Me Address: KU Leuven, Campus Group T
  Andreas Vesaliusstraat 13 - box 2600  
  B-3000 Leuven  
  Belgium  
Office: 03.14.04  
Phone: +32 (0)16 32 10 35  
Email: josep.balasch [at] kuleuven.be My PGP Key
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Who am I?

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Enginnering Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT - STADIUS division) at KU Leuven. My research is in the area of embedded system design, with focus on healthcare applications. My topics of interest include hardware/software co-design, embedded security and edge computing architectures.

In 2014, I obtained a joint PhD degree from KU Leuven (Belgium) and Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), with a doctoral thesis entitled "Implementation Aspects of Security and Privacy in Embedded Design. Before that, I graduated as Telecommunications Engineer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

In 2012 I was a graduate technical intern at the Intel's Security Center of Excellence (SeCoE) in Hillsboro, Oregon (United States). Between 2014 and 2019 I was postdoctoral researcher in the COSIC research group at KU Leuven. Between September 2017 and May 2018 I was research visitor in the Low Power Design, Test, Verification, and Fault Tolerance (QinE) group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

I am teaching courses on Digital Systems and Digital Design Concepts (Bachelor of Engineering Technology) and R&D Experience - Embedded Systems Track (Master of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology).

Publications

  International Conferences and Workshops
 [C29]  D. Šijačić, J. Balasch, and I. Verbauwhede "Sweeping for Leakage in Masked Circuit Layouts", In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe - DATE 2020, IEEE, 6 pages, 2020 (to appear).
 [C28]  A. Beckers, M. Kinugawa, D. Fujimoto, Y. Hayashi, J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede "Design Considerations for EM Pulse Fault Injection,", In Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications - CARDIS 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, S. Belaïd, and T. Güneysu (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 16 pages, 2020 (to appear).
 [C27]  A. Beckers, J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, I. Verbauwhede, S. Osuka, M. Kinugawa, D. Fujimoto, and Y. Hayashi "Characterization of EM faults on ATmega328P,", In International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC 2019, IEEE, 4 pages, 2019 (to appear).
 [C26]  D.S. Kumar, A. Beckers, J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede "An In-depth and Black-Box Characterization of the Effects of Laser Pulses on ATmega328P,", In Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications - CARDIS 2018, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, B. Bilgin, and J. Fischer (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 156-170, 2019.
 [C25]  J. Balasch, A. Beckers, D. Bozilov, S. Sinha Roy, F. Turan, and I. Verbauwhede "Teaching HW/SW codesign with a Zynq ARM/FPGA SoC,", In European Workshop on Microelectronics Education - EWME 2018, IEEE, pages 63-66, 2018.
 [C24]  D. Šijačić, J. Balasch, B. Yang, S. Ghosh, and I. Verbauwhede "Towards Efficient and Automated Side Channel Evaluations at Design Time", In Security Proofs for Embedded Systems - PROOFS 2018, L. Batina, U. Kuhne, and N. Mentens (eds.), Kalpa Pubications in Computing, pages 16-31, 2018.
 [C23]  M. Madau, M. Agoyan, J. Balasch, M. Grujic, P. Haddad, P. Maurine, V. Rozic, D. Singelée, B. Yang, and I. Verbauwhede "The impact of pulsed electromagnetic fault injection on true random number generators", In Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - FDTC 2018, J. Daemen, and L. Sauvage (eds.), IEEE, pages 43-48, 2018.
 [C22]  J. Balasch, F. Bernard, V. Fischer, M. Grujic, M. Laban, O. Petura, V. Rozic, G. Van Battum, I. Verbauwhede, M. Wakker, and B. Yang "Design and Testing Methodologies for True Random Number Generators Towards Industry Certification", In International IEEE European Test Symposium - ETS 2018, IEEE, 10 pages, 2018.
 [C21]  D. Fujimoto, Y. Hayashi, A. Beckers, J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede "Detection of IEMI against IoT Devices Using Voltage Monitor Constructed by Fully Digital Circuit", In International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC 2018, IEEE, pages 753-755, 2018.
 [C20]  A. Beckers, B. Gierlichs, J. Balasch, and I. Verbauwhede "Comparison of two Setups for Contactless Power Measurements for Side-Channel Analysis", In International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC 2018, IEEE, pages 739 - 744, 2018.
 [C19]  J. Balasch, S. Faust, B. Gierlichs, C. Paglialonga, and F-X. Standaert "Consolidating Inner Product Masking", In Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2017 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, T. Peyrin, and T. Takagi (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 724-754, 2017.
[acceptance rate 27.5%, 67 of 243]
 [C18]  J. Balasch, D. Arumi, and S. Manich "Design and Validation of a Platform for Electromagnetic Fault Injection", In Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems - DCIS 2017, IEEE, pages 1-6, 2017.
 [C17]  O. Reparaz, J. Balasch, and I. Verbauwhede "Dude, is my code constant time?", In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe - DATE 2017, IEEE, pages 1697-1702, 2017.
[acceptance rate (regular papers) 24%, 193 of 794]
 [C16]  K. Järvinen and J. Balasch, "Single-Trace Side-Channel Attacks on Scalar Multiplications with Precomputations", In Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference - CARDIS 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, K. Lemke-Rust, and M. Tunstall (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 137-155, 2017.
[acceptance rate 51%, 15 of 29]
 [C15]  Y. Cao, B. Yang, V. Rozic, J. Balasch, and I. Verbauwhede, "Exploring Active Manipulation Attacks on the TERO Random Number Generator", In International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems - MWSCAS 2016, IEEE, pages 273-276, 2016.
 [C14]  A. Beckers, J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede, "Design and implementation of a waveform-matching based triggering system", In Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design - COSADE 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, E. Oswald, and F-X. Standaert (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 184-198, 2016.
[acceptance rate 37.5%, 12 of 32]
 [C13]  J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, O. Reparaz, and I. Verbauwhede, "DPA, Bitslicing and Masking at 1 GHz", In Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, T. Güneysu, and H. Handschuh (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 599-619, 2015.
[acceptance rate 26.5%, 34 of 128]
 [C12]  J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede, "Electromagnetic Circuit Fingerprints for Hardware Trojan Detection", In International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC 2015, IEEE, pages 246-251, 2015.
 [C11]  J. Balasch, S. Faust, and B. Gierlichs, "Inner Product Masking Revisited", In Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9056, M. Fischlin, and E. Oswald (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 486-510, 2015.
[acceptance rate 29.3%, 57 of 194]
 [C10]  I. Verbauwhede, J. Balasch, S. Sinha Roy, and A. Van Herrewege, "Circuit challenges from cryptography", In International Solid-State Circuits Conference - ISSCC 2015, IEEE, pages 428-429, 2015.
 [C9]  J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, V. Grosso, O. Reparaz, and F-X. Standaert, "On the Cost of Lazy Engineering for Masked Software Implementations", In Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference - CARDIS 2014 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8968, M. Joye, and A. Moradi (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 64-81, 2014.
[acceptance rate 26.7%, 15 of 56]
 [C8]  J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, K. Järvinen and I. Verbauwhede, "Hardware/Software Co-Design Flavors of Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication", In International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC 2014, IEEE, pages 758-763, 2014.
 [C7]  J. Balasch, S. Faust, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede, "Theory and Practice of a Leakage Resilient Masking Scheme", In Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7658, K. Sako, and X. Wang (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 758-775, 2012.
[acceptance rate 17.4%, 43 of 247]
 [C6]  J. Balasch, B. Ege, T. Eisenbarth, B. Gérard, Z. Gong, T. Güneysu, S. Heyse, S. Kerckhof, F. Koeune, T. Plos, T. Pöppelmann, F. Regazzoni, F-X. Standaert, G. Van Assche, R. Van Keer, L. van Oldeneel tot Oldenzeel, and I. von Maurich, "Compact Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Hash Functions in ATtiny Devices", In Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference - CARDIS 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7771, S. Mangard (ed.), Springer-Verlag, pages 158-172, 2012.
[acceptance rate 37.5%, 18 of 48]
 [C5]  R. Verdult, F. D. Garcia, and J. Balasch, "Gone in 360 Seconds: Hijacking with Hitag2", In Proceedings of the 21st Usenix Security Symposium - USENIX Security 2012, Usenix, pages 237-252, 2012.
[acceptance rate 19.4%, 43 of 222]
 [C4]  J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, R. Verdult, L. Batina, and I. Verbauwhede, "Power Analysis of Atmel CryptoMemory - Recovering Keys from Secure EEPROMs", In Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2012, The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7178, O. Dunkelman (ed.), Springer-Verlag, pages 19-34, 2012.
[acceptance rate 23.9%, 27 of 113]
 [C3]  J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede, "An in-Depth and black-Box Characterization of the Effects of Clock Glitches on 8-bit MCUs", In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - FDTC 2011, S. Guilley, and J. Takahashi (eds.), IEEE, pages 105-114, 2011.
[acceptance rate 55.5%, 10 of 18]
 [C2]  J. Balasch, A. Rial, C. Troncoso, C. Geuens, B. Preneel, and I. Verbauwhede, "PrETP: Privacy-Preserving Electronic Toll Pricing", In Proceedings of the 19th Usenix Security Symposium - USENIX Security 2010, Usenix, pages 63-78, 2010.
[acceptance rate 14.9%, 30 of 202]
 [C1]  J. Balasch, I. Verbauwhede, and B. Preneel, "An Embedded Platform for Privacy-Friendly Road Charging Applications", In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe - DATE 2010, IEEE, pages 867-872, 2010.
[acceptance rate 25.7%, 894 of 3,476]
  Journal Papers
 [J6]  S. Osuka, D. Fujimoto, Y. Hayashi, N. Homma, A. Beckers, J. Balasch, B. Gierlichs, and I. Verbauwhede "EM Information Security Threats Against RO-Based TRNGs: The Frequency Injection Attack Based on IEMI and EM Information Leakage", In IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility - IEEE EMC 61(4), IEEE, pages 1122-1128, 2019.
 [J5]  W. Biesmans, J. Balasch, A. Rial, B. Preneel, and I. Verbauwhede "Private Mobile Pay-TV From Priced Oblivious Transfer", In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security - IEEE TIFS 13(2), IEEE, pages 280-291, 2018.
 [J4]  M. Scheir, J. Balasch, A. Rial, B. Preneel, and I. Verbauwhede "Anonymous Split E-Cash - Toward Mobile Anonymous Payments", In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems - ACM TECS 14(4), ACM, 25 pages, 2015.
 [J3]  L. Uhsadel, M. Ullrich, A. Das, D. Karaklajic, J. Balasch, I. Verbauwhede, and W. Dehaene, "Teaching HW/SW co-design with a public key cryptography application", In IEEE Transactions on Education - IEEE ToE 56(2), IEEE, pages 478-483, 2013.
 [J2]  A. Rial, J. Balasch, and B. Preneel, "A Privacy-Preserving Buyer–Seller Watermarking Protocol Based on Priced Oblivious Transfer", In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security - IEEE TIFS 6(1), IEEE, pages 202-212, 2011.
 [J1]  C. Troncoso, G. Danezis, E. Kosta, J. Balasch, and B. Preneel, "PriPAYD: Privacy Friendly Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance (Journal version)", In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing - IEEE TDSC 8(5), IEEE, pages 742-755, 2011.
  PhD Thesis
 [★]  J. Balasch, "Security and Privacy Aspects of Embedded Design", KU Leuven and Radboud University Nijmegen, 186 pages. 2014.