2026 Tim Güneysu: 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	7178	6968	347	336	214	8663

Overview

Tim Güneysu is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research work predominantly spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on specialized subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Hardware and Architecture, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, and Information Systems.

The main topics of their research include:

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

Their recent publications reflect a concentration on cryptographic and hardware security challenges. Some notable papers are:

"FIVER - Robust Verification of Countermeasures against Fault Injections" (2021), published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
"Revisiting Fault Adversary Models - Hardware Faults in Theory and Practice" (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Computers
"Racing BIKE: Improved Polynomial Multiplication and Inversion in Hardware" (2021), published in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
"High-Speed Masking for Polynomial Comparison in Lattice-based KEMs" (2020), published both in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems and the Directory of Open Access Journals

Frequent co-authors in their work include Pascal Sasdrich, Jan Richter-Brockmann, Georg Land, Jakob Feldtkeller, and Jan Philipp Thoma.

Tim Güneysu has contributed to numerous publication venues, with a significant number of papers in:

IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

The scientist has also authored books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including a title titled "Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications" released in 2020.

Best Publications

PRINCE – A Low-latency Block Cipher for Pervasive Computing Applications

Julia Borghoff;Anne Canteaut;Tim Güneysu;Elif Bilge Kavun

815
Citations
PRINCE: a low-latency block cipher for pervasive computing applications

Julia Borghoff;Anne Canteaut;Tim Güneysu;Elif Bilge Kavun

805
Citations
Practical lattice-based cryptography: a signature scheme for embedded systems

Tim Güneysu;Vadim Lyubashevsky;Thomas Pöppelmann

378
Citations
Trojan Side-Channels: Lightweight Hardware Trojans through Side-Channel Engineering

Lang Lin;Markus Kasper;Tim Güneysu;Christof Paar

264
Citations
Exploiting the Power of GPUs for Asymmetric Cryptography

Robert Szerwinski;Tim Güneysu

239
Citations
Cryptanalysis with COPACOBANA

T. Guneysu;T. Kasper;M. Novotny;C. Paar

229
Citations
Towards Practical Lattice-Based Public-Key Encryption on Reconfigurable Hardware

Thomas Pöppelmann;Tim Güneysu

217
Citations
Towards efficient arithmetic for lattice-based cryptography on reconfigurable hardware

Thomas Pöppelmann;Tim Güneysu

204
Citations
Ultra High Performance ECC over NIST Primes on Commercial FPGAs

Tim Güneysu;Christof Paar

201
Citations
High-Performance Ideal Lattice-Based Cryptography on 8-bit ATxmega Microcontrollers

Thomas Pöppelmann;Tobias Oder;Tim Güneysu

191
Citations
Generic side-channel countermeasures for reconfigurable devices

Tim Güneysu;Amir Moradi

187
Citations
Enhanced Lattice-Based Signatures on Reconfigurable Hardware

Thomas Pöppelmann;Léo Ducas;Tim Güneysu

172
Citations
Compact implementation and performance evaluation of block ciphers in ATtiny devices

Thomas Eisenbarth;Zheng Gong;Tim Güneysu;Stefan Heyse

147
Citations
ParTI - Towards Combined Hardware Countermeasures against Side-Channel and Fault-Injection Attacks.

Tobias Schneider;Amir Moradi;Tim Güneysu

143
Citations
BIKE: Bit Flipping Key Encapsulation

Nicolas Aragon;Paulo Barreto;Slim Bettaieb;Loïc Bidoux

118
Citations
Practical CCA2-Secure and Masked Ring-LWE Implementation

Tobias Oder;Tobias Schneider;Thomas Pöppelmann;Tim Güneysu

117
Citations
Smaller keys for code-based cryptography: QC-MDPC mceliece implementations on embedded devices

Stefan Heyse;Ingo von Maurich;Tim Güneysu

116
Citations
High-Performance and Lightweight Lattice-Based Public-Key Encryption

Johannes Buchmann;Florian Göpfert;Tim Güneysu;Tobias Oder

114
Citations
MicroEliece: McEliece for Embedded Devices

Thomas Eisenbarth;Tim Güneysu;Stefan Heyse;Christof Paar

104
Citations
Applications of machine learning techniques in side-channel attacks: a survey

Benjamin Hettwer;Stefan Gehrer;Tim Güneysu

103
Citations
ParTI: Towards Combined Hardware Countermeasures against Side-Channeland Fault-Injection Attacks

Tobias Schneider;Amir Moradi;Tim Güneysu

19
Citations
High-Performance Ideal Lattice-Based Cryptography on 8-bit ATxmega Microcontrollers Extended Version

Tobias Oder;Tim Guneysu

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christof Paar Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Amir Moradi Technical University of Darmstadt

Francesco Regazzoni Polytechnic University of Milan

Gregor Leander Ruhr University Bochum

Thomas Eisenbarth University of Lübeck

François-Xavier Standaert Université Catholique de Louvain

Maire O'Neill Queen's University Belfast

Shay Gueron University of Haifa

Daniel J. Bernstein University of Illinois at Chicago

Patrick Schaumont Worcester Polytechnic Institute

External Links

Personal website of Tim Güneysu Google Scholar page

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