C Giuffrida

C Giuffrida is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with affiliations to the Network Institute and the Systems and Network Security group. His research focuses on computer systems security, hardware vulnerabilities, and software reliability.

Giuffrida holds a PhD in Computer Systems from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2014). His academic contributions span multiple areas including transient execution attacks, fuzzing techniques, and hardware-software co-design for security.

Research Interests:

• Hardware Security: Investigating vulnerabilities like Spectre, Rowhammer, and speculative execution risks.
• Software Security: Focusing on memory safety, compiler optimizations, and exploit mitigation strategies.
• Systems Research: Developing tools like BinRec for binary analysis and VPS for C++ vulnerability protection.

His work has been recognized with awards such as the Distinguished Paper Award in 2021. Giuffrida supervises advanced courses in operating systems and hardware security, and has guided 16 PhD theses to completion.