Scholar
Ghassan Karame
Google Scholar ID: C7StKesAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB)
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,345
H-index
37
i10-index
77
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Holder of over 100 granted patents in the US and EU.
- Author of the book 'Bitcoin and Blockchain Security' published in 2016.
- Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2024.
- Ranked in the top 2% of scientists worldwide (career-long) by Stanford-Elsevier from 2020 to 2024.
- Recognized by AMiner as one of the top 100 most influential scholars in security and privacy over the past decade (2011–2022).
- Value Realization Award (NEC Corporation, 2020); Research Contributions Awards (2018, 2014); Excellent Innovation Awards (2017, 2014).
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2019.
- ACM CCS'16 paper ranked among the normalized top 100 security papers globally.
- Served in leadership roles for top-tier conferences and journals, including Associate Editor of IEEE T-IFS (2020–present), IEEE TDSC (2020–2024), and Track Chair for blockchain and distributed systems at ACM CCS 2023.
Background
- Research interests span all aspects of security and privacy, with a focus on decentralized security and distributed machine learning security.
- Full Professor of Computer Science at Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), leading the Chair for Information Security.
- Principal Investigator (PI) in the CASA Cluster of Excellence (Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries).
- Director and PI at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) since October 2023.
- Part-time Chief Scientific Advisor at NEC Laboratories Europe.
