Alexandra Savelieva

• School of Software Engineering | Software Management Department: Associate Professor

Education and degrees

Honors and Awards

• Special prize winner at Final Cup of Kaspersky Lab student conference ‘IT Security for the Next Generation’ (TUM, Munich, Germany, 2011)
• Winner of spring contest-2011 for development of original teaching techniques by Foundation for Innovative Education of HSE
• Best young lecturer of the faculty - 2010 Award
• President's Scholarship (2006 - 2008)
• Russian Government Scholarship (2007 - 2008, 2009-2010)
• Scholarship for Academic Achievements (2005 - 2010)
• Microsoft Grant for New Course Development in Information Technologies – 2009 (co authoring Sergey Avdoshin and Victor Serdiouk, course title “Microsoft Information Security Products and Technologies”)
• Awards for the best research work in Business Informatics at Higher School of Economics (2007, 2008, 2009)
• Honorary Diploma for victory in the competition «All-Russian  contest  for student and candidates in Information and Communication Technology»;  special awards from Microsoft, Intel and American Charity Foundation

Selected Conference Papers

• Bicliques for Preimages: Attacks on Skein-512 and the SHA-2 family (with Dmitry Khovratovich and Christian Rechberger) // In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2012, to appear (proceedings of 19th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption - FSE 2012, March 2012, Washington DC), award from Bruce Schneier for an attack on round-reduced Skein hash function,
• Special Considerations in Using the Case-study Method in Teaching Information Security // In proceedings of IT Security Conference for the Next Generation, Munich, April 2011 – Special Award,
• Information security education and awareness: Start with a story (with Sergey Avdoshin), Personal Data Protection in Russia: Trends of the Last Decade (with Sergey Avdoshin), Cryptographic Systems Evaluation Problem (with Sergey Avdoshin),  // In proceedings of “Workshop on Cyber Security and Global Affairs” organized by International Cyber Center - George Mason University): 2009 - St Peter’s College, Oxford University, 2010 – ETH, Zurich,  2011 – DBH Group, Budapest,
• Modeling Security Threats to Cryptographically Protected Data (with Sergey Avdoshin) // In 11th National Forum on Information security, Moscow, 2009 (organized by Security Council of Russia, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, et al.),
• Development of a Software System for Cryptanalysis of  Asymmetric Cyphers // In 6th Conference for students and young researchers of Russia on Microsoft technologies in     software development, Moscow (organized by Microsoft Russia, Moscow Aviation Institute,   Russian Foundation for Basic Research) – Best Paper Award,
• Efficiency Evaluation of Cryptographic Protection of Information in Enterprise Applications (with Sergey Avdoshin) // In Software Engineering Conference/Russia 2008, Moscow (organized by TEKAMA, State University - Higher School of Economics, and Luxoft),
• Formal methods and tools for evaluating cryptographic systems security // In SYRCoSE - Spring/Summer Young Researchers Colloquium on Software Engineering, 2008 St.Petersburgh (organized by Institute for System Programming of RAS, Saint-Petersburg State University, State University - Higher School of Economics, and Microsoft Research).

Theses

Thesis for a degree of Candidate of Science:

• A. Savelieva Модели и методы комплексной оценки аппаратно-программных средств обеспечения конфиденциальности и целостности информации, 2011

Publications

2011

2010

2009