He is also an adjunct research scientist with the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore. He earned his Dr. Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2012. At ETH, He was part of the System Security group led by Prof. Srdjan Capkun. Before coming to ETH, he received a degree in Computer Engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from the Hamburg University of Technology (Germany) in 2007. His Masters’ thesis on side-channel attack-resistant embedded crypto was supervised by Prof. Dieter Gollmann (TUHH), and Dr. Heike Neumann (NXP). The thesis was awarded the K-H Ditze price for TUHH’s best Masters’ thesis in 2007. He was also awarded a DAAD scholarship to study for one year at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada between 2004-2005.