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Call for companies: research projects for VU Business track 2026
For the upcoming 2026 edition of the VU’s Computer Science Bachelor Research projects, ICT Institute is again organising the Computer Science Business Track where we supervise a new cohort of student teams working on real-world, data-driven challenges. We are looking for innovative companies in the Netherlands (from scale-ups to public organisations) with substantial data, AI,…
Pavlo Burda
Computer Science research results
In 2025 more than 20 computer science students completed their thesis project with support from ICT institute. In this article you can find the titles and topics of the completed research projects as well as some main results. The projects ranged from data science e-health AI applications to software prototypes for cybersecurity analytics. Research approach…
Pavlo Burda
Understanding Social Engineering attacks at CHI 2025
This April, I’ll be presenting my research on social engineering attacks at the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Yokohama, Japan. CHI brings together a global community of researchers, designers, and practitioners who explore the future of how humans interact with technology. As the premier conference on Human-Computer Interaction, this…
Pavlo Burda
Does your company have research projects for computer science students?
We are looking for innovative companies, in the Netherlands, with data-driven teams involved in security, AI or other research that are willing to provide a business problem to solve and an in-house supervisor. In return the companies will get a small team (2-3 third year computer science students) that will apply state of the art…
Pavlo Burda
Is COBOL futureproof? COBOL in 2024
COBOL is the miracle dinosaur of computer programming languages: It is very old and it should have been replaced by other languages, but somehow it still survives. This causes problems for companies, since many COBOL programmers are retired or will retire in the next decades, leaving companies without anyone to maintain some of the most…
Sieuwert van Otterloo