Hi, I'm Florian!

Photo of Florian, from the shoulders up

I’m a security researcher and PhD student in Mathias Payer’s HexHive group at EPFL. At the moment, I’m on a research visit with the SysSec group at MPI-SP with Thorsten Holz.

My research focuses on low-level systems security, with a focus on dynamic analysis of embedded firmware. I’ve already published some papers on this topic and I’ve still got some cool stuff in the pipeline!

Outside of my research, I am a member of the 0rganizers and polygl0ts CTF teams. With the latter, I co-founded LakeCTF. While I’m currently not very actively playing, I’m still quite involved with organizing and running LakeCTF!

Publications

Could ChatGPT get an engineering degree? Evaluating higher education vulnerability to AI assistants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

• By Beatriz Borges, Negar Foroutan, Deniz Bayazit, Anna Sotnikova, Syrielle Montariol, Tanya Nazaretzky, Mohammadreza Banaei, Alireza Sakhaeirad, Philippe Servant, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Jibril Frej, Angelika Romanou, Gail Weiss, Sepideh Mamooler, Zeming Chen, Simin Fan, Silin Gao, Mete Ismayilzada, Debjit Paul, Philippe Schwaller, Sacha Friedli, Patrick Jermann, Tanja Käser, Antoine Bosselut, EPFL Grader Consortium and EPFL Data Consortium

Contact

You can reach me on Mastodon, on LinkedIn, or preferably via good old email at florian.hofhammer@fhofhammer.de.

If you’re one of the very few people who actually use PGP, my fingerprint is A820 7C3F 4ABE BBED 9B4D F849 96EB 27BA 315F C77C.