Patrick Bours

Patrick Bours is a Professor at the Department for Information Security and Communication Technology within the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He holds a PhD in Discrete Mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology (1994) and previously worked at the Netherlands National Communication Security Agency (NLNCSA) for 10 years.

Bours specializes in authentication and behavioral biometrics, with a focus on keystroke dynamics, gait recognition, and continuous authentication. His recent research includes:

• Early online grooming detection via chat analysis and social interaction modeling
• Contract cheating detection in academic settings
• LLM usage in cybersecurity research

Holds a permanent email address at NTNU: patrick.bours@ntnu.no. No scientific awards mentioned in the text.