Technical Fall 2021

This course will discuss all relevant aspects related to mobile systems security. Mobile devices have been revolutionized users' lives, and more than two billions mobile devices have been sold to date. Unfortunately, these devices, their operating systems, and the applications running on them are affected by security and privacy concerns. This course will be hands-on and will cover topics such as the mobile ecosystem, the design and architecture of mobile operating systems, rooting and jailbreaking, application analysis, malware reverse engineering, malware detection, vulnerability assessment, automatic static and dynamic analysis, and exploitation and mitigation techniques. While this course will mostly focus on Google's Android OS (its open nature makes it possible to have more interesting exercises and projects), it will also cover technical details about Apple's iOS as well.

Teaching and Learning Methods : Lectures , labs, and homework assignments.

Course Policies : Class and lab attendance is not checked but generally required to succeed.

This course aims to present a treatment of mathematical methods suitable for engineering students who are interested in the rapidly advancing areas of signal analysis, processing, filtering and estimation. Significant current applications relate to, e.g., speech and audio, music, wired and wireless communications, instrumentation, multimedia, radar, sonar, control, biomedicine, transport and navigation.  The course presents a study of linear algebra,  probability, random variables, and analogue systems as a pre-requisite to material relating to sampled-data systems.  Time permitting, the final part of the course covers the concepts of random processes, the analysis of random signals, correlation and spectral density.

Teaching and Learning Methods: The course is comprised of lectures, exercises and laboratory sessions.

Course policies: This course is aimed at students who have NOT already completed preparatory classes.  Completion of all in-lecture examples is strongly advised.

The objective of this course is to give students a solid background in Machine Learning (ML) techniques. ML techniques are used to build efficient models for problems for which an optimal solution is unknown. This course will introduce the basic theories of Machine Learning, together with the most common families of classifiers and predictors. It will identify the basic ideas underlying the mechanism of learning, and will specify the practical problems that are encountered when applying these techniques, optimization, overfitting, validation, together with possible solutions to manage those difficulties.

Teaching and Learning Methods : Lectures and Lab sessions (groups of 1 or 2 students)

Course Policies : Attendance to Lab sessions is mandatory

The course aims at providing students with a basic knowledge and practice about the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images. The two main objectives attached to Digital Image Processing (DIP) are to improve the visual quality of images and to automatically extract semantic information from visual data (e.g. object recognition). 

Teaching and Learning Methods: Each session is split into two parts: 1.5-hour lecture and 1.5-hour lab.

 Course Policies:  It is mandatory to attend lab. sessions.

Hot Topics in Mobile Communications

·         This course presents some recent or emerging  HOT TOPICS within the area of mobile networks.

·         The course is modified from 2014 (and earlier) versions to allow focus on updated set of hot topics and trends in mobile communications.

·         We emphasize emerging techniques to be used in future 5G mobile networks to allow for a significant increase in user quality, and network capacity.

·         The course earns 5 ECTS

·         We cover hot topics for 5G such as "Massive MIMO" , "network cooperation", "interference management", and "device coordination". These topics cover 21 hours.

·         In the other 21hours, external experts (Intel, Huawei, ETSI, etc.) from Industry reveal hot topics seen from the wireless networking  industry.

Teaching and Learning Methods : Lectures, Exercise and  Lab sessions (group of 2 students)

Course Policies : Attendance to Lab session is mandatory (25% of final grade).

Interested in learning how to communicate using quantum bits? Curious about how quantum algorithms and quantum computers work? This is an introductory course to quantum communication, computation, and information processing. We will cover various aspects of quantum information science and systems, introducing in a simple manner key principles and concepts, which are often considered “hard” or mysterious.

After a brief overview of quantum technology, the course starts with a concise introduction of key principles of quantum mechanics. Then, we cover fundamental aspects of quantum information, such as qubit, entanglement, Bell inequalities, and EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) paradox, as well as of quantum communication (noise, quantum channels, decoherence, von Neumann entropy, Holevo capacity). We also present basic principles of quantum computing and study key quantum algorithms (e.g., Shor’s, Grover’s, quantum Fourier transform). Finally, we discuss potential applications and emerging topics, such as quantum AI and quantum/ post-quantum security.

Previous exposure to quantum mechanics is not required. All necessary concepts and mathematical formalism are taught during the first lectures.

Teaching and Learning Methods: Lectures supported by illustrative examples and exercises. Each session starts summarizing key concepts from previous lecture. Optional project for in-depth study of theoretical concepts or for understanding practical aspects (e.g. implementing/programming basic quantum algorithms and gates).

Course Policies: Attendance to lectures is not mandatory but highly recommended.

The goal of this course is to introduce the students to the basic concepts of secure multiparty computation, the foundational MPC protocols and more advanced blockchains protocols.

Teaching and Learning Methods:

Lectures and homework.

Course Policies:

Final project and homework are mandatory

(Course for Post Master and International Masters students only).

This module teaches the fundamentals of simulation and emulation methodologies providing guidance on how to design a performance evaluation campaign, set up a test scenario, select the appropriate models, level of granularity, metrics for statistical correctness, and discuss the differences between simulation and emulation platforms and how to use them for accurate performance evaluation of communications for ITS.

Teaching and Learning Methods : Lectures and Lab sessions (group of 2 students)

Course Policies :  Attendance to Lab session is mandatory.