Official supervision and research advising

A portfolio of student projects supported through formal supervision or close day-to-day scientific advising.

32Students supported
10Current students
10Ph.D. students
8Institutions
Official supervision

Official supervision

Students for whom I serve or served as the official supervisor, from internships and student projects to doctoral research.

Master Supervision20

Feb. 2026 - present University of Luxembourg Internship Current
Abdelrahman Yousef nationality flag

Abdelrahman Yousef

Security Analysis of Modern Drone Software Ecosystems

My roleSupervisor

Feb. 2026 - present University of Luxembourg Internship Current
Aslan Kazimov nationality flag

Aslan Kazimov

Mobile App Market Exploration and Integration Into AndroZoo

My roleSupervisor

Jan. 2026 - present University of Luxembourg Internship Current
Khoi Nguyen Huynh Tuan nationality flag

Khoi Nguyen Huynh Tuan

Android Studio Add-on Development for Dynamic Analysis Assistant

My roleSupervisor

Apr. 2025 - Oct. 2025 Central Nantes Internship Former
Guillaume Vizioz nationality flag

Guillaume Vizioz

Scaling LLM analysis of Android malware

My roleSupervisor

Mar. 2025 - Aug. 2025 University of Luxembourg Master's Thesis Former

Noureddine Shriffe

Developing LLM-Based Strategies for Logic Bomb Identification

My roleSupervisor

Feb. 2025 - Aug. 2025 University of Lorraine Master's Thesis Former
Mahamadou Nazirou Nafiou Mahamane nationality flag

Mahamadou Nazirou Nafiou Mahamane

Localization of malware in android app using LLMs

My roleSupervisor

May 2024 - Oct. 2024 CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Master's Thesis Former

Learning the effects of software changes

My roleCo-supervisor

Apr. 2023 - Jul. 2023 University of Luxembourg Master's Thesis Former
Adrien Geets nationality flag

Adrien Geets

Exploring dynamic analysis for Android apps

My roleSupervisor

Feb. 2023 – Aug. 2023 University of Luxembourg Master's Thesis Former
Lucas Visintin nationality flag

Lucas Visintin

On the impact of Vulnerabilities in the Odoo Platform

My roleSupervisor

Feb. 2023 – Aug. 2023 University of Luxembourg Master's Thesis Former

Detecting Hidden Files and Code in Android apps

My roleSupervisor

Jan. 2023 - Jun. 2023 KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Master's Thesis Former
Frederick Van Der Windt nationality flag

Frederick Van Der Windt

Static Analysis of JS Code To Detect Business Logic Vulnerabilities

My roleSupervisor

Jul. 2022 – Aug. 2022 University of Luxembourg Student Job Former

Empirical study to characterize file usage in Android apps

My roleSupervisor

Apr. 2022 – Sep. 2022 University of Luxembourg Master's Thesis Former
Claude Ohlhoff nationality flag

Claude Ohlhoff

Detecting Javascript Vulnerabilities using Static Analysis

My roleSupervisor

Feb. 2022 – Sep. 2022 University of Luxembourg Internship Former
Fernandez Oliva Cesar Francisco nationality flag

Fernandez Oliva Cesar Francisco

Business development of a spin-off project

My roleSupervisor

Feb. 2022 – Jun. 2022 University of Luxembourg Master's Thesis Former
Ye Qiu nationality flag

Ye Qiu

Digging the Android Framework to find ways to Trigger Logic Bombs

My roleSupervisor

Jun. 2021 – Aug. 2021 École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Bretagne-Sud Internship Former
François Jullion nationality flag

François Jullion

Automatically extracting logic bomb's payload using static analysis

My roleSupervisor

Jun. 2021 – Aug. 2021 National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse Student Job Former

Nahom Belay

Manual characterization of Android malware families

My roleSupervisor

May 2021 – Jul. 2021 University of Luxembourg Student Job Former
Ye Qiu nationality flag

Ye Qiu

Manual characterization of Android malware families

My roleSupervisor

Mar. 2021 – Sep. 2021 University of Lorraine Master's Thesis Former
Mansaf Bourkaib nationality flag

Mansaf Bourkaib

Extracting Android apps information

My roleSupervisor

Feb. 2021 – Aug. 2021 University of Luxembourg Master's Thesis Former
Vanitha Varadharajan nationality flag

Vanitha Varadharajan

Mining source code samples from Pastebin public data

My roleSupervisor

Bachelor Supervision1

Feb. 2020 – Jul. 2020 University of Luxembourg Bachelor Project Former
Sean Achtatou nationality flag

Sean Achtatou

Machine-learning based characterization of Android Malware

My roleSupervisor

Other Supervision1

Feb. 2022 - Aug. 2023 University of Luxembourg Research Associate Former
Cédric Herzog nationality flag

Cédric Herzog

Research specialist for the development of a static analysis start-up

My roleSupervisor

Advising

Advising alongside an official supervisor

Students for whom I served as advisor while another academic held the official supervision role.

Ph.D. Supervision10

Apr. 2026 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Current
Babacar Thioye nationality flag

Babacar Thioye

Mobile Money App Analysis

Nov. 2025 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Current
Elouan Rigaut nationality flag

Elouan Rigaut

Cyber Threat Intelligence for Android, the case of Stalkerware

Dec. 2024 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Current
Loïc Taleb nationality flag

Loïc Taleb

Vulnerability Detection

Jul. 2024 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Current
Serge Lionel Béninwendé Nikiema nationality flag

Serge Lionel Béninwendé Nikiema

Investigating LLMs to improve Android Security

May 2023 - Sep. 2024 Monash University Ph.D. Student Former

Static Analysis of Android apps

Oct. 2022 - May 2026 University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Former

Static Analysis of Android apps

Feb. 2022 - Feb. 2026 University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Former
Alioune Diallo nationality flag

Alioune Diallo

Security Analysis of Android apps in the African ecosystem