I am an Assistant Professor in the Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services group of the university of Twente.

My research focuses on security automation and the integration of machine learning and AI techniques into security solutions. More specifically, I am interested in the application of large language models (LLMs), network-based intrusion detection and the continuous integration of such systems in dynamic, rapidly changing environments. To this end, I focus on anomaly detection, contextual security analysis using deep neural networks, and the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for sharing cyber threat intelligence.

I strongly believe in open, collaborative science, where researchers can easily and quickly access previous research. To that end, I maintain several security tools that have been developed through research efforts.

Finally, I love Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions, and I am involved in the organization of the Twente Hacking Squad, the University of Twente's student hacking team.

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2026

Knowing your weaknesses is your greatest strength: Mapping CVE to CWE by leveraging CWE Hierarchy and LLMs (2026)In ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS ’26). ACM Press. Simonetto, S., Oostveen, R., van Ede, T., Bosch, P. & Jonker, W.https://doi.org/10.1145/3779208.3785376Head Count: Privacy-Preserving Face-Based Crowd Monitoring (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Marzani, F., van Ede, T., Heijenk, G. & van Steen, M.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.14250

2025

GenSIaC: Toward Security-Aware Infrastructure-as-Code Generation with Large Language Models (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Li, Y., Grella, M., Nahmias, D., Engelberg, G., Klein, D., Guizzardi, G., van Ede, T. & Continella, A.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.12385Beyond CWEs: Mapping Weaknesses in Unstructured Threat Intelligence Text (2025)In Cryptology and Network Security: 24th International Conference, CANS 2025, Osaka, Japan, November 17–20, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 493-517) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 16351). Springer. Simonetto, S., Oostveen, R., Van Ede, T., Bosch, P. & Jonker, W.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-4434-9_23What Matters Most in Vulnerabilities? Key Term Extraction for CVE-to-CWE Mapping with LLMs (2025)In Cryptology and Network Security: 24th International Conference, CANS 2025, Osaka, Japan, November 17–20, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 467-492) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 16351). Springer. Simonetto, S., Oostveen, R., Van Ede, T., Bosch, P. & Jonker, W.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-4434-9_22SoK: Automated TTP Extraction from CTI Reports – Are We There Yet? (2025)In Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium: August 13-15, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA (pp. 4621-4641). USENIX Association. Büchel, M., Paladini, T., Longari, S., Carminati, M., Zanero, S., Binyamini, H., Engelberg, G., Klein, D., Guizzardi, G., Caselli, M., Continella, A., van Steen, M., Peter, A. & van Ede, T.https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/buechelInterdisciplinary Research Project 'AI Shield' (2025)In The 8!" Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet 2024): AI for Cybersecurity (pp. 268-271) (Proceedings of the 8th Cyber Security in Networking Conference: AI for Cybersecurity, CSNet 2024). IEEE. Van Ede, T., Mulder, T. & Moyakine, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNet64211.2024.10851746Beyond CVEs: Mapping Weaknesses in Unstructured Threat Intelligence Text (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. Simonetto, S., Oostveen, R., van Ede, T. S., Bosch, P. & Jonker, W.Knowing your weaknesses is your greatest strength: Mapping CVE to CWE by leveraging CWE Hierarchy and LLMs (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. Simonetto, S., Oostveen, R., van Ede, T. S., Bosch, P. & Jonker, W.Stop Watching Me! Moving from Data Protection to Privacy Preservation in Crowd Monitoring (2025)In Availability, Reliability and Security: 20th International Conference, ARES 2025, Ghent, Belgium, August 11–14, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 46-67) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15992). Springer. Marzani, F., van Ede, T., Heijenk, G. & van Steen, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00624-0_3

Other contributions

Bortolameotti, R., van Ede, T., Continella, A., Everts, M.H., Jonker, W., Hartel, P. & Peter, A. (2019, October). Victim-Aware Adaptive Covert Channels. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. Springer.

Bortolameotti, R., van Ede, T., Caselli, M., Everts, M. H., Hartel, P., Hofstede, R., Jonker, W. & Peter, A. (2017, December). DECANTeR: DEteCtion of Anomalous outbouNd HTTP TRaffic by Passive Application Fingerprinting. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (pp. 373-386). ACM.

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Zilverling (building no. 11), room 2027
Hallenweg 19
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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