Anil Kurmus

Anil Kurmus is Senior Research Scientist and Team lead at IBM Research Europe - Zurich. His interests are mainly on systems security, software security, operating systems as well as CPU microarchitecture, both in terms of offensive and defensive research. He holds a PhD degree (Dr.-Ing) from Technische Universitat Braunschweig (2014), and a Master's degree (Diplome d'Ingenieur) from Telecom Paris (2009). Since 2019, he is leading projects on the topic of systems security at IBM Research. His work has received an ACSAC best paper award and been published in major systems security conferences, where he has also been a member of the program committees (ACM CCS 21/23/24, IEEE S&P 22/23, USENIX Security 21/22/25, NDSS 23). He is also the author of several patents on systems security.