Nele Mentens
Professor Computer Science
- Name
- Prof.dr.ir. N. Mentens
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4799
- n.mentens@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8753-7895
Nele Mentens is a Professor of Applied Cryptography and Security at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). She received her master and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She has been an associate professor at KU Leuven since 2014 and a professor at Leiden University since 2020.
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Nele Mentens obtained a master degree in electrical engineering (micro-electronics) at KU Leuven in 2003. Afterwards, she joined the COSIC group as a PhD researcher under the supervision of Bart Preneel and Ingrid Verbauwhede. In 2007, she obtained a PhD in Engineering Science with the title "Secure and Efficient Coprocessor Design for Cryptographic Applications on FPGAs".
From 2007-2014, Nele was teaching at KHLim university college and affiliated to KU Leuven as a post-doctoral researcher. Since 2014, she is an associate professor at KU Leuven and an academic staff member of the COSIC research group. She founded the research group ES&S at the KU Leuven Campus in Diepenbeek, where she is teaching digital design and cryptology in the Faculty of Engineering Technology. In 2020, Nele joined LIACS at Leiden University as a professor of applied cryptography and security.
Nele was a visiting researcher at Ruhr University Bochum in 2013 and at EPFL in 2017. She was/is the PI in around 20 finished and ongoing research projects with national and international funding. She serves/served as a program committee member of renowned international conferences on security and hardware design, such as NDSS, USENIX Security Symposium, ACM CCS, Asiacrypt, CHES, DAC, DATE, FPL, ESSCIRC and ESWEEK. She was the general co-chair of FPL'17 and the program chair of EWME'18, PROOFS'18, FPL'20, CARDIS'20, RAW'21 and VLSID'22. Nele is (co-)author in over 100 publications in international journals, conferences and books. She received best paper awards and nominations at CHES'19, AsianHOST'17 and DATE'16. Nele serves as an expert for the European Commission and as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), and IEEE Security & Privacy. She is an associate editor-in-chief for IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CASM).
More information can be found on Nele's personal webpage.
Professor Computer Science
- Science
- Leiden Inst of Advanced Computer Science
- Xabier I., Abderrahmane N., Abella J., Alcaide S., Beyne E., Charles H.P., Charpin C, Chittka L., Dávilla A., Dev Gomony M., Erdmann A., Estrada C., Fernandez A., Fontanelli A., Flich J, Hernan Gloriani A., Grosu R., Hernandez C., Ielmini D., Isusquiza E., Jackson D., Kooli M., Lepri N., Linares-Barranco B., Lachese J.L., Lasa M., Laurent E., Lindwer M., Linsenmaier F., Luján M., Masarik K., Mentens N, Moreira O., Peres L., Noel J.P., Pourtaherian A., Posch C., Priller P., Prikryl Z., Resch F., Rhodes O., Stefanov T.P., Moritz S., Sander S., Taliercio M., Burgwal M. van de, Plas G. van der, Vianello E. & Zaykovankd P. (2023), NimbleAI: towards neuromorphic sensing-processing 3D-integrated chips, 2023 Design, Automation & Test in Europe conference & exhibition (DATE). 26th Int. Conf. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'23) 17 April 2023 - 19 April 2023: IEEE. 1-6.
- Anders J., Andreu P., Becker B., Becker S., Cantoro R., Deligiannis N., Elhamawy N., Faller T., Hernandez C., Mentens N., Namazi Rizi M., Polian I., Sajadi A., Sauer M., Schwachhofer D., Sonze Reorda M., Stefanov T.P., Tuzov I., Wagner S. & Zidaric N. (2023), A survey of recent developments in testability, safety and security of RISC-V processors, IEEE European test symposium (ETS). 2023 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS) 22 May 2023 - 26 May 2023: IEEE. 1-10.
- Mentens N., Sousa L. & Trancoso P. (2022), Introduction to the special section on FPL 2020, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems 15(4): 35.
- Sateesan A., Vliegen J., Daemen J. & Mentens N. (2022), Hardware-oriented optimization of Bloom filter algorithms and architectures for ultra-high-speed lookups in network applications, Microprocessors and Microsystems 93: 104619.
- Winderickx J., Bellier P., Duflot P. & Mentens N. (2021), Communication and security trade-offs for battery-powered devices: a case study on wearable medical sensor systems, IEEE Access 9: 67466--67476.
- Le Jeune L, Goedemé T. & Mentens N. (2021), Machine learning for misuse-based network intrusion detection: overview, unified evaluation and feature choice comparison framework, IEEE Access 9: 63995--64015.
- Nieuwesteeg B., Berg B. van den, Pras A., Lodder A., Laat C. de, Custers B., Koops B.J., Daemen J., Eekelen M. van, Dijk M. van, Mentens N., Rijswijk-Deij R. van, Ruiter S. & Faure M. (3 July 2021), Betaal geen losgeld bij een ransomware-aanval. Het Financieele Dagblad, Opinie: 34.
- Zeitouni S., Vliegen J., Frassetto T., Koch D., Sadethi A. & Mentens N. (2021), Trusted configuration in cloud FPGAs. In: 2021 IEEE 29TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE CUSTOM COMPUTING MACHINES (FCCM 2021).: IEEE Computer Society. 233-241.
- Le Jeune L., Goedemé T. & Mentens N. (2021), Towards real-time deep learning-based network intrusion detection on FPGA. Sako K. & Tippenhauer T.O. (Eds.), Proceedings 19th International Conference, ACNS 2021. International Conference on Applied Cryptophagy and Network Security. ACNS 2021 21 June 2021 - 24 June 2021 no. 12726. Cham: Springer. 133-150.
- Sateesan A., Vliegen J., Scherrer S., Hsiao H., Perrig A. & Mentens N. (2021), Speed records in network flow measurement on FPGA, 2021 31st International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications FPL 2021. 31st International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 30 August 2021 - 3 September 2021: IEEE . 219--224.
- Claesen T., Sateesan A., Vliegen J. & Mentens N. (2021), Novel non-cryptographic hash functions for networking and security applications on FPGA, 2021 24th Euromicro conference on digital system design (DSD). 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) 1 September 2021 - 3 September 2021: IEEE. 347-354.
- Sateesan A., Mentens N. & Vliegen J. (2021), Low-rate Overuse Flow Tracer (LOFT): an efficient and scalable algorithm for detecting overuse flows, 2021 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). 2021 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 20 September 2021 - 23 September 2021: IEEE. 265-276.
- Winderickx J., Braeken A., Singelee D. & Mentens N. (2021), In-depth energy analysis of security algorithms and protocols for the Internet of Things, Journal of Cryptographic Engineering : .
- Winderickx J., Braeken A. & Mentens N. (2021), Enhanced end-to-end security through symmetric-key cryptography in wearable medical sensor networks, Health and Technology 11(3): 511--523.
- Brandalero M., Veleski M., Hernandez H., Ali M., Le Jeune L., Goedeme T., Mentens N., Vandendriessche J., Lhoes L., Da Silva B., Touhafi A., Goehringer D. & Hubner M. (2021), AITIA: embedded AI techniques for industrial applications, 31st International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). 31st International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 30 August 2021 - 3 September 2021: IEEE . 374-375.
- Petr S., Brejník J., Balasch J., Novotný M. & Mentens N. (2020), Side-channel countermeasures utilizing dynamic logic reconfiguration: protecting AES/Rijndael and Serpent encryption in hardware, Microprocessors and Microsystems 78: 103208.
- Vandenabeele T., Uytterhoeven R., Dehaene W. & Mentens N. (2018), A systematic performance comparison of ultra low-power AES S-boxes, 2018 28th International symposium on power and timing modeling, optimization and simulation (PATMOS). 2018 28th International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS) 2 July 2018 - 4 July 2018: IEEE. 248-253.
- Pirotte N., Vliegen J., Batina L. & Mentens N. (2018), Design of a fully balanced ASIC coprocessor implementing complete addition formulas on weierstrass elliptic curves, 2018 21st Euromicro conference on digital system esign (DSD). 2018 21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) 29 August 2018 - 31 August 2018: IEEE. 545-552.
- Winderickx J., Braeken A., Singelée D., Peeters R., Vandenryt T., Thoelen R. & Mentens N. (2018), Digital signatures and signcryption schemes on embedded devices: a trade-off between computation and storage, CF '18: Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers. CF '18: Computing Frontiers Conference 8 May 2018 - 10 May 2018. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 342-347.
- Winderickx J., Singelee D. & Mentens N. (2018), HeComm: end-to-end secured communication in a heterogeneous IoT environment via fog computing, 2018 15th IEEE Annual consumer communications & networking conference (CCNC). 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 12 January 2018 - 15 January 2018: IEEE. 1-6.
- Winderickx J., Braeken A. & Mentens N. (2018), Storage and computation optimization of public-key schemes on embedded devices. In: 2018 4th International conference on cloud computing technologies and applications (Cloudtech).: IEEE. 1-8.
- Mentens N., Charbon E. & Regazzoni F. (2018), Rethinking secure FPGAs: towards a cryptography-friendly configurable cell architecture and its automated design flow. In: 2018 IEEE 26th Annual international symposium on field-programmable custom computing machines (FCCM).: IEEE. 215.
- Picek S., Coello C., Jakobovic D. & Mentens N. (2018), Finding short and implementation-friendly addition chains with evolutionary algorithms, Journal of Heuristics 24(3): 457-481.
- Yang B., Rozic V., Gruijc M., Mentens N. & Verbauwhede I. (2018), ES-TRNG: a high-throughput, low-area true random number generator based on edge sampling, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2018(3): 267-292.
- Martinasek Z., Hajny J., Smekal D., Malina L., Matousek D., Kekely M. & Mentens N. (2018), 200 Gbps hardware accelerated encryption system for FPGA network cards, ASHES '18: Proceedings of the 2018 workshop on attacks and solutions in hardware security. CCS '18: 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security 15 October 2018 - 19 October 2018. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 11-17.
- Mentens N. (2017), Hiding side-channel leakage through hardware randomization: a comprehensive overview, 2017 International conference on embedded computer systems: architectures, modeling, and simulation (SAMOS). International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS'17) 17 July 2017 - 20 July 2017: IEEE. 269-272.
- Yang B., Rozic V., Gruijc M., Mentens N. & Verbauwhede I. (2017), On-chip jitter measurement for true random number generators, 2017 Asian hardware oriented security and trust symposium (AsianHOST). 2017 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST) 19 October 2017 - 20 October 2017: IEEE. 91-96.
- Gövem B., Järvinen K., Aerts K., Verbauwhede I. & Mentens N. (2016), A fast and compact FPGA implementation of elliptic curve cryptography using lambda coordinates. Pointcheval D., Nitaj A. & Rachidi T. (Eds.), Progress in cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2016. International Conference on Cryptology in Africa: AFRICACRYPT 2016: Progress in Cryptology 13 April 2016 - 15 April 2016 no. 9646. Cham: Springer. 63-83.
- Picek S., Sisejkovic D., Rozic V., Yang B., Jakobovic D. & Mentens N. (2016), Evolving cryptographic pseudorandom number generators. Handl J., Hart E., Lewis P.R., López-Ibánez M., Ochoa G. & Paechter B. (Eds.), Parallel problem solving from nature – PPSN XIV. PPSN 2016 (14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature) 17 September 2016 - 21 September 2016 no. 9921. Cham: Springer. 613-622.
- Mentens N., Sauveron D., Sierra J., Wang S. & Woungang I. (2016), Guest editorial: Special Issue: lightweight and energy-efficient security solutions for mobile computing device Member of editorial staff IET Information Security 10(5): 223-224.
- Vliegen J., Koninckx B., Singelée D. & Mentens N. (2016), Real-time encryption and authentication of medical video streams on FPGA. In: TRUDEVICE 2016: Workshop on trustworthy manufacturing and utilization of secure devices.. 41-43.
- Yang B., Rozic V., Mentens N., Dehaene W. & Verbauwhede I. (2016), TOTAL: TRNG on-the-fly testing for attack detection using lightweight hardware, 2016 Design, automation & test in Europe conference & exhibition (DATE). 2016 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE) 14 March 2016 - 18 March 2016: IEEE. 127-132.
- Heuser A., Picke S., Guilley S. & Mentens N. (2016), Side-channel analysis of lightweight ciphers: current status and future directions, Lightweight cryptography workshop 2016. Lightweight Cryptography Workshop 2016 17 October 2016 - 18 October 2016. Gaithersburg: NIST.
- Winderickx J., Daemen J. & Mentens N. (2016), On the parallelization of slice-based Keccak implementations on Xilinx FPGAs, 6th Conference on trustworthy manufacturing and utilization of secure devices (TRUDEVICE 2016). 6th Conference on Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices (TRUDEVICE 2016) 14 November 2016 - 16 November 2016 103-107.
- Picek S., Sisejkovic D., Jakobovic D., Batina L., Yang B., Sijacic D. & Mentens N. (2016), Extreme pipelining towards the best area-performance trade-off in hardware. In: Pointcheval D., Nitaj A. & Rachidi T. (Eds.) Progress in cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2016. no. 9646 Cham: Springer. 147-166.
- Winderickx J., Daemen J. & Mentens N. (2016), Exploring the use of shift register lookup tables for Keccak implementations on Xilinx FPGAs: IEEE. 1-4.
- Picek S., Coello Coello C.A., Jakobovic D. & Mentens N. (2016), Evolutionary algorithms for finding short addition chains: going the distance. In: Chicano F., Hu B. & García-Sánchez P. (Eds.) Evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization. no. 9595 Cham: Springer . 121-137.
- Vliegen J., Mentens N. & Verbauwhede I. (2015), Secure, remote, dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems 7(4): 1-19.
- Segers L., Smeets R., Carlier M., Braeken A., Touhafi A., Steenhaut K., Mentens N. & Aerts K. (2014), Pogo-Pin-JTAG-Programmer-Box: a low-cost JTAG programmer interface for the wireless embedded Zolertia-Z1 platform, Proceedings of the 1st international electronic conference on sensors and applications. 1st International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications 1 June 2014 - 16 June 2014: Sciforum. g012:1-g012:6.
- Batina L., Jakobovic D., Mentens N., Picek S., Piedra A. de le & Sisejkovic D. (2014), S-box pipelining using genetic algorithms for high-throughput aes implementations: how fast can we go?. Meier W. & Mukhopadhyay D. (Eds.), Progress in Cryptology -- INDOCRYPT 2014. International Conference on Cryptology in India INDOCRYPT 2014 14 December 2014 - 17 December 2014 no. 8885. Cham: Springer. 322-337.
- Carlier M., Braeken A., Lemmens B., Smeets R., Segers L., Steenhaut K., Touhafi A., Mentens N. & Aerts K. (2014), 6LoWPAN – Towards zero-configuration for wireless building automation: system architecture, Proceedings of the 1st international electronic conference on sensors and applications . 1st International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications 1 June 2014 - 16 June 2014: Sciforum.
- Smeets R., Mentens N., Aerts K., Singelée D., Braeken A., Carlier M., Segers L., Steenhaut K. & Touhafi A. (2014), Efficient key pre-distribution for 6LoWPAN. Batten L., Li G., Niu W. & Warren M. (Eds.), Applications and techniques in information security: ATIS 2014. 5th International Conference, ATIS 2014 26 November 2014 - 28 November 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science no. 490. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer . 256-263.
- Smeets R., Aerts K., Mentens N., Braeken A., Segers L., Touhafi A., Singelee D., Steenhaut K. & De Caro N. (2014), Cryptographic key management architecture for dynamic 6LowPan networks, Proceedings of the 9th international conference on applied informatics. The 9th International Conference on Applied Informatics. ICAI 2014 29 January 2014 - 1 February 2014: Eszterházy Károly College. 219-229.
- Sinha Roy S., Vercauteren F., Donglong Chen D., Mentens N. & Verbauwhede I. (2014), Compact ring-LWE cryptoprocessor. In: Batina L. & Robshaw M. (Eds.) Cryptographic hardware and embedded systems – CHES 2014. no. 8731 Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer. 371-391.
- Thijs S., Friant L., Mertens P., Dielens P., Mentens N. & Mertes G. (2014), A remote programmable FPGA LED cube by use of the European Digital Virtual Design Lab, Proceedings of the international symposium on ambient intelligence and embedded systems. International Symposium on ambient intelligence and embedded systems 1 October 2014 - 1 October 2014.
- Vliegen J., Mentens N., Genoe J., Braeken A., Kubera S., Touhafi A. & Verbauwhede I. (2010), A compact FPGA-based architecture for elliptic curve cryptography over prime fields. In: ASAP 2010 - 21st IEEE International cconference on application-specific systems, architectures and processors.: IEEE. 313-316.
- Mentens N., Ors S., Preneel B. & Vandewalle J. (2005), An FPGA implementation of a Montgomery multiplier over GF(2^m), Computing and Informatics 23(5): 487-499.
- Batina L., Mentens N., Preneel B. & Verbauwhede I. (2005), Balanced point operations for side-channel protection of elliptic curve cryptography, IEE Proceedings - Information Security 152(1): 57-65.
- Batina L., Mentens N. & Verbauwhede I. (2005), Side-channel issues for designing secure hardware implementations. 11th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium 6 July 2005 - 8 July 2005: IEEE. 118-121.
- Mentens N., Rommens P. & Verhelst M. (2005), Aanvallen op een Cryptografische Chip via een Achterpoortje, Het Ingenieursblad 2005(1): 54-59.
- Batina L., Mentens N., Preneel B. & Verbauwhede I. (2005), Side-channel aware design: algorithms and architectures for Elliptic Curve Cryptography over GF(2 n). In: 2005 IEEE International conference on application-specific systems, architecture processors (ASAP'05) .: IEEE. 350-355.
- Mentens N., Batina L., Preneel B. & Verbauwhede I. (2005), A systematic evaluation of compact hardware implementations for the Rijndael S-box. Menezes A. (Ed.), Topics in Cryptology -- CT-RSA 2005. Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference CT-RSA 2005 14 February 2005 - 18 February 2005 no. 3376. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 323-333.
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