About me

Name

MSc Nico Kevin Christopher Mexis

Born

1999

Birthplace

Bad Reichenhall

Domicile

Passau

Email

info (at) femtopedia (dot) de

Current status

Research assistant in the CySeReS-KMU project

Do not send me emails about job opportunities or issues on some of my GitHub projects. For the latter, use the appropriate issue form!

Online Presence

• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• ORCID
• ResearchGate
• University of Passau
• LinkedIn
• Dev.to
• GitHub

Awards

• SIGCOMM 2021 Student Research Competition (SRC): Third place winner in the Undergraduate Category

Research and Publications

You can also find all these entries as BibTeX files here

Theses

• Master’s Thesis: Nico Mexis. October 2023. A Comprehensive Comparison of Fuzzy Extractor Schemes Employing Different Error Correction Codes. Master’s Thesis. Universität Passau. DOI:10.15475/ccfesedecc.2023
• Bachelor’s Thesis: Nico Mexis. July 2021. Fuzzy Extractors unter Einsatz von Low-Density Parity-Check Codes. Unpublished undergraduate thesis. Universität Passau.

First author

• Mexis, N., Anagnostopoulos, N. A., Arul, T., Frank, F. & Katzenbeisser, S., (2021). Fuzzy Extractors using Low-Density Parity-Check Codes. In: Gazdag, S.-L., Tiepelt, M., Loebenberger, D. & Nüsken, M. (Hrsg.), crypto day matters 33. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. / FG KRYPTO. DOI:10.18420/cdm-2021-33-41
• Nico Mexis, Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Shuai Chen, Jan Bambach, Tolga Arul, and Stefan Katzenbeisser. 2021. A design for a secure network of networks using a hardware and software co-engineering architecture. Proceedings of the SIGCOMM ‘21 Poster and Demo Sessions (SIGCOMM ‘21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 65–67. DOI:10.1145/3472716.3472849
• Nico Mexis, Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Shuai Chen, Jan Bambach, Tolga Arul, and Stefan Katzenbeisser. 2021. A Lightweight Architecture for Hardware-Based Security in the Emerging Era of Systems of Systems. J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst. 17, 3, Article 43 (June 2021), 25 pages. DOI:10.1145/3458824

Co-author

• Frank F, Böttger S, Mexis N, Anagnostopoulos NA, Mohamed A, Hartmann M, Kuhn H, Helke C, Arul T, Katzenbeisser S, Hermann S. CNT-PUFs: Highly Robust and Heat-Tolerant Carbon-Nanotube-Based Physical Unclonable Functions. Nanomaterials. 2023; 13(22):2930. DOI:10.3390/nano13222930
• Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Alexander Braml, Nico Mexis, Florian Frank, Simon Böttger, Martin Hartmann, Sascha Hermann, Elif Bilge Kavun, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Tolga Arul. 2023. Practical Non-Invasive Probing Attacks Against Novel Carbon-Nanotube-Based Physical Unclonable Functions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.01041 (2023). DOI:10.48550/ARXIV.2307.01041
• Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Yufan Fan, Muhammad Umair Saleem, Nico Mexis, Emiliia Gelóczi, Felix Klement, Florian Frank, André Schaller, Tolga Arul, and Stefan Katzenbeisser, “Testing Physical Unclonable Functions Implemented on Commercial Off-the-Shelf NAND Flash Memories Using Programming Disturbances,” 2022 IEEE 12th International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-Berlin), Berlin, Germany, 2022, pp. 1-9. DOI:10.1109/ICCE-Berlin56473.2022.10021310
• E. Nazarenko, N. A. Anagnostopoulos, S. G. Stavrinides, N. Mexis, F. Frank, T. Arul and S. Katzenbeisser, “Real-World Chaos-Based Cryptography Using Synchronised Chua Chaotic Circuits,” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022, DOI:10.36227/techrxiv.21030466
• R. Suragani, E. Nazarenko, N. A. Anagnostopoulos, N. Mexis and E. B. Kavun, “Identification and Classification of Corrupted PUF Responses via Machine Learning,” 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2022, pp. 137-140, DOI:10.1109/HOST54066.2022.9839919
• Gelóczi, E., Mexis, N., Anagnostopoulos, N. A., Frank, F., Arul, T., Stavrinides, S. G. & Katzenbeisser, S., (2022). Secure Communication via Chaotic Cryptography. In: Loebenberger, D. & Nüsken, M. (Hrsg.), crypto day matters 34. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. / FG KRYPTO. DOI:10.18420/cdm-2022-34-01
• Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Yufan Fan, Muhammad Umair Saleem, Nico Mexis, Florian Frank, Tolga Arul, and Stefan Katzenbeisser. 2022. On the Sustainability of Lightweight Cryptography Based on PUFs Implemented on NAND Flash Memories Using Programming Disturbances. arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.02498 (2022). DOI:10.48550/ARXIV.2204.02498

OEIS Entries

• A355667: Least number phi(k) such that n * phi(k) < k, where phi is Euler’s totient function

MDPI Encyclopedia

• Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, Nico Mexis, Tolga Arul. “Random Number Generation,” Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/42356.

Projects for Procrastination

• CoCoA 5:
  Status: In progress
  Code contributor and bug reporter.
• Forked dex2jar:
  Status: In progress
  Fork of dex2jar providing many new possibilities and bug fixes.
• ECC:
  Working Time: ~80 hours (incl. Research)
  Status: Done since 2023
  C++ Library for my Master Thesis. Provides a library for handling some ECCs in C++ using CoCoALib.
• LDPC:
  Working Time: ~50 hours (incl. Research)
  Status: Done since 2021
  Java Library for my Bachelor Thesis. Provides a library for handling binary LDPC Codes in Java.
• Fuzzy Extractors:
  Working Time: ~20 hours (incl. Research)
  Status: Done since 2021
  Java Library for my Bachelor Thesis. Provides a library for Fuzzy Extractors in Java.
• StudiPassau:
  Status: In progress
  Flutter app providing easy and fast access to the schedule, mensa plan etc. of the University of Passau.
• Catcher 2:
  Status: In progress
  Flutter package providing easy error handling - direct integration of Sentry and Emails included!
• Flutter Web Auth 2:
  Status: In progress
  Flutter/Dart package providing easy access to authentication using custom tabs.
• Bytecode Viewer:
  Working Time: ~30 hours
  Status: In progress
  Moderator and regular contributor in the popular reverese engineering suite
• YAMBZ (Yet another Mandelbrot Zoom):
  Working Time: ~25 hours
  Computing Time: ~10 hours
  Status: Done since January 2020
  The original image’s file size is around 797MB in PNG-format.
• Some Nebulabrot attempts II (Source Code):
  Working Time: ~2 hours
  Computing Time: ~1 hour
  Status: Done since July 2021
  
• Some Nebulabrot attempts:
  Working Time: ~3 hours
  Computing Time: ~10 minutes
  Status: Done since February 2020
  
• Reforged (Download):
  Working Time: too much
  Status: On hold
  My most famous Minecraft mod (one out of a few).
• Game of Life:
  Working Time: ~1 hour
  Status: Done since Summer 2019 (Vacation project)
  Just another simple Game of Life, written in Processing.
• Sorting Visualizer:
  Working Time: ~5 hours
  Status: Done since August 2019
  Just another sorting visualizer with sound, written in Processing.
• UV Checker Map Generator:
  Working Time: ~20 minutes
  Status: Done since July 2021
  Generates a checkerboard pattern for texture atlas modelling, written in Processing.
• Some other leisure projects
• Many more to come, hopefully…

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