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François-Xavier Standaert

François-Xavier Standaert

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Computer Science
Belgium
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
80
Citations
19326
World Ranking
1103
National Ranking
12

François-Xavier Standaert 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 François-Xavier Standaert sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 393 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

François-Xavier Standaert 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 François-Xavier Standaert sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

François-Xavier Standaert is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hardware and Architecture, Signal Processing, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their recent work includes publications in various venues, highlighting a consistent contribution to specialized conferences and journals. Notable recent papers are:

  • Trivially and Efficiently Composing Masked Gadgets With Probe Isolating Non-Interference (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Hardware Private Circuits: From Trivial Composition to Full Verification (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Spook: Sponge-Based Leakage-Resistant Authenticated Encryption with a Masked Tweakable Block Cipher (2020), published in IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • Provably Secure Hardware Masking in the Transition- and Glitch-Robust Probing Model: Better Safe than Sorry (2021), published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Understanding Screaming Channels: From a Detailed Analysis to Improved Attacks (2020), published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

Their frequent co-authors include Gaëtan Cassiers, Olivier Bronchain, Charles Momin, Davide Bellizia, and Thomas Peters, reflecting ongoing collaborations within their research community.

François-Xavier Standaert contributes regularly to several publication venues, including:

  • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
  • IACR Communications in Cryptology
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

They also have book publications with Springer Science+Business Media, notably contributing to multiple editions of "Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2021."

The scope of their research topics includes:

  • Cryptographic Implementations and Security
  • Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
  • Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
  • Coding theory and cryptography
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Cryptography and Data Security

Best Publications

  • A Unified Framework for the Analysis of Side-Channel Key Recovery Attacks

    François-Xavier Standaert;Tal G. Malkin;Moti Yung

  • A Formal Study of Power Variability Issues and Side-Channel Attacks for Nanoscale Devices

    Mathieu Renauld;François-Xavier Standaert;Nicolas Veyrat-Charvillon;Dina Kamel

  • On the Energy Cost of Communication and Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks

    G. de Meulenaer;F. Gosset;F.-X. Standaert;O. Pereira

  • Mutual Information Analysis: a Comprehensive Study

    Lejla Batina;Benedikt Gierlichs;Emmanuel Prouff;Matthieu Rivain

  • Template attacks in principal subspaces

    C. Archambeau;E. Peeters;F. X. Standaert;J. J. Quisquater

  • Introduction to Side-Channel Attacks

    François-Xavier Standaert

  • Mutual Information Analysis: How, When and Why?

    Nicolas Veyrat-Charvillon;François-Xavier Standaert

  • The World is Not Enough: Another Look on Second-Order DPA

    François-Xavier Standaert;Nicolas Veyrat-Charvillon;Elisabeth Oswald;Benedikt Gierlichs

  • SEA: a scalable encryption algorithm for small embedded applications

    François-Xavier Standaert;Gilles Piret;Neil Gershenfeld;Jean-Jacques Quisquater

  • One for all - all for one: unifying standard differential power analysis attacks

    Stefan Mangard;Elisabeth Oswald;François-Xavier Standaert

  • Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems -- CHES 2010

    Stefan Mangard;François-Xavier Standaert

  • Using Subspace-Based Template Attacks to Compare and Combine Power and Electromagnetic Information Leakages

    François-Xavier Standaert;Cedric Archambeau

  • Power and electromagnetic analysis: improved model, consequences and comparisons

    Eric Peeters;François-Xavier Standaert;Jean-Jacques Quisquater

  • Compact and efficient encryption/decryption module for FPGA implementation of the AES Rijndael very well suited for small embedded applications

    G. Rouvroy;F.-X. Standaert;J.-J. Quisquater;J.-D. Legat

  • Shuffling against side-channel attacks: a comprehensive study with cautionary note

    Nicolas Veyrat-Charvillon;Marcel Medwed;Stéphanie Kerckhof;François-Xavier Standaert

  • A Formalization of the Security Features of Physical Functions

    Frederik Armknecht;Roel Maes;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;François-Xavier Standaert

  • Univariate Side Channel Attacks and Leakage Modeling.

    Julien Doget;Emmanuel Prouff;Matthieu Rivain;François-Xavier Standaert

  • The Swiss-Knife RFID Distance Bounding Protocol

    Chong Hee Kim;Gildas Avoine;François Koeune;François-Xavier Standaert

  • LS-Designs: Bitslice Encryption for Efficient Masked Software Implementations

    Vincent Grosso;Gaëtan Leurent;Gaëtan Leurent;François-Xavier Standaert;Kerem Varıcı

  • Efficient implementation of Rijndael encryption in reconfigurable hardware: Improvements and design tradeoffs

    Francois-Xavier Standaert;Gael Rouvroy;Jean-Jacques Quisquater;Jean-Didier Legat

  • SEA: A scalable encryption algorithm for small embedded applications

    François-Xavier Standaert;Jean-Jacques Quisquater;G. Piret;N Gershenfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Jean-Jacques Quisquater Université Catholique de Louvain
Sebastian Faust
Sebastian Faust Technical University of Darmstadt
Denis Flandre
Denis Flandre Université Catholique de Louvain
Francesco Regazzoni
Francesco Regazzoni Polytechnic University of Milan
Elisabeth Oswald
Elisabeth Oswald University of Klagenfurt
Stefan Mangard
Stefan Mangard Graz University of Technology
Moti Yung
Moti Yung Columbia University
Amir Moradi
Amir Moradi Technical University of Darmstadt
Claude Carlet
Claude Carlet Paris 8 University

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