Aurore Fass

Aurore Fass

Tenured Researcher at Inria

Dr.-Ing. Aurore Fass

I am currently looking for a PhD student (start date: anytime in 2027) and a Postdoctoral researcher (start date: anytime in 2027 or 2028).

I am a Tenured Researcher at the Inria Centre at Universite Cote d’Azur (France), since December 2025. My research broadly focuses on Web security and privacy, Web measurements, and machine learning. Specifically, I design practical approaches to protect the security and privacy of Web users. I build systems to proactively detect malicious JavaScript code and suspicious browser extensions. I analyze data to understand how people spend time on the Web, and I want to use the resulting perspective to prioritize defense strategies.

Before that, I was a Tenure-Track Faculty (W2) at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Germany, 2023–2025), where I was leading my research group. Prior to that, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (U.S., 2021–2023), in the Empirical Security Research Group, led by Zakir Durumeric. Before that, I was a PhD student at Saarland University & CISPA (2018-2021), in the Secure Web Applications Group, jointly supervised by Ben Stock and Michael Backes. My PhD thesis revolves around studying JavaScript security through static analysis. Prior to that, I was a master student at the French Grande Ecole TELECOM Nancy, where I had the honor to give the valedictorian speech (2017). In particular, I wrote my master thesis at the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) under the supervision of Isabelle Chrisment and Robert Krawczyk.

I frequently deliver invited talks and keynotes both at academic and non-academic venues, see “Talks”. I am also an active contributor to the research community, holding chairing and editorial roles for top-tier security and privacy venues (I am currently a Vice Chair at USENIX Security 2027); I regularly serve on the program committees of those conferences, where I have received multiple Distinguished Reviewer Awards and Recognitions, see “Community Services”.

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