BSc/MSc Theses

This is a (non-exclusive) list of thesis topics currently offered at PLAI. Additionally, other related topics may be available.

Please contact the mentioned person with a transcript of record and highlight all relevant experience related to the topic you are interested in for a BSc or MSc thesis. Also, please take note of the languages the person speaks.

Open

• MSc Testing web applications with Dynamic Symbolic Execution Johannes Kinder
• MSc Efficient dynamic symbolic execution for finding bugs and/or behavioral changes in node.js/NPM packages Johannes Kinder
• BSc/MSc Monitoring of the Chrome Web Store
  • Set up a continuous crawling of all available browser extensions for further investigation
  • Following the paper Hardening the Security Analysis of Browser Extensions
  • Perform an analysis/study of a relevant aspect from the ecosystem
  Matías Gobbi
• BSc/MSc Analysis and Hardening of Rust Software for Security Oliver Braunsdorf

In Progress

• BSc Security testing of IoT firmware Sebastian Jänich
• BSc Reverse engineering of vulnerabilities in IoT firmware Sebastian Jänich
• BSc Patching open-source libraries in IoT firmware binaries Sebastian Jänich
• BSc Locating n-day vulnerabilities in IoT firmware with static analysis Sebastian Jänich
• MSc Automated black-box adversarial prompting for large language models for Code Johannes Kinder
• MSc Robust Anomaly Detection in Logs for Industrial Control Systems Johannes Kinder
• BSc Malware detection in open-source packages using locality-sensitive hashing Matías Gobbi
• BSc Classifying code modifications in npm packages Matías Gobbi
• BSc Measuring CodeQL performance against obfuscation techniques Matías Gobbi
• MSc Detecting malicious code modifications in browser extensions Matías Gobbi
• MSc Monitoring of the Node Package Manager Matías Gobbi
• BSc Code Transpilation with Deep Learning Moritz Dannehl
• BSc Software diversity as dataset augmentation for learning representations of binary code Moritz Dannehl
• BSc Creating Rich Labels For Binary Functions Using Source Information Moritz Dannehl
• BSc Re-Evaluation of BinShot Moritz Dannehl
• BSc Devising attacks against spectral analysis for clone detection Tristan Benoit
• BSc Incorporating machine learning into spectral analysis for program clone detection Tristan Benoit
• BSc Exploring possible functions names normalization for XFL Tristan Benoit
• BSc Exploring possible features and architectures for DEXTER binary code embedding Tristan Benoit
• MSc Exploring possible features and architectures for DEXTER binary code embedding Tristan Benoit

Finished

• MSc Differential static analysis of npm packages Matías Gobbi

Last update 17 April 2024