I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Bristol, working on hardware security and AI security. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the System Security Lab at TU Darmstadt, Germany, working with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and a postdoctoral research fellow at Radboud University, led by Prof. Dr. Joan Daemen and Prof. Dr. Dr. Stjepan Picek. I obtained my PhD from TU Delft, the Netherlands, in 2023, supervised by Prof. Dr. ir. Inald Lagendijk and Prof. Dr. Dr. Stjepan Picek.

My research focuses on AI-augmented physical and micro-architectural hardware security, as well as AI security. I have published in top-tier security and cryptography venues, including USENIX Security, NDSS, ASIACRYPT, TCHES, and TDSC. Several of my works have been referenced in AIS 46 guidance by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), and I have contributed as a main or co-applicant to several EU- and industry-funded projects.

Alongside academia, I worked as a Principal Security Evaluator at SGS Brightsight, the Netherlands (2017–2024), leading CC EAL5+ security evaluations for globally leading IC designers.

I am looking for motivated PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to join my group — see Positions for details.

What’s new

• 2026.06 TPC @ HOST’27.
• 2026.06 TPC @ USENIX Security’27.
• 2026.06 [USENIX Security] “GoodVibe: Security-by-Vibe for LLM-Based Code Generation”.
• 2026.05 TPC @ DATE’27.
• 2026.05 TPC @ S&P’27.

Research interests

• Hardware security (side-channel analysis, fault injection, hardware fuzzing)
• AI security (LLM safety, adversarial and mixture-of-experts attacks)
• AI-augmented physical and micro-architectural hardware security
• Cross-layer security across hardware and AI systems