Dr. Veelasha Moonsamy
Veelasha Moonsamy is a professor at the Chair for Security and Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. She is also a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence CASA (Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries) at Ruhr University Bochum. Veelasha was previously an Assistant Professor in the Digital Security group at Radboud University and was briefly affiliated with the Software Systems group at Utrecht University in 2018. She received her PhD degree in 2015 from Deakin University (Australia). Her thesis was titled ‘Security and Privacy of Users’ Personal Information on Smartphones’. Her research interests revolve around security and privacy on mobile devices, in particular side- and covert-channel attacks, malware detection, and mitigation of data leaks at application and hardware level. Website: www.veelasha.or
The Chair of Security and Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems deals with various topics from the field of system-related IT security research. This field is characterised by the fact that the security of concrete systems and the security effects of real phenomena are always the focus of interest there. The chair’s research focuses on topics such as mobile/embedded security, vulnerability detection, privacy engineering, security and privacy of machine learning.