Daniel Genkin

Daniel Genkin is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research spans system security, cryptography, side-channel attacks, hardware security, cryptanalysis, secure multiparty computation (MPC), verifiable computation, and SNARKs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel's Institute of Technology and was awarded the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship.

His work focuses on microarchitectural vulnerabilities, including Rowhammer, Cache Timing, and Speculative Execution attacks. Notable contributions include co-discovering Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. He has received multiple awards, including Distinguished Paper Awards, IEEE Micro Top Picks, and Black Hat Pwnie Awards.

Publications highlight trends in Side-Channel Analysis, Hardware Exploitation, and Cryptographic Implementations. His email is genkin@gatech.edu, and he actively seeks students for research in security and cryptography.