Teaching

Teaching activities

I am actively involved in teaching at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the University of Bern (UniBe). Below is a list of students I have supervised or am currently supervising for their thesis or seminar projects.

2025:

University of Bern (UniBe):

  • Seminar + Master Thesis: Dario Kaufmann - Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Android Applications at Runtime + Feasibility of Runtime Detection of Third-Party Libraries in Android Applications
  • Seminar + Bachelor Thesis: Yannik Stürmlin - An Investigation Of Location Privacy In Mobile Applications
  • Seminar + Bachelor Thesis: Rahel Baumann - Automated Blackbox UI-Testing for Android Apps
  • Seminar + Bachelor Thesis: Dominic Fabian Kronig - Development of a Reference Application for the OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG)
  • Seminar: Felix Merz - Creating a Core Rule Set for Android Taint Analysis Tools
  • Seminar: Clement Defossez - Creating a Core Rule Set for Android Taint Analysis Tools
  • Seminar: Sophie Maudonnet - Third-Party Libraries Detection in Android Applications with Static Analysis Tools
  • Seminar: Sinthuja Vijayananthan - An Investigation Of Location Privacy In Mobile Applications

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW):

  • Seminar Project (Master - VT2): Dominique Alonso Alguacil - Security Analysis of Mobile e-ID Wallet Applications: A Case Study on the SWIYU Wallet

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ):

  • Master Thesis: Philipp Scherer - Development of a Fuzzing Interface for the Android Emulator

2024:

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW):

  • Seminar Project (Master - VT1): Dominique Alonso Alguacil - Overcoming Barriers in Automated App Testing: Mitigation Strategies for Dynamic Testing Agents
  • Seminar Project (Bachelor - PA1): Leu Tobias (leutob1), Leadbeater James (leadbjam) - Penetration Test of a Web Application with Biological Human Information

University of Bern (UniBe):

  • Seminar Software Engineering: Johannes Meier - SBOM development for Android applications
  • Seminar Software Engineering: Florin Luc Achermann - SBOM development for Android applications
  • Bachelor Thesis: Johannes Meier - Development of a Methodology and Tools for Runtime Identification of Software Components in Android Apps

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ):

  • Master Thesis: Sarina Müller
  • Master Thesis: Yufei Zhang

Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST):

  • External Expert, Bachelor Thesis: Miles Strässle - Systematic Identification of Vulnerabilities in C and C++ Source Code through Fuzzing

2023:

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW):

  • Bachelor Thesis: Dario Haas and Timo Ning - Creating Capture The Flag Challenges in the area of web security on the topic of web Cache Poisoning
  • Bachelor Thesis: Marcel Scherrer and Aline Stutz - Creation and operation of “Capture the Flag” challenges
  • Bachelor Thesis: Sandro von Ah and Nico Kalinowski - Analysing and exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities in Capture the Flag challenges