Lukas Giner

Lukas Giner

I am a microarchitectural security researcher. My thesis, completed at ISEC (Graz University of Technology) with Daniel Gruss in 2025, covers attacks and defenses for isolated execution domains, including cache side-channels, transient execution, hardware isolation in Intel SGX and AMD SEV-SNP, and GPU cache attacks via the WebGPU API. The GPU work demonstrated that browsers have enough hardware access to run cache attacks across a wide range of devices, and won Best Paper at AsiaCCS 2024. I have also spoken at Black Hat USA 2025, Black Hat Asia 2019, and RuhrSec 2022.

Education
2025
Graz University of Technology
2020
Graz University of Technology
BSc in Information and Computer Engineering
2015
Graz University of Technology
2025
Lukas Giner
PhD Thesis — Graz University of Technology, July 2025
Lukas Giner, Sudheendra Raghav Neela, Daniel Gruss
DIMVA 2025
Lukas Giner, Roland Czerny, Simon Lammer, Aaron Giner, Paul Gollob, Jonas Juffiger, Daniel Gruss
ARES 2025
2024
Lukas Giner, Roland Czerny, Christoph Gruber, Fabian Rauscher, Andreas Kogler, Daniel De Almeida Braga, Daniel Gruss
AsiaCCS 2024
2023
Lukas Giner, Stefan Steinegger, Antoon Purnal, Maria Eichlseder, Thomas Unterluggauer, Stefan Mangard, Daniel Gruss
IEEE S&P 2023
Andreas Kogler, Jonas Juffinger, Lukas Giner, Lukas Gerlach, Martin Schwarzl, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Stefan Mangard
USENIX Security 2023
2022
Lukas Giner, Andreas Kogler, Claudio Canella, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss
USENIX Security 2022
2021
Antoon Purnal, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Ingrid Verbauwhede
IEEE S&P 2021
Claudio Canella, Andreas Kogler, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz
arXiv:2111.10876, 2021
2020
Lukas Giner
Master's Thesis — Graz University of Technology, 2020
2019
Claudio Canella, Daniel Genkin, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Marina Minkin, Daniel Moghimi, Frank Piessens, Michael Schwarz, Berk Sunar, Jo Van Bulck, Yuval Yarom
CCS 2019
Michael Schwarz, Claudio Canella, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss
arXiv:1905.05725, 2019
Mario Werner, Thomas Unterluggauer, Lukas Giner, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Stefan Mangard
USENIX Security 2019
2017
Clémentine Maurice, Manuel Weber, Michael Schwarz, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Carlo Alberto Boano, Stefan Mangard, Kay Römer
NDSS 2017
2014
Rumi Nakamura, Ferdinand Plaschke, Robert Teubenbacher, Lukas Giner, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Werner Magnes, Manfred Steller, Roy Torbert, H. Vaith, M. Chutter, et al.
Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, Vol. 3(1), 2014
Determination of Flux-Gate Magnetometer Spin Axis Offsets with the Electron Drift Instrument
Ferdinand Plaschke, Rumi Nakamura, Lukas Giner, Robert Teubenbacher, Mark Chutter, Hannes K. Leinweber, Werner Magnes
EGU General Assembly 2014
2013
Inter-instrument Calibration using Magnetic Field Data from FGM and EDI onboard Cluster
Rumi Nakamura, Ferdinand Plaschke, Robert Teubenbacher, Lukas Giner, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Werner Magnes, Manfred Steller, Roy Torbert, H. Vaith, M. Chutter, et al.
Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems, Vol. 3(2), pp. 459–487, 2013
Magnetic Field Gradients Inferred from Multi-point Measurements of Cluster FGM and EDI
Robert Teubenbacher, Rumi Nakamura, Lukas Giner, Ferdinand Plaschke, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Werner Magnes, Hans Eichelberger, Manfred Steller, Roy Torbert
EGU General Assembly 2013