Ethiopia Nigussie
Dr. Sc. (Tech.)
ethnig@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2043-4274 |
cybersecurity of low-power wireless networks; internet-of-things; wireless sensor networks; self-aware and adaptive distributed systems; sensor fusion, trust and security of autonomous vehicles; access control of mobile devices; system-on-chip; Network-on-Chip; on-chip interconnects.
Dr. Ethiopia Nigussie is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computing, Faculty of Technology, University of Turku, Finland. Dr. Nigussie got her Dr.Sc. (Tech.) degree from University of Turku (Finland) in 2010, M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) in 2004 and B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) in 2000. She has more than 19 years of experience in research, teaching, student supervision, project management, and voluntary professional services in the area of embedded systems, system-on-chip, internet-of-things, cybersecurity, wireless communication systems and autonomous systems. She has published a book in Springer and about 80 publications in reputable international journals and conferences. She has supervised 7 PhD students and 29 M.Sc. theses. She has secured in and collaborated on 8 national and international projects. She has an active collaboration network with international research groups at universities in US, Europe and Africa. She was a Visting Researcher at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), US; University of Notre Dame, US; and Technical University of Dresden, Germany. She has been awarded four research excellence awards from different foundations including two times from Nokia Foundation. She has taught 4 and 8 undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Turku. She has been active in the scientific community by serving in different roles. Dr. Nigussie served as a doctoral thesis committee member for seven PhD dissertations in different countries. She has She served as General Chair for IEEE International Conference on ICT for Development Africa, TPC Chair, and TPC member for a number of reputable international conferences. She also organized several special sessions and workshops in international conferences. She served as Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time and Communication Systems and currently serving as a Guest Editor in MDPI Sensors and MDPI Applied Sciences. She is a Senior IEEE member.
- Wireless sensor networks
- Internet of Things
- Low-power connectivity technologies
- Security protocols and solutions for low-power communication technologies
- ICT for development
- CoDRA: Context-based dynamically reconfigurable access control system for android (2018)
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hybrid Internal Anomaly Detection System for IoT: Reactive Nodes with Cross-Layer Operation (2018)
- Security and Communication Networks
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa: First International Conference, ICT4DA 2017, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, September 25–27, 2017, Proceedings (2018)
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Low-latency Approach for Secure ECG Feature Based Cryptographic Key Generation (2018)
- IEEE Access
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Performance Analysis of End-to-End Security Schemes in Healthcare IoT (2018)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Security of Join Procedure and its Delegation in LoRaWAN v1.1 (2018)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Security of LoRaWAN v1.1 in Backward Compatibility Scenarios (2018)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Towards human bio-inspired defence mechanism for cyber security (2018) Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, SPW 2018 Thanigaivelan N., Nigussie E., Virtanen S., Isoaho J.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Cryptographic key generation using ECG signal (2017) Moosavi Sanaz Rahimi, Nigussie Ethiopia, Virtanen Seppo, Isoaho Jouni
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Self-aware access control system for android (2017) Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing Thanigaivelan N., Nigussie E., Virtanen S., Isoaho J.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )



