Awarded CYD Fellows

Zuowen Wang

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: September 2020 – February 2021

Project title: Understanding and enhancing adversarial robustness for machine learning models

Interview article available here.

Anita Mezzetti

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: February 2021 – July 2021

Project title: Modelling portfolios of cyber-related emerging technologies: a complex-system approach

Interview article available here.

Louis Merlin

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: March 2021 – August 2021

Project title: Recovering type information from compiled binaries to aid in instrumentation

Interview article available here.

Dina Mahmoud

CYD Doctoral Fellow

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: September 2020 – August 2024

Project title: ADHeS: Attacks and Defenses on FPGA-CPU Heterogeneous systems

Interview article available here.

Dr. Dimitri Percia David

CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow

Host institution: UNIGE

Fellowship duration: August 2020 – July 2022

Project title: Technology Forecasting and Market Monitoring for Cyber-Defence

Interview article available here.

Dr. Andrei Kucharavy

CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: December 2020 – November 2022

Project title: Evolutionary dynamics for improved GAN detection 

Interview article available here.

Simran Tinani

CYD Doctoral Fellow

Host institution: University of Zürich

Fellowship duration: September 2021 – August 2023

Project title: Nonabelian Groups in Cryptography

Interview article available here.

Ksandros Apostoli

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: September 2021 – February 2022

Project title: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Personhood Token

Interview article available here.

Jan Urech

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: October 2021 – April 2022

Project title: Developing an Automated Defender for Cyber Security Exercises

Interview article available here.

Lina Gehri

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: November 2021 – April 2022

Project title: Analyzing and Comparing Defense Strategies in a Cyber Defense Exercise

Interview article available here.

Alessandro Stolfo

CYD Doctoral Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: January 2022 – December 2025

Project title: Privacy-Preserving Learning of Neural Language Models

Interview article available here.

Adalsteinn Jonsson

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: January 2022 – June 2022

Project title: PE malware detection with deep neural model

Interview article available here.

Ian Boschung

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: May 2022 – November 2022

Project title: Analysing new security guarantees made possible by the ARMv9 Confidential Compute Architecture

Interview article available here.

Louis-Henri Merino

CYD Doctoral Fellow

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: June 2022 – May 2024

Project title: Coercion-Resistant Remote E-Voting Systems with Everlasting Privacy

Interview article available here.

Dr. Lucianna Kiffer

CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: September 2022 – August 2024

Project title: Security and Usability of Blockchain Networks

Interview article available here.

Jodok Vieli

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: October 2022 – March 2023

Project title: Systematization of DNS DoS: Attack Characterization, Mitigation and Measurement

Interview article available here.

Guillaume Dubuis

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: HES-SO Valais-Wallis

Fellowship duration: February 2023 – July 2023

Project title: Topological data analysis for attack detection in energy systems

Interview article available here

Edoardo Debenedetti

CYD Doctoral Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: June 2023 – May 2027

Project title: Real-world Machine Learning Security and Privacy

Interview article available here

Dr. Francesca Falzon

CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: July 2023 – June 2025

Project title: Towards More Practical Encrypted Databases with Expressive Queries

Interview article available here

Simon Sommerhalder

CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: November 2023 – April 2024

Project title: Challenges in Robust Detection of Attack Traffic

Interview article available here

Dr. Ana-Maria Cretu

CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: November 2023 – October 2025

Project title: Methods for the evaluation of technologies that promise privacy

Basil Ottinger

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: November 2023 – April 2024

Project title: Towards Comprehensive Measurement of Global DNS Amplification Threats

Interview article available here

Shailesh Mishra

CYD Doctoral Fellowship

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: January 2024 – December 2027

Project title: Privacy-Preserving Self-Sovereign Identity Systems with Key Recovery

Maxime Bourassa

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: EPFL

Fellowship duration: March 2024 – August 2024

Project title: Development of a WAN traffic obfuscation system on programmable network switches

Interview article available here

Daniel Dorigatti

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ZHAW

Fellowship duration: March 2024 – August 2024

Project title: Navigating GNSS-denied Skies: A Novel Approach to Ownship Localization

Interview article available here

Marco Seewer

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: March 2024 – August 2024

Project title: Security Analysis of the SCION Internet Architecture

Interview article available here

Filippo Visconti

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: April 2024 – September 2024

Project title: Securing Satellite Receivers Firmware Upgrades

Interview article available here

Dominique Portenier

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: April 2024 – September 2024

Project title: Security Analysis of the SCION Internet Architecture

Interview article available here

Dhruv Nevatia

CYD Doctoral Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: June 2024 – May 2028

Project title: A Framework for the Analysis of DNS and other Timed Network Protocols

Valentin Huber

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ZHAW

Fellowship duration: September 2024 – February 2025

Project title: Fuzzing Zephyr with LibAFL

Interview article available here

Daniele Del Giudice

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: October 2024 – March 2025

Project title: Security Analysis of KERI

Christoph Landolt

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: OST

Fellowship duration: October 2024 – March 2025

Project title: Training of offensive penetration testing agents with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) on Graphs

Patrick Louis Aldover

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: October 2024 – March 2025

Project title: Creating a Secure WAN Using Cloud Service Provider Networks

Janina Inauen

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: UZH

Fellowship duration: October 2024 – March 2025

Project title: Prediction and Analysis of Crowdsourced Network Dynamics

Andrea Lepori

CYD Master Thesis Fellowship

Host institution: ETHZ

Fellowship duration: November 2024 – April 2025

Project title: Automated Code Obfuscation through Mutation to Bypass Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Systems

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