Theses

Current: BSc and MSc theses

If you want to do a thesis with us, the easiest way is to contact one of us. Just in case, here is a list of BSc/MSc theses in the institute database:

• We offer a number of thesis topics

Current: PhD theses

If you wish to pursue a PhD with us, we have a few new positions each year. Come to talk to us as soon as possible to get more information. (The university has very strict deadlines of when the topics need to be known.)

History: Ph.D. Theses

In reverse chronological order:

• Kristjan Krips, "Privacy and coercion-resistance in voting", 2023 (supervisors Jan Willemson and Sven Laur)
• Arnis Parsovs, Estonian Electronic Identity Card and its Security Challenges, 2021 (supervisors Jan Willemson, Dominique Unruh)
• Karim Baghery, 2020 (supervisor Helger Lipmaa)
• Behzad Abdolmaleki, 2020 (supervisor Helger Lipmaa)
• Janno Siim, 2020 (supervisor Helger Lipmaa)
• Toomas Krips, Improving performance of secure real-number operations, 2019 (supervisors Jan Willemson, Dominique Unruh)
• Alisa Pankova, "Efficient Multiparty Computation Secure against Covert and Active Adversaries", 2017 (sup. Peeter Laud and Sven Laur)
• Ehsan Ebrahimi, Post-Quantum Security in the Presence of Superposition Queries, 2019 (supervisor Dominique Unruh)
• Prastudy Fauzi, 2017 (supervisor Helger Lipmaa)
• Rafik Chaabouni, 2017 (defended at EPFL, supervisor Helger Lipmaa)
• Jaak Randmets, "Programming Languages for Secure Multi-party Computation Application Development", 2017 (supervisors Peeter Laud and Varmo Vene)
• Riivo Talviste, "Applying Secure Multi-Party Computation in Practice", 2016 (supervisors Sven Laur, Dan Bogdanov)
• Liina Kamm, "Privacy-preserving statistical analysis using secure multi-party computation", 2015 (supervisor Sven Laur)
• Dan Bogdanov, “Sharemind: Programmable Secure Computations with Practical Applications”, 2013 (supervisor Sven Laur)
• Bingsheng Zhang, 2012 (supervisor Helger Lipmaa)
• Sven Laur, 2008 (defended at Aalto, supervisor Helger Lipmaa)
• Jan Villemson, Size-efficient interval time stamps, 2002 (supervisors Mati Tombak, Ahto Buldas)
• Helger Lipmaa, Secure and efficient time-stamping systems, 1999. (supervisor Mati Tombak)

See the list of Ph.D. theses in the CS department

Some Theses (with current job places)

• Sven Laur (Ph.D. 2008, now an associate professor at the University of Tartu) - google scholar
• Bingsheng Zhang (Ph.D. 2012, now a professor at Zhejiang University - google scholar
• Prastudy Fauzi (Ph.D. 2017, now a research fellow at Nanjiang Technical University -google scholar
• Rafik Chaabouni (Ph.D. 2017, now a cyber security architect at Swiss Armed Forces) - google scholar
• Ehsad Ebrahimi (Ph.D. 2019, now a research scientist at the University of Luxemburg) - google scholar
• Janno Siim (Ph.D. 2020, now a postdoc at Simula UiB) - google scholar
• Karim Baghery (Ph.D. 2020, now a postdoc at KU Leuven) - google scholar
• Behzad Abdolmaleki (Ph.D. 2020, now an assistant professor at the University of Sheffield) - google scholar

MSc Theses