On September 18, I had the opportunity to present my PhD work to my fellow colleagues at Malmö University.  I had a 25 minutes slot, over Zoom, where essentially I summarized my research topic and presented my main contributions to the scholarly and industry community.

The discussion was led by Assoc. Prof. Martin Boldt from Blekinge Institute of Technology.  We had a very detailed and insightful 90 minutes conversation about smart homes, IoT, security and privacy.  After the meeting, I also received detailed written feedback about my work.

Some interesting points raised during our exchange are how homes are evolving and becoming more interconnected to different networks and services (whether it is the entertainment providers, healthcare providers, smart grids, and more).  With this evolution, the role and function of our home but as well our expectations of privacy are changing.  What if our intimate data gets in the hands of criminals? What if companies providing our services get hacked? What if our home technology is covertly spying on our children? These are some of the topics we talked about.

You can take a look at a redacted version of my presentation here.  A full version of the presentation will be uploaded in due time.