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Associate Professor

University of Twente

Chairing the Financial Engineering and Business Information Systems research group and leading socio-economic cybersecurity research activities.

Assistant Professor

University of Twente

Conducted research and teaching at the intersection of information systems, finance, data science, and cybersecurity.

PhD Candidate

University of Twente

Researched economic and social impacts of DDoS attacks on public and private institutions.

Visiting Researcher

University of Twente

Research Intern

Mahle Behr GmbH

PhD

University of Twente

Economics of Cybersecurity

• The Blind Man and The Elephant: Measuring Economic Impacts of DDoS Attacks
• Promoter: Prof. dr. Lambert J. M. Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente.
• Co-promoter: Dr. Reinoud Joosten, University of Twente.
• Research focused on measuring the economic and social impact of DDoS attacks.

Master of Business Administration

Thapar University

Operations Management; minors in Information Systems and Finance

• Development and application of a web scraper for social entrepreneurship blogs
• Supervisor: Prof. dr. Aard Groen, University of Twente.

Bachelor of Engineering

Thapar University

Industrial Engineering

• Value Addition in Assembly Processes
• Supervisor: Mr. Ramesh Karmalkar, Senior Manager, Mahle Behr GmbH, India.

Best Paper Award

APWG eCrime

Awarded for Ransomware Economics: A Two-Step Approach To Model Ransom Paid.

Best Paper Award

ACM SIGCOMM WTMC

Awarded for Measuring the Impact of a Large DDoS Attack on the Customer Behaviour of a Managed DNS Service Provider.

Most Innovative Solution

Part of a four-member team awarded at the 3rd supply chain hackathon.

DNS Atlas

ICANN

International grant funding two PhD candidates.

SOC4LOG - Security Operations Center for Logistics

TKI Dinalog

€80K grant to establish a blueprint for a logistics-sector CSIRT.

CYGENT - Cyber Governance and AI-Driven Threat Management

Topsector ICT

€700K grant for research on AI-driven threat management.

CS4NL DReSC - Digital Resilience in Supply Chains

Grant funding 1 PhD, 2 EngDs, and 30 master thesis internships at two Dutch universities. Industry partners include Z-CERT, Thales, SKB, PwC, Northwave, Awareways, NCSC, MST, ASZ, Emons, Exate, and TidalControl.

NWA CATRIN - Controllable, Accountable, Transparent, the Responsible Internet

NWO

Grant supporting 7 PhD positions at 4 Dutch universities. Industry partners include De Waag, KPN, SIDN, TRIMM, and NLnet Labs.

MASCOT - Measuring Security in Cloud Outsourcing

NWO

Grant supporting 2 PhD positions and partial funding for a scientific programmer. Partners include Logius, KPN, and SURF.

Socio-economic context of security

Twente University Centre for Cybersecurity Research

Grant supporting 1 PhD position and interdisciplinary collaborations within the University of Twente. Partners include NCSC, Dutch Banking Association, and BetterBe.

Crime-Chains

Dutch National Police

Grant supporting 2 PhD positions.

Het verband tussen DDoS-aanvallen en phishing

Politie en Wetenschap

Grant supporting research time and server acquisition, with APWG as industry partner.

Cyber security moving into the physical domain.

Dark Economics of DDoS

Steal This Show Podcast, S05E11.

Building Botnets For Fun & Profit

Steal This Show Podcast, S04E01.

Economic impact of DDoS attacks: How can we measure it?

Cyber Security Next Generation, NWO, Utrecht; FIRST Technical Colloquium, Cisco, Amsterdam; and PricewaterhouseCoopers.