Since
November 2021, I am a full Professor of Computer Science at
Ruhr University Bochum
(RUB) - leading the Chair of Information Security. I am also involved as
a (part-time) Chief Scientific Advisor at NEC Laboratories Europe.
Before joing RUB, I was a Fellow and head of the Security research group
at
NEC
Labs in Germany. I hold a PhD degree in Computer
Science from ETH Zurich. Before joining NEC Labs, I was working as a
postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Information Security of
ETH Zurich,
Switzerland.
I am interested in all aspects of securityand privacy with a
focus on
Blockchain security & privacy,
ML security,and storage security.
A (rather outdated) summary of my research at NEC Labs is highlighted
in
this interview.
My full list of publications is available
here (by date) and
here (by topic).
Here, you can find my
Book on
Bitcoin and Blockchain Security.
Selected media reports and interviews covering some of my past research can
be found here: [Link1]
[Link2]
[Link3]
[Link4]
[Link5].
You can also follow/contact me on the following networks:
Selected Recent Activities
For a full list of my activities, please
click
here.
PC Member of ACM ASIACCS 2022
PC Member of IEEE DSN 2022
PC Member of PoPETS 2022
PC Member of ACM AFT 2021
PC Member of ESORICS 2021
Associate
Editor of IEEE TDSC (2020 -
Present)
Associate
Editor of IEEE T-IFS (2020 -
Present)
PC Member of FC 2021
PC Member of ACNS 2021
PC Member of PoPETS 2021
PC Chair of ACM CCSW 2017
Guest Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy,
Special Issue on Blockchain security and privacy
Excellent Innovation Award (NEC
Corporation), 2014
Research Contributions Award (NEC
Corporation), 2014
Selected Publications
For a full list of my publications, please
click
here.
Sebastien Andreina, Giorgia Azzura Marson, Helen Moellering, Ghassan
Karame
BaFFLe: Backdoor Detection via Feedback-based Federated Learning In
Proceedings
of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2021 [Preprint
| Bibtex] (to appear)
(Acceptance rate ~19.8%).
Karl Wüst, Loris Diana, Kari Kostiainen, Ghassan Karame, Sinisa
Matetic, Srdjan Capkun
Bitcontracts: Adding Expressive Smart Contracts to Legacy
Cryptocurrencies In
Proceedings
of the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021 [Preprint
| Bibtex] (to appear).
Michael Rodler, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame, Lucas Davi
EVMPatch:
Timely and Automated Patching of Ethereum Smart Contracts In
Proceedings
of the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX
Security), 2021 [Preprint
| Bibtex] (to appear).
Jian Liu, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame, N.
Asokan Scalable Byzantine Consensus via Hardware-assisted Secret
Sharing In IEEE Transaction on Computers (IEEE TC),
2019 [Preprint |
Bibtex].
Won 2019 best paper award at
IEEE Transactions on Computers!
Claudio Soriente, Ghassan Karame, Wenting Li,
Sergey Fedorov ReplicaTEE: Enabling Seamless
Replication of SGX-Enclaves in the Cloud In
Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P),
2019 [Preprint |
Bibtex].
Michael Rodler, Wenting Li, Ghassan Karame, Lucas Davi Sereum:
Protecting Existing Smart Contracts Against Re-Entrancy Attacks In
Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security
Symposium (NDSS)
[Preprint
| Bibtex] 2019.
Related media reports: [NEC].
Sinisa Matetic, Karl Wuest, Moritz
Schneider, Kari Kosiainen, Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun BITE: Bitcoin Lightweight Client Privacy using Trusted Execution In
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX
Security), 2019,[Preprint
|
Bibtex].
Arthur Gervais, Ghassan Karame, K. Wuest, V. Glykantzis, Hubert, Ritzdorf, Srdjan Capkun On the Security and Performance
of Proof of Work Blockchain In
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS),
Vienna, Austria, (Acceptance rate: 16.5%), [Preprint
|
Bibtex], 2016.
Measured as one of the
normalized
top 100 security papers!
Frederik Armknecht,
Ludovic Barman, Jens-Matthias Bohli, Ghassan Karame Mirror: Enabling Proofs of Data Replication and Retrievability
in the Cloud In
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX
Security), 2016
(Acceptance rate: 15.5%)
[Preprint
| Bibtex],
2016
Frederik Armknecht, Jens-Matthias Bohli, Ghassan Karame, Franck
Youssef Transparent Data
Deduplication in the Cloud In
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS),
Denver, USA, (Acceptance rate: 19.8%)
2015
[Preprint |
Bibtex].
Arthur Gervais, Hubert Ritzdorf, Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in
Bitcoin In Proceedings
of the ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS),
Denver, USA,(Acceptance rate: 19.8%)
2015
[Preprint |
Bibtex].
Frederik Armknecht, Jens-Matthias Bohli, Ghassan Karame,
Zongren Liu, Christian Reuter Outsourced Proofs of Retrievability In Proceedings
of the ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS),
Arizona, USA, 2014. (Acceptance rate: ~19.5%)
[Preprint |
Bibtex].
Dan Dobre, Ghassan Karame, Wenting
Li, Matthias Majuntke, Neeraj Suri, Marko Vukolic PoWerStore: Proofs of Writing for
Efficient and Robust Storage In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
Security (ACMCCS),
Berlin, Germany, 2013,
(Acceptance rate: 19.8%) [Preprint |
Bibtex]. Related technical report:CoRR abs/1212.3555,
2012.
Ghassan Karame, Aurelien Francillon, Srdjan Capkun Pay as you Browse: Microcomputations as Micropayments in
Web-based Services In Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW),
Hydrabad. India,
2011, (Acceptance rate: 12.46%) [PDF
| Bibtex].
