Michele Marazzi, PhD

I have a PhD in hardware and computer security obtain from ETH Zurich. My main research field has been DRAM security, and included security analysis of protocols, design of mitigations, proofs-of-security, timing side channels, fuzzer implementation, benchmarking, cycle-accurate full-system simulation, IC imaging via SEM and FIB, circuit reverse engineering, and analog simulations.

Recently, I showed how to obtain Rowhammer bit flips on RISC-V for the first time. Before, we reverse engineered commodity DRAM devices, demonstrated attacks on public transport applications, and designed secure in-DRAM Rowhammer mitigations.

For my Master, I studied Biomedical Engineering at POLIMI, with a focus over electronics technologies (BTE). I graduated with 110/110 cum Laude and a course average grade of 29.8/30 (GPA 3.97/4, top 1%).

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(2024) Researchers outsmarted EasyRide function on Swiss travel app.
(2022) Securing computer memory against attacks.

(2024) Research is Lagging Behind: Reverse Engineering DRAM Circuits September 2024, Italy, Metro Olografix Camp (MOCA).
(2023) REGA: Scalable Rowhammer Mitigation with Refresh-Generating Activations May 2023, San Francisco, IEEE S&P.
(2022) ProTRR: Principled yet Optimal In-DRAM Target Row Refresh May 2022, San Francisco, IEEE S&P.

(2024) IBM Research, Switzerland.
(2024) Memory Security track, Hardwear.io, The Netherlands.
(2024) Hardware Security course, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
(2023) Hardware Security course, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
(2022) Industry day, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
(2022) The Systems Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
(2022) Hardware Security course, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
(2018) Research day, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

(2024) ProTRR nominated for Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security 2024.
(2024) HiFi-DRAM nominated for best paper at ISCA.
(2022) CSAW Applied Research Competition (ARC) finalist with ProTRR.
(2018) Scholarship for "Master Thesis abroad". - Polytechnic University of Milan.
(2018) Student with high merits. - Polytechnic University of Milan.

(2020) Injecting code into 32bit binary with ASLR (Reversing / Security).
(2020) CTF: Level 2 of Practical Binary Analysis challenges (Reversing / CTF).
(2020) CTF: Challenge 45 from Dennis Yurichev - Bruteforcing copyprotection with Python (Reversing / CTF).