Mathé Hertogh

PhD student

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Office:NU Building, Room 11A01
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV

About me

Although originally a mathematician, I became very enthusiastic about computer security in recent years. Currently I am a PhD student at VU Amsterdam within the VUSec research group, (co)supervised by Cristiano Giuffrida and Herbert Bos. My research focuses on microarchitecture security, and in particular, transient execution vulnerabilities (e.g. Spectre & friends). More broadly, I am excited about computer architecture, operating systems, virtualization, and their security aspects.

Some example projects so far include: OS/hypervisor redesign for microarchitectural defense-in-depth, new Spectre exploitation with next-gen CPU features, combining Rowhammer and (Half-)Spectre, and microarchitectural exploitation of real-world commercial clouds.

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