FTEs and assistants
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.
PhD student
PhD student
PhD student
Visiting PhD student
Angelo is a PhD student from the University of Cagliari (Italy), working on adversarial machine learning.
Research internship
Gianluca is a MSc student from the University of Trento (IT), working on a project at the intersection of machine learning and PDF phishing attacks.
Research Assistant
HiWi student.
Research Assistant
HiWi student.
MSc/BSc thesis students
2021/2022: Raoul Scholtes: BSc thesis project, , Bilingual Code Property Graphs, Saarland University (DE)
2022: Kai Glauber: MSc thesis project, Hunting for Open Redirections in the Wild, Saarland University (DE)
2022: Sebastian Becking: MSc thesis project, , Evaluating Malicious PDF Analysis Tools, Saarland University (DE)
Former members/students
2021: Jannis Rautenstrauch: MSc thesis project, XS-Leaks in Web Applications, Saarland University (DE)
2020/21: Dominik Kempter: BSc thesis project, Lightweight Dynamic Taint Flow Analysis for State-Changing Operations, Saarland University (DE)
2021: Andrea Mengascini: Research internship, Automated analysis of malcious URLs, University of Bologna (IT)
2020/21: Dominik Sautter: BSc thesis project, Client-side XSS Detection using Code Property Graphs, Saarland University (DE)
2020/21: Edoardo Vignani: MSc thesis project, Visiting student, Measuring the Challenges when Fuzzing Web Applications, University of Milan (IT)
2020/21: David Ahmed: Research assistant (HiWi).
2020/21: Nicolò Romandini: MSc thesis, Erasmus student, Agents to Explore the Attack Surface of Web Applications, University of Bologna (IT)
2020: Xhelal Likaj: MSc thesis, A Field Study of Anti-CSRF Countermeasures Used in Practice, Saarland University (DE)
2020: Tobias Faber: BSc thesis, Evaluating Strengths and Shortcomings of Web Scanners when Crawling Web Applications, Saarland University (DE)
2019/20: Alexander Troeger: Research assistant (HiWi).
2017: Sebastian Becking: MSc thesis, Old Wine Into New Wineskins: Spreading Malware In Social Networks, Saarland University (DE)
2016-18: Simon Koch: Research assistant (HiWi). MSc thesis, Detecting Race Conditions in Web Applications, Saarland University (DE)
2016-19: Pascal Duprè: Research assistant (HiWi). BSc thesis, Vetting an Advertisement Review System, Saarland University (DE).
2017: Andrey Chernov: MSc thesis, Developing a Property Graph-based Framework for Analysis of Large-scale Network Threats, Saarland University (DE)