Sitemap
A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there is an XML version available for digesting as well.
Pages
Merve GÜLMEZ
About me
Shining Light on Critical Gaps in Memory-Safety: From Programming Language to Hardware
PhD thesis, KU Leuven, 2025. Secure rewind and discard of isolated domains, memory safety for unsafe Rust, and conditional capabilities for CHERI.
Posts
picasso-cheri-d
Published:
Open Review: CHERI-D — Clarifications Regarding PICASSO
qemu
Published:
Notes on adding a custom instruction to QEMU for CHERI RISC-V.
security
Published:
At the beginning of my PhD I at first became interested in the broader area of cybersecurity, but my current line of research really got me into the area of systems security. In particular improving the cyber-resilience and availability low-level systems software against memory corruption attacks. This has required me to develop skills, such as in-depth knowledge of the C and Rust runtimes, as well as assembly programming.
crowdstrike
Published:
The CrowdStrike outage shows that improving software resilience and availability is as important as detecting and mitigating memory-safety vulnerabilities.
LLVM
Published:
I have been learning LLVM for a while; I added a function and variable attribute, new compiler options, wrote a hacky LLVM transformation pass, and deleted my hacky stuff in the backend! I kind of enjoyed it, kind of annoyed; in the end, I think it was good to learn!
Bluspec
Published:
Notes on installing the BSC compiler and Bluespec library for CHERI development.
CHERI
Published:
Adversarial Examples: A great starting point! These exercises will introduce you to the concept of capabilities and how they can be used to protect against various security threats.
BESSPIN GPE
Published:
Notes on setting up and running BESSPIN-GFE with the CHERI-Toooba core on FPGA.
RUST
Published:
I worked on macro expansion on Rust for that project: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.08127
GDB
Published:
I am studying on low-level security.
portfolio
For Freedom! Gifted
Watercolour Pencil 1
Painted with Turkish Coffee
Istanbul View 1
That’s True! I am a real cat lover
Watercolour Pencil 1