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

• BSc/MSc Analysis and Hardening of Rust Software for Security Oliver Braunsdorf
• BSc Finding Safe Rust Replacements for C Libraries Oliver Braunsdorf
• BSc Security ShowCase: Designing, Attacking, and Defending an RFID-Based Smart Lock Sebastian Jaenich
• MSc Vulnerability Detection in IoT-Firmware binaries Sebastian Jaenich
• MSc Building a Cross-Architecture Testsuite for ARM32 binary patches Sebastian Jaenich
• MSc ML-based Transpilation from C to Rust Oliver Braunsdorf Moritz Dannehl
• BSc Building a Memory-Safety Benchmark Suite for Rust Oliver Braunsdorf
• BSc/MSc Automatic Modularization of Software Projects for LLM-based Transpilation Oliver Braunsdorf

In Progress

• BSc Control-Flow Graph Recovery: Angr vs. Ghidra Sebastian Jänich
• BSc Re-Evaluating Fuzzware for Linux-based firmware Sebastian Jänich
• BSc Driller Sebastian Jänich
• MSc Automated black-box adversarial prompting for large language models for Code Johannes Kinder
• MSc Anomaly Detection for Log Messages from Multiple Sources Johannes Kinder
• BSc Grammar-based Fuzzing using ML Johannes Kinder
• MSc Symbolic Execution of Sanitizer Code in Web Applications Johannes Kinder
• MSc LLM Automated black-box adversarial prompting for large language models Johannes Kinder
• BSc Measuring CodeQL performance against obfuscation techniques Matías Gobbi
• MSc Comprehensive Framework for Analyzing and Detecting Malicious Browser Extensions Matías Gobbi
• MSc Classifying code modifications in npm packages Matías Gobbi
• MSc Monitoring of the Node Package Manager Matías Gobbi
• BSc Creating Rich Labels For Binary Functions Using Source Information Moritz Dannehl
• BSc Re-Evaluating BinShot Moritz Dannehl
• MSc Classical Machine Learning for Binary analysis Moritz Dannehl
• BSc Concerning Call Targets in Transformer-based Architectures for Binary Function Modeling 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
• MSc Exploring possible features and architectures for DEXTER binary code embedding Tristan Benoit
• BSc Optimal Placement of Memory Safety Checks in Control-Flow-Graphs Oliver Braunsdorf
• BSc Evaluating and Optimizing the Inference Stage for BCSD Yunru Wang
• MSc Generalizing Code Representations for Binary Code Similarity Detection Using Function Name Yunru Wang
• BSc Revisiting IFDS Optimizations Tim Lange

Last update 11.12.2024