Hi! đź‘‹ I'm Valentin Huber. Professionally, I make things that break things. Unprofessionally, I do and like all sorts of things: music, podcasts, cycling, volunteering with youth and talking to people.
Short CV
- I am currently pursuing a PhD at CISPA in SaarbrĂĽcken under Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller, working on fuzzers such as Fandango.
- I completed my master’s degree in computer science at ZHAW, focusing on cybersecurity.
- I have been accepted as a CYD Fellow and wrote my master’s thesis at Cyber-Defense Campus. It is titled FTZ: A State-Inferring Fuzzer for the TCP/IP Stack of Zephyr.
- I received my bachelor’s degree in computer science summa cum laude at ZHAW.
- I wrote my bachelor’s thesis about Ghidrion, a symbolic execution plugin for Ghidra, in collaboration with ZHAW and Cyber-Defense Campus.
- I got to study abroad for a semester at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, USA.
- I did an internship at Syntegon.
- I attended Youth2Engineer at ZHAW.
- I graduated High School Schaffhausen.
Academic Projects
- FTZ: A State-Inferring Fuzzer for the TCP/IP Stack of Zephyr, Master’s Thesis, 22.02.2025
- Differential Fuzzing on coreutils Using LibAFL, Semester Project, 25.06.2024
- Running KLEE on GNU coreutils, Semester Project, 13.02.2024
- Challenges and Mitigation Strategies in Symbolic Execution Based Fuzzing Through the Lens of Survey Papers, Security Seminar, 15.12.2023
- Ghidrion: A Ghidra Plugin to Support Symbolic Execution, Bachelor Thesis in cooperation with Cyber Defence Campus, 09.06.2023
Other Projects
- Fandango, a language fuzzer that I am working on as part of my PhD at CISPA
- LibAFL, a fuzzing library written in Rust that I have contributed to extensively
- deep, my open-source conversation game
