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Frank Piessens is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). His work bridges software security, systems security, formal methods, and programming languages. He actively investigates information flow security, with a dual focus on attack techniques and defense mechanisms.
- Current role: Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium)
- Research areas: Software Security, System Security, Formal Verification, Programming Languages
Research Interests: His defense work includes formal verification for C-like languages, memory safety hardening, micro-architectural side-channel mitigation, and embedded security architectures. On the attack side, he studies transient execution attacks, memory safety exploits, and controlled channel attacks.
Recent Article Trends: His publications span secure compilation techniques (2025), control-flow linearization (2024), functional reactive programming (2021-2014), formal verification (2020-2016), and hardware/software co-design security (2022). Keywords cluster around Computer Science, Security, and Programming Languages.
