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Education

• M.Sc. in Cybersecurity, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 2024
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Luxembourg, 2022

Work experience

• 2024: Research Intern
  • The University of Queensland
  • Study of Evasion Attacks and corresponding Defenses against Transformer-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems.
  • Supervisors: Dr. Priyanka Singh, Assoc. Prof. Marius Portmann, Dr. Siamak Layeghy
• 2023: Research Intern
  • Outshift by Cisco
  • Novel design and implementation of a realistic and scalable adversary emulation methodology for cloud-native environments. A significant contribution for training threat detection systems relying on eBPF telemetry sensors.
  • Supervisors: Dr. Luca Muscariello, Dr. Jacques Samain
• 2022: Research Intern
  • University of Luxembourg
  • Assisting an ongoing study in the field of HCI and Machine Learning on visual saliency of users on visual designs. Design and implementation of empirical experiments.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Luis A. Leiva

Publications

User Re-Authentication via Mouse Movements and Recurrent Neural Networks

Houssel, P. R., & Leiva, L. A. (2024). User Re-Authentication via Mouse Movements and Recurrent Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (pp. 652-659).

UEyes: Understanding visual saliency across user interface types

Jiang, Y., Leiva, L. A., Rezazadegan Tavakoli, H., RB Houssel, P., Kylmälä, J., & Oulasvirta, A. (2023, April). UEyes: Understanding visual saliency across user interface types. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-21).

UEyes: An Eye-Tracking Dataset across User Interface Types

Jiang, Y., Leiva, L. A., Rezazadegan Tavakoli, H., RB Houssel, P., Kylmälä, J., & Oulasvirta, A. (2023, April). UEyes: An Eye-Tracking Dataset across User Interface Types. arXiv:2402.05202v1.

Talks

Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART)

May 31, 2024

Talk at EECS HDR Research Tools Symposium at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Teaching