People

Chair of the center
Prof. Dr. Srdjan Capkun

Director of the center
Dr. Kari Kostiainen

Prof. Dr. David Basin leads the Information Security Group that performs research on methods
and tools for the analysis and construction of safe and secure systems.

Prof. Dr. Srdjan Capkun leads the System Security Group, studying the design and the analysis
of security protocols for wired and wireless networks and systems.

Prof. Dr. Dennis Hofheinz leads the Foundations of Cryptography group that designs and
analyzes cryptographic building blocks and their use.

Prof. Dr. Ueli Maurer leads the Information Security and Cryptography Group that focuses
on information security, theory and application of cryptography and theoretical computer science.

Prof. Dr. Kenny Paterson leads the Applied Cryptography Group whose research focus is on applied
cryptography and communication security.

Prof. Dr. Adrian Perrig leads the Network Security Group whose research revolves around building
secure and robust network systems – with a particular focus on the design of future Internet architectures.

Prof. Dr. Shweta Shinde leads the Secure & Trustworthy Systems Group whose work focuses on
trusted computing and its intersection with system security, program analysis, and formal verification.

Prof. Dr. Florian Tramèr leads the Secure and Private AI Lab whose research currently focuses
on understanding and improving the worst-case behavior of machine learning systems.

Prof. Dr. Kaveh Razavi leads the Computer Security Group whose main research goal is the
construction of reliable and secure computing systems.

Prof. Dennis Komm leads the Algorithms and Didactics group whose research focusses on
the sustainable impartation of core concepts of computer science.

Prof. Stelian Coros leads the Computational Robotics Lab whose research is about robots who
understand the physical world and function as skilled co-workers and trusted social companions.

Prof. Hans Gersbach is a professor of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy at D-MTEC.
His joint research with ZISC focuses on secure governance schemes through assessment
voting and vote delegation.

Prof. Christian Holz leads the Sensing, Interaction and Perception Lab whose research covers
topics ranging from technical computer-human interaction to wearable sensing and virtual reality.

Prof. Peter Müller leads the Chair of Programming Methodology where the main research
objective is to enable programmers to develop correct software.

Prof. Laurent Vanbever leads the Networked Systems Group whose goal is to make the current and
future networks, especially the Internet, easier to design, understand and operate.

Dr. Patrick Schaller is a senior researcher part of the System Security group. He is the representative
of ETH in SSCC and his research focus is on security characteristics of modern IT systems.

Dr. Jonghoon Kwon is a senior researcher part of the Network Security Group. His research focus is
on network security.

Dr. Simon-Philipp Merz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Applied Cryptography Group. His research
focus is on post-quantum cryptography and cryptanalysis.

Michael Aerni is a doctoral student in the Secure and Private AI Lab. His research focus is on privacy
and security of machine learning.

Andrin Bertschi is a doctoral student in the Secure & Trustworthy Systems Group. His research focus
is on mobile and cloud virtualization security.

Dr. Abhiroop Sarkar is a postdoctoral researcher in the Information Security Group. His research
applies programming language techniques to building secure software systems.

Dr. Ali Hajiabadi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Security (COMSEC) group and a
lecturer in the D-ITET department. His research focuses on systems and hardware security,
exploring both practical attacks and formal methods for designing defenses.