Marten van Dijk

Prof. Marten van Dijk is an Endowed Professor in Computer Science at the Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), with a focus on cybersecurity and cryptographic systems. He also holds an ancillary position as a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam since 2020.

His research interests span cryptographic primitives, secure authentication mechanisms, differential privacy in machine learning, and cybersecurity in cyber-physical systems. He teaches the course 'Security and Machine Learning' at VU, emphasizing practical applications of security in modern computational systems.

Recent work includes advancements in remote attestation protocols, cryptographic attack analysis on hardware security mechanisms, and optimization techniques for secure machine learning models. His contributions address critical challenges in data privacy, embedded system security, and federated learning frameworks.

Prof. van Dijk collaborates internationally, focusing on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cryptography, cybersecurity, and distributed systems.