Who am I?

I am assistant professor at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Digital Security Group, and part of the CESCA Lab. Between 2011-2020 I worked at Riscure, first as a security evaluation manager responsible for executing high-assurance security evaluation projects and later as the product manager for the training unit. Between 2008-2010 I was a senior scientist at Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. I finished my Ph.D., entitled Cryptography with noisy data, in 2008 under the supervision of prof. dr. Pieter Hartel and dr. Jeroen Doumen. For my Ph.D. work and my contribution to the advance of biometric research, I was awarded the 2008 EBF European Biometrics Research Industry Award by European Biometric Forum.

My main research interest is hardware security, emphasizing the advancement of tools to create secure hardware; below is a short overview of my professional career.

Invited talks/tutorials:

• Current approaches in the formal verification of cryptograpfic algorithm implementations, Formosa retreat, Eindhoven, July 2023;

• Hypothesis testing for leakage assessment in side channel analysis, Summer School on real-world crypto and privacy, Vodice, Croatia, June 2023;

• Lessons learned from applying deep learning to clone an ARM-Cortex M0, Graduate Seminars at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 2023;

• Return trip: From side-channel information to assembly code, Lessons learned from applying AI techniques, AICrypt, 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography,Trondheim, Norway May 2022;

• Automation against physical side-channel attacks, ICCSS International Solid-State Circuits Conference San Francisco, USA, February 2022;
• Dream or reality? Automated prediction of cryptographic vulnerabilities during hardware design, 35th International Conference on VLSI, Design and 21st International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID), India, March 2022;
• A tale of many boards: an illustrated introduction to side-channel leakage emulators, SecSI: Secure Design Strategies for Intelligent CPUs Zagreb, Croatia, November 2021;
• The pocket guide to SCA evaluations, XGEN Baia Maia, Romania, May 2021;

Conferences, Workshops, and Schools

I am or was member of the program committees of the following conferences, workshops, and schools:

• 2024 CHES, DATE, NWO.ICTOPEN (program co-chair)

• 2023 ASIACCS; ESORICS; FDTC, CARDIS, HASP, AIHWS, ASHES

• 2022 CARDIS (program co-chair) FDTC, AIHWS, CHES, DATE (DT5), SPACE;

• 2021 HASP, CHES, DATE 2021 (DT5), CARDIS, FDTC, CISIS, SPACE, COSADE, AIHWS, Alice & EVE (poster co-chair);

• 2020 SPACE, FDTC, CARDIS, TRUEDEVICE;

• CHES 2018, (general co-chair) FDTC 2019, FDTC 2018, FDTC 2017, SEMS 2017;

In my free time, I run, draw, and cook.