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Jan-Erik Ekberg

Jan-Erik Ekberg

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Computer Science

D-Index
32
Citations
4737
World Ranking
13123
National Ranking
119

Overview

Jan-Erik Ekberg is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research contributions also span several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Hardware and Architecture, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Ekberg's main research topics cover areas related to security and verification in computing, advanced malware detection techniques, cryptographic implementations and security, advanced authentication protocols security, user authentication and security systems, embedded systems design techniques, and diamond and carbon-based materials research.

The scientist has published papers in multiple venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Foundations and Trends® in Privacy and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Security & Privacy

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Jan-Erik Ekberg include:

  • "Hardware Platform Security for Mobile Devices," 2022, Foundations and Trends® in Privacy and Security
  • "Toward Register Spilling Security Using LLVM and ARM Pointer Authentication," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • "Cage: Hardware-Accelerated Safe WebAssembly," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Color My World: Deterministic Tagging for Memory Safety," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Attestation with Constrained Relying Party," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Jan-Erik Ekberg has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Hans Liljestrand
  • Arto Niemi
  • Rémi Denis-Courmont
  • Vasile Adrian Bogdan Pop
  • Lachlan J. Gunn

Best Publications

  • Implementation of charging in a telecommunications system

    Phillip Ginzboorg;Jan-Erik Ekberg;Antti Yla-Jaaski

  • C-FLAT: Control-Flow Attestation for Embedded Systems Software

    Tigist Abera;N. Asokan;Lucas Davi;Jan-Erik Ekberg

  • Content distribution & communication system for enhancing service distribution in short range radio environment

    Outi Markki;Jan-Erik Ekberg;Heikki Kokkinenh;Mika Kuoppala

  • Implementation of access service

    Philip Ginzboorg;Jan-Erik Gustav Ekberg;Pekka Johannes Laitinen;Antti Ylä-J{umlaut over }ski

  • Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel.

    Nitesh Saxena;Jan-Erik Ekberg;Kari Kostiainen;N. Asokan

  • Administration of wireless local area networks

    Nadarajah Asokan;Philip Ginzboorg;Seamus Moloney;Kari Ti. Kostiainen

  • Electronic payment schemes in a mobile environment for short-range transactions

    Sampo Sovio;Jan-Erik Ekberg;Nadarajah Asokan;Pekka Lahtinen

  • Device detection and service discovery system and method for a mobile ad hoc communications network

    Jan-Erik Ekberg;Pekka Lahtinen;Jaakko Lipasti

  • On-board credentials with open provisioning

    Kari Kostiainen;Jan-Erik Ekberg;N. Asokan;Aarne Rantala

  • Registration for mobile nodes in wireless internet protocols

    Martin Bergenwall;Jan-Erik Ekberg;Patrik Flykt;Henry Haverinen

  • Methods, apparatuses and program products for initializing a security association based on physical proximity in a wireless ad-hoc network

    Jan-Erik Ekberg;Philip Ginzboorg;Sampo Sovio

  • The Untapped Potential of Trusted Execution Environments on Mobile Devices

    Jan-Erik Ekberg;Kari Kostiainen;N. Asokan

  • System and method for dynamically enforcing digital rights management rules

    Nadarajah Asokan;Jan-Erik Ekberg;Jorma Stenman;Jaakko Teinila

  • Trusted execution environments on mobile devices

    Jan-Erik Ekberg;Kari Kostiainen;N. Asokan

  • Apparatus, and associated method, for integrating operation of packet radio communication systems

    Jianhua Wang;Arto Karppanen;Marko Suoknuuti;Jaakko Teinila

  • Method and apparatus for authenticating a mobile device

    Jan-Erik Ekberg;Kari Kostiainen;Pekka Laitinen;Ville Aarni

  • Application control in peer-to-peer ad-hoc communication networks

    Jan-Erik Ekberg;Pekka Lahtinen

  • Mechanism for improving connection control in peer-to-peer ad-hoc networks

    Jan-Erik Ekberg

  • Transaction & payment system securing remote authentication/validation of transactions from a transaction provider

    Jan-Erik Ekberg

  • Real-time traffic shaper with keep-alive property for best-effort traffic

    Vilho I. Raisanen;Jan-Erik Ekberg

  • PAC it up: Towards Pointer Integrity using ARM Pointer Authentication

    Hans Liljestrand;Thomas Nyman;Kui Wang;Carlos Chinea Perez

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadarajah Asokan
Nadarajah Asokan University of Waterloo
Mikko A. Uusitalo
Mikko A. Uusitalo Nokia (United States)
Tommi Mikkonen
Tommi Mikkonen University of Jyväskylä
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt
Antti Ylä-Jääski
Antti Ylä-Jääski Aalto University
Lucas Davi
Lucas Davi University of Duisburg-Essen
Nitesh Saxena
Nitesh Saxena Texas A&M University
Gene Tsudik
Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine
Benny Pinkas
Benny Pinkas Bar-Ilan University
Jukka Reunamäki
Jukka Reunamäki Nokia (Finland)

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