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        							<img class="img-responsive center-block" itemprop="image" src="/files/14973//IMG_20250222_124651%283%29.jpg" alt="Personal photo - Marcell  Szakaly" /></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-dark-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"><p><strong> <span itemprop="givenName">Marcell </span> <span itemprop="familyName">Szakaly</span> <span itemprop="honorificSuffix"></span></strong></p><p></p><div itemprop="jobTitle" class="indent">Doctoral Student</div><p></p><p></p><div class="indent"><span itemprop="jobTitle">Student</span>, <span itemprop="memberof" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://www.schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="url" content="http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk"><a href="http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk" class="panel-link"><span itemprop="legalName">Merton College</span></a></span></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p class="no-bottom-margin"><span itemprop="workLocation" class="scaled-text">
											Department of Computer Science,<br>
											Robert Hooke Building<br><a class="panel-link" href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/directions.html" target="directions">Directions</a> <a class="panel-link" href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/contact.html" target="postal">Postal Address</a></span></p></div></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-md-4 panel panel-light-blue panel-condensed equal-height"><div class="panel-body"></div></div></div></div><h2>Biography</h2><p>Marcell is a DPhil student in the Systems Security Lab at the University of Oxford. He studies the security of the EV charging infrastructure, and supervises master's students on related topics. His research has revealed potential security issues in the CCS charging process, and his measurement study showed that many currently deployed chargers use outdated (and less secure) version of the protocol.</p>
<p>Marcell began pursuing cybersecurity research after earning a Master of Physics from Oxford. His work still incorporates many physical aspects, with a strong focus on electronics and RF hardware. He is primarily interested in finding and understanding potential attacks, caused in part by physical design flaws.</p><h2>Selected Publications</h2><p><a href="/people/publications/date/Marcell.Szakaly.html" class="btn btn-dark-brown-outline btn-thin text-uppercase">View All</a><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/research/publications/manage" class="btn btn-dark-brown-outline btn-thin text-uppercase">Manage publications</a></p><ul class="list-unbulleted list-unbulleted-spaced"><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Short: PIBuster: Exploiting a Common Misconfiguration in CCS EV Chargers </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Marcell Szak&#xe1;ly&#x201a; Sebastian K&#xf6;hler and Ivan Martinovic  </em> </p>
	
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
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            3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec '25)</em>.
        2025.
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            href="/publications/publication16589-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Short: PIBuster: Exploiting a Common Misconfiguration in CCS EV Chargers  </em></span> </a> | <a
        
            href="/publications/publication16589.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> Short: PIBuster: Exploiting a Common Misconfiguration in CCS EV Chargers  </em></span>   </a> </li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Current Affairs: A Security Measurement Study of CCS EV Charging Deployments </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Marcell Szak&#xe1;ly&#x201a; Sebastian K&#xf6;hler and Ivan Martinovic  </em> </p>
	
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            34th USENIX Security Symposium</em>.
        2025.
        </p>
	
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            href="/publications/publication16588-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Current Affairs: A Security Measurement Study of CCS EV Charging Deployments  </em></span> </a> | <a
        
            href="/publications/publication16588.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> Current Affairs: A Security Measurement Study of CCS EV Charging Deployments  </em></span>   </a> </li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Assault and Battery: Evaluating the Security of Power Conversion Systems Against Electromagnetic Injection Attacks </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Marcell Szak&#xe1;ly&#x201a; Sebastian K&#xf6;hler&#x201a; Martin Strohmeier and Ivan Martinovic  </em> </p>
	
	
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            In  
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            2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)</em>.
        
                Pages 224&#x2212;239.
            2024.
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            href="/publications/publication16587-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Assault and Battery: Evaluating the Security of Power Conversion Systems Against Electromagnetic Injection Attacks  </em></span> </a> | <a
        
            href="/publications/publication16587.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> Assault and Battery: Evaluating the Security of Power Conversion Systems Against Electromagnetic Injection Attacks  </em></span>   </a>  | <a
             href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACSAC63791.2024.00033">
            DOI (10.1109/ACSAC63791.2024.00033)
            </a> </li></ul><h2>Supervisor</h2><div class="row"><div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="picturebox col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3  clear-xs clear-sm clear-md clear-lg"><a class="piccy" href="/people/Ivan.Martinovic/" style="background-image:url('/files/4434//ivan-pic.png')"></a><center><a href="/people/Ivan.Martinovic/"><span class="newcaption"><span itemprop="name">Ivan&nbsp;Martinovic</span></span></a></center></div></div>
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