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 Apr 2025
Source artifact available Slice+Slice Baby: Generating Last-Level Cache Eviction Sets in the Blink of an Eye, co-authored with Bradley Morgan, Gal Horowitz, Sioli O'Connell, Stephan van Schaik, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Daniel Genkin, Olaf Maennel, Paul Montague and Eyal Ronen.
28 Feb 2025
Congratulations to Zhiyuan Zhang who completed a PhD on The Security Impact of Microarchitecture Optimizations.
11 Feb 2025
The paper HyperHammer: Breaking Free from KVM-Enforced Isolation with Wei Chen, Zhi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Qingni Shen, Daniel Genkin, Chen Yan and Zhe Wang will appear in ASPLOS 2025
28 Jan 2025
The paper FLOP: Breaking the Apple M3 CPU via False Load Output Predictions with Jason Kim, Jalen Chuang and Daniel Genkin will appear in USENIX Security 2025
27 Jan 2025
The paper Reverse-Engineering the Address Translation Caches with Philipp Ertmer and Robert Dumitru will appear in DIMVA 2025
26 Jan 2025
iLeakage: Browser-based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices is crowned as Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security in 2024

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

Event Organisation: uASC 2025, SSS2 2023, CHES 2020, Kangacrypt 2018, ASEC 2018.

Steering Committees: CHES 2019–2020, uASC 2025–, WOOT 2020–.

Editorial Board: Communications in Cryptography 2024

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