People

Alumni

Graduated doctoral students

• Dr. Katharina Ceesay-Seitz, Microarchitectural Security Verification Using Information Flow Tracking. Employment: Qualcomm
• Dr. Patrick Jattke, System-Level Evaluation of Advanced Rowhammer Attacks on Deployed Mitigations. Employment: Google.
• Dr. Johannes Wikner, Information Leaks via Return Target Misprediction. Awarded an ETH medal. Employment: Google.
• Dr. Michele Marazzi, Principled DRAM Security against Rowhammer Attacks. Employment: ABB Research.
• Dr. Flavien Solt, Software-inspired Techniques for Digital Hardware Security. Awarded an ETH medal. Employment: National University of Singapore (Assistant Professor) .
• Dr. Pietro Frigo (co-supervised with Herbert Bos and Cristiano Giuffrida at VU Amsterdam), Exploiting Hardware from Software. Graduated Cum Laude. Employment: Qualcomm.
• Dr. Radhesh K. Konoth (co-supervised with Herbert Bos at VU Amsterdam), Vulnerable by Design: Mitigating Design Flaws in Hardware and Software. Employment: Qualcomm.
• Dr. Lucian Cojocar, (co-supervised with Herbert Bos and Cristiano Giuffrida at VU Amsterdam), Between a hard and soft place: The (in) secure interplay of hardware and software. Employment: Intel.

Student projects

• Eva Nenadovic, Semester Project, FS’26 – Embargo
• Valentin Jenny, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Embargo
• Jonas Buchholz, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Embargo
• František Kmječ, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Improving Hardware Fuzzers
• Justin Jaeger, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Browser Timers
• Tanish Chhabra, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Browser Rowhammer PTE Exploit
• Maurus Fry, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Embargo
• Omar Elrakhawy, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Microarchitecture-Aware Compiler
• Benjamin Selyem, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Embargo
• Jan Lüthi, Semester Project, FS’26 – Embargo
• Harvi Seitaj, Semester Project, FS’26 – TLB merging
• Yannis Bolliger, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Embargo
• Giorgio Frehner, Semester Project, FS’26 – Embargo
• David Sipos, Semester Project, FS’26 – Supercharged Timers
• Manuele Rossetti, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Embargo
• Matthieu Saury, Semester Project, FS’26 – Kernel Spectre Mitigation
• Tomas Jossen, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – Embargo
• Yves Rüetschi, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’26 – RISC-V Software Exploitation
• Andreas Papon, M.Sc. Thesis, HS’25 – Spectre Fuzzing
• Tingong Jin, Semester Thesis, HS’25 – Embargo
• Elena Morbach, Semester Project, HS’25 – Embargo
• Mark Mitchell, Semester Project, HS’25 – Embargo
• Akira Namekata, B.Sc. thesis, HS’25 – Embargo
• Quentin Bordier, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – HartBreaker
• Andreas Bur, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Embargo
• Maximilian Mosler, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Embargo
• Zhili Pan, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Improving Spectre Mitigations in Linux
• Leonhard Koblitz, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Thread Director Side Channels
• Mathy Sevrin, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Blacksmith on DDR5
• Chenfei Liu, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Compression: Impossible
• Darijan Boskovic, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Mobile Rubicon
• Denis Zupiger, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – HLS Fuzzing
• Milan Schabort, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – Formal Spectre Attacks
• Mark Mitchell, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’25 – ECC bypass on DDR4
• Jonas Buchholz, Semester Project, FS’25 – Custom Rowhammer Patterns
• Elias Werner, Semester Project, FS’25 – Spectre on Apple
• Andreas Papon, Semester Project, FS’25 – Spectre Fuzzing
• Axel Schwarzenbach, Semester Project, FS’25 – Extending Posthammer
• Kim Fahrni, Semester Project, FS’25 – Scaling Verification with Invariant Analysis
• Stefan-Gabriel Popescu, Semester Project, HS’24 – U-TRR Revisited
• Hamza Abid, Semester Project, HS’24 – Eviction Sets for Non-inclusive Caches
• Kim Fahrni, B.Sc. thesis, HS’24 – Invariant Analysis
• Jann Hofmänner, B.Sc. thesis, HS’24 – Hardware Feedback Control
• Tobias Kovats, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’24 – MileSan
• Matej Bölcskei, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’24 – Encarsia – ETH Medal
• Mengyuan Yin, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’24 – Extended uCFI
• Dennis Hofer, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’24 – Parallel Retbleed
• Florian Wiederkehr, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’24 – Non-inclusive Eviction Sets
• Darijan Boskovic, Semester Project, FS’24 – Blacksmith on ARM
• Thomas Herzog, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’24 – Columnhammer
• Diego Meyer, Semester Project, FS’24 – Rowhammer Attacks on the Hyprevisor
• Quentin Bordier, Semester Project, FS’24 – MMU Fuzzing
• Denis Zuppiger, Semester Project, FS’24 – RISC-V Vector Crypto and Verification
• Jean-Claude Graf, Semester Project, FS’24 – Reverse Engineering the BPU
• Jonas Buchholz, B.Sc. Thesis, HS’23 – Multicore Support for a RISC-V Kernel
• Silvan Niederer, M.Sc. Thesis, HS’23 – Persistent Executables
• Lara Lazier, M.Sc. Thesis, HS’23 – Reducing Blacksmith Patterns
• Daniël Trujillo, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Training in Transient Execution – ETH Medal
• Sandro Ruegge, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Microarchitectural Checkpoint/Restore
• Tristan Ballantyne, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – DRAM Imaging and Applications
• Andrej Gorjan, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Microarch. Attacks with THPs and Defenses
• Tobias Kovats, Semester Project – FS’23, IFT for Hardware Fuzzing
• Alexander Klukas, Semester Project – FS’23, Counterexample Analysis
• Zhenrong Lang, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Blaster Rowhammer Patterns – ITET Thesis Award
• Romino Steiner, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Simulating Rowhammer Mitigations
• Max Wipfli, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – ZenHammer – Excellence Scholarship, ITET Thesis Award
• Stefan Gloor, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – DDR5 Fault Injection Platform
• Jennifer Schmitz, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Isolation in an Optane File System
• David Wilhelmy, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Bypassing FGKASLR
• Benjamin Lang, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Intel CET vs. Transient Execution Attacks
• Daniel Pfister, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Exploiting AMD Dual-threaded Mode
• Tristan Ballantyne – Semester Project, HS’22 – DRAM Imaging
• Matej Bölcskei, Semester Project, HS’22 – Reliable DDR4 Rowhammering
• Jason Zibung, B.Sc. Thesis, HS’22 – FreeRide
• Jonas Schmid, B.Sc. Thesis, HS’22 – Visualizing DRAM Traffic
• Maximilian Sabayev, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’22 – Formal Analysis of Probabilistic TRR
• Banu Cavlak, Semester Project, FS’22 – Guided Blacksmith
• Quentin Bordier, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’22 – Optimizing CellIFT
• Loris Sikora, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’22 – Discovery of Spectre Disclosure Gadgets in Linux
• Jean-Claude Graf, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’22 – Speculative Retbleed
• Georg Schwan, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’22 – Booting Linux on Persistent Memory
• Daniël Trujillo, Semester Project, FS’22 – Phantom JMPs
• Adriel Tan, Semester Project, FS’22 – Architectural Exploration for Fuzzing
• Guillaume Thivolet, Semester Project, FS’22 – An FPGA Port of CellIFT
• Matej Bölcskei, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’22 – Rowhammer Exploitation with DDR4
• Clément Thorens, Semester Project, FS’22 – Reverse Engineering Discrete GPUs
• Christian Hürlimann, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’22 – Reducing Blacksmith Patterns
• Stijn Gunter, M.Sc. Thesis, HS’21 – Fuzzing USB Host Controllers
• Tobias Riedener, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’21 – A Persistent Memory File System
• Rafael Dejonghee, M.Sc. Thesis, FS’21 – Microarchitectural Resource Partitioning
• Diego Meyer, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’21 – VMM Extensions and Transient Execution Attacks
• Stijn Gunter, Semester Project, FS’21 – An FPGA-based Rowhammer Testing Platform
• Leonardo Galli, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’21 – Fuzzing the iOS Bootloader
• Moritz Schneider, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’21 – Building an OS Kernel in Rust
• Tobias Riedener, Semester Thesis, HS’20 – Optane and Microarchitectural Resources