New professorship at the University of Klagenfurt in November 2024

In November 2024, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup was appointed as Professor of Cybersecurity.

Univ.-Prof. Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup

§ 98 professorship (open-ended)

Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup took up the post of Professor of Cybersecurity in November 2024, with 50% of her time allocated to the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity at the Faculty of Technical Sciences and 50% to the university’s Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC).

Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, born in Bangkok in 1987, studied Computer Engineering at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) and obtained a Bachelor’s degree with first class honors. She completed her Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo (Japan) under a Japanese government scholarship (MEXT). In 2017, she earned her PhD from Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands) with the thesis titled “Optimizing Curve-Based Cryptography”. She spent two years as a post-doctoral research at Inria and ENS de Lyon (France). From 2019 to 2024, she was a faculty member at the University of Adelaide and the University of Melbourne (Australia) respectively.

Her research interests include efficient cryptographic implementations and security analysis. In particular, her work aims at enhancing the security and efficiency of real-world cryptosystems by considering the interplay among multiple factors such as user’s performance budget, attack vectors, limitation of hardware/software.