Denis Migdal

Denis Migdal is an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférence) at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and a member of the LIMOS laboratory. His research focuses on privacy-compliant biometric authentication systems, particularly leveraging keystroke dynamics for secure online transactions. He holds a PhD from 2019 titled "Contributions to keystroke dynamics for privacy and security on the Internet."

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Clermont-Ferrand (2019)
• Internships at the University of Oslo (2016-2017) on the OffPAD project, resulting in 6 demonstrators presented at ACM CCS 2016.

Research Interests: Privacy-preserving authentication protocols, keystroke dynamics anonymization, synthetic dataset generation for behavioral analysis, and trusted device architectures (e.g., OTDP, TLS Switching). He collaborates with institutions like the University of Reggio Calabria on social network identity verification.

Key Contributions:

• Proposed Privacy Identity Code frameworks respecting user privacy.
• Developed methods to anonymize keystroke data and generate synthetic datasets (published in FGCS Q1).
• Co-designed the OffPAD trusted device architecture and TLS Switching protocols to mitigate malware threats in client devices.

Collaborations: OffPAD consortium, University of Oslo, University of Reggio Calabria. His work addresses vulnerabilities in client-side authentication and enhances cybersecurity for critical sectors like healthcare and banking.