Professor Jens Myrup Pedersen

Biography

Jens Myrup Pedersen is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. After finishing his M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer science he did his PhD in the field of network planning, and through close collaboration with Danish ISPs the work developed into focusing on cyber security. Today his research is focusing mainly on security from a network point of view, and includes network-based detection of malicious activity using e.g. machine learning and DNS traffic analysis – still carried out in close collaboration with industrial partners. Together with his students he has been exploring the security weaknesses of a number of embedded and IoT devices, including demonstration of poor security in state-of-the art Industry 4.0 production lines.  He is an active player in the development of cyber security educations in Denmark, and is currently leading the work of establishing a Danish National Training Platform. He has a strong interest in internationalisation of education and promotion of collaboration between students across countries and disciplines – an interest that has led to coordination of two Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships. In addition to his employment at Aalborg University he works as external lecturer at Riga Technical University, Latvia, he is board member in companies related to energy and infrastructure, and he also sits on the board of the Society of Telecommunications within the Danish Society of Engineers.