Levente BUTTYÁN Professor Laboratory of Cryptography and Systems Security (CrySyS Lab) Department of Networked Systems and Services Budapest University of Technology and Economics address: BME-HIT, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, 1117 Budapest, Hungary phone: +36 1 463 1803,     fax: +36 1 463 3263 e-mail: buttyan (at) crysys.hu; buttyan (at) hit.bme.hu; buttyan.levente (at) vik.bme.hu office: IE 431

Professional services

Associations

• John von Neumann Computer Society, Hungary
• Scientific Association for Infocommunications, Hungary (being Chair of the Scientific Committee between 2008 and 2011)

Membership in Editorial Boards

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Associate Editor (2009-2012)
• Elsevier Computer Communications, Area Editor (2008-2012)
• Hiradastechnika (Infocommunications), Area Editor (2007-2014)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Guest Co-editor of the Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking, Vol. 25, No. 2, February 2007.

Steering Committee memberships

• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), member (2007-2013)
• European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), member (2006-2007)

(Co-)Chairing conferences

• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2023), Guildford, Surrey, UK, May 29 - June 1, 2023. (Workshops Co-Chair)
• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2013), Budapest, Hungary, April 17-19, 2013. (General Chair)
• International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2012), Budapest, Hungary, November 5-6, 2012. (General Co-Chair)

(Co-)Chairing Program Committees

• 8th International Conference on Internet-of-Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS), Prague, Czech Republic, April 21-23, 2023.
• IEEE Workshop on Data Security and PrivAcy in wireless Networks (D-SPAN), Madrid, Spain, June 2013.
• International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), Track on Security, Privacy, and Trust, Munich, Germany, July 30 - August 2, 2012.
• International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), Berlin, Germany, November 22-23, 2010.
• European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), Hamburg, Germany, September 2006.

Program Committee memberships

• International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security (WNDSS), co-located with the 40th International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC), Maribor, Slovenia, May 2025.
• Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), Perth, Australia, July 2020.
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Rome, Italy, June 2020.
• European Symposium On Research In Computer Security (ESORICS), Barcelona, Spain, September 2018.
• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2018.
• ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Songdo, Incheon, Korea, June 2018.
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Dallas, USA, November 2017.
• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Boston, USA, July 2017.
• ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2017.
• IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Symposium on Cyber Security and Privacy, Sydney, Australia, November 2016.
• International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Budapest, Hungary, September 2016.
• International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Salzburg, Austria, August 2016.
• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Darmstadt, Germany, July 2016.
• International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, July 2016.
• ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS), Xi'an, China, May 2016.
• IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Symposium on Cyber Security and Privacy, Miami, FL, USA, November 2015.
• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), New York, USA, June 2015.
• International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics (IMF), Magdeburg, Germany, May 2015.
• Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS), Singapore, April 2015.
• IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Symposium on Cyber Security and Privacy, Venice, Italy, November 2014.
• International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics (IMF), Münster, Germany, May 2014.
• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Budapest, Hungary, April 2013.
• International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics (IMF), Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Germany , March 2013.
• IEEE International Workshop on Security and Social Networks (SESOC), San Diego, CA, USA, March 2013.
• IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), San Diego, CA, USA, March 2013.
• International Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS), Tampere, Finland, October 2012.
• International Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP), Egham, UK, June 2012.
• IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2012.
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Singapore, June 2012.
• ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Tucson, Arizona, USA, April 2012.
• IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), Lugano, Switzerland, March 2012.
• International Workshop on Security and Social Networks (SESOC), Lugano, Switzerland, March 2012.
• International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM), Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, January 2012.
• International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), Beijing, China, December 2011.
• International Workshop on Hot Topics on Wireless Network Security and Privacy (HotWiSec), co-located with IPCCC 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA, November 2011.
• International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), College Park, Maryland, USA, November 2011.
• ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac), Miami Beach, FL, USA, November 2011.
• International Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2011.
• IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS), Valencia, Spain, October 2011.
• IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Valencia, Spain, October 2011.
• ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Hamburg, Germany, June 2011.
• IEEE Workshop on Data Security and PrivAcy in wireless Networks (D-SPAN), Lucca, Italy, June 2011.
• IEEE Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Lucca, Italy, June 2011.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Communication and Information System Security Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.
• IEEE/FTRA International Conference on Secure and Trust Computing, data management, and Applications (STA), Crete Greece, June 2011.
• International Workshop on Security and Social Networks (SESOC), Seattle, WA, USA, March 2011.
• IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), Seattle, WA, USA, March 2011.
• IEEE ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 2011.
• International Workshop on the Security of the Internet of Things (SecIoT), Tokyo, Japan, November 2010.
• IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), San Francisco, CA, USA, November 2010.
• IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS), San Francisco, CA, USA, November 2010.
• IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), Budapest, Hungary, October 2010.
• International Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, October 2010.
• International Information Security Conference (ISC), Boca Raton, FL, USA, October 2010.
• ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHOC), Chicago, IL, USA, August 2010.
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Beijing, China, June 2010.
• IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), Mannheim, Germany, March 2010.
• International Workshop on Security and Social Networks (SESOC), Mannheim, Germany, March 2010.
• ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Hoboken, NJ, USA, March 2010.
• IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, March 2010.
• ACM Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp), Pisa, Italy, February 2010.
• International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Melbourne, Australia, December 2009.
• International Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS), Grenoble, France, October 2009.
• ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet), Tenerife, The Canary Islands, Spain, October 2009.
• ACM Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET), Beijing, China, September 2009.
• IEEE Workshop on Autononomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), Kos Island, Greece, June 2009.
• ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHOC), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2009.
• IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), Dallas, TX, USA, March 2009.
• ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Zurich, Switzerland, March 2009.
• IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
• International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), Detroit, MI, USA, November 2008.
• IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 2008.
• ACM Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET), San Francisco, California, USA, September 2008.
• International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2008.
• IFIP International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM), Trondheim, Norway, June 2008.
• ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, March 31 - April 2, 2008.
• IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), Hong Kong, March 2008.
• International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Budapest, Hungary, December 2007.
• IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Pisa, Italy, October 2007.
• International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (PWSN), Austin, Texas, USA, October 2007.
• ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), Montreal, QC, Canada, September, 2007.
• International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Nice, France, September 2007.
• European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), Cambridge, UK, July 2007.
• 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007.
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Zhuhai, China, June 2007.
• Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp), Puerto Rico, USA, June 2007.
• IEEE Workshop on Autononomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.
• IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), White Plains, NY, USA, March 2007.
• International Workshop on Embedded Security in Cars (ESCAR), Berlin, Germany, November 2006.
• ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 2006.
• IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Baltimore, MD, USA, August 2006.
• International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON), Boston, MA, USA, August 2006.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Network Security and Information Assurance Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
• IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), Pisa, Italy, March 2006.
• IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems (WONS), Les Ménuires, France, Januray 2006.
• ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN), Alexandria, VA, USA, November 2005.
• IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Athens, Greece, September 2005.
• European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), Budapest, Hungary, July 2005.
• Workshop on Secure Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and Sensors (MADNES), Singapore, September 2005.
• International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON), Budapest, Hungary, July 2005.
• International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), Kauai Island, Hawaii, March 2005.
• International Conference on Wireless On Demand Networks and Services (WONS), St. Moritz, Switzerland, January 2005.
• European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), Heidelberg, Germany, August 2004.
• Personal Wireless Communications Conference (PWC), Venice, Italy, September 2003.

Serving as reviewer for journals

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Network Magazine, ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, Kluwer Wireless Personal Communications, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Computer Communications, Elsevier Computer Networks, Journal on Communications and Networks, The Computer Journal, European Transactions on Telecommunications, Communications of the ACM, ...

PhD Thesis Committee memberships

• Norbert Oláh
  Designing Secure Authentication Schemes for Distributed Systems
  Debrecen University, Debrecen, 2022.
  (committee member)


• Renáta Hodován
  Fuzz Testing and Test Case Reduction
  Szeged University of Sciences, Szeged, 2019.
  (reviewer)


• Péter Vörös
  New Generation Data and Network Protection Procedures
  Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences, Budapest, 2019.
  (committee member)


• Dmitriy Dunaev
  A Three-Address Code Based Intermediate Level Code and Data Obfuscation Method
  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2017.
  (committee member)


• Stylianos Gisdakis
  Secure and Privacy Preserving Urban Sensing Systems
  KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016.
  (member of the examination board)


• Mariano Graziano
  Advances in Modern Malware and Memory Analysis
  Telecom ParisTech (Eurecom), Sophia Antipolis, France, 2015.
  (reviewer)


• Márk Vinkovits
  TrustMUSE: A Model-Driven Approach for Making Trust ManagementWidely Applicable
  RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2015.
  (2nd advisor = sort of an external reviewer)


• Davide Canali
  A Multidimensional Analysis of Malicious and Compromised Websites
  Telecom ParisTech (Eurecom), Sophia Antipolis, France, 2014.
  (reviewer)


• Angelo Capossele
  Green Wireless Sensor Network Security
  Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, 2013.
  (external reviewer)


• László Gyarmati
  Socio-economics of the Future Internet: Profit-aware Solutions in Networking
  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2011.
  (reviewer)


• Zhendong Ma
  Location Privacy in Vehicular Communication Systems: a Measurement Approach
  Ulm University, Germany, 2010.
  (external reviewer)


• Dan Forsberg
  Improving and Distributing Key Management on Mobile Networks
  Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 2010.
  (pre-examiner)


• Gergely Biczók
  On Pricing, Incentives, and Congestion Control in Heterogeneous Networks
  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2010.
  (reviewer)


• Julinda Stefa
  Outer Space, Selfishness, and Innovative Services in Networks of Mobile Individuals
  Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 2009.
  (external reviewer)


• Máté Soós
  Privacy-Preserving Security Protocols for RFIDs
  INRIA Rhones-Alpes, France, 2009.
  (reviewer)


• Aurelien Francillon
  Attacking and Protecting Constrained Embedded Systems from Control Flow Attacks
  INRIA Rhones-Alpes, France, 2009.
  (committee member)


• Zoltán Vincze
  Energy Efficiency Enhancing Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2007.
  (reviewer)