Simon Koch
Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolSimon Koch is a postdoctoral researcher and security-focused computer scientist with 11 years of experience, currently based in Innsbruck. He completed a PhD at TU Braunschweig (2018–2025) and researches static and dynamic web application security and mobile privacy, with papers on consent dialogs, JavaScript JIT fuzzing, and integrity of Apple Privacy Labels published at USENIX, NDSS and PETS. His work blends hands-on tooling—e.g., contributions to fuzzing techniques for JIT compilers—with large-scale empirical studies of real-world apps, revealing mismatches between developer claims and practice. Known for rigorous measurement and practical exploit/defense insights, he brings academic depth and operational perspective to applied security problems.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (122)
parser10
validating10
paypal10
statement10
anonymize10
sonatype10
iptables10
plsql9
sbt-plugin9
relational-algebra9
abstract-syntax-tree9
perl9
hierarchy9
sql-parser9
jupyterlab9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
simkoc/scala-argparse
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
A python argparse inspired command line argument parser for scala
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 5 months
pythonargparseargument-parserargument-parsingscala
simkoc/cl-argparse
Nov 2019 - May 2021
A common lisp cmd argument parser inspired by python argparse
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pythoncmdargparseargument-parserargument-parsing
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