Teaching

  • Privacy and Security with Machine Learning (PSML). University of Edinburgh
2023-Present
Lecturer and Course Organizer
This course is offered to the Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust and Artificial Intelligence MSc programs. It explores the security and privacy risks posed by the application of AI/ML techniques. The first part of the course covers applications of AI/ML techniques in the cybersecurity domain, and the second part introduces the field of adversarial ML, including novel attacks like membership inference and adversarial examples, and mitigation strategies.


  • Computer Security (CSEC). University of Edinburgh.
2023-Present
Lecturer and Course Organizer (of the level 11 course)
CSEC is the core course on computer security offered to UG3 undergraduate students and students of the Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust MSc. The goal of the course is to introduce students to the fundamental security concepts and offer them working knowledge of threats and countermeasures.

    • Student Supervision

    I supervise approx. 5 undergraduate and 5 master projects every academic year.

    Invited Lectures

    • Applications of Machine Learning to Traffic Analysis
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, South Korea (Online)
May, 2024


    • Machine Learning for Traffic Analysis
SIGINT Pwned5 
The Nucleus Building
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Mar, 2024


    • Privacy in the Web
INCACrypto (co-located with LATINCRYPT)
Quito, Equador (Online)
Oct, 2023


    • Machine Learning for Traffic Analysis
Summer School on Security and Privacy in the Age of AI 
Dept of Computer Science - DistriNet
KU Leuven
Belgium, UK
Sept, 2023


    • Website Fingerprinting Attacks in Practice
SIGINT Pwned4 
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Apr, 2023


    • An Overview of Fingerprinting Techniques in the Web
30219D – CSCI631 Privacy in the World of Big Data
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, USA
Nov, 2021


    • Is Website Fingerprinting Actually Practical?
Keynote at the Data Privacy Management Workshop (DPM)
Online
Sept, 2020


    • Fingerprinting Techniques in the Web
30219D – CSCI631 Privacy in the World of Big Data
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, USA
Nov, 2019


    • Machine Learning and Security
Brussels School of Competition (BSC)
Brussels, Belgium
May, 2019


    • Introduction to Machine Learning
International Committee of the Red Cross
Brussels, Belgium
Apr, 2019


    • Traffic Analysis
Lecutre in the KU Leuven's Privacy Enhancing Technologies course.
Leuven, Belgium
Oct, 2018


    • Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses
TU Wien's Privacy Enhancing Technologies' course
Vienna, Austria
Dec, 2017


    • Privacy Enhancing Techniques
2016 Secure Application Development (SecAppDev) course
Leuven, Belgium
Mar, 2016