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These webpages contain information on the various educational programmes and courses offered at or by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), the computer science and artificial intelligence department of Leiden University.

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Zidaric, dr. N.

This page is for internal use at LIACS only. The information below may be incomplete.

Courses

Year	Course	BSc/MSc	Staff	Programmes	ECTS	Level	Period
2026‑2027	Essentials of Computer Systems 1 (4031ESCS1Y)	BSc	Zidaric, dr. N.	I&E, DSAI	3	200
2026‑2027	Essentials of Computer Systems 2 (4031ESCS2Y)	BSc	Chen, dr. Q., Zidaric, dr. N.	I&E, DSAI	3	200
2026‑2027	Hardware Accelerator Design (4343HACDE)	MSc	Zidaric, dr. N.	CS	6	500
2025‑2026	Essentials of Computer Systems 1 (4031ESCS1Y)	BSc	Zidaric, dr. N.	I&E, DSAI	3	200
2025‑2026	Essentials of Computer Systems 2 (4031ESCS2Y)	BSc	Zidaric, dr. N.	I&E, DSAI	3	200
2024‑2025	Essentials of Computing Systems (4032ESSCS)	BSc	Zidaric, dr. N.	I&E, DSAI	6	200

Supervised theses

Information below is sourced from the LIACS Thesis Repository.

Year	Student	Thesis	Supervisors	Programme
2024‑2025	Bazba, A. (Alexander)	Secure Machine Learning: A Comparative Study of Special Preprocessing ...	Makri, dr.ir. E., Zidaric, dr. N.	DSAI
2024‑2025	Hotak, N. A. (Nisar Ahmad)	Developers’ perceived impact of generative AI approaches on code sec...	Gadyatskaya, dr. O., Zidaric, dr. N., A. Kudriavtseva	IiB&PS
2024‑2025	Smith, B.S. (Bruno)	Exploring the Role, Effectiveness and Evaluation of Non-technical Prac...	Gadyatskaya, dr. O., Zidaric, dr. N., A. Kudriavtseva MSc	IiB&PS
2024‑2025	Ma, Q. (Qiuxuan)	Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning in the Training Phase: A Comparati...	Makri, dr.ir. E., Zidaric, dr. N.	CS
2024‑2025	Tian, X. (Xinzhe)	GitHub PoC Early Attention Trend as a Signal for Vulnerability Triage	Gadyatskaya, dr. O., Zidaric, dr. N.	CS
2024‑2025	Badloe, V. (Vrinda)	Relevant e-health application factors for the HHQA-model	Zidaric, dr. N., Dr. Rosain Tossaint	Inf
2024‑2025	Treffers, B. (Bas)	PassGAN and Hashcat - A Look at How Traditional Password Crackers Can ...	Makri, dr.ir. E., Zidaric, dr. N.	Inf
2023‑2024	Alkema, J.D.C. (Joris Duurt Cornelis)	Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks in the Presence of Fault ...	Mentens, prof.dr.ir. N., Zidaric, dr. N.	DSAI
2023‑2024	Wu, B. (Bingxuan)	Early Design Stage Power Consumption Estimation of VLSI Circuits	Stefanov, dr. T.P., Zidaric, dr. N.	CS
2023‑2024	Beerens, P. (Pjotr)	Families of Defining Polynomials of Finite Fields through Prime Power ...	dr. P.J. Bruin, Zidaric, dr. N.	Inf
2023‑2024	Wit, N. de (Niels)	Power Leakage of AES Implementations	Zidaric, dr. N., Sajadi	Inf
2022‑2023	Remmerswaal, Mick	Deep Reinforcement Learning for Profiled Side-Channel Attacks Applying...	Mentens, prof.dr.ir. N., Zidaric, dr. N.	CS
2021‑2022	Remmerswaal, M.	Deep Reinforcement Learning for Profiled Side Channel Attacks – Appl...	Mentens, prof.dr.ir. N., Zidaric, dr. N.	CS

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