Nicholas Boucher

Nicholas Boucher is a Researcher at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Security professional at Microsoft. He completed his PhD at Cambridge in 2024 under Professor Ross Anderson, focusing on security vulnerabilities in software supply chains and compiler design.

His research interests span

• Cybersecurity
• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Compiler Security
• Unicode Vulnerabilities

He actively supervises students at Cambridge and contributes to open-source security projects like Trojan Source and Cryptovote.

Recent publications highlight his work on

• Imperceptible NLP attacks
• Source code obfuscation
• Software supply chain threats

He has presented at venues including USENIX Security and IEEE Security & Privacy.