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Mohsen Toorani

Mohsen Toorani

Associate Professor
Department of Science and Industry systems
Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences
Campus Kongsberg
+47 35 02 66 43 / +47 47161414
Mohsen Toorani is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Campus Kongsberg. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of IACR. He holds a PhD in Information Security from the University of Bergen, and also has an MSc in Secure Communications and a BSc in Communications Engineering. He has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Information Security at Lund University (2019–2021) and as a postdoctoral researcher in Cryptography at the University of Bergen and Simula@UiB (2016–2019). At USN, he is responsible for several master's- and PhD-level courses in cybersecurity and cryptography. He is also involved in research projects, editorial activities, conference organisation, and institutional service.

Responsibilities

Course responsibility and teaching for:

  • Ph.D. courses (Ph.D. in Technology / Computer Science):  
    • “Seminars in Security Research” (TE9105), USN: Fall 2025 - Present.
    • “Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols” (TE9102), USN: Approved but not yet offered. 

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Supervision: 


Research Projects:

  1. UTFORSK project: Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures (CY4CI)
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI) and Project Leader 
    Duration: Jan. 2025 – Dec. 2028.
     
  2. RCN  project: Understanding Threats and Optimizing mitigation, and enabling Privacy-by-design in AI (UTOPIA)
    Role: Work Package leader (WP2). 
    Duration: Mar. 2026 – Feb. 2030.
     
  3. RCN project: Co-created Health Technology (CoTecH) 
    Role: Work package leader (WP7: Digital Security and Privacy) 
    Duration: May 2022 – Apr. 2028. 
     

  4. HK-dir project: UKR-CYBERBRIDGE: Strengthening Norwegian Competence for Collaboration with Ukraine in Cybersecurity and Cryptography
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
    Duration: Jan. 2027 – Dec. 2027. 

  5. SFO project: Cybersecurity for democracy, social security, and preparedness 
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI) and Project Leader 
    Duration: 2024 – 2026. 
     
  6. SFO project: Security and privacy for health and welfare services  
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI) and Project Leader 
    Duration: 2024 – 2026. 
     
  7. DAM project: The path to artificial intelligence in clinical neurophysiology (VIKING) 
    Role: Project Team Member & Researcher
    Duration: Sep. 2024 – Oct. 2026. 
     
  8. RFF project: Decentralized secure and privacy-preserving sharing of health data (DeHelse) 
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI) and Project Leader 
    Duration: Jan. 2024 – Dec. 2024. 
     

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Institutional services:  

  • Faculty board member at the Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences (TNM), USN, Feb. 2023 - Present. 
  • Responsible for exchange programs in Computer Science (master's level) for both inbound and outbound exchange students at USN, July 2022 - Present. 
  • Deputy Leader of research group in Computer Science , USN, Sep. 2022 - Jul. 2025. 
  • Program coordinator for master's program in Computer Science, USN, July 2022 - July 2023.

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Competences

  • Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity
  • Security Protocols
  • Distributed Systems Security

CV

Additional details and CV are available at  toorani.no


 

Postal Address: University of South-Eastern Norway, Department of Science and Industrial Systems, P.O.Box 235, N-3603 Kongsberg, Norway. 

Publications