Security fest 2026 - Academic village

Alejandro Russo is a Full Professor of Computing Science at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is also the Co-founder and Chief Scientist at DPella, a tech company that commercializes privacy-preserving data analytics.

Atmane Ayoub Mansour Bahar is a Ph.D. student in Network Security at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Holding an Engineering degree and an M.Sc. in Computer Systems, his research focuses on 5G network security, passive network attacks, and AI applications in cybersecurity. He is affiliated with the Chalmers Security & Privacy Lab.

Elena Pagnin is an assistant professor at the Information Security Unit since 2022.

Her research focuses on the design of advanced public key cryptographic primitives and new cryptographic protocols, mainly for authentication or transparency.

She has worked on (train of buzzwords): (multi-key) homomorphic signatures, verifiable computations, messaging protocols, privacy-preserving location proximity testing, storage deduplication, distance-bounding protocols, biometric authentication.

More detailed info and a complete CV are available at Elena's personal page: https://epagnin.github.io/

Eric Olsson is a researcher and doctoral student in Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. His primary focus is on information security. He has made significant contributions to web security, specifically in developing frameworks for detecting fake extensions, scanning for stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and securing JavaScript-driven platforms.

Francisco is an old school hacker with various years of experience as a pentester and CISO, currently he is preparing an Ethical Hacking course at Chalmers as a lecturer of the practice at the same time he work at KITS.

I’m a CS PhD student in the PriSec group at Karlstad University (KAU), Sweden since 2021. My research area is Cybersecurity and Network Analysis of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is sponsored by The Swedish Internet Foundation (IIS). My lead supervisor is Tobias Pulls (KAU) and my co-supervisors are Anna Brunström (KAU) and Johan Stenstam (IIS).

Mohamed Hashim Changrampadi is a Doctoral Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, based in Gothenburg. His work focuses on cybersecurity, network systems, and AI, specifically investigating how to accelerate transformer-based network traffic classification for real-time performance. Prior to his doctoral studies, his research addressed computer vision, including head pose classification using AI fusion.

Romaric Duvignau is an Associate Professor in the Distributed Computing and Systems research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. His core research focuses on designing data-driven algorithms for distributed applications, addressing challenges in fault tolerance, cybersecurity, privacy, big data and streaming analytics. Prof. Duvignau's current interests include the efficient monitoring of large-scale distributed systems, intelligent data management and decision making in smart grids, federated learning, programmable networks, and network traffic classification. Recipient of Chalmers Pedagogic Prize 2023 and an Honorable Mention Award at USENIX Security 2025.