About

Hi there! I’m Alvise, a (former) software engineer with an embedded systems background and (now) PhD student at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in the VUSec group.

I’m interested in microarchitectural attacks, embedded & hardware security, program analysis, and anything at interface between hardware and software. I also like music, audiovisual arts, and sometimes humans too.

Research

• I’m working on finding microarchitectural bugs in CPU designs
• 👻 I built a symbolic scanner for Spectre Gadgets
• 🚗 I worked on car hacking, in particular CAN bus attacks

Experience

Some cool projects I did before my PhD:

• 🐉 I worked on an (LLVM+QEMU)-based decompiler, called rev.ng
• 🚀 I wrote software for a sounding rocket with the Skyward Experimental Rocketry Team
• 🏎 I helped porting Google’s V8 engine to RISCV-32
• 🔦 I realized some audiovisual installations together with the BCI collective back in my hometown

Call Me Maybe

You can drop me an email, or find me on Twitter, Github, Linkedin.