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Bart Preneel

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Computer Science
Belgium
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
95
Citations
32409
World Ranking
469
National Ranking
3

Bart Preneel publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bart Preneel sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 810 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Bart Preneel D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bart Preneel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Bart Preneel is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and specializes in computer science with a focus on cryptography, security, and privacy-preserving technologies. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including artificial intelligence, information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, electrical and electronic engineering, as well as hardware and architecture.

The main topics of Bart Preneel's work cover diverse aspects of cryptographic implementations and security, chaos-based image and signal encryption, cryptography and data security, coding theory and cryptography, privacy-preserving technologies in data, advanced malware detection techniques, and physical unclonable functions and hardware security.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Bart Preneel include:

  • Dave Singelée
  • Lennert Wouters
  • Benedikt Gierlichs
  • Aysajan Abidin
  • Meiqin Wang

Bart Preneel has published in several venues repeatedly throughout their career. These locations include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • IEEE Access
  • Lirias (KU Leuven)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Among recent papers written or co-authored by Bart Preneel are:

  • Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Survey of Security and Privacy Issues in V2X Communication Systems, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Revisiting a Methodology for Efficient CNN Architectures in Profiling Attacks, 2020, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Revisiting a Methodology for Efficient CNN Architectures in Profiling Attacks, 2020, Lirias (KU Leuven)
  • Deploying decentralized, privacy-preserving proximity tracing, 2022, Communications of the ACM

Bart Preneel's contributions also include work in academic publishing through book chapters, for example in a publication by Springer Science+Business Media titled Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2021.

Throughout their career, Bart Preneel has received recognition such as being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2000

    Bart Preneel

  • Hash Functions Based on Block Ciphers: A Synthetic Approach

    Bart Preneel;René Govaerts;Joos Vandewalle

  • Towards measuring anonymity

    Claudia Díaz;Stefaan Seys;Joris Claessens;Bart Preneel

  • Mutual Information Analysis

    Benedikt Gierlichs;Lejla Batina;Pim Tuyls;Bart Preneel

  • RIPEMD-160: A Strengthened Version of RIPEMD

    Hans Dobbertin;Antoon Bosselaers;Bart Preneel

  • A privacy threat analysis framework: supporting the elicitation and fulfillment of privacy requirements

    Mina Deng;Kim Wuyts;Riccardo Scandariato;Bart Preneel

  • ARM: anonymous routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

    Stefaan Seys;Bart Preneel

  • Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

    Nicky Mouha;Qingju Wang;Dawu Gu;Bart Preneel

  • FPDetective: dusting the web for fingerprinters

    Gunes Acar;Marc Juarez;Nick Nikiforakis;Claudia Diaz

  • MDx-MAC and Building Fast MACs from Hash Functions

    Bart Prenel;Paul C. van Oorschot

  • The Cipher SHARK

    Vincent Rijmen;Joan Daemen;Bart Preneel;Anton Bossalaers

  • Power-analysis attack on an ASIC AES implementation

    S.B. Ors;F. Gurkaynak;E. Oswald;B. Preneel

  • Propagation characteristics of Boolean functions

    Bart Preneel;Werner Van Leekwijck;Luc Van Linden;René Govaerts

  • Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2011

    Bart Preneel;Tsuyoshi Takagi

  • Cryptographic hash functions

    Bart Preneel

  • Mutual Information Analysis A Generic Side-Channel Distinguisher

    Benedikt Gierlichs;Lejla Batina;Pim Tuyls;Bart Preneel

  • Chaskey: An Efficient MAC Algorithm for 32-bit Microcontrollers

    Nicky Mouha;Bart Mennink;Anthony Van Herrewege;Dai Watanabe

  • On the Security of Today's Online Electronic Banking Systems

    Joris Claessens;Valentin Dem;Danny De Cock;Bart Preneel

  • Authentication and payment in future mobile systems

    Günther Horn;Bart Preneel

  • Topics in Cryptology — CT-RSA 2002

    Bart Preneel

  • Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

    Carmela Troncoso;Mathias Payer;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Marcel Salathé

Frequent Co-Authors

Lejla Batina
Lejla Batina Radboud University
Alex Biryukov
Alex Biryukov University of Luxembourg
Claudia Diaz
Claudia Diaz KU Leuven
Orr Dunkelman
Orr Dunkelman University of Haifa
Lars R. Knudsen
Lars R. Knudsen University of Southern Denmark

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