CV · Felix Stöger

Education

Zürich, Switzerland

PhD, Computer Science
2023–present

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Adrian Perrig, Network Security Group. Second advisor: Dr. Sharad Agarwal,Microsoft Research.
MSc, Computer Science
2021–2023

Major: Secure and Reliable Systems. Minor: Theoretical Computer Science.

Thesis: SCION: The Silver Lining in Cloud Computing
BSc, Computer Science
2018–2021

Thesis: Explicit Sensor Activity Notifications for IoT Devices

Zürich, Switzerland

Zürich, Switzerland

Research Assistant, Network Security Group
2023–present
- On-demand path-aware backbone. Deployment of a global SCION backbone with on-demand access (ongoing). Project page
- Inter-domain routing convergence. BGP Vortex, an attack on BGP convergence (USENIX Security 2025).
- Cloud performance profiling. Latency measurements from 600 vantage points to 22 Azure and 15 Google Cloud regions, with an adaptive overlay network to reduce latency.
- Path-aware cloud networking. Intra-cloud network architectures that give hosts path control while preserving provider security and operational efficiency.
- AI data dissemination. Federated training in multi-path environments, routing layer updates over different paths by importance.
- IoT access control. SA4P, a distributed reference monitor for peripherals (ACM AsiaCCS 2024).
- Web3 centralization. Routing attacks on Web3 applications that rely on centralized infrastructure (Financial Cryptography 2023).
Member, Werner Siemens Stiftung Centre for Cyber Trust
2025–present
- Authentication-based DoS mitigation. Authenticated Browsing, per-packet authentication at 160 Gbps based on federated identity providers (ACM CoNEXT 2026).

Head Teaching Assistant, Network Security
2024–present

Graduate course with 350+ students and nine lecturers. Organization of the course, its update and new graded projects based on Kathará network emulation.
Graded projects, Computer Networks
2024–present

Undergraduate course.
Teaching Assistant, Information Security Lab
2022–2023

Network security challenges for the master's-level lab, built and operated with Ansible and Grafana.

Teaching Assistant, Parallel Programming
2020

Scalable Parallel Computing Lab, Prof. Dr. Torsten Hoefler.

2026

Authenticated Browsing: Reconciling Application-Layer Flooding Defense with Data Confidentiality

F. Stöger, J. van Bommel, J. Kwon, P. Bamert, S. Boss, A. Eggerth, A. Perrig. ACM CoNEXT 2026.
2025

BGP Vortex: Update Message Floods Can Create Internet Instabilities

F. Stöger, H. Birge-Lee, G. Giuliari, J. Subirà-Nieto, A. Perrig. USENIX Security Symposium 2025.
2024

The SA4P Framework: Sensing and Actuation as a Privilege

P. De Vaere*, F. Stöger*, G. Tsudik, A. Perrig. ACM AsiaCCS 2024. *Equal contribution.
2023

Demystifying Web3 Centralization: The Case of Off-Chain NFT Hijacking

F. Stöger, A. Zhou, H. Duan, A. Perrig. Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2023.

Major League Security
2026

Creator, organizer and expert jury member of a Swiss academic cyber security competition, run by ETH Zürich and Zürcher Kantonalbank.

KÖS, Klub der Österreichischen Studierenden Zürich
2020–present

Co-founder, former vice-president and board member of the largest Austrian student association in Switzerland (430 members).

EmbossStudio

Creator of a web app that generates 3D-printable embossing dies from text or artwork. embossstudio.com

Makerspace student project lead

Creator and lead of a photographic film digitizer project, using embedded systems, wireless networking and computer vision.
Fotokommission

Member of the ETH photography student association.

Programming: Go, Python, C, Java, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Networking: BGP, SCION, MPLS, P4; Cisco IOS and IOS-XR, FRR, BIRD, Quagga; network emulation with Kathará and Cisco Modeling Labs 2; Scapy, mitmproxy
Cloud: Azure and Google Cloud CLIs, VPCs and VPC peering, access policies, deployments of more than 100 VMs
Security: Applied cryptography, BGP vulnerabilities, BGPsec, cryptographic accelerators, reverse engineering (Ghidra)
Embedded systems: ARM Cortex-M, ARM TrustZone-M, Bluetooth Low Energy
Languages: German (native), English (Cambridge C2, TOEFL 108), Spanish (basic)
Other: Public speaking to audiences of more than 500, didactic training (teaching assistant certificate), Matplotlib, Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma