ESSec News

Iris Jimenez Selected as DAC Young Fellow 2026

We are proud to announce that Iris Jimenez has been selected as a DAC Young Fellow 2026. The DAC Young Fellows program is highly competitive, with 388 applications submitted this year. Candidates were evaluated by a distinguished award committee including representatives from AMD, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University.

ESSEC Team at CASCADE 2026 in Regensburg

Four members of the ESSEC team attended this year’s CASCADE conference in Regensburg from March 30 to April 1, 2026. The conference brings together international experts from academia and industry to discuss current developments and challenges in secure and sustainable IT systems.

ESSEC Team Participates in Shonan Meeting in Japan

The ESSEC team actively participated in the Shonan Meeting No. 236: “Provable Security for Trustworthy Embedded Systems Against Physical Attacks – From Theory to Practice”, held from March 15–19, 2026 at the Shonan Village Center, Japan

ESSEC team launches Cyberagentur project SPARTAQUS

We are delighted to be part of the new SPARTAQUS research project run by the Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur). The aim of the project is to strengthen the resilience of cryptographic methods for tomorrow's requirements and to develop innovative solutions for a secure digital future.

Second FORTRESS Project Meeting at CODE

On February 11–12, 2026, the FORTRESS consortium met at the CODE Research Institute of the Universität der Bundeswehr München for its second official project meeting.

IAS Winter School 2026 (AI4I) in Turin

Members of the ESSEC team participated in the IAS Winter School on Cryptography and Machine Learning (AI4I) in Turin in early February to engage with leading international researchers on recent developments at the intersection of cryptography and artificial intelligence.

ESSEC team presents lecture at NTU Singapore workshop

On September 19, 2025, the workshop “The Evolution of Trust: Hardware Security to Quantum Resistance” will take place at NTU's NiCE Free-style Space in Singapore. The ESSEC team will give a presentation entitled “Next-Gen PQC Hardware Accelerators: Performance, Flexibility, and Security” and present current research on performance optimization and security of post-quantum hardware in embedded systems.

ESSEC research team hosts workshop on PQC & secure hardware design

The ESSEC team is pleased to announce the ”1st Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography Resilience, Verification, and Secure Design Automation (WPQC'25)" – a specialist event on the connection between post-quantum cryptography and secure hardware design. The workshop will take place as part of ICCAD 2025 in Munich on October 29 and 30, 2025.

CHES 2025: ESSEC participation in the scientific program organization

The ESSEC team is pleased to actively participate in the organization of CHES 2025 (Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

ArcticCrypt 2025

The paper ‘Efficient Boolean-to-Arithmetic Mask Conversion in Hardware’ by Dr Aein Shahmirzadi and Prof. Hutter was recently accepted for the ArcticCrypt 2025 conference, which will take place in Longyearbyen, Svalbard from 6 to 11 July 2025.

Welcome Prof. Hutter!

Prof. Dr. Michael Hutter was appointed Professor of Embedded Systems Security at FI CODE / Faculty of Computer Science in March 2025. Congratulations!