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Nico Mexis

Innstraße 43
94032 Passau

Room: ITZ/IH 109
Tel.: +49(0)851/509-6047
E-Mail: nico.mexis@uni-passau.de

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Current Activities

I am currently working as a research assistant at the Chair of Computer Engineering at the University of Passau under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser. My current research project is CySeReS-KMU, in which I am researching new security technologies for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in supply chains. As a student assistant, I have also published several articles in the PUFMem and NANOSEC projects in the past.

In general, I have an interest in all topics related to hardware-based security (PUFs, TRNGs etc.) and error correction (LDPC-Codes, Hadamard-Codes, Reed-Solomon-Codes etc.). In my spare time, I work on various open-source coding projects - from Minecraft mods, reverse engineering tools like dex2jar and Flutter packages to the Computer Algebra System (CAS) CoCoA-5 (but here more in the direction of bugfixing and Windows maintenance!). I also maintain the largest, sorted, publicly accessible Minecraft mod archive.

Research Interests

  • Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
  • True Random Number Generators (TRNGs)
  • Hardware security
  • Fuzzy extractors and error correction (ECC)
  • Security in the Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Security in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
  • Security in Supply Chains

Publications

All publications are listed on my website.

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