Group leader
Giancarlo is a tenure-track faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Before that, he was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University and research group leader at CISPA as part of the CISPA-Stanford Center for Cybersecurity. Giancarlo got his PhD at Eurecom in Sophia-Antipolis (France), and, until August 2013, Giancarlo was a researcher associate in the Security and Trust group at the SAP research labs.
Postdoc
Yuqing’s research interest lies in web security for emerging platforms, such as super apps, vulnerability, and malware detection.
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Prep.-phase Grad School PhD student
RAs/HiWis
2024: Prerak Mittal: Testing web scanners.
2023-24: Ryan Aurelio: Security and Privacy of WebVR (BSc thesis follow-up project).
2022-24: Tim Recktenwald: Building new web scanners; before: Looking for the most important developers in the world.
MSc/BSc thesis students
2024: Tim Recktenwald: MSc thesis project, Post-authentication scans at scale, Saarland University (DE)
2024: Prerak Mittal: MSc thesis project, Web API Vulnerabilities, Saarland University (DE)
2022/24: Sebastian Becking: MSc thesis project, Evaluating Malicious PDF Analysis Tools, Saarland University (DE)
Former members and visitors
2019/24: Soheil Khodayari: Soheil was a PhD student and postdoc. He defended his PhD thesis in September 2024. His research includes the development of reusable security analysis tools and techniques for the automated detection of vulnerabilities in web applications. He is the author of JAW (Javascript Analysis frameWork).
2024/25: Yigit Sever: Research Internship, from METU, Turkey
2023: Anthony Gavazzi: Research Internship, PhD student from Northeastern University (USA)
2023: Lorenzo Cazzaro: Visiting PhD student from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (IT)
2022: Angelo Sotgiu: Visiting PhD student from the University of Cagliari (IT)
BSc/MSc students