Domien Schepers
PhD Student
Education
- MS in Engineering in Computer Science, KU Leuven
- BS in Computer Science, Hasselt University
About Me
- Hometown: Hasselt, Belgium
- Field of Study: Cybersecurity
- PhD Advisor: Aanjhan Ranganathan
Biography
Domien Schepers is a PhD student at Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences focusing on cybersecurity, advised by Professor Aanjhan Ranganathan. Before beginning his PhD at Northeastern, he worked for the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium as a cybersecurity analyst in the federal Cyber Emergency Response Team.
Schepers earned his BS in Computer Science from Hasselt University and his MS in Engineering in Computer Science from KU Leuven. At Hasselt University, he organized TEDx events for the school. He researches networks and cybersecurity, specifically wireless security, in hope of contributing to a more secure society. He is from Hasselt, Belgium.
What are the specifics of your graduate education (thus far)?
I am a PhD Student in the Cybersecurity program.
What are your research interests in a bit more detail? Is your current academic/research path what you always had in mind for yourself, or has it evolved somewhat? If so, how/why?
I am focused on network- and cybersecurity, specifically wireless security.
What are your research/career goals, going forward?
Together with the industry I want to contribute to a more secure society.
Recent Publications
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Practical Side-Channel Attacks against WPA-TKIP
Citation: Vanhoef, M., Schepers, D., Ranganathan, A.: Practical Side-Channel Attacks against WPA-TKIP. In: Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM (2019) -
Wireless Attacks on Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems
Citation: Harshad Sathaye, Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, and Guevara Noubir. (2019). "Wireless attacks on aircraft landing systems: demo". In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 295–297. DOI: 10.1145/3317549.3326298 -
Discovering logical vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi handshake using model-based testing
Citation: Vanhoef, M., Schepers, D., Piessens, F.: Discovering logical vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi handshake using model-based testing. In: Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM (2017)