This page preserves the main student-topic directions that were previously listed on the older site.
The original material was a longer Russian-language archive of diploma and research topics from 2012-2013.
Research Directions
- Exploit development, vulnerability discovery, and fuzzing.
- Rootkit detection in Windows, mobile operating systems, BIOS/UEFI, and cloud-assisted security systems.
- Hypervisor-based protection and hypervisor detection under countermeasures.
- Memory forensics, hidden code detection, and kernel telemetry analysis.
- Information-leak channels, BYOD security, and non-traditional covert channels.
- Security analytics for Windows, Linux, and mobile systems.
- Firmware, AMT/ME, EFI/UEFI, and low-level platform security research.
- Remote monitoring, protected execution, and secure application environments.
Expected Skills
- Comfort with C/C++ systems programming and debugging.
- Ability to work with English-language technical documentation.
- Interest in reverse engineering, operating systems, and low-level security.
- For hypervisor topics: hardware virtualization support and readiness to work with experimental code.