Simon Koch
PhD candidate and research assistant at the IAS

Office:
IZ 211
Mühlenpfordtstr. 23
38106, Braunschweig
I am a PhD candidate and research assistant of Martin Johns at the Institute for Application Security, TU Braunschweig. My research focuses on questions surrounding mobile privacy and web security. For mobile privacy I primarily conduct dynamic traffic measurements to assess the data leaked by applications. Whereas for web security I am doing both dynamic and static program analysis research, trying to understand live deployments as well as discovering new vulnerabilities of web applications. If some of my work peaked your interest I am always interested in new collaborations.
I have submitted my dissertation and am about to defend coming April. Therefore, I am searching for new opportunities in academia to continue my research in both the mobile and web space.
news
Feb 12, 2025 | Our paper “HyTrack: Resurrectable and Persistent Tracking Across Android Apps and the Web” has been accepted to USENIX’25 and just passed the artifact available evaluation. |
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Dec 19, 2024 | I finally finished and submitted my dissertation “Analyzing Privacy and Data Protection Violations in Mobile Applications”. |
Aug 01, 2024 | Happy to announce, that we got accepted to PETS’25 with “The Impact of Default Mobile SDK Usage on Privacy and Data Protection”. |
selected publications
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HyTrack: Resurrectable and Persistent Tracking Across Android Apps and the WebIn USENIX Security Symposium , 2025
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The Impact of Default Mobile SDK Usage on Privacy and Data ProtectionIn Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) , 2025
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The OK is Not Enough: Large Scale Study of Consent Dialogs in Smartphone ApplicationsIn USENIX Security Symposium , 2023
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FUZZILLI: Fuzzing for JavaScript JIT Compiler VulnerabilitiesIn Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium , 2023