Student projects

This page presents a selection of Bachelor and Master projects that I have supervised or co-supervised. It is intended to give prospective students an overview of previous projects and of the research and engineering topics explored by students under my supervision.

The projects span systems, security, distributed systems, confidential computing, WebAssembly, blockchain, cloud computing, machine learning and related areas.

2026

Evaluating the Resilience of CometBFT

MSc — Christian Galley — University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Lessons Learned from Benchmarking WebAssembly on Trusted RISC-V Platforms

MSc — Dian Garkov — University of Bern, Switzerland

Monitoring MPI Workloads on Secure Virtual Machines

MSc — Théo Rollier — University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Privacy-Preserving Expense Splitting on Smart Contracts

MSc — Arnaud Ruf — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Can LLMs Dream of a Research Community?

BSc — Verica Dimitrova — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Benchmarking LLMs for Smart-Contract Vulnerability Detection

BSc — Tim Gouvernon — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Evaluating Local Large Language Models for Univariate Cryptocurrency Price Forecasting

BSc — Angeliki Andreadi — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Dynamic Heatmap of Cryptocoin Bids on Polymarket

BSc — Erulan Ibraimov — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Orawac: Opcode-Level Run-Time Analysis of Obfuscated WebAssembly Cryptominers

MSc — Salvatore Busiello — Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

2025

An Automated IoT-Based Infrastructure for Real-Time Soil Water Deficit Prediction: Use-Case Paper

MSc — Michéle Fischer — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

SoilFaunAI

MSc — Robin Danz — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2024

ConfBench: A Tool for Easy Evaluation of Confidential Virtual Machines

MSc — Andrea De Murtas — Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Do LLMs Dream of Energy-Efficient Code?

MSc — Antimo Di Bernardo — Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Understanding LLMs Abilities to Deobfuscate Android Apps

MSc — Jacopo Caratti — University of Bern, Switzerland

MultiZone Security – Understanding Its Design, Features and Effectiveness

MSc — Alex Guardini — University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Comparing Web Rendering Patterns and Their Impact on Performance

MSc — Loris Witschard — University of Fribourg, Switzerland

2023

Trusted Publish/Subscribe with MQTT and Mosquitto

MSc — Aeneas Grüter — University of Bern, Switzerland

Preventing EFail Attacks with Client-Side WebAssembly: The Case of Swiss Post's IncaMail

MSc — Pascal Gerig — University of Bern, Switzerland

2022

Shielding Federated Learning Systems against Inference Attacks with ARM TrustZone

MSc — Aghiles Ait Messaoud — ENS Lyon, France

2021

Impact of Network Topologies on Blockchain Performance

MSc — Sebastiao Amaro — Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

2020

A Practical Approach to Proof of Data Possession with Merkle Hash Trees

MSc — Anukriti Shrimal — University of Bern, Switzerland

FaasDom: A Benchmark Suite for Serverless Computing

MSc — Pascal Maissen — University of Fribourg, Switzerland

MQT-TZ: Secure MQTT Broker for Biomedical Signal Processing on the Edge

BSc — Carlos Segarra — Technical University of Catalonia, Spain / CSEM, Switzerland

2019

THUNDERSTORM: A Tool to Evaluate Dynamic Network Topologies on Distributed Systems

MSc — Luca Liechti — University of Bern, Switzerland

On The Performance of ARM TrustZone

MSc — Julien Amacher — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2018

Blockchain-Based Metadata Protection for Archival Systems

MSc — Arnaud L’Hutereau — Nantes Polytech, France

2017

Have a Seat on the ErasureBench – An Experimental Testbed to Evaluate Erasure-Coding Libraries

MSc — Sebastien Vaucher — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2016

Evaluating the Cost and Robustness of Self-Organizing Distributed Hash Tables

MSc — Svetlana Krasikova — University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

This archive is being progressively expanded with earlier student projects.

Valerio Schiavoni