When? July 2, 2025, 2-3 p.m. lecture, afterwards get together with coffee and cake
Where? Building MC, Open Space
Registration: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/d9927498e5cf41a371d880faa7291df1-1273525
Since September 2024, CASA PI Flavio Toffalini has been Professor of Automated Security Analysis at the Faculty of Computer Science. Here, he conducts research on system security with a particular focus on automated software testing, threat prevention, and trustworthy computer technologies. Toffalini earned his PhD from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In his doctoral thesis, he investigated the overlap between trusted execution environments—in particular SGX and TrustZone—and software engineering, identifying new attack surfaces and proposing innovative defense mechanisms.
Abstract:
This inaugural lecture offers me the opportunity to reflect on my journey as a researcher: beginning with my entry into academia, continuing through my PhD, and culminating in my early steps as an independent principal investigator. I will discuss the main topics I have had the opportunity to work on, ranging from the use of Trusted Execution Environments to protect critical software components, to exploring new approaches for bug detection, and to investigating yet-unknown security issues. I will take this occasion to reflect on both successes and failures, and how they have shaped my perspective as a researcher over the years.
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