Supervision

Students, interns, and research mentoring

Ph.D. Supervision

Feb. 2026 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. student Current

TBD

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tégawendé F. Bissyandé

My role: Daily Supervisor

Nov. 2025 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Current

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein

My role: Daily Supervisor

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

Cyber Threat Intelligence for Android, the case of Stalkerware

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein

My role: Daily Supervisor

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

Vulnerability Detection

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein

My role: Daily Supervisor

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

Investigating LLMs to improve Android Security

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

My role: Daily Supervisor

Nov. 2023 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Current

Static and Dynamic Analysis of Android apps

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein

My role: Daily Supervisor

Oct. 2022 - present University of Luxembourg Ph.D. Student Current

Static Analysis of Android apps

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein

My role: Daily Supervisor

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

Static Analysis of Android apps

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. John Grundy

My role: Advisor

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

Security Analysis of Android apps in the African ecosystem

Official supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein

My role: Daily Supervisor

Master Supervision

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

Security Analysis of Modern Drone Software Ecosystems

My role: Supervisor

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

Mobile App Market Exploration and Integration Into AndroZoo

My role: Supervisor

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

Android Studio Add-on Development for Dynamic Analysis Assistant

My role: Supervisor

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

Scaling LLM analysis of Android malware

My role: Supervisor

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

Noureddine Shriffe

Developing LLM-Based Strategies for Logic Bomb Identification

My role: Supervisor

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

Localization of malware in android app using LLMs

My role: Supervisor

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

Learning the effects of software changes

My role: Co-supervisor

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

Exploring dynamic analysis for Android apps

My role: Supervisor

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

On the impact of Vulnerabilities in the Odoo Platform

My role: Supervisor

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

Detecting Hidden Files and Code in Android apps

My role: Supervisor

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

Static Analysis of JS Code To Detect Business Logic Vulnerabilities

My role: Supervisor

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

Empirical study to characterize file usage in Android apps

My role: Supervisor

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

Detecting Javascript Vulnerabilities using Static Analysis

My role: Supervisor

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

Business development of a spin-off project

My role: Supervisor

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

Digging the Android Framework to find ways to Trigger Logic Bombs

My role: Supervisor

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

Automatically extracting logic bomb's payload using static analysis

My role: Supervisor

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

Nahom Belay

Manual characterization of Android malware families

My role: Supervisor

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

Manual characterization of Android malware families

My role: Supervisor

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

Extracting Android apps information

My role: Supervisor

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

Mining source code samples from Pastebin public data

My role: Supervisor

Bachelor Supervision

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

Machine-learning based characterization of Android Malware

My role: Supervisor

Other Supervision

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

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

My role: Supervisor