Kaveh Razavi

Kaveh Razavi is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, supervising the Computer Security Group. He is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science.

• Research focuses on commodity hardware and operating systems security
• Teaching: Computer Engineering (BSc 2022–2025), Hardware Security (MSc 2016–2025), Advanced Operating Systems (MSc 2016–2019)

Research Interests: Razavi's work bridges computer systems and security, emphasizing microarchitectural vulnerabilities, hardware exploitation, and security verification. His group develops tools for analyzing hardware-software interactions and mitigating memory attacks like Rowhammer.

Scientific Awards:

• Distinguished/Best Paper Awards at IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, MICRO
• Five Pwnies Awards for innovative research
• Dutch Veni Grant, ERC Starting Grant
• Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award
• Golden Owl Teaching Award (2022)
• ETH Medal, Intel Bounty Reward, BlackHat USA Recognition