Scholar
Lucas Vincenzo Davi
Google Scholar ID: uOOrOgMAAAAJ
University of Duisburg-Essen
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,146
H-index
36
i10-index
53
Publications
20
Co-authors
23
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Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Teacher Award, Student Council Software Engineering, 2025; Finalist German IT-Security Prize 2022; Distinguished Paper Award Finalist at IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) 2022; 3rd Place German IT-Security Prize 2020; Finalist Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Europe 2020; Distinguished Technical Poster Award at NDSS 2019; Finalist Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Europe 2018; Finalist Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Europe 2017; ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016; Finalist Dissertation Prize IT-Security 2015/2016; Best Paper DAC 2015; Best Paper Award ACM ASIACCS 2015; Best Student Paper at IEEE Security & Privacy 2013; Distinguished Paper Award ACM ASIACCS 2013; Our research led to improvements of Microsoft EMET Version 5.1; 2nd Place German IT-Security Prize 2010; 1st Place CAST Prize for IT-Security 2010 (Category: Master Thesis).
Research Experience
- July 2015 - September 2015: Post-Doc at the System Security Lab at TU Darmstadt; June 2013 - August 2013: Summer Internship at Intel Labs, Portland, OR, USA; October 2015 - November 2016: Independent Claude Shannon Research Group Leader for Secure and Trustworthy Systems at TU Darmstadt; December 2016 - November 2022: Assistant Professor for Computer Science at University of Duisburg-Essen; Since December 2022: Full Professor for Computer Science at University of Duisburg-Essen.
Education
- 2003: Abitur at Michael-Ende Gymnasium Tönisvorst; 2003-2007: Diploma (FH) Business Informatics at Neuss University of Applied Science & Apprenticeship IT-Management Assistant at ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, Duisburg; 2007-2009: Master of Science in IT-Security at Ruhr-University Bochum; 2010-2015: Research assistant and PhD student at the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) - PhD Thesis: “Code-Reuse Attacks and Defenses” (advisor not mentioned).
Background
- Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Duisburg-Essen and Director of paluno - the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology; PI in the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING and the Cluster of Excellence CASA; holds an ERC Starting Grant on smart contract security.
Miscellany
- His research focus includes aspects of system security and trusted computing, particularly software exploitation techniques and defenses.
