteren's team at COSIC.
"I chose to join COSIC because it is a world-leading research group in cryptography with a strong reputation for innovative work."
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Pierre Pébereau just joined COSIC as a postdoc in Fre Vercauteren's team: "I chose COSIC to work with excellent researchers on the analysis of post-quantum signature algorithms."
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The COSIC master’s thesis topics for the 2026–2027 academic year are now online. KU Leuven students can explore them here:
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/educat...
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Welcome to Ankan Ghosh, a visitor working on Android malware detection.
"COSIC stands as a global benchmark for cryptographic and cybersecurity research. I chose COSIC not just for its heritage, but to contribute to the next generation of breakthroughs."
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"I chose COSIC for its high-quality research in cryptology, cybersecurity, and its application to industry, I firmly believe COSIC is one of the best places, especially in the domains of post-quantum cryptography & multi-party computation."
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📚 Requirements: strong academic results + a keen interest in cryptography, mathematics, or computer security
🗓 Availability 4–12 weeks during the summer period
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We are looking for a PhD researcher to work on Practical Implementations of Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Want to join our team? Visit www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/vacanc...
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Vansh Deshwal is visiting us from the Indian Statistical Institute, working at the intersection of AI and security.
"I chose COSIC because of its strong reputation in practical cryptography and cybersecurity, and the kind of real-world work the group is known for."
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Please welcome our new PhD student Sina Bagheri: "I chose COSIC for its world-class reputation in security and vibrant environment. It came highly recommended by friends, and I’m excited to contribute to the team’s research on secure hardware!"
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Madhav Verma is a new visitor in COSIC, welcome!
"I chose COSIC because if you want to do serious cryptography and cryptanalysis, this is one of the places where it’s done properly, with depth and impact."
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Pablo Sánchez Serrano is visiting us from the University of Málaga. His PhD focuses on Privacy and AI, with two primary goals: leveraging AI techniques as privacy-enhancing technologies, and protecting sensitive information throughout the AI training lifecycle.
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Welcome to our new intern, Neeranuch Jitkhajornwanich! She will be researching "Dissymmetric Modes for Symmetric Cryptography: Leveraging Unbalanced Ends in IoT Protocols" during her stay here.
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We have a new PhD student! Félix Incerti did an internship with us last year, working on intrusion detection for CAN-BUS systems, and he is now back with us to continue his research journey as a PhD student. Welcome!
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Welcome COSIC’s first PhD student of 2026: Louis Gregg! He’ll be working in Yunwen Liu’s team, focusing on privacy analysis of peer-to-peer networks, blockchains, and anonymity systems like mixnets and Tor.
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Welcome to our new Postdoc Dominik Roy George! His research focuses on integrating Privacy-Enhancing Technologies into the IoT ecosystem.
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Welcome to Jiahui He, the newest postdoc in our research group. Jiahui works on classical cryptanalysis.
"I believe COSIC is one of the top research groups in the field of cryptanalysis."
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A new member in the team of Prof Frederik Vercauteren: welcome to Arthur Herlédan Le Merdy!
"I chose COSIC because it holds a central place in cryptography, especially in isogeny-based post-quantum cryptography, where the group has made many major contributions."
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Valerio Ardizio is the newest member of Frederik Vercauteren's team!
"I chose COSIC because of its welcoming, inspiring, and stimulating research environment, as well as the outstanding expertise of the researchers who are part of this group."
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Welcome to Stelios Manasidis, who is visiting us and researching hardware implementations of post-quantum signature schemes.
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We're hiring! We have an open PhD position in Multi-Factor Authentication Protocols. Join our team 👏 #SCAMPER #choosecosic
Vacancy online at esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/vacanc...
"I have always been fascinated by the field of cybersecurity, which is why COSIC stood out as the ideal place to pursue a PhD. Additionally, the engaging and friendly atmosphere among the colleagues was an added bonus."
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Mauro Vranckx is a new PhD student in Kris Myny's team in Diepenbeek! Mauro will research secure transmission of personal physiological data (e.g., heart rate and other biosignals) across the human body, focusing on security for Body Area Network (BAN) systems.
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"Beyond its academic prestige, I chose COSIC because everybody in the field recommended it to me and because I had such a strong impression of the group."
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Busy times at COSIC, we have yet another new PhD student! Welcome to Andrea Natale, who is joining Vincent's team to research side-channel attacks and countermeasures, provable security.
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Today is COSIC Brainstorm Day! We’ll kick off with talks by our professors and wrap up with collaborative brainstorming sessions to keep pushing state-of-the-art research. #choosecosic
"I chose COSIC to work with friendly researchers who are highly skilled in flexible TFT design. Furthermore, the collaborative nature of our research group allows me to come into contact with many different sides of the neuroelectronics field."
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We're hiring! We have an open PhD position in Multi-Factor Authentication Protocols. Join our team 👏 #SCAMPER #choosecosic
Vacancy online at esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/vacanc...
