Scholar
Paul Staat
Google Scholar ID: DZ8v1zMAAAAJ
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Citations & Impact
Citations
355
H-index
8
i10-index
8
Publications
15
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple academic papers in the field of wireless security, including but not limited to:
- - 'Anti-Tamper Radio meets Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for System-Level Tamper Detection', 2025
- - 'Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces', 2025
- - 'Key Exchange in the Quantum Era: Evaluating a Hybrid System of Public-Key Cryptography and Physical-Layer Security', 2025
- - 'Stealing Maggie’s Secrets – On the Challenges of IP Theft Through FPGA Reverse Engineering', 2024
- - 'RIS-Jamming: Breaking Key Consistency in Channel Reciprocity-Based Key Generation', 2024
- - 'Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Physical Layer Key Generation: Constructive or Destructive?', 2022
- - 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Wireless Environment Reconfiguration Attacks Based on Fast Software-Controlled Surfaces', 2022
- - 'IRShield: A Countermeasure Against Adversarial Physical-Layer Wireless Sensing', 2022
- - 'Anti-Tamper Radio: System-Level Tamper Detection for Computing Systems', 2022
Research Experience
- Currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Embedded Security (EMSEC) group (Prof. Christof Paar) at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Bochum, Germany. Visiting the Emerging Wireless Technologies (WiTech) lab (Prof. Swarun Kumar) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Education
- Obtained doctoral degree with summa cum laude in 2024 from Ruhr University Bochum for the dissertation titled 'Physical-Layer Security in Future Wireless Systems'.
Background
- Research interests include security and privacy challenges associated with physical-layer information in wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, UWB, Bluetooth, cellular systems, and mmWave radar. Currently focusing on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), adversarial wireless sensing, and physical tamper detection, investigating both offensive (e.g., RIS-based jamming, relay and distance manipulation attacks) and defensive solutions (e.g., Anti-Tamper Radio, IRShield). Much of his work involves real-world prototypical implementation and experimentation.
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