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Professor Thomas Gross

Professor of System Security, Director of Discipline Theory, Director of Centre in Cyber Security & Resilience

  • Telephone: +44 191 208 8987
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  • Address: School of Computing
    缅北禁地
    Urban Sciences Building
    1 Science Square
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE4 5TG
    United Kingdom
Background

Thomas Groß is a Professor in System Security in the School of Computing at 缅北禁地. He is the Director of 缅北禁地 Centre of Research Excellence (NUCoRE) in Cyber Security & Resilience, a UK Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). He is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Confidentiality-Preserving Security Assurance (CASCAde). Thomas is a member of the UK Research Institute in Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS), which he also serves as member of its scientific advisory board and lead for scientific methods. Before he joined 缅北禁地 in 2011, he was a Research Staff Member (RSM) in the Security and Cryptography group of IBM Research - Zurich before that and IBM's Research Relationship Manager for privacy research. Thomas received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in 2009. He received his M.Sc. (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science at Saarland University, Germany, in 2004. Thomas is a member of the GI, ACM, IEEE, and IACR, as well as Alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation.


Research

My research interests are in system security and privacy, where I'm mostly active in applied cryptography, human factors and evidence-based methods of security and privacy.

My main research project is in . This research aims at achieving the certification and security assurance of system topologies and complex data structures in such a way that one can prove security properties to verifiers, without disclosing sensitive information.

This research includes the creation of novel digital signature schemes on graph data structures, called graph signature schemes, especially in a form that makes the signed graph elements (vertices, edges, and labels) available to zero-knowledge proofs of knowledge.

The first proposal of such a operated in a Strong RSA setting, encoded vertices, edges and labels as prime numbers, and offered proofs established via co-primality and divisibility. This work also showed that graph signature schemes were expressive enough to encode statements from arbitrary NP languages. This scheme is at the heart of the  implemented and expanded upon in the EU projects and . 

In meantime, we have developed a that can encode arbitrary messages and overcomes the restrictions of a prime encoding. It is based on our .


I have a strong interest in evidence-based methods in security and privacy as well as sound empirical research methodology. I pursue this research agenda, for instance, in my engagement in the UK , in which I serve on the scientific advisory board.

This research includes reviewing the evidence present in the field, evaluating , , and meta-analyses. This research also involves the analysis of the validity and reliability of instruments in human dimensions of security and privacy research, incl. for example the well-known .

Teaching

In semester 2021/22, I will teach Cryptography as well as Information Security and Trust.

In general, I advise UG, MSc and PhD projects in a wide range of security and privacy topics.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Crowder R, Price G, Gross T. . Proceedings of the Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS) 2024, 2024(4), 544-564.
    • Gross T. . Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2021, 2021(2), 235-258.
    • Sokolovsky A, Gross T, Bacardit J. . PLoS ONE 2021, 16(2), e0246464.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2017, 2017(4), 39-60.
    • Arief B, Bin Adzmi MA, Gross T. . IEEE Security & Privacy 2015, 13(1), 71-76.
    • Yevseyeva I, Turland J, Morisset C, Coventry L, Gross T, van Moorsel A. . International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management 2015, 3(3), 5-22.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T. . ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) 2012, 15(1), 4.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Heydt-Benjamin TS. . Identity in the Information Society 2009, 2(3), 241-267.
    • Bhargav-Spantzel A, Camenisch J, Gross T, Sommer D. . Journal of Computer Security 2007, 15(5), 493-527.

  • Authored Book

    • Gross T. . Germany: Ruhr-University Bochum, 2010.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Sinno S, Bertyl M, Sahoo A, Bhalgamiya B, Gross T, Chancellor N. . In: International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering (NGISE). 2025, Ghaziabad, Delhi (NCR), India: IEEE.
    • Gross T. . In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - SECRYPT. 2021, Online: SciTePress.
    • Gross T. . In: 10th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST 2020). 2020, Guildford, United Kingdom: Springer Verlag.
    • Tan SY, Gross T. . In: Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2020. 2020, Daejeon, South Korea: Springer, Cham.
    • Sfyrakis I, Gross T. . In: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering. 2018, Orlando, USA: IEEE.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: Privacy and Identity 2017: Privacy and Identity Management. The Smart Revolution. 2018, Ispra, Italy: Springer New York LLC.
    • Sfyrakis I, Gross T. . In: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017). 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada: IEEE.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: Privacy and Identity Management. The Smart Revolution (12th IFIP). 2017, Ispra, Italy: Springer.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T, Pratama MFR. . In: Learning from Authoritative Security Experiments Results (LASER). 2017, Arlington, VA, USA.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: 11th IFIP International Summer School. 2016, Karlstad, Sweden: Springer New York LLC.
    • Nwadike U, Gross T, Coopamootoo KPL. . In: 11th IFIP International Summer School. 2016, Karlstad, Sweden: Springer New York LLC.
    • Gross T, Coopamootoo KPL, Al-Jabri A. . In: Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results Workshop (LASER). 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: IEEE.
    • Lorünser T, Rodriguez CB, Demirel D, Fischer-Hübner S, Groß T, Länger T, des Noes M, Pöhls HC, Rozenberg B, Slamanig D. . In: 4th Cyber Security and Privacy Innovation Forum. 2015, Brussels, Belgium: Springer International Publishing.
    • Gross T. . In: 19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2015. 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Springer.
    • Bleikertz S, Gross T, Mödersheim S, Vogel C. . In: 31st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'2015). 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA: ACM Press.
    • Ciancia V, Martinelli F, Ilaria M, Morisset C. . In: 6th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS 2013). 2014, La Rochelle, France: Springer.
    • Iliasov A, Lopatkin I, Romanovsky A. . In: 19th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies. 2014, Paris, France: Springer.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: Symposium in Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). 2014, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
    • Satvat K, Forshaw M, Hao F, Toreini E. . In: 8th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security (DPM 2013). 2014, Egham, UK: Springer.
    • Emmerich MTM, Deutz AH, Yevseyeva I. . In: CENTERIS 2014 / ProjMAN 2014 / HCIST 2014. 2014, Troia, Portugal: Elsevier BV.
    • Morisset C, Gross T, vanMoorsel A, Yevseyeva I. . In: Second International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust.Held as Part of HCI International 2014. 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece: Springer.
    • Morisset C, Gross T, van Moorsel A, Yevseyeva I. . In: Second International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust (HAS 2014). 2014, Crete, Greece: Springer.
    • Crampton J, Morisset C. . In: 10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2014). 2014, Wroclaw, Poland: Springer Verlag.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: Workshop on Privacy Personas and Segmentation (PPS) at SOUPS. 2014, Menlo Park, CA: SOUPS.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: WIP at British HCI. 2014, Southport, UK.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference: Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI, HCI 2014. 2014, Southport, UK: BCS Learning and Development Ltd.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust at HCI International. 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece: HCI International.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: Second International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust (HAS 2014). 2014, Crete, Greece: Springer Verlag.
    • Sinmai K, Andras P. . In: 20th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology (CRIWG 2014). 2014, Santiago, Chile: Springer Verlag.
    • Osorio C, Papagiannidis S. . In: First International Conference on HCI in Business (HCIB 2014). 2014, Crete, Greece: Springer Verlag.
    • Modesti P. . In: 10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM). 2014, Switzerland: Springer, Cham.
    • Gross T. . In: 6th ACM Workshop at 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCSW'14). 2014, Arizona, USA: ACM.
    • Yevseyeva I, Morisset C, Turland J, Coventry L, Gross T, Laing C, van Moorsel A. . In: CENTERIS 2014: 6th Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems. 2014, Troia, Portugal: Elsevier BV.
    • Yevseyeva I, Morisset C, Turland J, Coventry L, Gross T, Laing C, van Moorsel A. . In: CENTERIS 2014 / ProjMAN 2014 / HCIST 2014. 2014, Troia, Portugal: Elsevier BV.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . In: WIP at Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER). 2014, Arlington, Virginia, USA: LASER.
    • Freitas L, Jones CB, Velykis A, Whiteside I. . In: VSTTE 2014: Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments. 2014, Vienna, Austria: Springer, Cham.
    • Morisset C, Yevseyeva I, Gross T, van Moorsel A. . In: 10th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management. 2014, Wroclaw, Poland: Springer.
    • Morisset C, Yevseyeva I, Gross T, van Moorsel A. . In: 10th International Workshop on Security Trust and Management (STM 2014). 2014, Wroclaw, Poland: Springer.
    • Morisset C, Yevseyeva I, Gross T, van Moorsel A. . In: STM 2014: Security and Trust Management. 2014, Wroclaw, Poland: Springer Verlag.
    • Yevseyeva I, Morisset C, Gross T, vanMoorsel A. . In: 11th European Workshop on Performance Evaluation, EPEW 2014. 2014, Florence, Italy: Springer.
    • Yevseyeva I, Morisset C, Gross T, Van Moorsel A. . In: EPEW 2014: Computer Performance Engineering. 2014, Florence, Italy: Springer.
    • Hao F. . In: Cambridge International Workshop on Security Protocols. 2013, Cambridge, UK: Springer Verlag.
    • Hao F, Clarke D, Shepherd C. . In: Cambridge International Workshop on Security Protocols. 2013, Cambridge, UK: Springer Verlag.
    • Dietrich D, Whiteside I, Aspinall D. . In: LPAR: International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning. 2013, Stellenbosch, South Africa: Springer.
    • Gross T, Mödersheim S. . In: IEEE 24th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF). 2011, Cernay-la-Ville, France: IEEE.
    • Bleikertz S, Gross T, Mödersheim S. . In: 3rd ACM Workshop on Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW). 2011, Chicago, Illinois, USA: ACM Press.
    • Bleikertz S, Gross T, Schunter M, Eriksson K. . In: 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). 2011, Leuven, Belgium: Springer.
    • Bichsel P, Camenisch J, Gross T, Shoup V. . In: 21st Fraunhofer SIT-Smartcard Workshop. 2011, Darmstadt, Germany: Fraunhofer Verlag.
    • Bleikertz S, Gross T. . In: International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY). 2011, Pisa, Italy: IEEE.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Hladky P, Hörtnagl C. . In: 2nd IFIP WG 11.6 Working Conference on Policies and Research in Identity Management (IDMAN). 2010, Oslo, Norway: Springer.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Scott-Heydt B. . In: 3rd Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETS). 2010, Berlin, Germany.
    • Camenisch J, Casati N, Gross T, Shoup V. . In: Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2010: 30th Annual Cryptology Conference. 2010, Santa Barbara, California, USA: Springer.
    • Bichsel P, Camenisch J, Gross T, Shoup V. . In: CCS 2009: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA: ACM Press.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Scott-Heydt B. . In: ACM Digital Identity Management (DIM). 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA: ACM Press.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T. . In: 15th ACM conference on Computer and communications security (TISSEC). 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA: ACM Press.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T. . In: ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS). 2008, Tokyo, Japan: ACM Press.
    • Bhargav-Spantzel A, Camenisch J, Gross T, Sommer D. . In: ACM Digital Identity Management (DIM). 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA: ACM Press.
    • Gross T, Pfitzmann B. . In: IEEE Workshop on Web Services Security (WSSS). 2006, Berkeley, California, USA: IEEE.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Sommer D. . In: Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA: ACM Press.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Sommer D. . In: IEEE Workshop on Web Services Security (WSSS). 2006, Berkeley, California, USA: IEEE.
    • Backes M, Gross T. . In: ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS). 2005, Alexandria, Virginia, USA: ACM Press.
    • Gross T, Pfitzmann B, Ahmad-Reza S. . In: ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS). 2005, Alexandria, Virginia, USA: ACM Press.
    • Gross T, Pfitzmann B, Ahmad-Reza S. . In: 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). 2005, Milan, Italy: Springer.
    • Gross T, Pfitzmann B. . In: ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS). 2004, Alexandria, Virginia, USA: ACM Press.
    • Gross T. . In: 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: IEEE.

  • Edited Books

    • Bhargav-Spantzel A, Gross T, ed. . New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011.
    • Gross T, Takahashi K, ed. . New York, USA: ACM Press, 2010.
    • Bertino E, Gross T, Takahashi K, ed. . New York, USA: ACM Press, 2009.

  • Patents

    • Gross T, Karjoth G. . US, US13/077,881, 31 March 2011.
    • Bussani A, Camenisch J, Gross T, Husemann D, Schmidt A, Sommer D. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent application US20100023889, 28 January 2010.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent application US20100063932, 11 March 2010.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Heydt-Benjamin TS. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, United States Patent Application 20100142704, 6 June 2010.
    • Bussani A, Camenisch J, Gross T, Husemann D, Sommer D. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent application US20100058443, 4 March 2010.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent application US20100115281, 6 May 2010.
    • Gross T, Camenisch J. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, US 2009/0063986 A1, 5 March 2009.
    • Bussani A, Camenisch J, Gross T, Husemann D, Schmidt A, Sommer D. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent application US20090254968, 8 October 2009.
    • Gross T, Sommer D, Camenisch J. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, EP2030364 (A2), 4 March 2009.
    • Camenisch J, Gilbin C, Gross T, Karjoth G. . US, US12/536.874, 6 August 2009.
    • Backes M, Gross T, Karjoth G, O'Connor L. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent applications US20080136586A1, EP06123078.5, October 2006.
    • Backes M, Gross T, Karjoth G. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent applications US2008204243A1, EP0612346.3, December 2006.
    • Gross T, Pfitzmann B. . New York: International Business Machines Corporation, WO Patent WO/2007/072318, European Patent EP1964021B1, January 2006.
    • Gross T, Lovatt BM, Moran AS, Schunter M. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, United States Patent 7523200, January 2005.
    • Gross T, Karjoth G, Schunter M. . Armonk, New York, US: International Business Machines Corporation, Patent application US20050086228A1, 21 April 2005.

  • Reports

    • Gross T. . arXiv preprint, 2020. arXiv:2011.11749.
    • Gross T. . arXiv preprint, 2020. arXiv:2010.02117.
    • Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2020. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1541.
    • Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2020. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1538.
    • Nwadike UP, Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2020. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1539.
    • Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2020. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1540.
    • Tan SY, Gross T. . Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2020. 2020/587.
    • Tan SY, Sfyrakis I, Gross T. . Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2020. 2020/1403.
    • Coopamootoo K, Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing, 缅北禁地, 2019. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1528.
    • Tan SY, Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing, 缅北禁地, 2019. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1527.
    • Tan SY, Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2019. School of Computing 1527.
    • Gross T, Sfyrakis I. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, 缅北禁地, 2018. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1523.
    • Gross T, Ali MA. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2018. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1537.
    • Gross T, Coopamootoo K, Al-Jabri A. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2017. School Of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1509.
    • Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2017. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1536.
    • Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2017. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1508.
    • Coopamootoo KPL, Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2017. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1518.
    • Coopamootoo K, Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2017. School of Computing Technical Report Series 1514.
    • Gross T, Coopamootoo K, Al-Jabri A. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2016. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1496.
    • Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2014. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1417.
    • Gross T. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2014. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1418.
    • Morisset C, Yevseyeva I, Gross T, van Moorsel A. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 2014. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1423.
    • Gross T, Mödersheim S. . Zurich, Switzerland: IBM Research Division, 2011. IBM Research Report RZ3803.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Heydt-Benjamin TS. . Zurich, Switzerland: IBM Research Division, 2011. IBM Research Report RZ3800.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T, Hladky P, Hoertnagl C. . Berlin: IACR, 2010. Cryptology ePrint Archive 2010/401.
    • Camenisch J, Gross T. . Berlin: IACR, 2010. Cryptology ePrint Archive 2010/496.
    • Camenisch J, Casati N, Gross T, Shoup V. . Berlin: IACR, 2010. Cryptology ePrint Archive 2010/055.
    • Gross T, Pfitzmann B. . Zurich, Switzerland: IBM Research Division, 2009. IBM Research Report RZ3732.
    • Bichsel P, Binding C, Camenisch J, Gross T, Heydt-Benjamin TS, Sommer D, Zaverucha G. . Zurich, Switzerland: IBM Research Division, 2009. IBM Research Report RZ3730.
    • Gross T. . Zurich, Switzerland: Erich-Berne Institute, 2009.
    • Gross T. . Germany: Saarland University, 2003.