Researchers in the PriTEM project

The PriTEM project is led by Sabita Maharjan, IFI, UiO. A detailed list of the project participants can be found here. Below are the doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on PriTEM work packages (WPs) along with their background.

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Hui Zhang

Oct. 2023WP2Hui Zhang is a doctoral research fellow at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo since October 2023. She has two Master´s Degrees, one in Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, another in Power Electronics and Power Drives from Wuhan University of Technology. Her main research interests are privacy preservation, information security, cryptography and distributed data sharing in transactive energy management systems.
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Juliana Zhang		Feb. 2023WP1Juliana Zhang is a doctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo since February 2023. She has Master's Degree in Work and Organizational Psychology from the University of Oslo and Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Marketing from the National University of Singapore. Her main research interests are human factors and trust in transactive energy management, digitalization, user acceptance and chatbot. 

 

Meysam Aboutalebi

Nov. 2022WP4Meysam Aboutalebi holds his master's and bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering - Power Systems from Shahid Beheshti University and the University of Tabriz, respectively. He has started a doctoral research fellow at the Department of Technology Systems at the University of Oslo since November 2022. His main research interests are energy management, stochastic optimization, and resilient operation of smart grids based on the marketplace for distributed energy resources.
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Daniel Gerbi

Sep. 2022WP2Daniel Gerbi has been a doctoral research fellow at the department of informatics at the University of Oslo since September 2022. His main research interest is in designing secure, privacy-enhanced, and distributed data-sharing techniques in transactive energy systems. He completed his master's in Information Security Engineering at Soonchunhyang University, South Korea.
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Shiliang Zhang

Sep. 2022WP5Shiliang Zhang is a postdoc in IFI, UiO, with his current research focusing on privacy preservation, machine learning, and their applications in transactive energy management systems. He worked as a postdoc researcher from 2020-06 to 2022-06 at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in the field of privacy-preserving machine learning approaches in vehicle networks.
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Jonathan Muringani

Mar. 2022WP2Jonathan Muringani is a Post-Doctoral Researcher on human-centric digitalisation. In the PriTEM project, his focus is on societal trust, digital trust and privacy. His PhD from the University of Stavanger is on Institutions and Regional Development. He was jointly awarded the Regional Studies Association Inaugural Paul Benneworth PhD student award (2021). Jonathan has extensive working experience in telecommunications, energy and innovation outside academia.