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David Basin

David Basin

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
63
Citations
17405
World Ranking
2738
National Ranking
63

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to Information Security and Formal Methods

Overview

David Basin is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland with a research focus centered on computer science, particularly in security and formal verification. Their scholarly output spans 159 publications in the field of computer science and includes noteworthy work in various subfields such as artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, information systems, computational theory and mathematics, and sociology and political science.

The main thematic areas of Basin's research cover security and verification in computing, formal methods in verification, distributed systems and fault tolerance, advanced authentication protocols security, user authentication and security systems, logic, programming and type systems, as well as advanced database systems and queries.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by David Basin include:

  • "Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Internet backbones in space," 2020, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • "CryptHOL: Game-Based Proofs in Higher-Order Logic," 2020, Journal of Cryptology
  • "Tamarin: Verification of Large-Scale, Real-World, Cryptographic Protocols," 2022, IEEE Security & Privacy
  • "Igloo: soundly linking compositional refinement and separation logic for distributed system verification," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

David Basin frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Basin's research, with frequent co-authors including Adrian Perrig, Markus Legner, Ralf Sasse, Laurent Chuat, and David Hausheer.

Basin has also contributed to book publications under Springer Nature, including "The Complete Guide to SCION" (2022) and "Modeling and Analyzing Security Protocols with Tamarin" (2025).

Their contributions to the field have been recognized through honors such as the ACM Fellow award in 2018 for contributions to information security and formal methods.

Best Publications

  • The AVISPA tool for the automated validation of internet security protocols and applications

    A. Armando;D. Basin;Y. Boichut;Y. Chevalier

  • SecureUML: A UML-Based Modeling Language for Model-Driven Security

    Torsten Lodderstedt;David A. Basin;Jürgen Doser

  • The TAMARIN prover for the symbolic analysis of security protocols

    Simon Meier;Benedikt Schmidt;Cas Cremers;David Basin

  • Model driven security: From UML models to access control infrastructures

    David Basin;Jürgen Doser;Torsten Lodderstedt

  • OFMC: A symbolic model checker for security protocols

    David Basin;Sebastian Mödersheim;Luca Viganò

  • An information-theoretic model for adaptive side-channel attacks

    Boris Köpf;David Basin

  • A Formal Analysis of 5G Authentication

    David Basin;Jannik Dreier;Lucca Hirschi;Saša Radomirovic

  • Distributed usage control

    Alexander Pretschner;Manuel Hilty;David Basin

  • Automated Analysis of Diffie-Hellman Protocols and Advanced Security Properties

    B. Schmidt;S. Meier;C. Cremers;D. Basin

  • An on-the-fly model-checker for security protocol analysis

    David Basin;Sebastian Mödersheim;Luca Vigano

  • A policy language for distributed usage control

    M. Hilty;A. Pretschner;D. Basin;C. Schaefer

  • Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

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

  • Rippling: Meta-Level Guidance for Mathematical Reasoning

    Alan Bundy;David Basin;Dieter Hutter;Andrew Ireland

  • Model driven security for process-oriented systems

    David Basin;Jürgen Doser;Torsten Lodderstedt

  • Monitoring Metric First-Order Temporal Properties

    David Basin;Felix Klaedtke;Samuel Müller;Eugen Zălinescu

  • SoK: Secure Data Deletion

    J. Reardon;D. Basin;S. Capkun

  • On obligations

    Manuel Hilty;David Basin;Alexander Pretschner

  • Logic Program Synthesis via Proof Planning

    Ina Kraan;David A. Basin;Alan Bundy

  • Automated analysis of security-design models

    David Basin;Manuel Clavel;Jürgen Doser;Marina Egea

  • Secure neighborhood discovery: a fundamental element for mobile ad hoc networking

    P. Papadimitratos;M. Poturalski;P. Schaller;P. Lafourcade

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Bundy
Alan Bundy University of Edinburgh
Srdjan Capkun
Srdjan Capkun ETH Zurich
Cas Cremers
Cas Cremers University of Oxford
Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh University of New South Wales
Adrian Perrig
Adrian Perrig ETH Zurich
Michael Waidner
Michael Waidner Technical University of Darmstadt
Kazuo Takaragi
Kazuo Takaragi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Alexander Pretschner
Alexander Pretschner Technical University of Munich
Birgit Pfitzmann
Birgit Pfitzmann IBM (United States)

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