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About me
UC Berkeley postdoc, working with Christopher Fletcher on hardware security topics.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, where I collaborate with a fantastic team of researchers led by Prof. Christopher Fletcher. I am generally interested in computer hardware architecture, security, and testing, with a special focus on bug detection in CPUs and in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. 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.
Contact. You can reach me at flavien [dot] solt [at] berkeley [dot] edu.
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. The Computer Engineering course that I was TA’ing during my PhD was awarded the ETH Golden Owl.
Community service
Reviews:
- ✍️ Top Picks in HES'24
- ✍️ CCS'25
Subreviews:
- ✍️ CCS'21
- ✍️ USENIX ATC'22
- ✍️ DIMVA'23
- ✍️ HPCA'25
Teaching
I’ve been a teaching assistant for the following courses at ETH Zurich:
- 📚 Computer Engineering ‘22, ‘23, ‘24.
- 📚 VLSI 1: HDL Based Design for FPGAs ‘20.
I’ve also have the privilege to supervise several BSc and MSc student:
- 🧑💻 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)
