Alexander Hude is an Engineering Director and security researcher based in Melbourne with over two decades of hands-on reverse engineering experience and nine years leading teams delivering iOS, Android and IoT virtualization and security products. He combines deep low-level expertise—firmware and hardware exploitation, side-channel and glitch attacks, custom ROM/PCB work—with proven people and program management skills to ship complex research-driven platforms at scale. At Corellium he has progressed from principal engineer to director, guiding mobile modeling, malware detection and forensic analysis efforts while keeping a strong engineering foothold. He is an active tool author and maintainer (notably extending uEmu for multi-architecture emulation in IDA) and speaks at security conferences, blending open research with product-focused delivery. Known for pragmatic risk mitigation and process optimization, he balances invasive hardware techniques with secure software practices to close the loop from vulnerability discovery to production-ready defenses.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Systems Complexes and Networks, Engineer’s Degree Computer Systems Complexes and Networks at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
Tiny cute emulator plugin for IDA based on unicorn.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily worked on enhancing a tiny emulator plugin for IDA, utilizing Unicorn for emulation. Their contributions involved adding MIPS32/MIPS64 support and ARMv7/AArch64 features, indicating a focus on expanding architecture coverage. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase to support IDA 7 and IDA 7.2, addressing compatibility issues. They also implemented and improved the user interface elements for managing the emulation process.
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