Siemen Dhooghe
Hardware Engineer at Google
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolSiemen Dhooghe is a hardware engineer and hardware penetration tester at Google with nine years of experience specializing in side-channel and fault injection attacks. He holds a PhD from KU Leuven where his research focused on countermeasures against side-channel attacks, and he spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher and FWO fellow at COSIC. Siemen blends deep academic rigor in mathematical engineering and cryptographic hardware with practical tooling experience from industry internships (including an open-source C++ tool for CPA/t-tests). Based in Leuven, Belgium, he is drawn to subtle, non-obvious vulnerabilities in physical implementations and brings both offensive testing experience and defensively minded research to secure chip design.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at KU LeuvenMaster's degree, Mathematical Engineering, Magna cum laude, Master's degree, Mathematical Engineering, Magna cum laude at University of LeuvenMaster's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at Université Bordeaux I
Dutch, English
Github Skills (5)
trust10
silicon10
block-cipher9
vulnerability3
ai2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KULeuven-COSIC/Marvellous
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
The instance generator of the Vision and Rescue block ciphers.
Contributions:28 commits, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years
block-cipher
siemen11/opentitan
Mar 2025 - Aug 2025
OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
Contributions:85 pushes, 37 branches in 4 months
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