On Thursday, February 15th, Alexandros Bakas successfully defended his PhD related to Applied Cryptography and Privacy.

During his PhD, Alex has been working on what I informally refer to as "Black Magic"—finding mathematical ways to treat encrypted data as if they were unencrypted, thus keeping potentially sensitive information hidden.

This is a significant event for NISEC, as it has been a while since we had a PhD dissertation. Hopefully, more will come soon!

• PhD title: Hidden in the Cloud : Advanced Cryptographic Techniques for Untrusted Cloud Environments
• Opponent: Rafael Dowsley, Monash University, Australia
• Thesis: https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/153964
• Press Release: https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/alexandros-bakas-new-protocols-encrypted-data-can-help-build-user-trust-cloud-services