We prove that the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation is locally controllable in 1D and in 2D with one boundary control. Our method consists in combining several general results in order to reduce the null-controllability of this nonlinear parabolic equation to the exact controllability of a linear beam or plate system. This improves known results on the controllability of Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation and gives a general strategy to handle the null-controllability of nonlinear parabolic systems.