We are delighted to announce that our PhD student Dr Kushal Ramkumar has successfully defended his thesis, “Engineering Sustainable Security: Diagnosis and Mitigation of Unknown Attacks in Smart Homes,” at the UCD School of Computer Science on 15th December 2025.
Dr Ramkumar was supervised by Liliana Pasquale and Bashar Nuseibeh. During his PhD, he published in leading venues including IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), SEAMS, and Computers & Security. The examiner commended his mastery of the subject and recommended only minor revisions.
We warmly thank the examiners Mark Scanlon and Ernesto Damiani, and the chair of the examination committee, Michela Bertolotto.
Congratulations, Kushal! 🎓👏
