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.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
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Github Skills (97)
anonymize10
tokenizer10
sonatype10
sql-parser10
iptables10
statement9
paypal9
sql9
argparse9
engine9
sbt-plugin9
python9
perl9
parser9
privacy9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
App-Analysis/app-downloader
Mar 2023 - Aug 2025
A tool to download Android and iOS Apps from the app store
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
simkoc/scala-argparse
Sep 2020 - Nov 2025
A python argparse inspired command line argument parser for scala
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 34 pushes in 5 years 2 months
argparsecommand-lineparserpythonscala
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