Cyber threats have substantially increased in recent years. To this end, the Cyber Defence Campus (CYD) was founded in January 2019 in order to anticipate cyber developments more quickly. It forms the link between DDPS, industry and science in research, development and training for cyber defence.
The available thesis topics are listed below by category. These projects are defined as Master thesis projects, but Bachelor thesis may also be considered in certain cases. This list is not exhaustive and Master students can also propose their own topic.
| Topic | Location | Contact |
|---|
| Prediction and Analysis of Crowdsourced Network Dynamics | Zurich / Thun | Martin Strohmeier |
| Automation of model-agnostic Machine Learning robustness evaluation – Data Science. | Thun / Zurich / Lausanne | Gérôme Bovet |
| Causality models in time series analysis | Zürich / Thun | Albert Blarer |
| Predictive analysis of disruptive events (tipping points) | Zürich / Thun | Albert Blarer |
| Topological data analysis for attack detection in energy systems | At least one day per week in Thun | Étienne Voutaz |
| Auditory deception through latent diffusion and text-to-speech models | Thun / Zurich / Lausanne | Raphael Meier |
| Automated Anonymization Pipelines for Privacy-Preserving ML | Lausanne | Hông Ân Sandlin |
| Automated Ingestion Pipelines and ML for Deceptive Behaviors in Networks | Lausanne / Zurich | Hông Ân Sandlin |
| Automated Satellite Imaging and OSINT Data Pipelines Design for Event Detection | Lausanne | Hông Ân Sandlin |
| Community Embeddings to Predict Content Dissemination on Social Media | Lausanne | Hông Ân Sandlin |
| Detection and characterization of structural changes in network topologies | any | Jonas Liechti |
| Enhanced forensic analysis of video content using deep learning | Thun / Zurich / Lausanne | Raphael Meier |
| Malware mitigation through machine learning on IoT devices | Thun / Zurich / Lausanne | Gérôme Bovet |
| Towards an intelligent conflict monitor: integration of open-source intelligence (OSINT) with deep learning-based geolocation inference | Thun / Zurich / Lausanne | Raphael Meier |
| Adversarial Machine Learning in Real-World Systems | Zürich / Thun | Martin Strohmeier |
| Analysis of the effect of trust information on deep learning | Thun / Zurich / Lausanne | Gérôme Bovet |
| Assessing the robustnes and intelligence of Machine Learning based attack detection solutions | Zurich & at least one day per week in Thun | Bernhard Tellenbach |
| Assessment and classification of data sensitivity throughout MLOps workflows | any | Jonas Liechti |
| Developing models for trust computing based on sensor behavior | Thun / Zurich / Lausanne | Gérôme Bovet |
| Machine-Learning Based Localization Algorithms | Zurich / Thun | Martin Strohmeier |
| Privacy preserving data analytics workflows in hybrid cloud environments | any | Jonas Liechti |
| Towards a large network-traffic dataset | any | Roland Meier |
| Automation of security analysis of firmware images | Zurich & at least one day per week in Thun | Bernhard Tellenbach |
| Driver virtualisation multiplexing for a secure mobile operating system | Lausanne / Thun | Colin Barschel |
| Secure container virtualization for smartphone OS based on Linux and Android | Lausanne / Thun | Colin Barschel |
| Smartphone secure element integration in Linux to encrypt Android containers and other cryptographic operations | Lausanne / Thun | Colin Barschel |
| Benchmarking prompt generation for generative language models | Lausanne / Thun | Ljiljana Dolamic |
| Language detection on short texts and how to distinguish closely related languages | Lausanne / Thun | Ljiljana Dolamic |
| Quantifying the impact of source language similarity in multilingual neural machine translation? | Lausanne / Thun | Ljiljana Dolamic |
| Automated testing of network security policies | any | Roland Meier |
| Detecting proxy servers based on their network traffic | any | Roland Meier |
| Development of a WAN traffic obfuscation system on programmable network switches | any | Vincent Lenders |
| Honeypots: Relation between attack vectors, types of honeypots and threat actors | Zurich & at least one day per week in Thun | Bernhard Tellenbach |
| Implementation of Routing in SCION based hardware and software properties | any | Vincent Lenders |
| IoT Honeypots | Zurich & at least one day per week in Thun | Bernhard Tellenbach |
| Robustness of the DNS system to novel DNS attack types | Zurich & at least one day per week in Thun | Bernhard Tellenbach |
| Traffic-analysis attacks in real-world conditions | any | Roland Meier |
| Modular micro c2 framework for penetration testing | Thun | Daniel Hulliger |
| Small footprint datalink over audio interfaces for pentesting purposes (Microphone, Line.Out) | Thun | Daniel Hulliger |
| 7 whys of cyber-incidents: automated reasoning for cyber-technologies vulnerabilities entailment | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| Assessing the lack of security-by-design in information technologies: a delay-function approach between technology development and security engineering | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| Development of a computational model to predict indirect impact of new technologies on cyber-defence | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| Extracting the price of cybersecurity risk for the Swiss and global environment: a factor model approach | Lausanne | Alain Mermoud |
| Forecasting the development of cybersecurity technologies: a causality study using time-series analysis | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| It's time to update your updates: formalizing the optimization of technology-performance metrics to avoid obsolete market indicators | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| Modeling latent cash-flows and firm performance for private equity using alternative data and machine learning | Lausanne | Alain Mermoud |
| Modeling the probability of success of early-stage cybersecurity firms using corporate-level and macroeconomic variables | Lausanne | Alain Mermoud |
| Quantification of adoption processes in cyber-security technologies: an evolutionary-selection approach | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| Technological convergence: a network-analytics approach for capturing common attributes of innovations | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| The technological landscape as a complex system: capturing technological change through cascading processes of innovation forking mechanisms | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| Told you so: Formalizing and quantifying technological forecasts formulated in natural language to better evaluate their accuracy through NLP and controlled vocabularies | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| Your solution is obsolete: forecasting de deprecation of cybersecurity technologies by capturing the lag between patents and novel research proposals | Lausanne / Thun / Zurich | Alain Mermoud |
| ALPC Fuzzing and Security Testing Framework | Thun | Daniel Hulliger |
| Automated COM/DCOM security testing | At least one day per week in Thun | Daniel Hulliger |
| Framework for automated vulnerability collection (crawl vulnerability databases, analyze software changes, categorize vulnerability) | Zurich / Thun | Damian Pfammatter |
| Security analysis of IoT systems (methodology, attack vectors, weaknesses) | Zurich / Thun | Damian Pfammatter |
| Automated wireless signal decoding on software-defined radios | any | Vincent Lenders |
| Building a Smartphone App for Defence against Hidden Microphones | any | Vincent Lenders |
| Building a Smartphone App for Drone Detection | any | Vincent Lenders |
| Distance Bounding in Aircraft Collision Avoidance Sytems | Zurich / Thun | Martin Strohmeier |
| Passive localization of satellite ground stations | any | Vincent Lenders |
| Security Analysis and Practical Attacks on Aircraft Avionics | Zurich / Thun | Martin Strohmeier |
| Signal injection attacks on satellite communication systems | any | Vincent Lenders |
