Dr. Ghassan Karame

About Me

I hold a Bachelor in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB). I completed my Masters of Science in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in December 2006. In April 2007, I joined the System Security Group of ETH Zurich and completed my doctoral studies in 2011. My research addresses various aspects of system and network security with a focus on secure computation verification.

Education

Thesis / Semester Project (Co-)Supervisor

I have co-supervised the following Student Projects/Master Thesis:

• David Gubler, "Peer-to-Peer Security", Masters Thesis, Winter 2007.
• Rolf Wagner, "On the Suitability of Existing Benchmarks", Masters Thesis, Winter 2008.
• Ramya Masti Jayaram, "On the Security of Virtual Trusted Platform Modules", Masters Thesis, Spring 2010.
• Stephan Thoeni, "Cryptographic Device Simulation", Masters Thesis, Spring 2010.
• Cyrill Bannwart, "Large Scale Network Measurements", Semester Project, Spring 2010.
• Victor Budilivschi, "Secure Computing", Masters Thesis, Autumn 2010-2011.
• Roland Hausler, "Efficient Query Processing over Encrypted Data", Masters Thesis, AS 2010.
• Pascal Brogle, "Smart and Secure WiFi Pairing", Masters Thesis, SS 2011.

Teaching

• Security of Wireless Networks (5 ECTS), (S. Capkun), 251-1411-00, Autumn semesters 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
• Seminar: Current Topics in Information Security (2 ECTS), (D. Basin, S. Capkun, B. Plattner, U.Maurer), 252-4601-00, Autumn semesters 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

Publications

For a full list of the group's publications, please follow this link.

• Boris Danev, Ramya Jayaram Masti, Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun
  Enabling Secure VM-vTPM Migration in Private Clouds
  In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2011.

• Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun, Ueli Maurer
  Privacy-Preserving Outsourcing of Brute-Force Key Searches
  In Proceedings of the ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW); in conjunction with ACM CCS, 2011.

• Ghassan Karame, Aurelien Francillon, Srdjan Capkun
  Pay as you Browse: Microcomputations as Micropayments in Web-based Services
  In Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2011.

• Ghassan Karame, Srdjan Capkun
  Low-Cost Client Puzzles based on Modular Exponentiation
  In Proceedings of ESORICS (European Symposium on Research in Computer Security), 2010.

• Srdjan Capkun, Mario Cagalj, Ghassan Karame, Nils Ole Tippenhauer
  Integrity Regions: Authentication Through Presence in Wireless Networks
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2010.

• Ghassan Karame, Mario Strasser, Srdjan Capkun
  Secure Remote Execution of Sequential Computations
  In Proceedings of ICICS (International Conference on Information and Communications Security), 2009.

• Ghassan Karame, David Gubler and Srdjan Capkun
  On the Security of Bottleneck Bandwidth Estimation Techniques
  In the Proceedings of SecureComm (International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks), 2009.

• Ghassan Karame and Srdjan Capkun
  Towards Secure End-to-End Network Measurements
  ETH Zurich, D-INFK, Technical Report No. 628, June 2009.

• Ghassan Karame, Mario Cagalj, Srdjan Capkun
  Small Coalitions: Lightweight Collaboration for Efficient P2P Downloads
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, 2009.

• Ghassan Karame, Ioannis Christou, Tassos Dimitriou
  A Secure Hybrid Reputation Management System for Super-Peer Networks
  In the Proceedings of IEEE CCNC 2008.

• Ghassan Karame, Andreas Stergiou, Nikos Katsarakis, Panagiotis Papageorgiou and Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis
  2D and 3D Face Localization for Complex Scenes
  In the Proceedings of IEEE AVSS 2007.

• Tassos Dimitriou, Ghassan Karame and Ioannis Christou
  SuperTrust – A Secure and Efficient Framework for Handling Trust in Super Peer Networks
  A short version of this paper can be found in the Proceedings of ACM PODC 2007.
  Full version is in the Proceedings of ICDCN 2008.

• Andreas Stergiou, Ghassan Karame, Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis and Lazaros Polymenakos
  The AIT 2D Face Detection and Tracking System for CLEAR 2007
  In the Proceedings of CLEAR 2007, R. Stiefelhagen and J. Garofolo (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007.

• N. Dimakis, G. Gkekas, G. Karame, T. Karachristos, S. Tsoladikis, J. Soldatos and L. Polymenakos
  Facilitating Human-Centric Service Delivery Using a Pluggable Service Development Framework
  In the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing.

• Andreas Stergiou, Ghassan Karame, Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis and Lazaros Polymenakos
  The AIT Face Tracker for VACE Multisite Meeting Recordings
  In the Proceedings of CLEAR 2007, R. Stiefelhagen and J. Garofolo (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007.

• Bernard Ghanem, Ali Fawaz, and Ghassan Karame
  Real-Time Vision-Based Mobile Robot Navigation in Outdoor Environments
  In Proceedings of the 4th annual AUB Student Conference, 2005 [Best Paper Award].