Ulf Kargén

Assistant Professor

My main research interests lie within the areas of software security and software testing.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University. My research broadly focuses on ensuring safety and security of software. I also teach several courses related to cyber security.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from Linköping University in 2019 on the topic of dynamic analysis of machine code programs. I have a broad interest in topics related to system and software security and software testing. Some of my recent research has focused on estimating the risk of so-called ROP attacks against software, and on safety testing of autonomous vehicles.

Publications

2024

Ulf Kargén, Daniel Varro (2024) Towards Automated Test Scenario Generation for Assuring COLREGs Compliance of Autonomous Surface Vehicles Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, p. 249-256 (Conference paper)

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2023

Ulf Kargén, Noah Mauthe, Nahid Shahmehri (2023) Characterizing the Use of Code Obfuscation in Malicious and Benign Android Apps 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY & SECURITY, ARES 2023, Article 27 (Conference paper)

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Ulf Kargén, Ivar Harnqvist, Johannes Wilson, Gustav Eriksson, Evelina Holmgren, Nahid Shahmehri (2023) desync-cc: A research tool for automatically applying disassembly desynchronization during compilation Science of Computer Programming, Vol. 228, Article 102954 (Article in journal)

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Ulf Kargén, Noah Mauthe, Nahid Shahmehri (2023) Android decompiler performance on benign and malicious apps: an empirical study Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 28, Article 48 (Article in journal)

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2022

Ulf Kargén, Ivar Härnqvist, Johannes Wilson, Gustav Eriksson, Evelina Holmgren, Nahid Shahmehri (2022) desync-cc: An Automatic Disassembly-Desynchronization Obfuscator 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, p. 464-468 (Conference paper)

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Research

Security and Networks

The Security and Networks Group focuses on getting the right information to the right people at the right time. Information security is an important part of this aim: for a system to be trusted, it must also be secure.

Teaching

TDDC90: Software Security – Examiner and lecturer

TDDE62: Information Security: Privacy, System and Network Security – Examiner and lecturer

TDDE63: Advanced Project Course: Information Security – Examiner and project supervisor

TDTS04: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems – Examiner and lecturer

TDDE49: Databases and Information Security for Bioinformatics – Lecturer

Cybersecurity lab at LiU

The cybersecurity lab offers facilities that are tailored for teaching cybersecurity in undergraduate and professional training programs.

About the division

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Database and Information Techniques (ADIT)

The division Database and Information Techniques is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division consists of several research groups, each of which has its own research profile.

Ulf Kargén

Publications

2024

2023

2022

Research

Security and Networks

Teaching

Cybersecurity lab at LiU

About the division

Database and Information Techniques (ADIT)

Colleagues at ADIT

About the department

Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

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