PhD students

I am open to serving as a daily supervisor for potential PhD candidates focusing on topics related to privacy and trustworthy AI.

At present, there are no fully funded projects available. However, Open Universiteit offers an opportunity for self-funded external researchers who wish to pursue a PhD but cannot commit to a full-time university position. In this arrangement, you won’t have employee status at the university and won’t receive a university salary.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!


Omid Torki

Isfahan University
2023

Thesis title: Efficient Preserving Privacy in Genome-Wide Association Studies


Master students

I’m delighted to announce that all of my graduated master’s students have successfully published papers in high-ranked conferences and journals based on their theses. You can explore the current thesis project topics here.


Sven Kalkman

Open Universiteit
2023

Thesis title: A multi-heuristic optimization framework for vehicle routing problem using reinforcement learning 

Tjibbe van der Ende

Open Universiteit
2023

Thesis title: Using ND-Laplace to train privacy-preserving clustering algorithms on distributed n-dimensional data


Mohammad Emadi

Shahid Beheshti University
2023

Thesis title: On the privacy of Generative Adversarial Networks 


Leander Hiele

Open Universiteit
2023

Thesis title: The Compliance of GDPR regulations using Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Wouter Leeuw

Eindhoven University
2022

Thesis Title: Scalable Blockchain-based Unsupervised Distributed Learning

Amir Fathalizadeh

Shahid Beheshti University
2022

Thesis title: Privacy Preserving Indoor Location Fingerprinting

Fatemeh Khodaparast

Shahid Beheshti University
2019

Thesis Title: Privacy Preserving Big Data Classification



Mona Hamidi

Siena University
2018

Thesis title: Privacy Preserving Data Clustering