Olaf Maennel

Professor Olaf Maennel

Professor

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Professor Olaf Maennel holds the Defence Science and Technology Group---University of Adelaide Joint Chair in Cyber Security.   He has been with the University of Adelaide since 2023 and previously held faculty positions at Loughborough University in England and Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, where he led research at the Centre for Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity and established the Centre for Maritime Cybersecurity.   His research interests began with computer network security and have expanded over the years to include cyber defence technical exercises and critical infrastructure protection, with a focus on transport sector cyber security. He is also worried about our increasing reliance on AI systems, which makes us vulnerable not only to adversarial attacks (e.g., model poisoning attacks, adversarial concept drift) but also to targeted influence operations against human security operators.  He has been chairing numerous conferences, including ACM SIGCOMM  and the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. He has been active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardisation body, contributed to the European Commission as a vice-chair in several funding calls, and chaired a working group at the European Cyber Security Organisation. He has closely collaborated with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE). At the University of Adelaide, he contributes to Australia’s cyber resilience through research and education.  

Professor Olaf Maennel holds the Defence Science and Technology Group---University of Adelaide Joint Chair in Cyber Security.   He has been with the University of Adelaide since 2023 and previously held faculty positions at Loughborough University in England and Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, where he led research at the Centre for Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity and established the Centre for Maritime Cybersecurity.   His research interests began with computer network security and have expanded over the years to include cyber defence technical exercises and critical infrastructure protection, with a focus on transport sector cyber security. He is also worried about our increasing reliance on AI systems, which makes us vulnerable not only to adversarial attacks (e.g., model poisoning attacks, adversarial concept drift) but also to targeted influence operations against human security operators.  
He has been chairing numerous conferences, including ACM SIGCOMM  and the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. He has been active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardisation body, contributed to the European Commission as a vice-chair in several funding calls, and chaired a working group at the European Cyber Security Organisation. He has closely collaborated with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE). At the University of Adelaide, he contributes to Australia’s cyber resilience through research and education.  

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Maennel, K., & Maennel, O. (2025). Human Aspects of Cyber Security for Computing Higher Education: Current Status and Future Directions. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 25(3), 1-30.
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    2024 Hamad, M., Finkenzeller, A., Kühr, M., Roberts, A., Maennel, O., Prevelakis, V., & Steinhorst, S. (2024). REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles. Computers and Security, 145, 104008.
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    2023 Lugo, R. G., Sütterlin, S., Knox, B. J., Bukauskas, L., Brilingaitė, A., & Maennel, O. M. (2023). Editorial: The human factor in cyber security education. Frontiers in Education, 8, 2 pages.
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    2023 Maennel, K., Brilingaitė, A., Bukauskas, L., Juozapavičius, A., Knox, B. J., Lugo, R. G., . . . Sütterlin, S. (2023). A Multidimensional Cyber Defense Exercise: Emphasis on Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Aspects. SAGE Open, 13(1), 215824402311563.
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    2021 Domarkienė, I., Ambrozaitytė, L., Bukauskas, L., Rančelis, T., Sütterlin, S., Knox, B. J., . . . Brilingaitė, A. (2021). Cybergenomics: Application of behavioral genetics in cybersecurity. Behavioral Sciences, 11(11), 152-1-152-15.
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    2019 Maennel, K., Mäses, S., Sütterlin, S., Ernits, M., & Maennel, O. (2019). Using Technical Cybersecurity Exercises in University Admissions and Skill Evaluation. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(19), 169-174.
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    2019 Herrera, L. -C., & Maennel, O. (2019). A comprehensive instrument for identifying critical information infrastructure services. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 25, 50-61.
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    2019 Getreu, J., & Maennel, O. (2019). ENHANCING FORENSIC-TOOL SECURITY WITH RUST: DEVELOPMENT OF A STRING EXTRACTION UTILITY. JOURNAL OF DIGITAL FORENSICS SECURITY AND LAW, 14(2), 46-58.
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    2017 Abbas, H., Maennel, O., & Assar, S. (2017). Security and privacy issues in cloud computing. Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications, 72(5-6), 233-235.
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    2016 Lutu, A., Bagnulo, M., Pelsser, C., Maennel, O., & Cid-Sueiro, J. (2016). The BGP visibility toolkit: Detecting anomalous internet routing behavior. IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(2), 1237-1250.
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    2015 Ernits, M., Tammekaend, J., & Maennel, O. (2015). i-tee: A fully automated Cyber Defense Competition for Students. ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW, 45(4), 113-114.
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    2014 Škoberne, N., Maennel, O., Phillips, I., Bush, R., Zorz, J., & Ciglaric, M. (2014). IPv4 address sharing mechanism classification and tradeoff analysis. IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, 22(2), 391-404.
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    2013 Perouli, D., Maennel, O., Phillips, I., Fahmy, S., Bush, R., & Austein, R. (2013). An experimental framework for BGP security evaluation. IT Information Technology, 55(4), 147-154.
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    2012 Wählisch, M., Maennel, O., & Schmidt, T. C. (2012). Towards detecting BGP route hijacking using the RPKI. Computer Communication Review, 42(4), 103-104.
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    2011 Roughan, M., Willinger, W., Maennel, O., Perouli, D., & Bush, R. (2011). 10 lessons from 10 years of measuring and modeling the internet's autonomous systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 29(9), 1810-1821.
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    2010 Mühlbauer, W., Uhlig, S., Feldmann, A., Maennel, O., Quoitin, B., & Fu, B. (2010). Impact of routing parameters on route diversity and path inflation. Computer Networks, 54(14), 2506-2518.
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    2010 Oprescu, I., Meulle, M., Uhlig, S., Pelsser, C., Maennel, O., & Owezarski, P. (2010). Rethinking iBGP routing. Computer Communication Review, 40(4), 411-412.
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    2010 Cittadini, L., Mühlbauer, W., Uhlig, S., Bush, R., François, P., & Maennel, O. (2010). Evolution of internet address space deaggregation: Myths and reality. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 28(8), 1238-1249.
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    2009 Feldmann, A., Kind, M., Maennel, O., Schaffrath, G., & Werle, C. (2009). Network Virtualization - An Enabler for Overcoming Ossification. ERCIM NEWS, (77), 21-22.
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    2007 Mühlbauer, W., Uhlig, S., Fu, B., Meulle, M., & Maennel, O. (2007). In search for an appropriate granularity to model routing policies. Computer Communication Review, 37(4), 145-156.
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    2004 Feldmann, A., Maennel, O., Mao, Z. M., Berger, A., & Maggs, B. (2004). Locating Internet routing instabilities. Computer Communication Review, 34(4), 205-218.
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    2004 Feldmann, A., Kong, H., Maennel, O., & Tudor, A. (2004). Measuring BGP pass-through times. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 3015, 267-277.
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    2003 Aggarwal, V., Maennel, O., Mogul, J., & Romanow, A. (2003). Workshop on Network-I/O Convergence: Experience, Lessons, Implications (NICELI). Computer Communication Review, 33(5), 75-80.
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    2002 Maennel, O., & Feldmann, A. (2002). Generating realistic routing tables in a test-lab. Computer Communication Review, 32(1), 78.
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    2002 Maennel, O., & Feldmann, A. (2002). Realistic BGP traffic for test labs. Computer Communication Review, 32(4), 31-44.
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  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2025 Visky, G., Khisteva, D., & Maennel, O. (2025). Technical Considerations for Open-Source Intrusion Detection System Integration in Marine Vehicles. In Signals and Communication Technology (Vol. Part F583, pp. 143-160). Springer Nature Switzerland.
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    2021 Maennel, K., Kivimägi, K., Maennel, O., Sütterlin, S., & Ernits, M. (2021). Remote Technical Labs: An Innovative and Scalable Component for University Cybersecurity Program Admission. In M. E. Auer, & T. Ruutmann (Eds.), Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions (Vol. 1329, pp. 521-533). New York, NY, USA: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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    2021 Chikul, P., Bahsi, H., & Maennel, O. (2021). An Ontology Engineering Case Study for Advanced Digital Forensic Analysis. In C. Attiogbe, & S. Ben Yahia (Eds.), Model and Data Engineering (Vol. 12732, pp. 67-74). New York, NY, USA: Springer International Publishing.
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    2018 Maennel, K., Mäses, S., & Maennel, O. (2018). Cyber Hygiene: The Big Picture. In N. Gruschka (Ed.), Secure IT Systems (Vol. 11252, pp. 291-305). New York, NY, USA: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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    2018 Lepik, T., Maennel, K., Ernits, M., & Maennel, O. (2018). Art and Automation of Teaching Malware Reverse Engineering. In P. Zaphiris, & A. Ioannou (Eds.), Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Learning and Teaching (Vol. 10925, pp. 461-472). New York, NY, USA: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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    2016 Blumbergs, B., Pihelgas, M., Kont, M., Maennel, O., & Vaarandi, R. (2016). Creating and detecting IPv6 transition mechanism-based information exfiltration covert channels. In B. B. Brumley, & J. Roning (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 10014 LNCS, pp. 85-100). SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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    2015 Bahşi, H., & Maennel, O. M. (2015). A conceptual nationwide cyber situational awareness framework for critical infrastructures. In S. Buchegger, & M. Dam (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 9417, pp. 3-10). SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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    2014 Lutu, A., Bagnulo, M., Pelsser, C., & Maennel, O. (2014). Understanding the reachability of IPv6 limited visibility prefixes. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 8362 LNCS, pp. 163-172). Springer International Publishing.
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    2011 Pelsser, C., Maennel, O., Mohapatra, P., Bush, R., & Patel, K. (2011). Route flap damping made usable. In N. Spring, & G. F. Riley (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 6579 LNCS, pp. 143-152). SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN.
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    2011 Oprescu, I., Meulle, M., Uhlig, S., Pelsser, C., Maennel, O., & Owezarski, P. (2011). OBGP: An overlay for a scalable iBGP control plane. In J. DomingoPascual, P. Manzoni, S. Palazzo, A. Pont, & C. Scoglio (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 6640 LNCS, pp. 420-431). SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN.
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  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2025 Finkenzeller, A., Roberts, A., Bellone, M., Maennel, O., Hamad, M., & Steinhorst, S. (2025). Sensor Fusion Desynchronization Attacks. In Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Lipics Vol. 335.
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    2025 Zheng, L. N., Dong, C., Zhang, W. E., Yue, L., Xu, M., Maennel, O., & Chen, W. (2025). Understanding Why Large Language Models Can Be Ineffective in Time Series Analysis: The Impact of Modality Alignment. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Vol. 2 (pp. 4026-4037). ACM.
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    2025 Visky, G., Vaarandi, R., Katsikas, S., & Maennel, O. (2025). Statistical analysis-based feature selection for anomaly detection in AIS dataset. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics Sami (pp. 159-164). IEEE.
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    2025 Erbas, M., Visky, G., Maennel, O., Tsiopoulos, L., & Vaarandi, R. (2025). PASTA Threat Modeling for Cyber Resilience and COLREG Compliance in Autonomous Ship Systems. In Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience Csr 2025 (pp. 358-365). Chania, Crete, Greece: IEEE.
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    2025 Roberts, A., Malayjerdi, M., Bellone, M., Sell, R., Maennel, O., Hamad, M., & Steinhorst, S. (2025). Analysis of Autonomous Driving Software to Low-Level Sensor Cyber Attacks. In ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self Managing Systems (pp. 122-132). Ottawa, ON, Canada: IEEE.
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    2025 Morgan, B., Horowitz, G., O'Connell, S., Van Schaik, S., Chuengsatiansup, C., Genkin, D., . . . Yarom, Y. (2025). Slice+Slice Baby: Generating Last-Level Cache Eviction Sets in the Blink of an Eye. In Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (pp. 3479-3496). San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE.
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    2025 Maennel, K., & Maennel, O. M. (2025). Human-AI Collaboration and Cyber Security Training: Learning Analytics Opportunities and Challenges. In 2024 17th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2024 (pp. 01-08). Sydney, Australia: IEEE.
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    2024 Visky, G., Katsikas, S., & Maennel, O. (2024). Lightweight Testbed for IEC61162-450-Related Cyber Security Research. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2024 (pp. 638-643). Hybrid, London: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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    2024 Orye, E., Visky, G., Rohl, A., & Maennel, O. (2024). Enhancing the Cyber Resilience of Sea Drones. In International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CYCON (pp. 83-102). Tallinn, Estonia: IEEE.
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    2024 Visky, G., Khisteva, D., Vaarandi, R., & Maennel, O. M. (2024). Towards an Open-source Intrusion Detection System Integration Into Marine Vehicles. In Proceedings Elmar - International Symposium Electronics in Marine (pp. 263-268). Zadar, Croatia: IEEE.
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    2024 Zheng, L. N., Li, Z., Dong, C. G., Zhang, W. E., Yue, L., Xu, M., . . . Chen, W. (2024). Irregularity-Informed Time Series Analysis: Adaptive Modelling of Spatial and Temporal Dynamics. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp. 3405-3414). Boise ID USA: ACM.
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    2024 Visky, G., Adam, B., Vaarandi, R., Pihelgas, M., & Maennel, O. (2024). Open Source Intrusion Detection Systems' Performance Analysis Under Resource Constraints. In SISY 2024 - IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics, Proceedings (pp. 201-207). Pula, Croatia: IEEE.
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    2024 Visky, G., Rohl, A., Vaarandi, R., Katsikas, S., & Maennel, O. M. (2024). Hacking on the High Seas: How Automated Reverse-Engineering Can Assist Vulnerability Discovery of a Proprietary Communication Protocol. In Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN (pp. 7 pages). Normandy, France: IEEE.
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    2024 Visky, G., Rohl, A., Katsikas, S., & Maennel, O. (2024). AIS Data Analysis: Reality in the Sea of Echos. In Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN (pp. 7 pages). Normandy, France: IEEE.
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    2024 Chikul, P., Bahşi, H., & Maennel, O. (2024). The Design and Implementation of a Semantic Web Framework for the Event-Centric Digital Forensics Analysis. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy Vol. 1 (pp. 570-581). Online: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications.
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    2024 Roberts, A., Heidari Iman, M. R., Bellone, M., Ghasempouri, T., Raik, J., Maennel, O., . . . Steinhorst, S. (2024). ADAssure: Debugging Methodology for Autonomous Driving Control Algorithms. In Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE (pp. 6 pages). Online: IEEE.
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    2023 Roberts, A., Malayjerdi, M., Bellone, M., Maennel, O., & Malayjerdi, E. (2023). Analysing Adversarial Threats to Rule-Based Local-Planning Algorithms for Autonomous Driving. In Proceedings Inaugural International Symposium on Vehicle Security & Privacy (pp. 8 pages). Online: Internet Society.
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    2022 Visky, G., Lavrenovs, A., Orye, E., Heering, D., Tam, K., & Maennel, O. M. (2022). Multi-Purpose Cyber Environment for Maritime Sector. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBER WARFARE AND SECURITY (ICCWS 2022) (pp. 349-357). Online: ACAD CONFERENCES LTD.
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    2022 Babayeva, G., Maennel, K., & Maennel, O. M. (2022). Building an Ontology for Cyber Defence Exercises. In Proceedings - 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2022 (pp. 423-432). Online: IEEE.
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    2022 Malayjerdi, M., Roberts, A., Maennel, O., & Malayjerdi, E. (2022). Combined Safety and Cybersecurity Testing Methodology for Autonomous Driving Algorithms. In Proceedings - CSCS 2022: 6th ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium (pp. 1-10). Ingolstadt, Germany: ACM.
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    2021 Heering, D., Maennel, O. M., & Venables, A. N. (2021). Shortcomings in cybersecurity education for seafarers. In Developments in Maritime Technology and Engineering - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering, MARTECH 2020 Vol. 1 (pp. 49-61). Florida, USA: CRC Press.
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    2021 Roberts, A., Maennel, O., & Snetkov, N. (2021). Cybersecurity Test Range for Autonomous Vehicle Shuttles. In 2021 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, (EuroS&PW) 2021 (pp. 239-248). New York, NY, USA: IEEE.
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    2021 Visky, G., Lavrenovs, A., & Maennel, O. (2021). Status Detector for Fuzzing-Based Vulnerability Mining of IEC 61850 Protocol. In T. Eze, L. Speakman, & C. Onwubiko (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (pp. 454-461). England: Academic Conferences International Ltd.
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    2021 Haddad, Y., Orye, E., & Maennel, O. (2021). Ghost Injection Attack on Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Equipped Drones Impact on Human Behaviour. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management, CogSIMA (pp. 161-166). New York, NY, USA: IEEE.
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    2021 Mäses, S., Maennel, O., & Sütterlin, S. (2021). Using Competency Mapping for Skills Assessment in an Introductory Cybersecurity Course. In M. E. Auer, & T. Tuutmann (Eds.), Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2020) Vol. 2 (pp. 572-583). Switzerland AG: Springer International Publishing.
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    2020 Brown, C., Elo, T., Hovhannisyan, K., Hutzschenreuter, D., Kuosmanen, P., Maennel, O., . . . Wiedenhoefer, T. (2020). Infrastructure for Digital Calibration Certificates. In 2020 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT, Proceedings (pp. 485-489). New York, NY, USA: IEEE.
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    2020 Yari, S., Mäses, S., & Maennel, O. (2020). A method for teaching open source intelligence (OSINT) using personalised cloud-based exercises. In B. K. Payne, & H. Wu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ICCWS 2020 (pp. 480-489). Norfolk, Virginia, USA: ACAD CONFERENCES LTD.
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    2020 Ernits, M., Maennel, K., Mäses, S., Lepik, T., & Maennel, O. (2020). From simple scoring towards a meaningful interpretation of learning in cybersecurity exercises. In B. K. Payne, & H. Wu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ICCWS 2020 (pp. 135-143). England: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Ltd.
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    2019 Mäses, S., Kikerpill, K., Jüristo, K., & Maennel, O. (2019). Mixed methods research approach and experimental procedure for measuring human factors in cybersecurity using phishing simulations. In A. Stacey (Ed.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management Studies Vol. 2019-June (pp. 218-226). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences and Publishing Limited.
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    2019 Orye, E., & Maennel, O. M. (2019). Recommendations for Enhancing the Results of Cyber Effects. In International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CYCON Vol. 2019-May (pp. 19 pages). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE.
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    2018 Mäses, S., Randmann, L., Maennel, O., & Lorenz, B. (2018). Stenmap: Framework for Evaluating Cybersecurity-Related Skills Based on Computer Simulations. In P. Zaphiris, & A. Ioannou (Eds.), Learning and collaboration technologies : learning and teaching : LCT 2018, held as part of HCI International 2018, Proceedings. Part II Vol. 10925 LNCS (pp. 492-504). Switzerland AG: Springer International Publishing.
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    2017 Maennel, K., Ottis, R., & Maennel, O. (2017). Improving and measuring learning effectiveness at cyber defense exercises. In H. Lipmaa, A. Mitrokotsa, & R. Matulevicius (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 10674 LNCS (pp. 123-138). Switzerland: Springer Verlag.
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    2017 Uhlig, S., & Maennel, O. (2017). Message from the general chairs. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC Vol. Part F131937 (pp. i).
    2017 Mäses, S., Hallaq, B., & Maennel, O. (2017). Obtaining better metrics for complex serious games within virtualised simulation environments. In M. Pivec, & J. Grundler (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2017 (pp. 428-434). UK: ACPIL Publisher.
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    2016 Li, J., Stein, J., Zhang, M., & Maennel, O. (2016). An expectation-based approach to policy-based security of the Border Gateway Protocol. In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM Vol. 2016-September (pp. 340-345). San Francisco, CA: IEEE.
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    2015 Ernits, M., Tammekänd, J., & Maennel, O. (2015). I-tee: A fully automated Cyber Defense Competition for Students. In Computer Communication Review Vol. 45 (pp. 113-114). London, ENGLAND: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
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    2015 Uhlig, S., & Maennel, O. (2015). Message from the general chairs. In SIGCOMM 2015 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication (pp. iii).
    2015 Wählisch, M., Schmidt, R., Schmidt, T. C., Maennel, O., Uhlig, S., & Tyson, G. (2015). RiPKI: The tragic story of RPKI deployment in the web ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks Hotnets Xiv 2015 (pp. 1-7). ACM.
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    2014 Lutu, A., Bagnulo, M., Cid-Sueiro, J., & Maennel, O. (2014). Separating wheat from chaff: Winnowing unintended prefixes using machine learning. In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM (pp. 943-951). CANADA, Toronto: IEEE.
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    2013 Lutu, A., Bagnulo, M., & Maennel, O. (2013). The BGP visibility scanner. In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM (pp. 3243-3248). Turin, ITALY: IEEE.
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    2013 Li, J., & Maennel, O. (2013). Message from the 8th workshop on secure network protocols (NPSec). In Proceedings International Conference on Network Protocols Icnp (pp. 1). IEEE.
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    2013 Knight, S., Nguyen, H., Maennel, O., Phillips, I., Falkner, N., Bush, R., & Roughan, M. (2013). An automated system for emulated network experimentation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2013 (pp. 235-246). USA: Association for Computing Machinery.
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    2013 Lutu, A., Bagnulo, M., & Maennel, O. (2013). The BGP visibility scanner. In 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops INFOCOM Wkshps 2013 (pp. 115-120). Turin, ITALY: IEEE.
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    2012 Knight, S., Jaboldinov, A., Maennel, O., Phillips, I., & Roughan, M. (2012). AutoNetkit. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication (pp. 97-98). ACM.
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    2012 Perouli, D., Vissicchio, S., Gurney, A., Maennel, O., Griffin, T. G., Phillips, I., . . . Pelsser, C. (2012). Reducing the complexity of BGP stability analysis with hybrid combinatorial-algebraic models. In Proceedings International Conference on Network Protocols Icnp (pp. 6 pages). Austin, TX: IEEE.
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    2012 Knight, S., Jaboldinov, A., Maennel, O., Phillips, I., & Roughan, M. (2012). AutoNetkit: simplifying large scale, open-source network experimentation. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication Vol. 42 (pp. 97-98). online: ACM.
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    2012 Perouli, D., Griffin, T. G., Maennel, O., Fahmy, S., Phillips, I., & Pelsser, C. (2012). Detecting the unintended in BGP policies. In Proceedings International Conference on Network Protocols Icnp (pp. 2 pages). Austin, TX: IEEE.
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    2012 Perouli, D., Griffin, T. G., Maennel, O., Fahmy, S., Pelsser, C., Gurney, A., & Phillips, I. (2012). Detecting unsafe BGP policies in a flexible world. In Proceedings International Conference on Network Protocols Icnp (pp. 10 pages). Austin, TX: IEEE.
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    2012 Wählisch, M., Maennel, O., & Schmidt, T. C. (2012). Towards detecting BGP route hijacking using the RPKI. In SIGCOMM 12 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications Technologies Architectures and Protocols for Computer Communication (pp. 103-104). ACM.
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    2012 Maennel, O., Phillips, I., Perouli, D., Bush, R., Austein, R., & Jaboldinov, A. (2012). Towards a framework for evaluating BGP security. In 5th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Cset 2012.
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    2010 Oprescu, I. M., Meulle, M., Uhlig, S., Pelsser, C., Maennel, O., & Owezarski, P. (2010). Rethinking iBGP routing. In SIGCOMM 10 Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 2010 Conference (pp. 411-412). ACM.
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    2010 Nguyen, H., Roughan, M., Knight, S., Falkner, N., Maennel, O., & Bush, R. (2010). How to build complex, large-scale emulated networks. In Proceedings of TridentCom 2010 Vol. 46 (pp. 1-14). www: ICST.
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    2010 Wundsam, A., Mehmood, A., Feldmann, A., & Maennel, O. (2010). Network troubleshooting with Mirror VNets. In 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops GC 10 (pp. 283-287). Miami, FL: IEEE.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS4
    2010 Godfrey, P. B., Guo, C., & Maennel, O. (2010). Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, CoNEXT 2010: Program chairs' message. In Proceedings of the ACM Conext Student Workshop Conext 2010.
    2009 Feldmann, A., Cittadini, L., Mühlbauer, W., Bush, R., & Maennel, O. (2009). HAIR: Hierarchical architecture for internet routing. In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies Conext 09 Co Located 2009 Workshop on Re Architecting the Internet Rearch 09 (pp. 43-48). ACM.
    DOI Scopus51
    2009 Haddadi, H., Fay, D., Jamakovic, A., Maennel, O., Moore, A. W., Mortier, R., & Uhlig, S. (2009). On the importance of local connectivity for internet topology models. In 21st International Teletraffic Congress Itc 21 Traffic and Performance Issues in Networks of the Future Final Programme (pp. 177-184). Paris, FRANCE: IEEE.
    Scopus17 WoS4
    2009 Schaffrath, G., Werle, C., Feldmann, A., Bless, R., Papadimitriou, P., Greenhalgh, A., . . . Mathy, L. (2009). Network virtualization architecture: Proposal and initial prototype. In SIGCOMM 2009 Proceedings of the 2009 SIGCOMM Conference and Co Located Workshops Visa 2009 (pp. 63-71). Barcelona, SPAIN: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
    DOI Scopus163 WoS78
    2009 Bush, R., Maennel, O., Roughan, M., & Uhlig, S. (2009). Internet optometry: Assessing the broken glasses in internet reachability. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on internet measurement (pp. 1-12). New York: ACM.
    DOI Scopus73 WoS36
    2008 Flavel, A., Maennel, O., Chiera, B., Roughan, M., & Bean, N. (2008). CleanBGP: Verifying the consistency of BGP data. In Proceedings of the International Network Management Workshop (pp. 1-6). CD: IEEE.
    DOI Scopus4
    2008 Arnold, J., Maennel, O., Flavel, A., McMahon, J., & Roughan, M. (2008). Quantitative analysis of incorrectly-configured bogon-filter detection. In Proceeding of the Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2008 (pp. 1-6). USA: IEEE.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS3
    2008 Coyle, A., Kraetzl, M., Maennel, O., & Roughan, M. (2008). On the predictive power of shortest-path weight inference. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 08 (pp. 1-6). Greece: ACM.
    DOI
    2008 Roughan, M., Tuke, S., & Maennel, O. (2008). Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti and other missing links: what we don't know about the AS graph. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 1-8). USA: IEEE.
    DOI Scopus41 WoS17
    2007 Bush, R., Hiebert, J., Maennel, O., Roughan, M., & Uhlig, S. (2007). Testing the reachability of (new) address space. In Proceedings of the 2007 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management (pp. 236-241). New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery.
    DOI Scopus20
    2007 Flavel, A., Roughan, M., Bean, N., & Maennel, O. (2007). Modeling BGP table fluctuations. In L. Mason, T. Drwiega, & J. Yan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC20 2007 Vol. 4516 LNCS (pp. 141-153). Berlin: Springer.
    DOI Scopus3 WoS2
    2007 Mühlbauer, W., Uhlig, S., Fu, B., Meulle, M., & Maennel, O. (2007). In search for an appropriate granularity to model routing policies. In ACM SIGCOMM 2007 Conference on Computer Communications (pp. 145-156). ACM.
    DOI Scopus42
    2006 Muhlbauer, W., Feldmann, A., Maennel, O., Roughan, M., & Uhlig, S. (2006). Building an AS-topology model that captures route diversity. In T. Anderson, & N. McKeown (Eds.), Proceedings of sigcomm 2006 Vol. 36 (pp. 195-206). USA: acm Press.
    DOI Scopus69 WoS44
    2004 Feldmann, A., Maennel, O., Mao, Z. M., Berger, A., & Maggs, B. (2004). Locating internet routing instabilities. In Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications (pp. 205-218). ACM.
    DOI
    2004 Feldmann, A., Kammenhuber, N., Maennel, O., Maggs, B., De Prisco, R., & Sundaram, R. (2004). A methodology for estimating interdomain Web traffic demand. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference IMC 2004 (pp. 322-335). ACM.
    DOI Scopus30
    2002 Maennel, O., & Feldmann, A. (2002). Realistic BGP traffic for test labs. In Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications (pp. 31-44). ACM.
    DOI
    - Orye, E., Visky, G., & Maennel, O. (2023). Analysing the Actual Use of Controller–Pilot Data Link Communications. In OpenSky 2022 (pp. 18). MDPI.
    DOI

  • Conference Items
    Year Citation
    2013 Ager, B., Balduzzi, M., Barlet-Ros, P., Carvalho, P., Casas, P., Celeda, P., . . . Xie, L. (2013). Welcome message from the WNM chairs. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN. Sydney, Australia: IEEE.
    DOI

  • Preprint
    Year Citation
    2025 Zheng, L. N., Zhang, W. E., Guo, M., Xu, M., Maennel, O., & Chen, W. (2025). Rethinking Gating Mechanism in Sparse MoE: Handling Arbitrary Modality
    Inputs with Confidence-Guided Gate.
    2025 Zheng, L. N., Zhang, W. E., Yue, L., Xu, M., Maennel, O., & Chen, W. (2025). Free-Knots Kolmogorov-Arnold Network: On the Analysis of Spline Knots
    and Advancing Stability.
    2025 Morgan, B., Horowitz, G., O'Connell, S., Schaik, S. V., Chuengsatiansup, C., Genkin, D., . . . Yarom, Y. (2025). Slice+Slice Baby: Generating Last-Level Cache Eviction Sets in the Blink
    of an Eye.
    2024 Zheng, L. N., Dong, C. G., Zhang, W. E., Yue, L., Xu, M., Maennel, O., & Chen, W. (2024). Understanding Why Large Language Models Can Be Ineffective in Time
    Series Analysis: The Impact of Modality Alignment.
    2024 Zheng, L. N., Li, Z., Dong, C. G., Zhang, W. E., Yue, L., Xu, M., . . . Chen, W. (2024). Irregularity-Informed Time Series Analysis: Adaptive Modelling of
    Spatial and Temporal Dynamics.

  • ARC Discovery Project “Towards knowledge discovery from imperfect and evolving data”, DP240103070, A$292k, (2024-2026).

  • 2023 DIGITAL-2021-SKILLS-01 #101083594 “CyberSecPro”, € 254k, (2022 - until Sep 2025).

  • 2020 H2020 ERA-Chair “MariCybERA”, Lead-PI & Coordinator,  € 2.5M, (2021-2025) on building a maritime cyber security centre in Estonia.

  • 2021 ADVANCES (Advancing human performance in cyber security), TalTech PI € 183k (2021-2023). 

  • 2020 Cyber Diplomacy (CYDIPLO), 3-year project in EAC/A02/2019 “Jean Monnet Networks”.  (https://cyberdiplomacy.net). 

  • 2020 Cybersecurity for Psychology, TalTech PI € 70k (2020-2023).

  • 2020 ACDICOM Advancing Cyber Defence by Improved Communication of Recognized Cyber Threat Situations, TalTech PI € 78k (2020-2024).

  • 2019 H2020 Cyber Security Competency Centres Project “ECHO”. 4-year project, €16M, 30 partners, TalTech’s part € 420k (2019-2022).

  • 2018 SmartCom / EU-EMPIR project, 3-year project, 14 European partners, €1.5M, TalTech’s part € 58k. (2018-2021).

  • 2017 PI on Archimedes Smart Specialization project with CybExer (cyber hygiene part 2; 3-year project; € 295K).

  • 2017 PI on Archimedes Smart Specialization project with GuardTime (BLT signature scheme; 2-years; € 222K).

  • PI on grants from the Estonian Government to run the C3S Cyber Security Summer School. 2015 € 100K, and for 2016 € 50K, for 2017 € 50K, for 2018 € 50K, and for 2020 € 50K.  

  • 2012 grant from Cisco: "Towards a higher level configuration specification language" as PI $105K.

  • 2009+2010 two grants from Cisco, CI jointly with Randy Bush, on "Explanation of BGP Update 'Background Noise' and 'Spikes' in the Internet": $105K and $104K + equipment. 

  • 2010 Capital Bid at Loughborough University, and various smaller grants, such as funding from Agilent Laboratories USA for router testing research and grant from Cisco, about "Adding Variability to the Test Lab".

Olaf Maennel received the Student-Led Teaching Awards from SET faculty in 2023.  He has also received the prestigious "Recognised Lecturer" teaching award from TalTech in 2022. Since 18 April 2012, he has been a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (#49233). 

At the University of Adelaide, Olaf has been teaching (since 2023): 

COMP SCI 3004 / 7064: Operating Systems
COMP SCI 3307: Secure Programming

At TalTech he has been responsible for multiple iterations of (2014-2023): 
ITC9010: Special Topics of Cyber Security I
ITC9020: Special Topics of Cyber Security II
IXX9601: Doctoral Seminar I, II & III 
ITC8070: Information Systems Attacks and Defence 
ITC8061: Network Protocol Design 
ITC8210: Human Aspects of Cyber Security
CNS.073: Cybersecurity in Aviation 

At Loughborough University, he has been responsible for multiple iterations of (2009-2014):
COP455: Network Systems 
COP502: Networks Lab
COP502: Building Secure Networks
COP532: Internet Architectures
COP532: Internet Protocols
COC190: Advanced Networking
COF181: Introduction to Programming II

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2025 Principal Supervisor Towards the fusion of heterogeneous information in-to security operations centers Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mrs Sara Pelinku
    2024 Co-Supervisor Leveraging Machine Learning Agents for Military Application Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Josh Dylan Francis
    2023 Principal Supervisor Hardware Acceleration for Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Bradley James Morgan

  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2006 - 2009 Co-Supervisor BGP, Not As Easy As 1-2-3 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ashley Flavel

  • Other Supervision Activities
    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2021 - ongoing Principal Supervisor On-Board Cyber Security Solution For Modern Ships Tallinn University of Technology Doctor's Degree Doctorate Full Time Gábor Visky
    2020 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Cyber Assured Autonomous Systems Tallinn University of Technology Doctor's Degree Doctorate Full Time Andrew James Roberts
    2018 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Managing Cyber Risk and Security in the Integrated Smart Port Environments, Tallinn University of Technology Doctor's Degree Doctorate Part Time Dan Heering
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Evaluating Cybersecurity-Related Competences Through Simulation Exercises Tallinn University of Technology Doctor's Degree Doctorate Full Time Sten Mäses
    2015 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Using Emerging Technologies for Cyber Defence Situational Awareness Tallinn University of Technology Doctor's Degree Doctorate Part Time Kaur Kullman
    2014 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Automating Defences against Cyber Operations in Computer Networks Tallinn University of Technology School Doctor's Degree Doctorate Full Time Mauno Pihelgas
    2009 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Methods for Safe, Flexible and Secure Policy Based Routing Purdue University Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Despoina Perouli
    2009 - 2013 Co-Supervisor A Functional and Performance-Oriented Comparison of Transition Mechanisms for Internet Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 Protocol University of Ljubljana - Doctorate Full Time Nejc Skoberne
  • Position: Professor
  • Phone: 83132038
  • Email: olaf.maennel@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor Level Four
  • Room: 4.47
  • Org Unit: School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
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