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Overview

Lucas Davi is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research contributions predominantly lie within the domain of Computer Science, with a particular focus on security and software engineering topics.

Their work spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Software

Lucas Davi's research covers a range of topics reflecting both foundational and applied aspects of computing and security:

  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Cloud Data Security Solutions

Their recent publications include:

  • EVMPatch: Timely and Automated Patching of Ethereum Smart Contracts, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • TeeRex: Discovery and Exploitation of Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in SGX Enclaves, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • HCC: A Language-Independent Hardening Contract Compiler for Smart Contracts, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ClepsydraCache -- Preventing Cache Attacks with Time-Based Evictions, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

These publications reflect an emphasis on software security, particularly in the areas of smart contract hardening, vulnerability discovery in enclave technologies, and mitigation of cache-based side-channel attacks.

Lucas Davi frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Michael Rodler
  • Ghassan Karame
  • Jens-Rene Giesen
  • Tobias Cloosters
  • Sebastian Surminski

In terms of publication venues, the majority of their work appears in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Behaviour and Information Technology
  • Lecture notes in computer science
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.

Best Publications

  • Return-oriented programming without returns

    Stephen Checkoway;Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

  • Just-In-Time Code Reuse: On the Effectiveness of Fine-Grained Address Space Layout Randomization

    K. Z. Snow;F. Monrose;L. Davi;A. Dmitrienko

  • Privilege escalation attacks on android

    Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Marcel Winandy

  • Towards Taming Privilege-Escalation Attacks on Android

    Sven Bugiel;Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Thomas Fischer

  • Counterfeit Object-oriented Programming: On the Difficulty of Preventing Code Reuse Attacks in C++ Applications

    Felix Schuster;Thomas Tendyck;Christopher Liebchen;Lucas Davi

  • Stitching the gadgets: on the ineffectiveness of coarse-grained control-flow integrity protection

    Lucas Davi;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Daniel Lehmann;Fabian Monrose

  • ROPdefender: a detection tool to defend against return-oriented programming attacks

    Lucas Davi;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Marcel Winandy

  • The Cybersecurity Landscape in Industrial Control Systems

    Stephen McLaughlin;Charalambos Konstantinou;Xueyang Wang;Lucas Davi

  • XManDroid: A New Android Evolution to Mitigate Privilege Escalation Attacks

    Sven Bugiel;Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Thomas Fischer

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

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

  • Readactor: Practical Code Randomization Resilient to Memory Disclosure

    Stephen Crane;Christopher Liebchen;Andrei Homescu;Lucas Davi

  • Practical and lightweight domain isolation on Android

    Sven Bugiel;Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Stephan Heuser

  • Sereum: Protecting Existing Smart Contracts Against Re-Entrancy Attacks

    Michael Rodler;Wenting Li;Ghassan O. Karame;Lucas Davi

  • Isomeron: Code Randomization Resilient to (Just-In-Time) Return-Oriented Programming

    Lucas Davi;Christopher Liebchen;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Kevin Z. Snow

  • MoCFI: A Framework to Mitigate Control-Flow Attacks on Smartphones

    Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Manuel Egele;Thomas Fischer

  • HAFIX: hardware-assisted flow integrity extension

    Lucas Davi;Matthias Hanreich;Debayan Paul;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

  • Dynamic integrity measurement and attestation: towards defense against return-oriented programming attacks

    Lucas Davi;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Marcel Winandy

  • Losing Control: On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity under Stack Attacks

    Mauro Conti;Stephen Crane;Lucas Davi;Michael Franz

  • It's a TRaP: Table Randomization and Protection against Function-Reuse Attacks

    Stephen J. Crane;Stijn Volckaert;Felix Schuster;Christopher Liebchen

  • Hardware-Assisted Fine-Grained Control-Flow Integrity: Towards Efficient Protection of Embedded Systems Against Software Exploitation

    Lucas Davi;Patrick Koeberl;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

  • Just-In-Time Code Reuse: On the Effectiveness of Fine-Grained Address Space Layout Randomization (best student paper award)

    Kevin Z. Snow;Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Christopher Liebchen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt
Thorsten Holz
Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Nadarajah Asokan
Nadarajah Asokan University of Waterloo
Yier Jin
Yier Jin University of Florida
Fabian Monrose
Fabian Monrose University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ghassan O. Karame
Ghassan O. Karame Ruhr University Bochum
Jan-Erik Ekberg
Jan-Erik Ekberg Aalto University
Gene Tsudik
Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine
Manuel Egele
Manuel Egele Boston University
Farinaz Koushanfar
Farinaz Koushanfar University of California, San Diego

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