BCMT 2021-2022: Best Cybersecurity Master’s Thesis Award in the Netherlands 2021-2022 |
Website | https://csng.nl/?q=node/45 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcmt20212022 |
Submission deadline | May 26, 2023 |
The Cyber Security next generation (CSng) is an interest group established by cybersecurity researchers to create a cybersecurity community in the Netherlands. The CSng was supported by 4TU.NIRICT and as of January 2003 is associated with the ACademic Cyber Security Society (ACCSS). One of the main goals of CSng is to form the next generation of researchers and engineers in cybersecurity. To this end, CSng has established an award for the best master’s thesis in this field. This call is for the fifth edition of the award where we solicit nominations of excellent master’s students who graduated with an outstanding thesis in cybersecurity.
The BCMT award recognizes and rewards master's theses that make significant academic and/or practical contributions to the field of cybersecurity. The topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following.
- Privacy enhancing technology
- Network security
- Security and privacy by design
- Cryptographic schemes
- Trust management
- Risk management
- Socio-technical issues of cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity situation awareness
For the 2021-2022 award, any master’s student who defended their thesis during the academic year 2021-2022 (and graduated before September 1, 2022) can be nominated.
A committee appointed by CSng will evaluate the theses. The theses will be judged on the basis of scientific quality, originality, clarity of presentation, as well as potential impact of their results.
Submission Guidelines
Nominations for the award MUST consist of the following.
- A nomination letter from the thesis supervisor. Please ensure that the letter (a) is not longer than 2 pages, (b) includes the thesis title and names of the student, supervisor(s), and the institution(s) granting the degree.
- Master’s thesis (in PDF format)
- A short summary of the thesis in English
- Curriculum vitae (in PDF format) of the nominee
Nominations MUST be sent in by May 26, 2023 to the contact person at the nominee’s university (see below). Each institution can only nominate a maximum of two theses for the award.
Committees
Program Committee
- Luca Allodi, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Ileana Buhan, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Vrije Universiteit (co-chair)
- Andrea Continella, University of Twente
- Harald Vranken, Open Universiteit
- Klaus von Gleissenthall, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Florian Hahn, University of Twente
- Hugo Jonker, Open Universiteit
- Mattijs Jonker, University of Twente
- Erik van der Kouwe, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Katja Tuma, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Luca Mariot, University of Twente
- Bart Mennink, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Simona Samardjiska, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Savio Sciancalepore, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Georgios Smaragdakis, Delft University of Technology
- Monika Trimoska, Radboud University Nijmegen (co-chair)
- Fatih Turkmen, University of Groningen
- Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, University of Twente
- Rolf van Wegberg, Delft University of Technology
- Savvas Zannettou, Delft University of Technology
- Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology
Organizing committee
- Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran
- Zekeriya Erkin
- Monika Trimoska
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Zekeriya Erkin (z.erkin@tudelft.nl), Monika Trimoska (monika.trimoska@ru.nl), and Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (b.chandrasekaran@vu.nl).
Contact persons at different institutions
- Luca Allodi, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Zekeriya Erkin, Delft University of Technology
- Cristiano Giuffrida, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Katharina Kohls, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Florian Hahn, University of Twente
- Fatih Turkmen, University of Groningen
- Harald Vranken, Open Universiteit