Merve GÜLMEZ

I am a security researcher at Ericsson and PhD Student at KU Leuven.

I am a part of 5GhOST project funded by the EU involving KU Leuven and Ericsson.

I am interested in system security, improving software resilience, and environmental sustainability.

2024

• I have been working on CHERI for about a year. It has been a long and educational project for me. I worked on extending the qemu simulator, llvm compiler, Flute core, and CheriFreertos. The preprint for “Mon CHÈRI ♡ Adapting Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC with Conditional Capabilities” is now available here.

• I hosted Sacha Ruchlejmer from Phelma University as a master’s thesis student. He worked on adapting the secure and rewind discard project to the Arm Morello Board at Ericsson Research. He successfully defended his thesis and graduated from Phelma University; Congrats, Sacha 🎉 You can read his thesis -> Secure Rewind and Discard on Arm Morello.

• Our paper, “System Call Interposition Without Compromise” has been accepted at DSN 2024! Here, you can check our library and artifact, lazypoline.

• I had the privilege of speaking at FOSDEM 2024. You can find my talk is here

2023

• Our research paper, Friend or Foe Inside? Exploring In-Process Isolation to Maintain Memory Safety for Unsafe Rust preprint is available, and it was accepted at IEEE Sec-Dev-2023 conference.

• I will be presenting my work “Rewind & Discard: Improving Software Resilience using Isolated Domain” at IEEE DSN 2023. The technical report is available at here. The source code is available at here #softwareresillence

• I will be presenting my work “Exploring the Environmental Benefits of In-Process Isolation for Software Resilience”, at IEEE DSN 2023 in June, 2023. The arxiv version is available at here

• The Climate Crisis is a Digital Rights Crisis: Exploring the Civil-Society Framing of Two Intersecting Disasters is out.

• I am a publicity chair of SILM workshop. Please check the call of paper!

• I joined PrivacyCamp, 2023. So nice experience!

2022

• I stayed for one week at Graz University Summer School: SECURITY, PRIVACY & CORRECTNESS IN THE IOT, 2022, Graz University. Highly recommended!!

• I attended the Summer School on Security Testing and Verification at KU Leuven. I did a poster presentation there; please check out here   * “Unlimited Lives: Secure In-Process Rollback with Isolated Domains” is out!
• I got the IEEE Comsoc Turkey Master Thesis Award; you can find my thesis here