Oleksandr Tomashchuk
Tomashchuk Oleksandr is an industrial PhD student pursuing his degree at KU Leuven and in close coordination with Philips Research. His main expertise, as well as research activities, are in the field of threat modelling, risk assessment, and technical aspects of data protection.
His scientific path started in 2016 when he became a Scientific Project Assistant at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, and evolved further when he started working as a Security Researcher at Technikon Forschungs- und Planungsgesellschaft mbH. At that stage of his career, he contributed to multiple European and national projects in the domains of IoT security, embedded systems, and AR.
In 2018, Oleksandr joined the HEART project. Within the course of the coming years he contributed to solving security- and privacy-related issues of the HEART eHealth IoT platform, as well as advanced the state-of-the-art in several subdomains and presented his findings at multiple international conferences. His most recent research efforts are focused on the development of threats and risk management framework, as well as practical aspects of security monitoring.