
I am a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum,
where I lead the Chair for Security and Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems (UbiSys).
I am also a member of the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security,
and a Principal Investigator and Dean of Graduate School in the Excellence Cluster CASA .
Previously, I was affiliated as tenure-track Assistant Professor with the Digital Security group at
Radboud University (2019-2020) and Software Systems group
at Utrecht University (2018), both in The Netherlands.
From mid-2015 until 2017, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Digital
Security Group at Radboud University.
I received my PhD from Deakin University, Australia in 2015.
Research Interests
- Security and privacy for IoT/Embedded devices
- User data privacy
- Privacy engineering; privacy compliance
- Applications of machine learning for security & privacy
- Adversarial machine learning
UbiSys Group
Postdoc
- Tarini Saka (Ruhr University Bochum)
PhD students
- Ramya Kandula (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Felix Kalinowski (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Agata Stanczyk (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Philipp Mackensen (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Dimitri Mankowski (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Daniel Klischies (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Hamid Bostani (Radboud University)
- Mindy Tran (MPI-SP, daily supervisor: Dr. Yixin Zou)
- Yulian Sun (Ruhr University Bochum (external), daily supervisor: Prof. Dr. Asja Fischer)
- Stefan Horstmann (Ruhr University Bochum, daily supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alena Naiakshina)
- Lukas Stennes (Ruhr University Bochum, daily supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gregor Leander)
Contact Information
Office: MC 4/127
Phone: (+49) (0) 234 32 – 15748
Email: email(at)veelasha.org (preferred)
veelasha.moonsamy(at)rub.de
Socials: @veelasha_m, @veelasha.bsky.social
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