Faculty
2020: EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award
2019: NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition Honorable Mention: Meltdown
2019: Open Exploit Award: Meltdown and Spectre
2019: S&P Distinguished Paper Award - Spectre
2018: CSAW Best Paper Award - Meltdown
2018: Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug - Meltdown
2018: Pwnie Awardfor Most Innovative Research - Spectre
Dr. Michael Schwarz is tenured faculty at CISPA with a focus on microarchitectural side-channel attacks and system security. He obtained his PhD with the title "Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted Environments" in 2019 from Graz University of Technology (advised by Daniel Gruss). He holds two master's degrees, one in computer science and one in software engineering with a strong focus on security. Michael is a regular speaker at both academic and hacker conferences (7 times Black Hat, CCC, Blue Hat, etc.). He was part of one of the research teams that found the Meltdown, Spectre, Fallout, and LVI vulnerabilities, as well as the ZombieLoad vulnerability. He was also part of the KAISER patch, the basis for Meltdown countermeasures now deployed in every modern operating system under names such as KPTI or KVA Shadow.
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS)
Automated Detection, Exploitation, and Elimination of Double-Fetch Bugs using Modern CPU Features
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
Another Flip in the Wall of Rowhammer Defenses
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
JavaScript Zero: Real JavaScript and Zero Side-Channel Attacks
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
KeyDrown: Eliminating Software-Based Keystroke Timing Side-Channel Attacks
GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks