People

Former PhD students

• 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

• 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
• 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, Embargo
• Alexander Klukas, Semester Project – FS’23, Counterexample Analysis
• Zhenrong Lang, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Blaster Rowhammer Patterns
• Romino Steiner, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Simulating Rowhammer Mitigations
• Max Wipfli, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – ZenHammer
• Stefan Gloor, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – A DRAM Fault Injection Platform
• Jennifer Schmitz, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Isolation in an Optane File System
• David Wilhelmy, B.Sc. Thesis, FS’23 – Embargo
• 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 – Embargo
• 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