I am currently a security architect at Nvidia. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at DistriNet, KU Leuven, working in the space of confidential computing, specifically on improving the guarantees of TEEs and extending their applicability across the computing spectrum. I have worked on all three fronts of building new secure systems, breaking systems, and formalizing the properties of existing systems.
Short Vita
| Since 01/2024 | Senior Security Architect, Confidential Computing at Nvidia, Germany |
| 11/2023 - 01/2024 | Postdoctoral researcher, KU Leuven (DistriNet), Belgium |
| 09/2019 - 10/2023 | PhD candidate, KU Leuven (imec DistriNet), Belgium PhD under Prof. Frank Piessens working on Confidential computing Dissertation title: Interface Sanitization and Real-Time Scheduling for Enclaved Execution Supervisors: Frank Piessens, Jan Tobias Mühlberg, Jo Van Bulck Dissertation committee: Shweta Shinde, David Oswald, Nigel Smart, Wouter Joosen, Hermann Neuckermans |
| May - July 2021 | Research internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK |
| 10/2015 — 03/2019 | Master of Science (IT-Security), Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Thesis title: TEE² — Combining Trusted Hardware to Enhance the Security of TEEs Thesis supervisors: Stefan Katzenbeisser, N. Asokan. Advisor: Andrew Paverd |
| 11/2017 — 12/2018 | Research Assistant, Aalto University, Finland Master thesis worker at the Secure Systems Group under N. Asokan |
| 06/2017 — 08/2017 | Research Assistant, Aalto University, Finland Summer internship at the Secure Systems Group under N. Asokan |
| 09/2016 — 08/2017 | ERASMUS+ exchange year, Aalto University, Finland |
| 10/2011 — 9/2015 | Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), RWTH Aachen University, Germany Thesis supervisor: Klaus Wehrle. Advisor: Martin Henze |