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I'm an associate professor in computer science at Linköping University. My research interests are connected to cyber-physical security, verifiable security and dependability at large. I am also responsible for the Master's program in Information Technology and have a strong interest in moving computer science education into the 21st century.

News

  • To be updated...
  • Paper accepted to COSE journal
  • Two new job openings, one postdoc position and one PhD student position.
  • Johannes Wilson successfully defended his Licentiate thesis!
  • Our paper "Update at Your Own Risk: Analysis and Recommendations for Update-related Vulnerabilities" has been accepted to IFIP SEC 2025, congratulations Ahmad!
  • Our paper "Topology-aware Prioritized Patching for EV Charging Infrastructure Vulnerabilities" has been accepted to VEHITS 2025, and nominated to best student paper, congratulations Roland!
  • Our paper "From Balance to Breach: Cyber Threats to Battery Energy Storage Systems" has been accepted to Springer journal Energy Informatics, well done Zeeshan
  • Seed-funding ECIU project FORTRESS granted, looking forward to collaborate with Tampere University and Kaunas University of Technology
  • Happy to welcome new PhD student Animesh Thakur to the group

Publications

Articles in journals, books, conferences and workshops

2026
  • [70] R. Falanji, M. Asplund and N. Carlsson, A Formally Verified Protocol with Modifiable Signed Messages, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2026
  • [69] A. Usman, Z. Afzal and Mikael Asplund, Bridging Remote Attestation and Secure Software Updates in Embedded Systems, International Journal of Information Security, 2026
  • [68] R. Plaka, M. Asplund, and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Attacker-Defender perspectives for Dynamic Patch Prioritisation in EV Charging Networks, in Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, 2026.
2025
  • [67] S. Kapoor, E. Witwer, D. Hasselquist, M. Asplund, N. Carlsson, Predicting Video QoE from Encrypted Traffic: Leveraging Video Fingerprinting and Providing System-Level Insights, in Proc. IFIP Networking,, 2025
  • [66] D. Myrén, Z. Afzal, M. Asplund, The Dark Side of Flexibility: How Aggregated Cyberattacks Threaten the Power Grid, in the 20th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS), 2025
  • [65] Z. Afzal, G. Gaggero, M. Asplund, Towards privacy-preserving anomaly-based intrusion detection in energy communities. Energy Inform 8, 109 (2025). 10.1186/s42162-025-00565-x
  • [64] C. Skandylas and M. Asplund, Automated Penetration Testing: Formalization and Realization, Computers & Security, 2025
  • [63] A. B. Usman and M. Asplund, Update at Your Own Risk: Analysis and Recommendations for Update-related Vulnerabilities in 40th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC), 2025
  • [62] R. Plaka, M. Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Topology-aware Prioritized Patching for EV Charging Infrastructure Vulnerabilities, in 11th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS), 2025
  • [61] F. Öhrström, J. Oscarsson, Z. Afzal, J. Dani, M. Asplund, From Balance to Breach: Cyber Threats to Battery Energy Storage Systems, Energy Informatics (Springer), 2025
  • [60] M. Hamad, M. Kuehr, H. Mouratidis, E.-M. Kalogeraki, C. Gizelis, D. Papanikas, A. Bountioukos-Spinaris, C. Skandylas, E. Raptis, A. Alexopoulos, G. Chrysos, M. Marmpena, S. Politi, K. Lieros, P. Nikolaos, I. Xanthopoulos, S. Papastergiou, S. Ioannidis, M. Asplund, M.-O. Pahl, S. Steinhorst, Multi-Partner Project: A Framework for Secure, Collaborative, and Privacy-Aware Incident Handling for Digital Infrastructure (CyberSecDome) in the 2024 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2025
  • [59] M. Hamad, C. Prehofer, M. Asplund, T. Löhr, L. Bublitz, A. Zeh, M. Singh, S. Steinhorst, Cybersecurity Challenges of Autonomous Systems, in 2024 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2025
2024
  • [58] J. Wilson, M. Asplund, Analysing TLS Implementations using Full-Message Symbolic Execution, in the 29th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (Nordsec), 2024
  • [57] A. B. Usman, M. Asplund Remote Attestation with Software Updates in Embedded Systems, in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security 2024 - Cyber Resilience Workshop
  • [56] J. Wilson, M. Asplund, N. Johansson, F. Boeira, Provably Secure Communication Protocols for Remote Attestation in the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2024, doi:10.1145/3664476.3664485 - Best paper award
  • [55] R. Falanji, M. Asplund, and N. Carlsson, Provable Entity Accountability for Protocols with Modifiable Signed Messages, short paper in Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS), 2024
  • [54] R. Plaka, M. Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Vulnerability Analysis of an Electric Vehicle Charging Ecosystem in Pickl, S., Hämmerli, B., Mattila, P., Sevillano, A. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2023. LNCS, vol 14599. Springer. 2024. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-62139-0_9
2023
  • [53] J. Wilson, M. Asplund, N. Johansson, Extending the Authentication Hierarchy with One-Way Agreement, 36th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 2023. doi: 10.1109/CSF57540.2023.00025
  • [52] A. B. Usman, N. Cole, M. Asplund, F. Boeira, and C. Vestlund, Remote Attestation Assurance Arguments for Trusted Execution Environments, in the 3rd ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-physical Systems (Sat-CPS@CODASPY), 2023. doi: 10.1145/3579988.3585056
  • [51] F. Boeira, M. Asplund, M. Barcellos, Provable Non-Frameability for 5G Lawful Interception, 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2023. doi: 10.1145/3558482.3581780
  • [50] M. Eidenskog, J. Sefyrin, E. Johnson, O. Leifler, and M. Asplund, Changing the world one engineer at a time - unmaking the traditional engineering education when introducing sustainability subjects, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023. doi: 10.1108/IJSHE-03-2022-0071
2022
  • [49] D. Lantz, F. Boeira, and M. Asplund, Towards Self-Monitoring Enclaves: Side-Channel Detection using Performance Counters, in The 27th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (Nordsec), 2022. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-22295-5_7
  • [48] F. Boeira, M. Asplund, Exploiting Partial Order of Keys to Verify Security of a Vehicular Group Protocol, 35th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 2022. doi: 10.1109/CSF54842.2022.9919664 [PDF]
  • [47] F. Boeira, M. Asplund, and M. Barcellos, No Doppelgänger: Advancing Mobile Networks Against Impersonation in Adversarial Scenarios (Poster paper), in Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec22), (New York, NY, USA), ACM, 2022. doi:10.1145/3507657.3529651.
  • [46] A. Hölscher, M. Asplund, and F. Boeira, Evaluation of an SDN-based Microservice Architecture, in 4th International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Next Generation Virtualized Environments and Software-Defined Networks, 2022. doi: 10.1109/NetSoft54395.2022.9844094 [PDF].

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  • [45] C.F. Emygdio de Melo, T. Dapper e Silva, F. Boeira, J.M. Stocchero, A. Vinel, M. Asplund, and E.P. de Freitas, UAVouch: A Secure Identity and Location Validation Scheme for UAV-networks, IEEE Access, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3087084
  • [44] A. Rawat, M. Khodari, M. Asplund, and A. Gurtov, Decentralized Firmware Attestation for In-Vehicle Networks, ACM Transactionson Cyber-Physical Systems, 2021, doi: 10.1145/3418685
2020
  • [43] T. Sund, C. Lööf, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and M. Asplund, Blockchain-based Event Processing in Supply Chains - A Case Study at IKEA, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.rcim.2020.101971
  • [42] S. Bergman, M. Asplund, and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Permissioned Blockchains and Distributed Databases: A Performance Study, Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience, 2020. doi:10.1002/cpe.5227, A preprint version is available as PDF.
2019
  • [41] G. Grimsdal, P. Lundgren, C. Vestlund, F. Boeira, and M. Asplund, Can Microkernels Mitigate Microarchitectural Attacks?, in Secure IT Systems (A. Askarov, R. R. Hansen, and W. Rafnsson, eds.), Springer International Publishing, 2019. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35055-0_15. Available as PDF.
  • [40] F. Boeira, M. Asplund, and M. Barcellos, Decentralized Proof of Location in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Computer Communications, 2019. doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2019.07.024.
  • [39] F. Strömbäck, L. Mannila, M. Asplund, and M. Kamkar, A Student's View of Concurrency - A Study of Common Mistakes in Introductory Courses on Concurrency, in Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER), ACM, 2019. doi:10.1145/3291279.3339415.
  • [38] M. Khodari, A. Rawat, A. Gurtov, and M. Asplund, Decentralized Firmware Attestation for In-Vehicle Networks, in 5th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS), ACM, 2019. doi:10.1145/3327961.3329529. Available as PDF.
  • [37] M. Asplund, Combining Detection and Verification for Secure Vehicular Cooperation Groups, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2019. doi:10.1145/3322129. Available as PDF.
2018
  • [36] F. Boeira, M. Asplund, and M. P. Barcellos, Mitigating Position Falsification Attacks in Vehicular Platooning, in Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), IEEE, 2018. doi:10.1109/VNC.2018.8628427 Available as PDF
  • [35]S. Mohan, M. Asplund, G. Bloom, A. Sadeghi, A. Ibrahim, N. Salajageh, P. Griffioen, and B. Sinopoli, Special Session: The Future of IoT Security, in Embedded Systems Week, IEEE, 2018. doi:10.1109/EMSOFT.2018.8537206
  • [34] F. Boeira, M. Asplund, and M. P. Barcellos, Vouch: A Secure Proof-of-Location Scheme for VANETs, in International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), ACM, 2018. doi:10.1145/3242102.3242125 Available as PDF.
  • [33] M. Asplund, Automatically Proving Correctness of Vehicle Coordination, ICT Express, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.icte.2018.01.013 [PDF]
  • [32] M. Asplund, J. Lövhall, and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, In-store payments using Bitcoin, in Blockchains and Smart Contracts workshop (BSC), IEEE, 2018. doi:10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328738 [PDF]
2017
  • [31] Felipe Boeira, Marinho P. Barcellos, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Alexey Vinel, and Mikael Asplund Effects of Colluding Sybil Nodes in Message Falsification Attacks for Vehicular Platooning, in proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2017. doi: 10.1109/VNC.2017.8275641 [PDF]
  • [30] C.-Y. Lin, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and M. Asplund, Timing-based Anomaly Detection in SCADA networks, in Proceesings of 12th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS), Springer, 2017. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99843-5_5. Available as PDF.
  • [29] M.Asplund, J. Lövhall, E.Villani, Specification, Implementation and Verification of Dynamic Group Membership for Vehicle Coordination, in proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2017) doi: 10.1109/PRDC.2017.57 [PDF]
  • [28] Felipe Boeira, Marinho P. Barcellos, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Mikael Asplund and Alexey Vinel, On the Impact of Sybil Attacks in Cooperative Driving Scenarios, in proceedings of IFIP Networking 2017 Conference and Workshops, 2017. doi:10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2017.8264890
2016
  • [27] E. J. Vergara, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and M. Asplund, Fairness and Incentive Considerations in Energy Apportionment Policies in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, volume 2 issue 1, 2016, doi:10.1145/2970816
  • [26] M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Attitudes and perceptions of IoT security in critical societal services, IEEE Access journal, 2016. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2560919 [ PDF, DiVA@LiU]
  • [25] T. Hultman, A.Boudjadara, M.Asplund, Connectivity-optimal Shortest Paths Using Crowdsourced Data, 3rd International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer), IEEE, 2016 doi:10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457106 [DiVA@LiU]
  • [24] R. Udd, M. Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, M. Kazemtabrizi, and M. Ekstedt, Exploiting Bro for Intrusion Detection in a SCADA System, in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS), ACM, 2016. doi:10.1145/2899015.2899028 [ PDF, DiVA@LiU].
2015
  • [23] M. Asplund, Model-based Membership Verification in Vehicular Platoons, in Dependable Systems and Networks Workshop (DSN-W), on Safety and Security of Intelligent Vehicles (SSIV 2015), IEEE. doi: 10.1109/DSN-W.2015.21 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
  • [22] M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Advances in delay-tolerant networks (DTNs), Architecture and Enhanced Performance, ch. Rapid selection and dissemination of urgent messages over delay-tolerant networks (DTNs). Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials, Elsevier, 2015. doi:10.1533/9780857098467.2.187 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
  • [21] E. J. Vergara, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and M. Asplund, Sharing the Cost of Lunch: Energy Apportionment Policies in Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet), 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4503-3757-1, doi: 10.1145/2815317.2815338. [DiVA@LiU]
2014
  • [20] A. P. Biazino, M. Asplund, E. J. Vergara, and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Cooperative Proxies: Optimally Trading Energy and Quality of Service in Mobile Devices, Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2014.10.013 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
  • [19] M. Asplund, Poster: Securing Vehicular Platoon Membership, in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), IEEE, 2014. doi:10.1109/VNC.2014.7013324. [DiVA@LiU]
  • [18] B. Viel and M. Asplund, Why is indoor localization still so hard?, in The 6th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing, PERCOM Workshop, March 2014. doi: 10.1109/PerComW.2014.6815247 [DiVA@LiU]
2013
  • [17] S. Zhang, M. Asplund, V. Cahill Reliable Broadcast in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks in Proceedings of The 9th IEEE International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2013), July 2013. doi: 10.1109/IWCMC.2013.6583802
2012
  • [16] M. Asplund, A. Manzoor, M. Bouroche, S. Clarke and V. Cahill, A Formal Approach to Autonomous Vehicle Coordination, in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Formal Methods, Springer, August 2012. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-32759-9_8 [PDF, DiVA@LiU, BibTeX]
  • [15] J. Cucurull, M. Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and T. Santoro, Surviving Attacks in Challenged Networks, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2012. doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2012.67 [PDF, DiVA@LiU, BibTeX]
  • [14] M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Worst-case Latency of Broadcast in Intermittently Connected Networks, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012. doi: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.050281 [PDF, DiVA@LiU, BibTeX]
  • [13] M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Analysing Delay-tolerant Networks with Correlated Mobility, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), Springer, July 2012. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31638-8_7 [PDF, DiVA@LiU].
  • [12] A. Manzoor, M. Asplund, M. Bourocue, S. Clarke and V. Cahill, Trust Evaluation for Participatory Sensing, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), December 2012. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_15
2011
  • [11] E. J. Vergara, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, M. Asplund, and U. Zurutuza, Resource Footprint of a Manycast Protocol Implementation on Multiple Mobile Platforms, in The Fifth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, (NGMAST). , IEEE, 2011. doi: 10.1109/NGMAST.2011.36 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
  • [10] J. Lundberg and M. Asplund, Communication Problems in Crisis Response, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), ISCRAM, 2011. [DiVA@LiU]
  • [9] M. Asplund, A. Thomasson, E. J. Vergara, and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Software-related Energy Footprint of a Wireless Broadband Module, in The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac), 2011. doi: 10.1145/2069131.2069145 [PDF, DiVA@LiU].

2010
  • [8] J. Cucurull, M. Asplund, and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Anomaly detection and mitigation for disaster area networks, in 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, Springer Verlag, September 2010. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15512-3_18 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
  • [7] M. Asplund, T. de Lanerolle, C. Fei, P. Gautam, R. Morelli, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and G. Nykvist, Wireless Ad Hoc Dissemination for Search and Rescue, in 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM, May 2010. [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
2009
  • [6] M. Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and K. Zagar, Middleware Extensions that Trade Consistency for Availability, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 21, pp. 1181--1203, June 2009. doi: 10.1002/cpe.1383 [PDF, DiVA@LiU, BibTeX]
  • [5] M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, A Partition-tolerant Manycast Algorithm for Disaster Area Networks, in 28th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE, Sept. 2009. doi: 10.1109/SRDS.2009.16 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
2008
  • [4] M. Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and J. Sigholm, Emerging Information Infrastructures: Cooperation in Disasters, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS'08), Oct. 2008. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-03552-4_23 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
2007
  • [3] M. Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, S. Beyer and P. Galdamez Measuring Availability in Optimistic Partition-tolerant Systems with Data Constraints, in Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2007. doi: 10.1109/DSN.2007.62 [PDF, DiVA@LiU].
2006
  • [2] M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Post-Partition Reconciliation Protocols for Maintaining Consistency, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM/SIGAPP symposium on Applied computing, April 2006. doi: 10.1145/1141277.1141439 [PDF, DiVA@LiU]
  • [1] M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Formalising Reconciliation in Partitionable Networks with Distributed Services, chapter in Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-Tolerant Systems, vol. 4157 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ch. pp. 37--58. Springer-Verlag, 2006. doi: 10.1007/11916246_2 [PDF, DiVA@LiU, BibTeX]

Theses

  • M. Asplund Disconnected Discoveries: Availability Studies in Partitioned Networks Doctoral thesis, Linköping University, 2010. URI: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-60553.
  • M. Asplund Restoring Consistency after Network Partitions Licentiate thesis, Linköping University, 2007. URI: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9913
  • M. Asplund An optimising SMV to CLP(B) compiler Master's thesis, Linköping University, 2005. URI: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2805.

Other publications

  • M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani(eds.), Proceedings of 25th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2020), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12556, 2021. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70852-8.

  • Mikael Asplund, Inger Erlander Klein, Ericka Johnson, Ola Leifler, Tea Nygren, Integrering av den sociala dimensionen i datautbildningar, 7:e Utvecklingskonferensen för Sveriges ingenjörsutbildningar, Luleå tekniska universitet, 2019
  • M. Asplund, C. Forsell, Metoder för och effekter av att skapa ett inkluderande studentklimat, in Lärande i LTH, number 39, 2018
  • M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Modelling Correlated Mobility arXiv preprint, arXiv:1409.6431, 2014.
  • N. O'Hara, M. Slot, D. Marinescu, J. Curn, D. Yang, M. Asplund, M. Bouroche, S. Clarke, and V. Cahill MDDSVsim: An Integrated Traffic Simulation Platform for Autonomous Vehicle Research, Invited paper to The international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM), 2012
  • M. Asplund, Kommunikation mot alla odds, SKEF News, issue 1, p.22, Mars 2011
  • M. Asplund, T. de Lanerolle, C. Fei, P. Gautam, R. Morelli, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, and G. Nykvist, Wireless Ad Hoc Dissemination for Search and Rescue, Poster at First Annual Workshop on Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management (PerNem), April 2010.
  • M.Asplund, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Random Walk Gossip, in Proceedings of the NOrdic workshop and doctoral symposium on DEpendability and Security (NODES), 2009. [pdf].
  • M. Asplund and S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Random walk gossip-based manycast with partition detection (fast abstract), in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), IEEE Computer Society, June 2008.[PDF]
  • S. Nadjm-Tehrani, M. Asplund and J. Ogniewski, Nya utmaningar i att få smårobotar att spela fotboll!, in Nya villkor för lärande och undervisning. 9:e Universitetspedagogiska konferensen vid Linköpings universitet 17 oktober 2005, 2006. Available as PDF.

Research projects

Ongoing

  • RESIST: Resilience and Security for Trustworthy AI Systems center, 2026-2032, funded by SSF, co-PI
  • AutoSecTest: Automated Security Testing for Critical Infrastructure, 2026-2031, funded by Cybercampus and CUGS, PI
  • RECAP: Resilient Energy Communities with Advanced Protection, 2025-2027, funded by Swedish Energy Agency, PI
  • FORTRESS, 2025, funded by ECIU co-PI
  • Cycerone, CYbersecurity aCadEmy foR educatiOn and experieNcE, 2025-2027, Funded by EU Digital, co-PI
  • Secure Operation of Uncontrolled and Reliable Computing on the Edges (SOURCE), 2024-2029, funded by WASP, co-PI
  • Cybersecurity for Resilient Energy Communities of the Future, 2023-2026, funded by Vinnova, PI
  • CyberSecDome, 2023-2026, Funded by Horizon Europe, co-PI
  • Protocol security verification using dynamic key structures, 2023-2028, funded by ELLIIT, PI
  • Automating Security Assurance using Formal Methods, 2022-2027, funded by WASP, PI
  • Adaptive Software for the Heterogeneous Edge-Cloud Continuum (ASTECC), 2022-2027, funded by SSF, co-PI
  • TripleA: Attestation, Authentication and Assurance, 2021-2026, funded by WASP, PI

Completed

Student project ideas

Doing a Master’s thesis on a research topic allows you to try new ideas, challenge your creativity and to get a taste of what research is all about. If things go well, you might also get the change to present your work at some international conference or workshop.


I have no open project topics at the moment, but if you are interested in doing a research-oriented thesis in cybersecurity, send me an email!

Supervision

Below are past and current students which I have (co-)supervised. If you are interested in doing a thesis, check out the student project ideas, or even better, come up with your own idea and send me an email.

PhD Students

Ongoing

  • Animesh Thakur, main supervisor
  • Reyhane Falanji, main supervisor
  • Johannes Wilson, main supervisor
  • Roland Plaka, main supervisor
  • Ahmad Bashir Usman, main supervisor
  • Christian Gustavsson, co-supervisor
  • Somiya Kapoor, co-supervisor
  • Valency Colaco, co-supervisor

Past

  • Rodrigo Saar Moraes, co-supervisor, graduated 2024
  • Felipe Boeira, main supervisor, graduated 2022
  • Sana Lin, co-supervisor, graduated 2022
  • Ekhiotz Jon Vergara, co-supervisor, graduated 2016
  • Marco Slot, co-supervisor during 2012, graduated 2014
  • Shu Zhang, co-supervisor during 2012, gaduated 2015

Completed Master/Bachelor Students

Teaching

Courses

I'm currently teaching in the following courses:

Past Courses

Community service

  • TPC member for WNDSS@IFIP SEC2025
  • TPC member for ARES2025
  • TPC member for ESORICS2025
  • TPC member for VEHITS2025
  • TPC member for EDCC2025
  • TPC member for SAC2025
  • TPC member for CPSIoTSec@CCS2025
  • Chair for Minh Ha Le's PhD defence 2024
  • TPC member for Nordsec2024
  • TPC member for ESORICS 2024
  • TPC member for SAC2024
  • TPC member for EDCC2024
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  • Grading commmittee member for Alessio Russo's PhD 2023
  • TPC member for SAC2023
  • TPC member for Nordsec2023
  • TPC member for ESORICS 2023
  • TPC member for SAC2023
  • Opponent for Lejla Islami's licenitate thesis
  • TPC member for EDCC2022
  • TPC member for Nordsec2022
  • Grading commmittee member for Sara Gestrelius' PhD
  • Jury member of the Swedish Young Scientist Exhibition 2022
  • Opponent for Björn Leander's Licentiate thesis
  • TPC member for Nordsec 2021
  • General chair and program co-chair for Nordsec 2020
  • TPC member for WD2021
  • TPC member for SAC 2021
  • Jury member of the Swedish Young Scientist Exhibition 2021
  • TPC member for PIMRC20
  • TPC member for SNCNW2020
  • TPC member for CERTS2020
  • TPC member for VTC2020
  • TPC member for SAC2020
  • Co-chair WBD2019
  • Local organization chair and TPC member for CRITIS2019
  • TPC member for Nordsec2019
  • TPC member for MSWIM2019
  • Co-chair CERTS2019
  • TPC member for EDCC 2019 student forum
  • TPC member for WD19
  • TPC member for FMAS2019
  • TPC member for Nordsec2018
  • Co-chair for WBD2018
  • TPC member for VTC-fall 2018 (Vehicular communications track) in Chicago
  • Co-chair for CERTS2018
  • TPC member for IEEE ICC 2018 SAC Symposium Smart Cities Track
  • TPC member for ISNCC2018
  • TPC member for ICC2018
  • TPC member for IoTBDS2018
  • TPC member for ISC2-2017
  • TPC member for FVAV2017
  • TPC member for ISNCC2017
  • TPC member for SMARTGREENS2017
  • TPC member for IoTBDS2017
  • TPC member for ISC2-2016
  • TPC member for Nets4Cars2016
  • TPC member for ISNCC2016
  • TPC member for PerMoby2016
  • TPC member for SustainIT2015
  • TPC member for PerMoby2015
  • TPC member for VTM2014
  • TPC member for PerMoby2013
  • TPC member for PIMRC2013
  • TPC member for PIMRC2013
  • TPC member for VTM2012
  • TPC member for PerMoby2012

Contact

Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Linköping University
S-581 83 Linköping, SWEDEN
Email: mikael.asplund(at)liu.se
Phone: +46 (0)13 28 26 68
Office: Building B, First floor, Room 3B:434B