I’m an incoming assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before this, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, where I have been collaborating with the research team led by Prof. Christopher Fletcher. I completed my PhD at the Comsec group at ETH Zurich in 2024, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kaveh Razavi and had the great pleasure to collaborate with many talented and inspiring students and researchers.
🔴 📢 Join us! 🎓 🔬
I'm looking for motivated interns, PhD students and postdocs!
Areas: We work at the intersection of three fields:
- 🔐 Cybersecurity.
- 💻 Computer hardware.
- 🧠 AI / Machine learning techniques.
How to apply:
- Prospective PhD students: reach out to me by email + apply through the NUS School of Computing PhD program (deadline December 15th 2025).
- Prospective postdocs: reach out to me by email.
- Prospective research interns: reach out to me by email.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Research
Our research focuses on finding new techniques for improving hardware security, and leveraging these techniques for building systems more efficiently. These techniques include data-driven methods, information flow tracking, formal verification, adversary methods, EDA security, and their combinations.
Education
Before my PhD, I completed an Ingenieur Polytechnicien (X2016) curriculum at Ecole Polytechnique (France) and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zurich.
Awards
My PhD thesis was awarded the ETH Medal. Prof. Kaveh Razavi’s Computer Engineering course that I was TA’ing during my PhD was awarded the ETH Golden Owl.
Community service
Reviews
- ✍️ USENIX Security'26
- ✍️ CCS'25 CCS 2025 Top Reviewer Award
- ✍️ Top Picks in HES'24
Subreviews
- ✍️ DIMVA'23
- ✍️ USENIX ATC'22
- ✍️ CCS'21
Teaching / mentoring
Teaching
I’ve been a teaching assistant for the following courses at ETH Zurich:
- 📚 Computer Engineering (ETH Zurich) ‘22, ‘23, ‘24.
- 📚 VLSI 1: HDL Based Design for FPGAs ‘20.
Mentoring
I’ve also had the privilege to supervise several BSc and MSc students:
- 🧑💻 Chaitanya Gambali (Bachelor's thesis, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑💻 Benjamin Lang (Master's thesis, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑💻 Zhenrong Lang (Master's thesis, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑🎓 Florian Chivé (Master's thesis, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑🎓 Rémi Germe (Master's thesis, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑🎓 Jean-Nicolas Strauss (Master's thesis, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑🎓 Frank Jin (Bachelor's project, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑🎓 SooHyuk Cho (Bachelor's project, UC Berkeley, 2025)
- 🧑🎓 Matej Bölcskei (Master's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2024) ETH Medal
- 🧑🎓 Tobias Kovats (Master's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2024)
- 🧑🎓 Quentin Bordier (Semester thesis, ETH Zürich, 2024)
- 🧑🎓 Tobias Kovats (Semester thesis, ETH Zürich, 2023)
- 🧑🎓 Sandro Rüegge (Master's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2023)
- 🧑🎓 Tristan Sachsenweger (Master's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2023)
- 🧑🎓 Adriel Tan (Master's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2023)
- 🧑🎓 Valentin Ogier (Semester thesis, ETH Zürich, 2022)
- 🧑🎓 Quentin Bordier (Bachelor's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2022)
- 🧑🎓 Adriel Tan (Semester thesis, ETH Zürich, 2022)
- 🧑🎓 Guillaume Thivolet (Semester thesis, ETH Zürich, 2022)
- 🧑🎓 Maximilian Sabayev (Master's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2022)
- 🧑🎓 Stijn Gunther (Master's thesis, ETH Zürich, 2022)