Lab

Student Advising and Mentoring

Ph.D. Students

Apr 2024–: Valentino Dalla Valle – Fingerprinting, Browser Extension Security, Saarland University & CISPA

Dec 2023–: Dominic Troppmann – Type Checks, with Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Saarland University & CISPA

Nov 2021–: Shubham Agarwal (Ph.D. student of Ben Stock) – Browser Extension Security, Saarland University & CISPA

Oct 2021–: Kimberly Ruth (Ph.D. student of Zakir Durumeric) – Web Browsing Behavior, Stanford University

Bachelor Students

Oct 2023–: Ben Rosenzweig (BSc thesis) – Machine Learning-Based Approach for Detecting Malicious Browser Extensions, Saarland University

Alumni

2022–2023

• Sheryl Hsu (BSc student) – Browser Extension Security (paper at AsiaCCS 2024), Stanford University
• Manda Tran (MSc student) – Browser Extension Security (paper at AsiaCCS 2024), 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 PhD 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