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PhD topics on Software Engineering

There are PhD opportunities at the Software and Internet Technologies (SEIT) laboratory of the Department of Computer Science with topics like the following:

• Privacy by Design methods in application development for mobile platforms
• Mining software repositories and developer expertise
• Privacy design patterns recommendations

Theses subjects (last update: Spring 2025) [gr]

Current interns at

Internships at SEIT lab

If you are interested in spending 1-3 months working on a research activity in an internship in the SEIT lab of UCY, these are some of the available topics:

• Privacy compliance in software engineering
• Privacy mechanisms for web applications
• Collecting data from activity trackers

Postdoc researchers

• Giorgos Vrakas (co-supervision with Tatiana Synodinou), PostDoc Researcher in the framework of ONISILOS project. Topic: Lawful text and data mining.

PhD students

• Ioanna Theophilou, Area: Privacy compliance in Software Engineering.
• Efi Siapiti (co-supervision with Elias Athanasopoulos), Area: Privacy in the digital era.
• Evangelia Vanezi (co-supervision with Prof. Anna Philippou), Area: Privacy languages and conformance to legislation.

PhD alumni

• Dr. Alexia Dini Kounoudes, Area: Privacy protection for end-users in Internet of Things, PhD defense Jun. 23.

Master thesis advisor

• George Komodromos, MSc student, Extraction of license terms from open source software licenses, completed: Jun. 2020.
• Raphaella Sophocleous, MSc student, Survey and Combination of System Testing Methodologies, completed: Dec. 2019.
• Athina Pafitou, MSc student, License analysis of open source software, completed: Apr. 2019.
• Andreas Dimitriou, Privacy protection in Android devices, completed: Dec. 2017.
• Iosif Ioannou, LinkedUSDL Privacy for universal description of privacy properties in services, completed: May 2017.

BSc thesis advisor

• Konstantinos Kouloubris (co-supervision with Chryssis Georgiou), BSc student, A workflow management system for the Department of Computer Science, ongoing.
• Kypros Iacovou, BSc student, Use of blockchain for open source software license compliance, ongoing.
• Giorgos Shittas, BSc student, Chatbot creation for recommending licenses for open source software, completed: May 2024.
• Panagiotis Fotiadis, BSc student, Chatbot creation for software job positions matching, completed: May 2024.
• Socratis Yiannakou, BSc student, Implementation of a web platform for Shakespeare translation analytics, completed: May 2021.
• Antria Panayiotou, BSc student, Implementation of a web platform for the management of the CS Software Engineering course, completed: May 2021.
• Alexandros Philippou, BSc student, License Usage Analysis in the R Programming Language, completed: Jan. 2021.
• Michalis Kaili, BSc student, Privacy Policy Beautifier, completed: Jan. 2021.
  
• Stavros Georgiou, BSc student, Cross-platform data for software engineers, completed: Jan. 2021.
• Panagiotis Groutas, BSc student, Privacy protection tool for children, completed: Jan. 2021.
• Theodora Costi, BSc student, GDPR Compliant Development for the EPUM e-Learning platform, completed: May 2019 (in English).
• Christiana Yapintzaki, BSc student, Privacy protection in Android applications, completed: May 2019 (in Greek).
• Evangelos Aristodemou, BSc student, Code generation for data collection from sensors on different microcontroller boards, completed: May 2018 (in Greek).
• Modestos Ioannou, BSc student,Analyzing privacy issues in Android applications, completed: May 2018 (in Greek).
• Vasiliki Panteli, BSc student, Design and implementation of a system for the management of patients in psychotherapy: the graphical user interface, completed: May 2018 (in Greek).
• Elena Petrou, BSc student, Rule for license terms in open source software licenses, completed: May 2017 (in Greek).
• Angelos Efstathiou, BSc student, A social network for managing sensors on Arduino microcontrollers, completed: May 2017 (in Greek).
• Kyriakos Kyriakou, BSc student, Model driven development for the Internet of Things, completed: May 2017 (in Greek).
• Theodoros Charalambous, BSc student, Tool creation for the Protection of Privacy on HTML5 Web applications, completied: May 2016 (in Greek).
• Dimitris Paschalides, BSc student, Modelling and Extracting Terms from Open Source Software Licenses, completed: May 2016 (in Greek).
• Panayiotis Foutros, BSc student, Creation of Profiles of Software Engineers from Online Social Networks, completed: May 2016 (in Greek).
• Philippos Asiz, BSc student, Creation of a rule engine for remote device management based on sensor data, completed: May 2016 (in Greek).
• Athina Pafitou, BSc student, Sensor data gathering with Raspberry Pi and management with Android application (in Greek), completed: May 2015.
• Stella Constantinou, BSc student, Sensor management with Arduino and machine learning actions for data reasoning (in Greek), completed: May 2015
• Georgia Charalambous, BSc student, Recommender system for open source software licenses (in Greek), completed: May 2015.
• Stelios Georgiou, BSc student, Design and Implementation of a system for stock management (in Greek), completed: May 2015.
• Nikoletta Petrou, BSc student, Tool comparison on static and dynamic code analysis (in Greek), completed: May 2014.
• Feidias Ioannides, BSc student, Design and implementation of an Android application for interaction among students and advisors in CS department in UCY (in Greek), completed: May 2013.
• Elektra Georgiou, BSc student, Comparison of methods for the extraction of license information from open source software (in Greek), completed: May 2013.
• Marios Christou, BSc student, Market study on the use of Agile Methodologies with an Emphasis on Scrum (in Greek), completed: May 2012.
• Maria Anastasi, BSc student, Study of approaches for privacy protection in pervasive, context-aware systems (in Greek), completed: May 2012.
• Iosifina Ioannou, BSc student, Handling user privacy preferences in context-aware web services (in Greek), completed: July 2012.