SWITS 2026 seminar program

Jönköping University, Building: Tekniska Högskolan – room E1423, Fagerhultsaulan.

Tuesday, 9th June 2026:

10:30 Arrival, Coffee

11:00-12.00 Welcome, Introduction, research group presentations (2 min each, max one slide)

12:00-12:30 PhD student presentations (I) – Network Security (Chair: Christian Rohner)

  • Here be DDRagons! Navigating the Unexplored Map of Encrypted DNS Transport (Jonathan Magnusson, KAU)
  • Investigating Satellite Threats (Alexandra Östman, FHS)

12:30 Lunch

13:30- 14:30 PhD student presentations (II) – Software and Web Security (Chair: Mikael Asplund)

  • LLMs in code security (Enna Basic, Örebro University & Epiroc)
  • Code Reuse Attacks in Memory-Managed Languages (Eric Cornelissen, KTH)
  • PowerAmp: Amplifying Client-side Prototype Pollution and Gadget Detection (Samuel Kajava, SiKai Lu, Eric Cornelissen, Benjamin Lundblad, Musard Balliu and Andrei Sabelfeld – Chalmers & KTH)
  • Time Is of the Essence: Discovering Co-Evolving Browser Extensions via Update Patterns (Eric Olsson, Chalmers)

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:00 PhD student presentations (III) – Security Management & Awareness (Chair: Agnieszka Kitkowska)

  • Large Language Model-Based Speech Act Classification of Information Security Policy Statements (Leila Aro-Sati, Fredrik Karlsson, Shang Gao, Örebro University)
  • From Adoption to Assimilation Economic Models in Information Security Governance (Aous Al Salek, Skövde University)
  • Born to Be Wired: Age-related Differences in Cybersecurity Awareness Information Preferences (Mira Pop, Joakim Kävrestad, and Maria Riveiro, Jönköping University)
  • Organisational cybersecurity awareness: A systematic literature review (Bassima Ghassan, Filip Tous, Joakim Kävrestad, Erik Bergström, Jönköping University)

16:10 Podium: Update from Cybercampus Sweden, PhD education & SWITS  (David Olgart (online), Shahid Raza & Simone Fischer-Hübner)

17:00 Social event (City Tour or Museum) & Dinner

Wednesday, 10th June 2026:

8:45-9:45 PhD student presentations (III) – Privacy & Transparency (Chair: Tobias Pulls)

  • What Makes a Log Transparent? A General Framework for Transparency Logs (Lucia Lavagnino, Chalmers)
  • zkSBOM: Privacy-Preserving SBOM Sharing with Zero-Knowledge Sets (Tom Sorger, KTH)
  • Security and Privacy Challenges in Smart Connected Homes: Addressing Insider Threats and Technology-Facilitated Abuse (Fazeleh Dehghani Ashkezari, Andreas Jacobsson, Martin Höst, and Klara Svalin, Malmö University)
  • A Structural Steganographic Framework for Confidential Data Transmission in LiFi Networks (Ramin Irani, Siamak Khatibi, BTH)

9:45 Poster pitches (2 min) and presentations or demos by PhD students & Cybersecurity projects (Chair: Sonja Buchegger)

  • A Minimalistic TEE for Low-Power RISC-V-Based IoT (Asrin Abdollahi, Simon Bouget, Giuseppe Nebbione, Shahid Raza, RISE)
  • What’s really important? Priorities of trustworthy AI requirements in healthcare: the perspective of clinicians in Sweden (Hanna Schaff, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Ala Sarah Alaqra, Leonardo Iwaya, Farzaneh Karegar, KAU)
  • Authenticity in Digital Product Passports (Linus Sönnerhed, Jönköping University)
  • Lightweight end-to-end secure group communication for the IoT with CoAP and Group OSCORE (Rikard Höglund, Marco Tiloca, RISE)
  • KBF-PAN: Secure Path Awareness for Multi-Domain Satellite Networks (Arlette Houndji, Mariano Scazzariello, Alfonso Iacovazzi, Shahid Raza, KAU & RISE)
  • Multi-party Like A BOSS: Blinded Oblivious Secret Sampling for FHE-based MPC (Anton Israelsson, RISE & Uppsala University)
  • Reatcheted Key Exchange for Secure Satellite Command and Telemetry (Erik Wdell Ledin, RISE)
  • Handover Management in 6G Satellite Integrated Terrestrial Networks (Oshani Wickramasinghe, Alfonso Iacovazzi, Thiemo Voigt, Shahid Raza, RISE and Uppsala University)
  • Beyond Classical Security: Solutions for Modern Secure Societies (Reyhane Falanji, Niklas Carlsson, Mikael Asplund, LiU)

(Coffee and snacks are served in between)

11:15-12:00 Panel: Failures in Cybersecurity Research – Learning from Mistakes (Moderator: Joakim Kärvestad, Panelists: Magnus Almgren, Jaap-Henk-Hoepman, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt

12:00-12:30 PhD student presentations (IV) – Network security & Pentesting (Chair: Andrei Gurtov)

  • Cybersecurity Specialists’ Perspectives on the Use of Generative AI in Professional Practice (Alexander Lindström, KAU & Dizparc Secured)
  • SUIT: Security of Update-related IoT Traffic (Ahmad B. Usman (LiU), Emre Süren (KTH), and Mikael Asplund (LiU))

12:30 Lunch

13:40-14:40 PhD student presentations  (V)– Network and IoT / device security (Chair: Sara Ramezanian)

  • Producing and Validating a Synthetic 5G DDoS Dataset (Karim Khail, Lund University)
  • Detecting Feedback-path Delay Injection Attacks Using Interacting Multiple Model Filtering (Lovisa Eriksson, Uppsala University)
  • SS-BRBES: A Semi-Supervised Belief Rule-Based Expert System for Explainable and Uncertainty-Aware Intrusion Detection (Amira Gourbal Abdallah, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Karl Andersson, LuleÃ¥ University)
  • Enhancing Industrial Device Onboarding Using Remote Attestation (Volodymyr Trykoz, Björn Leander (ABB), Saad Mubeen1, and Mohammad Ashjaei, MDU)

14:40: Announcement of Events, positions, etc. Summing up, next steps

15:00 Coffee, and end of SWITS 2026