Lab

Student Advising and Mentoring

Ph.D. Students

Apr 2024–: Valentino Dalla Valle – Browser Extension Security (paper under submission), Saarland University & CISPA

Dec 2023–: Dominic Troppmann – Type Checks (paper at IEEE/ACM ASE 2024), co-supervised with Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Saarland University & CISPA

Research Assistants (HiWis)

Dec 2024–: Laith Alhelwane (MSc student) – JavaScript or Browser Extension Security, Saarland University

Alumni

2023–2024

• Ben Rosenzweig (BSc thesis) – Machine Learning-Based Approach for Detecting Malicious Browser Extensions (paper under submission), Saarland University

2022–2023

• Sheryl Hsu (BSc student) – Browser Extension Security (paper at AsiaCCS 2024), Stanford University
• Manda Tran (MSc student, now Ph.D. student at UCLA) – Browser Extension Security (paper at AsiaCCS 2024), Stanford University
• Liz Izhikevich (Ph.D. student of Zakir Durumeric, now Assistant Professor at UCLA) – Internet Scanning, (paper at ACM IMC 2023), Stanford University

2021–2023

• Shubham Agarwal (Ph.D. student of Ben Stock) – Browser Extension Security (paper at ACM CCS 2024), Saarland University & CISPA

• Kimberly Ruth (Ph.D. student of Zakir Durumeric) – Web Browsing Behavior, (paper at ACM IMC 2022 + paper under submission), Stanford University

2022

• Mark Tran (BSc student) – Browser Extension Fingerprinting, Stanford University
• Vrushank Gunjur (BSc student) – Over-Privileged Extensions, Stanford University
• Nahum Maru (BSc student) – Browser Extension Crawler, Stanford University
• Fengchen (Maggie) Gong (MSc student, now Ph.D. student at Princeton) – Browser Fingerprinting, Stanford University

2021

• Liana Patel (Ph.D. student of Zakir Durumeric) – Web Crawler, Stanford University
• Luca Pistor & Nathan Bhak (BSc students) – Exam Software Security, Stanford University
• Paul Szymanski (BSc thesis) – A Study of State-of-the-Art Call Graph Creation Approaches for JavaScript, with Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Saarland University & CISPA

2020

• Anne Christin Deutschen & Luc Seyler (BSc students) – Browser Extension Vulnerability, with Doliere Francis Some, Saarland University & CISPA

2019–2020

• Marvin Moog & Markus Demmel (BSc students) – Analysis of JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques (paper at DSN 2021), Saarland University & CISPA

2019

• Maximilian Zoellner & Niklas Kempf (BSc students) – Intelligent Fuzzing System for JavaScript, Saarland University & CISPA

2018

• Nils Gloerfeld (BSc student) – Malicious JavaScript Deobfuscation, Saarland University & CISPA
• Dennis Salzmann (BSc student) – Malicious JavaScript Detection, Saarland University & CISPA