2026 Lejla Batina: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	45	7180	6970	116	107	248	8628

Overview

Lejla Batina is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands, focusing mainly on computer science with an emphasis on cryptographic implementations and security.

Their research spans several fields and subfields including:

Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Hardware and Architecture
Signal Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Batina's work addresses multiple main topics:

Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Coding theory and cryptography
Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic

A selection of recent papers with publication year and venue includes:

"SoK: Deep Learning-based Physical Side-channel Analysis", 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
"Keep it Unsupervised: Horizontal Attacks Meet Deep Learning", 2020, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
"A Compact and Scalable Hardware/Software Co-design of SIKE", 2020, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
"SoK", 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
"Systematic Side-Channel Analysis of Curve25519 with Machine Learning", 2020, Journal of Hardware and Systems Security

Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Radboud Repository (Radboud University)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering

Batina has notable collaborations with co-authors including:

Stjepan Picek
Igor Armendariz
Ileana Buhan
Unai Rioja
Servio Paguada

In book publishing, Batina has contributed to several titles under Springer Science+Business Media, with works spanning applied cryptography, network security, and artificial intelligence. Notable book publications include but are not limited to:

Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
Security and Artificial Intelligence (2022)
Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering (2020, 2022)
Applications and Techniques in Information Security (2020)
Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2022 (2022)

Best Publications

Mutual Information Analysis

Benedikt Gierlichs;Lejla Batina;Pim Tuyls;Bart Preneel

806
Citations
RFID-Tags for Anti-Counterfeiting

Pim Tuyls;Lejla Batina

661
Citations
Mutual Information Analysis: a Comprehensive Study

Lejla Batina;Benedikt Gierlichs;Emmanuel Prouff;Matthieu Rivain

381
Citations
Public Key Cryptography for RFID-Tags

Lejla Batina;Jorge Guajardo;Tim Kerins;Nele Mentens

340
Citations
Elliptic-Curve-Based Security Processor for RFID

Yong Ki Lee;K. Sakiyama;L. Batina;I. Verbauwhede

296
Citations
Mutual Information Analysis A Generic Side-Channel Distinguisher

Benedikt Gierlichs;Lejla Batina;Pim Tuyls;Bart Preneel

283
Citations
A very compact Perfectly masked S-box for AES

D. Canright;Lejla Batina

221
Citations
Low-Cost elliptic curve cryptography for wireless sensor networks

Lejla Batina;Nele Mentens;Kazuo Sakiyama;Bart Preneel

188
Citations
{CSI} {NN}: Reverse Engineering of Neural Network Architectures Through Electromagnetic Side Channel

Lejla Batina;Shivam Bhasin;Dirmanto Jap;Stjepan Picek

168
Citations
Hardware architectures for public key cryptography

Lejla Batina;Siddika Berna Örs;Bart Preneel;Joos Vandewalle

168
Citations
EC-RAC (ECDLP Based Randomized Access Control): Provably Secure RFID authentication protocol

Yong Ki Lee;L. Batina;I. Verbauwhede

168
Citations
A systematic evaluation of compact hardware implementations for the rijndael s-box

Nele Mentens;Lejla Batina;Bart Preneel;Ingrid Verbauwhede

164
Citations
Identification via location-profiling in GSM networks

Yoni De Mulder;George Danezis;Lejla Batina;Bart Preneel

151
Citations
Hardware implementation of an elliptic curve processor over GF(p)

S.B. Ors;L. Batina;B. Preneel;J. Vandewalle

144
Citations
An elliptic curve processor suitable for RFID-tags

Lejla Batina;Jorge Guajardo;Tim Kerins;Nele Mentens

144
Citations
SoK: Deep Learning-based Physical Side-channel Analysis.

Stjepan Picek;Guilherme Perin;Luca Mariot;Lichao Wu

132
Citations
Low-cost untraceable authentication protocols for RFID

Yong Ki Lee;Lejla Batina;Dave Singelée;Ingrid Verbauwhede

121
Citations
Getting more from PCA: first results of using principal component analysis for extensive power analysis

Lejla Batina;Jip Hogenboom;Jasper G. J. van Woudenberg

116
Citations
Hardware implementation of a Montgomery modular multiplier in a systolic array

S.B. Ors;L. Batina;B. Preneel;J. Vandewalle

104
Citations
Complete Addition Formulas for Prime Order Elliptic Curves

Joost Renes;Craig Costello;Lejla Batina

103
Citations
A very compact "perfectly masked" S-Box for AES (corrected)

D. Canright;Lejla Batina

12
Citations
Hardware implementation of an elliptic curve processor over GF(p) with Montgomery modular multiplier

Berna Ors;Lejla Batina;Bart Preneel;Joos Vandewalle

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Verbauwhede KU Leuven

Bart Preneel KU Leuven

Benedikt Gierlichs KU Leuven

Francesco Regazzoni Polytechnic University of Milan

Joan Daemen Radboud University

Pim Theo Tuyls Philips (Finland)

Yuval Yarom Ruhr University Bochum

Peter Schwabe Radboud University

Joos Vandewalle KU Leuven

Christof Paar Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

External Links

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