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
- Towards Self-Aware Approach for Mobile Devices Security (2017)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Biosignal Feature Extraction Techniques for IoT Healthcare Platform (2016) Amleset, Kelati; Ethiopia, Nigussie; Juha, Plosila; Hannu, Tenhunen
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Distributed Internal Anomaly Detection System for Internet-of-Things (2016) 2016 13th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Thanigaivelan NK, Nigussie E, Kanth RK, Virtanen S, Isoaho J
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - End-to-end security scheme for mobility enabled healthcare Internet of Things (2016)
- Future Generation Computer Systems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Equalizing Energy Distribution in Sensor Nodes through Optimization of RPL (2015) 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM). Proceedings Juuso Nurmio, Ethiopia Nigussie, Christian Poellabauer
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - SEA: A Secure and Efficient Authentication and Authorization Architecture for IoT-Based Healthcare Using Smart Gateways (2015)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Securing Wireless Body Sensor Networks using Bijective Function-based Hardware Primitive (2015) 2015 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Ethiopia Nigussie, Teng Xu, Miodrag Potkonjak
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Session Resumption-Based End-to-End Security for Healthcare Internet-of-Things (2015) 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM), Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Ethiopia Nigussi , Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Seppo Virtanen Hannu Tenhunen, Jouni Isoaho
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Uniform Teaching of Network Simulation Skills in an Engineering Curriculum (2015) Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Engineering Education July 20-24, 2015, Zagreb, Zadar (Croatia) Ethiopia Nigussie, Petri Sainio, Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi, Rajeev Kumar Kanth, Seppo Virtanen and Jouni Isoaho
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - An Elliptic Curve-based Mutual Authentication Scheme for RFID Implant Systems (2014)
- Procedia Computer Science
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
