Dietmar Pfahl, Professor of Software Engineering, co-authored the article “Synergies between Education, Training, and Research: How the Institute of Computer Science does Industry-Relevant Research in Software Engineering”. Doing industry-relevant research is the mission of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu. This new publication in one of the top-notch software engineering journals […]

To strengthen and improve the key competencies in blockchain technology, our institute organized a BLISS workshop on November 9, which was attended by more than 65 participants from both the industry and the university. The aim of BLISS “Blockchain skills for ICT professionals” is to develop a blockchain course for ICT professionals, which helps to […]

This October the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Garage48 and Startup Estonia organized a Cyber Security hackathon, which was attended by almost 100 developers, designers, experts, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts in order to create new cyber security solutions, for the benefit of humanity. Out of 17 pitched ideas 10 teams were formed. The winner […]

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 […]