Teaching

University of Groningen

Department of Computer Science, 2020 - 2024

Advanced Topics in Security and Privacy (MSc Course)

• The course provides insight into some of the recent developments in security and privacy research. The lectures will cover various security/privacy topics including access control, Web security, differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computing, blockchain technology (DApps) with an emphasis on security aspects (e.g. smart contract security, verifiable credentials).

Teaching activities include:

• Lectures o the topics: decentralization, blockchain, smart contracts, and Self-Sovereign Identity.
• Creating course assignments and projects, and evaluating the outcome.
• Creating and supervising the lab on blockchain and smart contracts security.

More on this course can be found in ocasys

Student Supervision

The following is a list of student projects that I supervised:

• Decentralizing the Prover for Private Transactions in Zero-Knowledge Rollups, Abel Nissen (2024).
• “Collaborative Commit-and-Proof SNARKs”, Leon Visscher (2024).
• “Comparing Zero-Knowledge Rollup Scaling Solutions for Solidity based Decentralized Applications”, Abel Nissen (2023).
• “efficient cryptographic operations in proof circuits (zk-snark) using elliptic curve embedding” Dewi Batista(2023).
• “Decentralised Private Computation on Genomic Data”, Ivan Sladonja (2023).
• “Privacy-preserving Genome Analysis using Verifiable Off-Chain Computation” Visscher, Leon (2022); this work was accepted at ACM CCS 2022 as a poster.
• “Blockchain Based Trustworthy Electronic Voting System”, Pradeep Kumar, Nivin (2021), in collaboration with Blockchainlab Drenthe.
• “Secure e-voting using blockchain and zero-knowledge proofs” Jafri, Rayyan (2021);
• “Blockchain-based self-sovereign identity applications in healthcare” Oegema, Sytse (2020).
• “Using NFT (Non-fungible tokens) and Zero Knowledge to enable privacy and traceability of data sharing on the Blockchain” Mutreja, Shivam (2020).