Professor Flavio Garcia

Professor Flavio Garcia

School of Computer Science
Professor of Computer Security

Contact details

Email
f.garcia@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Computer Science
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Flavio Garcia is a Professor of Computer Security and EPSRC Fellow at the Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy. His work focuses on the design and evaluation of cryptographic primitives and protocols for embedded devices like smart cards and automotive components.

Flavio research focuses on the design and evaluation of cryptographic primitives and protocols for embedded devices such as automotive key fobs and smart cards. His research has identified security vulnerabilities in secured building access, vehicle security and secure mobile phone apps. This has motivated improvements in operational procedures, product redesign and even policy reform. 

His research achievements include the discovery of vulnerabilities in some of the most widely used contactless smart cards, vehicle immobiliser and remote keyless entry systems, implantable cardiac defibrillators and mobile banking apps.

Improving Vehicle Security

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Teaching

  • Spring 2018, Security Research Seminar (M.Sc.)

  • Spring 2018, Pentesting (M.Sc.)

  • Spring 2017, Security Research Seminar (M.Sc.)

  • Spring 2016, Security Research Seminar (M.Sc.)

  • Spring 2015, Internet Security Seminar (M.Sc.)

  • Spring 2014, Internet Security Seminar (M.Sc.)

Postgraduate supervision

PhD Students

Present

  • Andreea Radu

  • Chris Hicks

  • Jan Van Den Herrewegen

  • Chris McMahon Stone

  • Georgios Vasilakis

  • Kerry Murdock

  • Owen Pemberton

  • Abdulla Aldoseri

  • Zitai Chen

Past

Research

  • Automotive Security

  • Embedded devices security

  • Cryptanalysis and reverse engineering

  • RFID security and privacy

  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Improving Vehicle Security

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Thomas, S, Van Den Herrewegen, J, Vasilakis, G, Chen, Z, Ordean, M & Garcia, F 2021, '', IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, vol. 2021, no. 3, pp. 360-389.

Van Den Herrewegen, J, Oswald, D, Garcia, F & Temeiza, Q 2020, '', IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, vol. 2021, no. 1.

Murdock, K, Oswald, D, Garcia, F, Van Bulck, J, Gruss, D & Piessens, F 2020, '', IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, vol. 18, no. 5, 9104908, pp. 28-37.

Wouters, L, Van Den Herrewegen, J, Garcia, FD, Oswald, D, Gierlichs, B & Preneel, B 2019, '', IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, vol. 2020, no. 2, pp. 99-127.

Conference article

Cheng, Z, Ordean, M, Garcia, FD, Cui, B & Rys, D 2023, '', Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, vol. 2023, no. 2, pp. 282-297.

Conference contribution

Chen, Z, Thomas, S & Garcia, F 2022, . in CCS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 515鈥�529, CCS '22: 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Los Angeles, California, United States, 7/11/22.

Moreira-Sanchez, J, Ryan, M & Garcia, F 2022, . in V Atluri, R Di Pietro, C D. Jensen & W Meng (eds), Computer Security 鈥� ESORICS 2022: 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26鈥�30, 2022, Proceedings, Part III. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13556, Springer, Cham, pp. 229鈥�249, 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26/09/22.

Hicks, C & Garcia, FD 2020, . in Proceedings - 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2020., 9230371, Proceedings - 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 460-473, 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S and P 2020, Virtual, Genoa, Italy, 7/09/20.

Hicks, C & Garcia, F 2020, . in 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy. IEEE Computer Society Press, 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Genova, Italy, 7/09/20.

Radu, AI & Garcia, FD 2020, . in SN Spencer (ed.), Proceedings - CSCS 2020: ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium., 3430480, Proceedings - CSCS: Computer Science in Cars, Association for Computing Machinery , 2020 ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium, CSCS 2020, Feldkirchen, Germany, 2/12/20.

Murdock, K, Oswald, D, Garcia, F, Van Bulck, J, Gruss, D & Piessens, F 2020, . in 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)., 9152636, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 1466-1482, 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, United States, 17/05/20.

Chen, Z, Vasilakis, G, Murdock, K, Dean, E, Oswald, D & Garcia, F 2020, . in Proceedings of 30th Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21). USENIX , 30th USENIX Security Symposium 2021 (USENIX Security 21), Vancouver, Canada, 11/08/21.

Van Bulck, J, Oswald, D, Marin, E, Aldoseri, A, Garcia, FD & Piessens, F 2019, . in CCS '19 : Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1741-1758, 26th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019), London, United Kingdom, 11/11/19.

Verheul, E, Hicks, C & Garcia, FD 2019, . in Proceedings - 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EURO S and P 2019., 8806744, Proceedings - 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EURO S and P 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 279-293, 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EURO S and P 2019, Stockholm, Sweden, 17/06/19.

Preprint

Ordean, M & Garcia, FD 2022 '' arXiv.