Veelasha Moonsamy is an Assistant Professor in the Software Systems group at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. In 2015, she received her PhD degree from Deakin University (Australia) under the supervision of Prof. Lynn Batten. Her thesis was titled 'Security and Privacy of Users' Personal Information on Smartphones'. Her research interests revolves around security and privacy on mobile devices, in particular side- and covert-channel attacks, malware detection, and mitigation of information leaks at application and hardware level.