Yuval Yarom
From April 2023, I am a Professor of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). Before joining RUB, I was an Associate Professor at the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide in 2014, and my M.Sc. in Computer Science and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993 and 1990, respectively. In between I have been the Vice President of Research in Memco Software and a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Girafa.com.

My research explores the security of the interface between the software and the hardware. In particular, I am interested in the discrepancy between the way that programmers think about software execution and the concrete execution in modern processors. I work on identifying micro-architectural vulnerabilities, and on exploitation and mitigation techniques.

Contact Information
Email: yuval.yarom [at] rub [dot] de
News
17 Nov 2023
The paper Pixel Thief: Exploiting SVG Filter Leakage in Firefox and Chrome with Sioli O'Connell, Lishay Aben Sour, Ron Magen, Daniel Genkin, Yossi Oren and Hovav Shacham will appear in USENIX Security 2024
8 Nov 2023
Mingtian Tao's thesis has been awarded the Dean's Commendation for Master by Research Thesis Excellence
5 Nov 2023
Congratulations to Mingtian Tao who completed a Master of Philosophy on Exploring the Vulnerability of Branch Prediction Unit.
28 Oct 2023
The paper SoK: SGX.Fail: How Stuff Gets eXposed with Stephan van Schaik, Alex Seto, Thomas Yurek, Adam Batori, Bader AlBassam, Daniel Genkin, Andrew Miller, Eyal Ronen and Christina Garman will appear in IEEE SP 2024
25 Oct 2023
The paper iLeakage: Browser-based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices with Jason Kim, Stephan van Schaik and Daniel Genkin will appear in CCS 2023
24 Oct 2023
Congratulations to William Kosasih who completed a Master of Philosophy on Cache Attacks and Defenses
16 Oct 2023
The paper SledgeHammer: Amplifying Rowhammer via Bank-level Parallelism with Ingab Kang, Walter Wang, Jason Kim, Stephan van Schaik, Youssef Tobah, Daniel Genkin and Andrew Kwong will appear in USENIX Security 2024
2 Oct 2023
Cyber Today, the magazine of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) has a piece on CryptOpt
28 Sep 2023
SigEVO has a piece on the 2024 Humies Award and on CryptOpt

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Program Chair: SEED 2022, WOOT 2020, Kangacrypt 2018, SPACE 2018.

Event Organisation: SSS2 2023, CHES 2020, Kangacrypt 2018, ASEC 2018.

Steering Committees: CHES 2019–2020, WOOT 2020–.

Editorial Board: CCDS Special Issue on Offensive Cryptography, HASS Special Issue on SPACE 2018.

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