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Frank Piessens

Frank Piessens

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Computer Science

D-Index
63
Citations
14275
World Ranking
2781
National Ranking
26

Overview

Frank Piessens is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, specializing in computer science with a focus on security and verification in computing. Their body of work encompasses various subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, signal processing, electrical and electronic engineering, and hardware and architecture.

The scientist's recent publications highlight ongoing contributions to the field of computer security. Selected recent papers include:

  • Side-Channel Attacks: A Short Tour (2024), published in IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Plundervolt: How a Little Bit of Undervolting Can Create a Lot of Trouble (2020), IEEE Security & Privacy
  • CopyCat: Controlled Instruction-Level Attacks on Enclaves (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Mind the Gap: Studying the Insecurity of Provably Secure Embedded Trusted Execution Architectures (2022), 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • Robust authentication for automotive control networks through covert channels (2021), Computer Networks

Co-authorship is a notable aspect of Piessens' research activities. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jo Van Bulck (13 co-authored papers)
  • David Oswald (7 co-authored papers)
  • Job Noorman (6 co-authored papers)
  • Jan Tobias Mühlberg (6 co-authored papers)
  • Fritz Alder (6 co-authored papers)

The main publication venues for Piessens' work include:

  • IEEE Security & Privacy (4 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (4 publications)
  • Lirias (KU Leuven) (3 publications)
  • ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (2 publications)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University) (2 publications)

The range of topics covered in Piessens' research spans several areas:

  • Security and Verification in Computing (44 publications)
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (22 publications)
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance (12 publications)
  • Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security (10 publications)
  • Logic, Programming, and Type Systems (10 publications)
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (8 publications)
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (8 publications)

Best Publications

  • Foreshadow: extracting the keys to the intel SGX kingdom with transient out-of-order execution

    Jo Van Bulck;Marina Minkin;Ofir Weisse;Daniel Genkin

  • Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting

    N. Nikiforakis;A. Kapravelos;W. Joosen;C. Kruegel

  • Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2

    Mathy Vanhoef;Frank Piessens

  • VeriFast: a powerful, sound, predictable, fast verifier for C and java

    Bart Jacobs;Jan Smans;Pieter Philippaerts;Frédéric Vogels

  • FPDetective: dusting the web for fingerprinters

    Gunes Acar;Marc Juarez;Nick Nikiforakis;Claudia Diaz

  • You are what you include: large-scale evaluation of remote javascript inclusions

    Nick Nikiforakis;Luca Invernizzi;Alexandros Kapravelos;Steven Van Acker

  • Noninterference through Secure Multi-execution

    Dominique Devriese;Frank Piessens

  • Plundervolt: Software-based Fault Injection Attacks against Intel SGX

    Kit Murdock;David Oswald;Flavio D. Garcia;Jo Van Bulck

  • Why MAC Address Randomization is not Enough: An Analysis of Wi-Fi Network Discovery Mechanisms

    Mathy Vanhoef;Célestin Matte;Mathieu Cunche;Leonardo S. Cardoso

  • Telling your secrets without page faults: stealthy page table-based attacks on enclaved execution

    Jo Van Bulck;Nico Weichbrodt;Rüdiger Kapitza;Frank Piessens

  • Sancus: low-cost trustworthy extensible networked devices with a zero-software trusted computing base

    Job Noorman;Pieter Agten;Wilfried Daniels;Raoul Strackx

  • Fallout: Leaking Data on Meltdown-resistant CPUs

    Claudio Canella;Daniel Genkin;Lukas Giner;Daniel Gruss

  • LVI: Hijacking Transient Execution through Microarchitectural Load Value Injection

    Jo Van Bulck;Daniel Moghimi;Michael Schwarz;Moritz Lippi

  • Breaking the memory secrecy assumption

    Raoul Strackx;Yves Younan;Pieter Philippaerts;Frank Piessens

  • FlowFox: a web browser with flexible and precise information flow control

    Willem De Groef;Dominique Devriese;Nick Nikiforakis;Frank Piessens

  • SGX-Step: A Practical Attack Framework for Precise Enclave Execution Control

    Jo Van Bulck;Frank Piessens;Raoul Strackx

  • A Systematic Evaluation of Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses

    Claudio Canella;Jo Van Bulck;Michael Schwarz;Moritz Lipp

  • Implicit Dynamic Frames: Combining Dynamic Frames and Separation Logic

    Jan Smans;Bart Jacobs;Frank Piessens

  • Foreshadow-NG: Breaking the virtual memory abstraction with transient out-of-order execution

    Ofir Weisse;Jo Van Bulck;Marina Minkin;Daniel Genkin

  • A quick tour of the VeriFast program verifier

    Bart Jacobs;Jan Smans;Frank Piessens

Frequent Co-Authors

Wouter Joosen
Wouter Joosen KU Leuven
Bart Jacobs
Bart Jacobs Radboud University
Nick Nikiforakis
Nick Nikiforakis Stony Brook University
Fabio Massacci
Fabio Massacci Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wolfram Schulte
Wolfram Schulte Microsoft (United States)
Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel KU Leuven
Daniel Genkin
Daniel Genkin Georgia Institute of Technology
Yuval Yarom
Yuval Yarom Ruhr University Bochum
Daniel Gruss
Daniel Gruss Graz University of Technology

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