After earning my Ph.D., I spent 3 years traveling around the globe, collaborating with brilliant people. Now, I apply this international experience to my practice-oriented research and share my knowledge through teaching and mentoring students. I've worked in:
Academia enables me to dive into interesting topics. My applied research in the CYBERSEC lab focuses on supporting educators and students based on automated analysis of learning data.
All my papers are freely available on GitHub and Google Scholar. I regularly present my research at top-tier scientific conferences – in the USA, Europe, and Asia – like ACM SIGCSE and LAK.
I've received a prestigious award to fund my new machine learning project. I contributed to European and national open-source projects for cybersecurity and incident response training.
I aim to offer interesting and valuable classes on cybersecurity (especially privacy and AI) and data science. I received highly positive feedback and a university-wide best teacher award.
I really enjoy guiding and advising students! I supervise bachelor and master theses: see the currently available topics on the lab website. Our capacity for Ph.D. students is currently full.
Besides in-person classes, I created educational videos in my project Elea: Teach yourself math and for the company Datakabinet that provides teaching materials to thousands of schools.
“Valdemar always comes up with new ideas out of the box and strives to deliver outstanding performance and high quality solutions.”
“The best tutor I ever had. Fair, always perfectly prepared. Friendly approach, kind, charismatic. I looked forward to every single class.”
“Individual approach. The lessons are not generic or boring, he creates extra activities. Comprehensible explanations. Fun classes.”
“Your videos saved me. Your explanations are great. I often don't get it in my math classes, but your videos made me understand right away.”
“It was fun, you created a perfect atmosphere and I learned a lot. I'll start studying computing at home, too. Thank you, you're great.”
“Beep-boop-beeeeeep.”
Exploring new places is fascinating. I have visited 33 countries on 4 continents (Europe, North and South America, and Asia), but there are still many places on the bucket list. This website features pictures from my travels. There's more on my Instagram.
Working out regularly at the gym is essential for me. I also swim and used to box (but getting hit in the head didn't go well with my job). In summer, I enjoy walks in nature; but as for winter sports, I prefer playing board games with friends or PS5 with my amazing girlfriend.
I love watching movies: anything from Chris Nolan. to Ghibli anime. I'm also a fan of stand-up comedy (Ricky Gervais, Bill Burr, Louis CK) and hard-hitting humor. Finally, I find it really relaxing to watch random YouTube videos, as I used to do with my brother.
