Chief Research Scientist

Habtamu Abie

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Dr. Habtamu Abie is currently chief research scientist at the Norwegian Computing Centre. Previously senior engineer and research scientist at Telenor Research and Development (1997-1999), scientific associate and fellow at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland (1989-1993). Researcher at ABB Corporate Research, software development engineer at Nera-AS, Billingstad, Norway, and Alcatel Telecom Norway AS, Oslo, Norway (1994-1997). Received Engineering Diploma in Electrical Data Processing from Gjøvik Engineering College, and B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Oslo. Member of EURASC (European Academy of Sciences). IEEE Senior Member. Fellow of AAIA.

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Research Interests

  • Adaptive and Evolving Security, Cyber Security, 5G-IoT, machine learning
  • AI for security, Cognitive IoT security, Game theory, evolving algorithms
  • Security for distributed systems, distributed object computing
  • Digital Rights Management, Privacy, Trust, Policy and Risk Management
  • Context-awareness, Mobile ad-hoc network, ubiquitous and ambient intelligent computing

Education

  • 1988 – Cand. Scient, Digital Technique, University of Oslo
  • 2005 – Dr. Scient, Informatics, University of Oslo

Work experience

  • 2016- Chief Research Scientist, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
  • 2000-2016 Senior Research Scientist, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
  • 1998-1999 Research Scientist, Telenor R&D, Security Group, Oslo, Norway
  • 1997-1998 Senior Engineer, Telenor R&D, Oslo, Norway
  • 1996-1997 Software Development Engineer, Alcatel Telecom Norway A/S
  • 1994-1996 Researcher, ABB Corporate Research and NERA AS Division Satcom, Norway
  • 1991-1993 Scientific Fellow, CERN PS/PO /CO, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 1989-1990 Scientific Associate, CERN/DELPHI, Geneva, Switzerland, FYS/UIO

Scientific Activities

  • 22+ journal articles
  • 4 books
  • 80 book chapters and scientific presentation at international conferences
  • Supervision of PhD students: 4 candidates

Chaired and Co-chaired

  • Cloud Security forum at IEEE ICC 2012 Industry Forums, Ottawa, Canada
  • EAI BodyNets-SeTTIT 2012 Workshop, Oslo Norway
  • ACM UbiComp-ASPI 2013 Workshop, Zurich, Switzerland
  • IEEE WiMob 2016 UCSA Symposium, New York, USA
  • MeSSa 2014, Vienna, Austria, MeSSa 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, MeSSa 2017, Canterbury, United Kingdom, MeSSa 2018, Madrid, Spain, DeMeSSA 2019, Paris, France
  • Special Session on Cyber Security in Healthcare at IEEE ISMICT 2019, Oslo Norway
  • FINSEC 2019 in conjunction with ESORICS 2019, Luxembourg, CPS4CIP 2020 in conjunction with ESORICS 2020, Guildford, UK, CPS4CIP 20201 in conjunction with ESORICS 2021, Darmstadt, Germany on October 04–08, 2021
  • First ECSCI (European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructure) Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Virtual on Google Meet conference room, 24-25 June 2020
  • 1st Workshop on Cybersecurity in Healthcare 4.0 (SecHealth 2021) in conjunction with the Int. Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021)

Projects

  • Digital security and privacy

Testbed for Critical In­fra­struc­ture Protection

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  • Information and communication technology
  • Digital security and privacy

A framework for decentralised identity and consent management

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  • Information and communication technology
  • Digital security and privacy

Developing a national framework for data management and AI in remote care

  • Digital security and privacy

Adaptive health data in blockchain technology

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  • Digital security and privacy
  • Earth observation
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Trustworthy and sustainable AI (ENFIELD)

Publications

  • 286 publications found
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Dynamic Safety and Security Risk Assessment in Healthcare and Critical Infrastructures Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 2404, pp. 23 42 , (ISSN 1865-0929 1865-0937 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85558-0_2 , 2025. Scientific article

Habtamu Abie; Vasileios Gkioulos; Sokratis Katsikas; Sandeep Pirbhulal; Secure and Resilient Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Second International Workshop, SUNRISE 2024, Bergen, Norway, November 25, 2024, Proceedings (ISSN 9783031855580 ), 2025. Scientific anthology / conference series

Publisher Springer Cham

An Architecture of Adaptive Cognitive Digital Twins for Resilient Healthcare Infrastructures and Services Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), (ISSN 1865-0929 1865-0937 ), 2025. Scientific article

AI/ML for 5G and Beyond Cybersecurity arXiv.org, (ISSN 2331-8422 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.18402 , 2025. Scientific article

Habtamu Abie; Vasileios Gkioulos; Sokratis Katsikas; Sandeep Pirbhulal; Secure and Resilient Digital Transformation of Healthcare, First Workshop, SUNRISE 2023, Stavanger, Norway, November 30, 2023, Proceedings (ISSN 9783031558283 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55829-0 , 2024. Scientific anthology / conference series

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Sokratis Katsikas; Habtamu Abie; Naoto Yanai; Basel Katt; Sandeep Pirbhulal; Ankur Shukla; Computer Security. ESORICS 2023 International Workshops CPS4CIP, ADIoT, SecAssure, WASP, TAURIN, PriST-AI, and SECAI, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 25–29, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (ISSN 9783031541285 ), 2024. Scientific anthology / conference series

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Habtamu Abie; Secure and Resilient Digital Transformation of Healthcare doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55829-0 , 2024. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Preface - Secure and Resilient Digital Transformation of Healthcare Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 1884, (ISSN 1865-0929 1865-0937 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55829-0 , 2024. Editorial

IoT cybersecurity in 5G and beyond: a systematic literature review International Journal of Information Security, pp. 2827 2827 , (ISSN 1615-5262 1615-5270 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-024-00865-5 , 2024. Scientific article

Publisher Norsk Regnesentral
Publisher Norsk Regnesentral

Habtamu Abie; Aleksandar Jovanović; Rita Maria Ugarelli; Consolidated Proceedings of the Second ECSCI Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience (ISSN 9783956632853 ), , 2023. Scientific anthology / conference series

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The ECSCI Cluster Achievements pp. 18 20 , , 2023. Introduction

A Cognitive Digital Twin Architecture for Cybersecurity in IoT-Based Smart Homes Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 1035, pp. 63 70 , (ISSN 1876-1100 1876-1119 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29871-4_8 , 2023. Scientific article

EU-CIP: European Knowledge Hub and Policy Testbed for Critical Infrastructure Protection Proceedings of the Research and Innovation Symposium for European SECURITY and Defense – RISE-SD Conferences, pp. 130 133 , (ISSN 2945-1183 ), 2023. Article journal

ECSCI: European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures Proceedings of the Research and Innovation Symposium for European SECURITY and Defense – RISE-SD Conferences, pp. 161 163 , (ISSN 2945-1183 ), 2023. Article journal

Sandeep Pirbhulal; Habtamu Abie; Shukla Ankur; Basel Katt; A Cognitive Digital Twin Architecture for Cybersecurity in IoT-Based Smart Homes Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, (ISSN 1876-1100 1876-1119 ), 2023. Scientific article

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Sokratis Katsikas; Massimiliano Albanese; Habtamu Abie; Basel Katt; Sandeep Pirbhulal; Ankur Shukla; Computer Security. ESORICS 2022 International Workshops, CyberICPS 2022, SECPRE 2022, SPOSE 2022, CPS4CIP 2022, CDT&SECOMANE 2022, EIS 2022, and SecAssure 2022 (ISSN 9783031254604 ), 2023. Scientific anthology / conference series

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Evidence in the fog – Triage in fog computing systems Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 44, pp. 1 11 , (ISSN 2666-2825 2666-2817 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2023.301506 , 2023. Scientific article

Sokratis Katsikas; Marco Antonio Sotelo Monge; Habtamu Abie; Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops CyberICPS, SECPRE, ADIoT, SPOSE, CPS4CIP, and CDT&SECOMANE, Darmstadt, Germany, October 4–8, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (ISSN 9783030954833 ), 2022. Scientific anthology / conference series

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Sokratis Katsikas; Costas Lambrinoudakis; Nora Cuppens; John Mylopoulos; Christos Kalloniatis; et al. Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops: CyberICPS, SECPRE, ADIoT, SPOSE, CPS4CIP, and CDT&SECOMANE doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95484-0 , 2022. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Adaptive Safety for Internet of Things in e-Health arXiv.org, (ISSN 2331-8422 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.05309 , 2022. Scientific article

Quantifying data volatility for IoT forensics with examples from Contiki OS Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 40, (ISSN 2666-2825 2666-2817 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2022.301343 , 2022. Scientific article

Focus Area 1-IT and OT Integration 2022. Scientific lecture

5G-Enabled IoT for IT-OT Integration. 2022. Scientific lecture

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Sokratis Katsikas; Marco Antonio Sotelo Monge; Habtamu Abie; Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops (ISSN 9783030954833 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95484-0 , 2022. Scientific anthology / conference series

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CPS4CIP 2022 Preface - 3rd Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), (ISSN 0302-9743 1611-3349 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25460-4 , 2022. Editorial

Habtamu Abie; Federica Battisti; Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection (ISSN 9783030697815 ), , 2021. Scientific anthology / conference series

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A Cloud-Based Anomaly Detection for IoT Big Data pp. 87 104 , doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69781-5_7 , 2021. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Anomaly Detection for Critical Financial Infrastructure Protection pp. 495 514 , doi: https://doi.org/10.1561/9781680838237.ch22 , 2021. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Habtamu Abie; Evangelos Markakis; Consolidated Proceedings of the first ECSCI Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Virtual Workshop, June 24–25, 2020 (ISSN 9783956630873 ), , 2021. Scientific anthology / conference series

Publisher Steinbeis-Edition

Coffee forensics — Reconstructing data in IoT devices running Contiki OS Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 37, (ISSN 2666-2825 2666-2817 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2021.301188 , 2021. Scientific article

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Predictive Analytics Service for Security of Blockchain and Peer-to-Peer Payment Solutions Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 739, pp. 71 81 , (ISSN 1876-1100 1876-1119 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6385-4_7 , 2021. Scientific article

CPS4CIP 2020 Preface - Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), (ISSN 0302-9743 1611-3349 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69781-5 , 2021. Editorial

ESORICS 2019 International Workshops, IOSec, MSTEC, and FINSEC (ISSN 9783030420512 ), 2020. Scientific anthology / conference series

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Risk-driven security metrics for an Android smartphone application International Journal of Electronic Business, vol. 15, pp. 297 324 , (ISSN 1470-6067 1741-5063 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEB.2020.111059 , 2020. Scientific article

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Svetlana Boudko; Peder Aursand; Habtamu Abie; Evolutionary Game for Confidentiality in IoT-Enabled Smart Grids Information, (ISSN 2078-2489 2078-2489 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/info11120582 , 2020. Scientific article

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Evolutionary Game for Confidentiality in IoT-Enabled Smart Grids Information, vol. 11, (ISSN 2078-2489 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/info11120582 , 2020. Scientific article

Finsec 2019 preface Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 11981 LNCS, pp. xiii xiv , (ISSN 0302-9743 1611-3349 ), 2020. Editorial

Cognitive Cybersecurity for CPS-IoT Enabled Healthcare Ecosystems International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, vol. 2019-May, (ISSN 2326-828X 2326-8301 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2019.8743670 , 2019. Scientific article

Adaptive Cybersecurity Framework for Healthcare Internet of Things International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, vol. 2019-May, (ISSN 2326-828X 2326-8301 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2019.8743905 , 2019. Scientific article

Risk-based adaptive authentication for internet of things in smart home eHealth pp. 102 108 , doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3129790.3129801 , 2017. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Measurable Security, Privacy and Dependability in Smart Grids Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, vol. 3, pp. 371 398 , (ISSN 2245-1439 2245-4578 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.13052/jcsm2245-1439.342 , 2015. Scientific article

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An Evaluation Framework for Adaptive Security for the IoT in eHealth International journal on advances in security, vol. 7, pp. 93 109 , (ISSN 1942-2636 ), , 2014. Scientific article

Security Measuring for Self-adaptive Security doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/2642803.2642808 , 2014. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Game-based adaptive security in the Internet of Things for eHealth pp. 920 925 , doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2014.6883437 , 2014. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

An Evaluation Scenario for Adaptive Security in eHealth pp. 6 11 , , 2014. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Project status and progress report 2014. Scientific lecture

ASSET Project Management (ASSET WP0) 2014. Scientific lecture

Development and Validation of Requirements for Evidential Value for Assessing Trustworthiness of Digital Records over Time Journal of Information, vol. 16, pp. 1945 1980 , (ISSN 1343-4500 1344-8994 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/mobhoc.2009.5336917 , 2013. Scientific article

A testbed for adaptive security for IoT in eHealth doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/2523501.2523506 , 2013. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

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Risk-Based Adaptive Security for Smart IoT in eHealth pp. 269 275 , doi: https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.bodynets.2012.250235 , 2012. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

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Defining the ASSET Lab , 2012. Report

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Assessment of the Trustworthiness of Digital Records IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, pp. 300 311 , (ISSN 1868-4238 1868-422X ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22200-9_24 , 2011. Scientific article

On Time, Conflict, Weighting and Dependency Aspects of Assessing the Trustworthiness of Digital Records pp. 7 13 , 2011. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Advanced Framework for Digital Forensic Technologies and Procedures Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 55, pp. 1471 1480 , (ISSN 0022-1198 1556-4029 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01528.x , 2010. Scientific article

Advances in Adaptive Secure Message Oriented Middleware for Distributed Business Critical Systems Ukjent, vol. AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 1281, pp. 291 294 , 2010. Scientific article

Self-Healing and Secure Adaptive Messaging Middleware for Business Critical Systems International journal on advances in security, vol. 3, pp. 34 51 , (ISSN 1942-2636 ), 2010. Scientific article

Advances in Adaptive Secure Message-Oriented Middleware for Distributed Business-Critical Systems AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1281, pp. 291 294 , (ISSN 0094-243X 1551-7616 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3498454 , 2010. Scientific article

Secure Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks in Hazardous Environments pp. 85 92 , 2010. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Innovations and Advances in Adaptive Secure Message-Oriented Middleware - the GEMOM Project pp. 288 289 , 2010. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Advances in Adaptive Secure Message Oriented Middleware for Distributed Business Critical Systems pp. 291 294 , 2010. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Applicability of security metrics for adaptive security management in a universal banking hub system pp. 197 204 , 2010. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Adaptive Policy Manager 2010. Lecture

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On-Line and Off-Line Security Measurement Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Journal of Networks, vol. 07.04.2012, pp. 15 15 , (ISSN 1796-2056 ), 2009. Scientific article

Development of Measurable Security for a Distributed Messaging System International journal on advances in security, vol. 2, pp. 358 380 , (ISSN 1942-2636 ), , 2009. Scientific article

Requirements for Evidential Value for the Assessment of the Trustworthiness of Digital Records over Time pp. 796 803 , 2009. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Robust, Secure, Self-Adaptive and Resilient Messaging Middleware for Business Critical Systems pp. 153 160 , , 2009. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Development of security metrics for a distributed messaging system pp. 1 6 , , 2009. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Identification of Basic Measurable Security Components for a Distributed Messaging System pp. 121 128 , , 2009. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Adaptive security and trust management for autonomic message-oriented middleware pp. 810 817 , , 2009. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Meldingsformidling er en milliardbransje - i euro! ComputerWorld Norge, (ISSN 1501-6595 ), , 2008. Reader opinion

Threat Assessment of Wireless Patient Monitoring Systems 2008. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Towards a Research Road Map for the Management of Privacy Risks in Information Systems 2008. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Information Use-Control in E-Government Applications pp. 1926 1934 , , 2008. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

GEMOM - Significant and Measurable Progress beyond the State of the Art pp. 191 196 , , 2008. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

Frontiers of DRM Knowledge and Technology International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, vol. 7, pp. 216 231 , (ISSN 1738-7906 ), , 2007. Scientific article

Riskohåndtering er nøkkelen til sikkerhet og tillit ComputerWorld Norge, pp. 1 1 , (ISSN 1501-6595 ), , 2007. Science for the public article

Privacy Threat Ontology 2007. Lecture

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A Conceptual Formal Framework for Developing and Maintaining Security-Critical Systems International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, vol. Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 10 10 , (ISSN 1738-7906 ), , 2005. Scientific article

State of the Art in DRM 2005. Scientific lecture

A Distributed Digital Rights Management Model for Information Systems International Journal of Information Security, vol. 2004, pp. 22 22 , (ISSN 1615-5262 1615-5270 ), 2004. Scientific article

Integrating a security requirement language with UML Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 3273, pp. 350 364 , (ISSN 0302-9743 1611-3349 ), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30187-5_25 , 2004. Scientific article

Rights-Carrying and Self-enforcing Information Objects for Information Distribution Systems pp. 293 296 , 2004. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

The Need for a Digital Rights Management Framework for the Next Generation of E-Government Services Electronic Government, an International Journal, vol. 2003, pp. 13 13 , (ISSN 1740-7494 1740-7508 ), 2003. Scientific article

Digital Rights Management (DRM) 2003. Scientific lecture

NoE on Digital Rights Management 2003. Scientific lecture

DigiRight: Workpackages 2003. Scientific lecture

A rights management model for distributed object-oriented information distribution systems pp. 185 194 , 2002. Scientific chapter / article / conference article

NoE on digital rights management 2002. Scientific lecture

CORBA firewall security: increasing the security of CORBA applications Telektronikk, vol. 96, pp. 53 64 , (ISSN 0085-7130 1891-8220 ), , 2000. Scientific article

An overview of firewall technologies Telektronikk, vol. 96, pp. 47 52 , (ISSN 0085-7130 1891-8220 ), , 2000. Scientific article

Security Requirements for Middleware 2000. Scientific lecture

Security in Middleware 2000. Scientific lecture

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