Sven Matti Schulze

Chair of Computer Science 1 (IT Security Infrastructures)

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Martensstraße 391058 Erlangen

Room: 12.134, Floor: 12

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I am a PhD candidate in Michael’s information security group. My interests cover many aspects of the research on systems and their security, with a focus on Confidential Computing, Trusted Execution Environments, and Virtualization.
Furthermore, I am a member of FAU’s Security Operations Center (SOC), where I am primarily responsible for vulnerability management at our university.

From October 2025 to February 2026, I also interned in NVIDIA’s Networking Architecture Security Research team.

Hacker Project [WiSe 25/26], with Davide Bove, Maximilian Eichhorn, Ella Savchenko, Jonas Röckl, Julian Funk, and Julian Geus
Angewandte Informationssicherheit [SoSe25] Guest Lecture on Vulnerability Management
Web Security Übung [SoSe 25], with Julian Geus
Hacker Project [WiSe 24/25], with Christian Lindenmeier, Maximilian Eichhorn, Ella Savchenko, Jonas Röckl, and Julian Geus
Angewandte Informationssicherheit [SoSe24] Guest Lecture on Vulnerability Management
Web Security Übung [SoSe 24], with Julian Geus
Hacker Project [WiSe 23/24], with Christian Lindenmeier, Davide Bove, Ralph Palutke, Jonas Röckl, and Julian Geus
Angewandte Informationssicherheit [SoSe23] Guest Lecture on Vulnerability Management
Web Security Übung [SoSe 23], with Julian Geus

Schulze M., Bergmann P., Röckl J., & Freiling F.:
TrustLeech: Privileged System Analysis using Nested Virtualization
To appear in: ACSAC ’25: Proceedings of the 41th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
Röckl J., Schulze M., Funk J., Bernsdorf, N., Müller T.:
Safeguarding Data from Deprecated System Software: A Resilient Boot Architecture for Edge Devices Leveraging TEEs
In: Lenzini, G., Mori, P., Furnell, S. (eds) Information Systems Security and Privacy. ICISSP ICISSP 2023 2024.
Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2459. Springer, Cham.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89518-0_4
Röckl J., Funk J., Schulze M., Müller T.:
SH3ARS: Privilege Reduction for ARMv8.0-A Secure Monitors
28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Gold Coast, Australia, 2025
In: 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID)
DOI:10.1109/RAID67961.2025.00035
Schulze M., Lindenmeier C.,Röckl J., & Freiling F.:
IlluminaTEE: Effective Man-At-The-End Attacks from within ARM TrustZone
Checkmate@CCS 2024 (Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14 – October 18, 2024)
In: Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Research on offensive and defensive techniques in the context of Man At The End (MATE) attacks
DOI: 10.1145/3689934.3690838
Lindenmeier C., Schulze M., Röckl J., Busch M.:
SyncEmu: Enabling Dynamic Analysis of Stateful Trusted Applications
9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops – EUROS&PW 2024 (Vienna, 8. July 2024 – 12. July 2024)
In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) 2024
DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00024
Röckl J., Lindenmeier C., Schulze M., Müller T.:
Conditional Network Availability: Enhancing Connectivity Guarantees for TEE-Based Services
9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops – EUROS&PW 2024 (Vienna, 8. July 2024 – 12. July 2024)
In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) 2024
DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00030
Schulze M., Lindenmeier C., Röckl J.:
BarriCCAde: Isolating Closed-Source Drivers with ARM CCA
9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops – EUROS&PW 2024 (Vienna, 8. July 2024 – 12. July 2024)
In: 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) 2024
DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00033
Latzo T., Schulze M., & Freiling F.:
Leveraging Intel DCI for Memory Forensics.
Digital Forensics Research Conference USA (DFRWS US) 2021 (Virtual, 12. July 2021 – 15. July 2021)
In: Proceedings of the Digital Forensics Research Conference USA (DFRWS US) 2021
Open Access: https://dfrws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021_USA_paper-leveraging_intel_dci_for_memory_forensics.pdf

If you are enrolled in the Computer Science program at FAU, I can supervise your thesis directly. You can find a list of open theses at our lab in StudOn. Note that not all available open thesis options may be publicly advertised. You can always write a kind email with some information about yourself to matti.schulze@fau.de, and we’ll discuss available options.

Additionally, if you are interested in my topics, you may also want to consider thesis options from my colleagues, Jonas Röckl and Julian Funk.

Towards Fuzzing ARM-based Co-Processor Firmware:
Co-Supervised by Christian Lindenmeier
Binary Memory Sanitizer:
Co-Supervised by Joschua Schiling
Entering new Realms: Virtual Machine Introspection in Arm CCA-Protected Environments:
Co-Supervised by Jonas Röckl
Emulating the Unknown: Unraveling AMD’s Secure Processor:
Co-Supervised by Christian Lindenmeier
Towards a Driver-Agnostic Peripheral Filter for Arm CCA:
Co-Supervised by Christian Lindenmeier
TrustLeech: Stealthy Runtime System Virtualization through the ARM TrustZone:
Co-Supervised by Jonas Röckl
Towards Software-Based Hardening Techniques for EL3 on Armv8.0-A Systems:
Co-Supervised by Jonas Röckl
Software-Enabled Confidential Computing on Constrained Devices:
Co-Supervised by Jonas Röckl

The following public key can be used to encrypt confidential emails that are sent to me.
More information on PGP is available here. Information in German is available here.

Fingerprint: 393E E836 AF82 BA34 23F1 86F2 0563 DFF3 5BC4 6520

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Email Encryption