I'm a security researcher and postdoctoral researcher in the SEFCOM lab at Arizona State University (ASU), working with Tiffany Bao as well as Adam Doupé, Yan Shoshitaishvili, and Ruoyu (Fish) Wang. Before joining ASU in February 2025, I've been a postdoc at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. I've completed my PhD in May 2024 at Ruhr University Bochum, supervised by Thorsten Holz.

My research interests centers around automating the pipeline of finding bugs in programs, understanding them, and acting upon them (either exploiting or repairing them). Currently, I spend most of my time on improving fuzzing, such that we can find more bugs in less time.

Beyond working with bugs, I'm interested in all sorts of program analysis problems. One example is (de-)obfuscation, with a focus on automated deobfuscation attacks and how to break them.

I like sharing our research and have spoken at various conferences, for example, at REcon'22 Montreal together with Tim Blazytko about the future of VM-based obfuscation.

Besides my research, I have helped shaping and teaching courses on Systems Security and Operating Systems Security at Ruhr University Bochum, where I also obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Security from.

To help secure space systems, I'm the vice chair of the integration subgroup in the IEEE SA - P3349 - Standard for Space System Cybersecurity (S2CY). Our subgroup's goal is to facilitate secure interaction between segments (for example, a satellite and a ground station) and ensure proper testing.

For questions, discussion or collaboration, feel free to reach out via Twitter or email.