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Congratulations to Siam Antar for successfully defending his MSc thesis! Siam's thesis, titled "Pioneering Autonomous Penetration Testing With Large Language Models Through Prompt Engineering and Agentic System Design", introduces a phase-driven prompting methodology to guide LLMs through the Cyber Kill Chain. His research demonstrates the viability of LLM-assisted autonomous penetration testing and continuous cybersecurity posture monitoring.

Congratulations to Aadarsh Sreekumar for the successful completion of his MSc project! Aadarsh's project, titled "A Verifiable Delivery Framework for Web Applications That Use Trusted Execution Environments", leverages Meta's Code Verify browser extension to implement trustworthy delivery and client-side verifiability for web applications that rely on server-side Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to provide security guarantees.

Congratulations to Nafiz Sadman for successfully defending his MSc thesis! Nafiz's thesis, titled "DepthPulse: A Passive Liveness Detection Framework for Face Presentation Attacks", contributes to strengthening face-recognition based user authentication systems against presentation attacks (also known as spoofing attacks).

Congratulations to Christopher Molloy for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Chris' thesis, titled "Adversarial Learning for Cyber Threat Intelligence: An Attention on Malware", proposes novel deep-learning based techniques to defend computer systems against malware.

Arash Gholami successfully defended his MSc thesis titled "A Smartwatch-Based Continuous Authentication System". Congratulations, Arash! Arash has also recently begun a new role as a cybersecurity consultant at clockworkX in Germany, where he is currently focusing on automotive security. We eagerly anticipate his contributions to this evolving field!