From 1st to 5th July 2019 the annual Cyber Security Summer School (C3S), which was organized by the Institute of Computer Science, took place in Voore, Estonia. The topic of the C3S was “Blockchain: Applications and Security”. The main objective included an introduction of the key concepts, principles and techniques on the blockchain technology, their […]

On the 12th of June, Toomas Krips defended his PhD on „Improving performance of secure real-number operations“ in which he describes methods on how to improve real-number computations on secure computations. In the following blog post, Toomas tells a story on secure computations, real numbers and his doctoral thesis. There are two main components of […]

On the 26th of May, Irene Teinemaa defended her PhD on “Predictive and prescriptive monitoring of business process outcomes“, in which she addresses the question on how to train, evaluate and use predictive models for outcome-oriented predictive process monitoring. Every day, we are involved in various business processes. For instance, when booking a hotel, applying […]

Institute of Computer Science PhD student Ilya Verenich defended his thesis on February 11. Here is an overview of his work.  Context. Modern enterprise systems collect a lot of data about the execution of the business processes they support. The widespread availability of such data in companies, combined with advances in machine learning, have led […]

Ehsan Ebrahimi is a doctoral student at the Chair of Security and Theoretical Computer Science. He defended his doctoral thesis thesis “Post-Quantum Security in the Present of Superposition Queries” on January 21, supervised by Professor Dominique Unruh. Here is an overview of his work. Quantum Computing. Have you heard of Quantum Computers? Scientists and engineers are […]

Mozilla projekt Common Voice tegeleb kõneandmete korjamisega ühisloome teel. Erinevalt tekstiandmetest on kõneandmed palju harvemad ja kõneandmestikud palju väiksemad/kallimad. Teisest küljest sõltuvad nende kättesaadavusest ja suurusest kõnesünteesi ja kõnetuvastuse kvaliteet, eriti kui kasutada kaasaegseid süvaõppel põhinevaid lähenemisi. See on eriti oluline muu hulgas eesti keelele, mille puhul on kõneandmeid väga vähe. Hiljuti lisasime eesti keele […]