Oksana Kulyk

Oksana Kulyk

Assistant professor at IT University of Copenhagen. Research interests include human factors in security, privacy, cryptography and electronic voting

About me

I am associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and a member of the Center for Information Security and Trust (CISAT). I have previously worked as a post-doc in the Security, Usability and Society (SECUSO) research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in particular, collaborating on the EU Project “Safe-Guarding Home IoT Environments with Personalised Real-time Risk Control” (GHOST), and before that, at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUDa). I have received my doctorate from TUDa in 2017.

My research interests focus on human factors in security and privacy, including privacy-related decision support for end users and risk communication, as well as issues of security and privacy in electronic voting. Until December 2020, I have also been working as a co-PI on the ASCD project funded by the Danish Centre for Cybersecurity, investigating cybersecurity and privacy practices in Danish companies. Starting from January 2022, I am working as a PI for the project COMET (Communicating trust in the security of election technologies) funded by Velux Foundation (Villum Experiment Program). The purpose of the project is to understand how trust in election technologies is created and maintained among the voters, and how should voting systems be designed in order to facilitate this trust.

Teaching (lectures)

  • Spring 2020, 2021: Security 2 (ITU)
  • Fall 2019, 2020, 2021: Advanced security, “Usable security” module (ITU)
  • Fall 2019, 2020, 2021: Security and Privacy (ITU)
  • Winter 2018/2019: E-Voting (KIT)
  • Summer 2018: E-Voting (KIT)

Potential student projects

Contact me if you are interested in doing a project, including writing a Bachelor/Master thesis, on following and related topics:

  • E-voting and other forms of e-participation, incl. cryptography and human factors as well as issues of coercion resistance and verifiability
  • Privacy, incl. human factors and technical solutions for privacy-enchancing technologies, privacy decision support, privacy notices, usable privacy settings, transparency
  • Trust and acceptance of security- and privacy-critical technologies

Scientific services

Organisation Activities

  • Program committee chair for the 6th European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2022)
  • Steering comitttee member for the 7th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-VOTE-ID 2022)
  • Track chair for the 6th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-VOTE-ID 2021)
  • Track chair for the 5th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-VOTE-ID 2020)
  • 21st E-Voting PhD Colloquium, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2018)
  • 20th E-Voting PhD Colloquium, co-located with the 2nd International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-VOTE-ID 2017)

Program Committee Memberships

  • Nordic conference on human-computer interaction (NordiCHI 2022)
  • 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022)
  • 7th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, in association with Financial Crypto (Voting 2022)
  • 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021)
  • 6th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, in association with Financial Crypto (Voting 2021)
  • 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2020)
  • 5th European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2020)
  • 5th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, in association with Financial Crypto (Voting 2020)
  • Central European Cybersecurity Conference (CECC 2019)
  • 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019)
  • 4th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-VOTE-ID 2019)
  • 4th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, in association with Financial Crypto (Voting 2019)
  • 3rd International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-VOTE-ID 2018)
  • 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Privacy and Trust (iPAT 2018), co-located with ARES 2018.
  • 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018)
  • 44th GI Jahrestagung / Workshop: Elektronische Wahlen. September 2014. Stuttgart, Germany.

Reviewing Activities

  • 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2018)
  • Security and Communication Networks Journal
  • Journal of Information Security and Applications
  • Financial Cryptography, 2nd Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes (VOTING’17)
  • NDSS Workshop on Usable Security (USEC 2017)
  • Computers & Security Journal
  • Computer Communications - The International Journal for the Computer and Telecommunications Industry
  • Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust (STAST 2016)
  • Workshop Nutzerzentrierte Sicherheit (NzS 2016)
  • NDSS Workshop on Usable Security (USEC 2016)
  • Financial Cryptography, 1st Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes (VOTING’16)
  • The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15)
  • 30th IFIP TC-11 SEC 2015 International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2015)
  • 3rd International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2014)