Vittorio Zaccaria Rev. 2026.06

Theses

Available thesis directions.

I view the graduation thesis as a very special milestone for the life of a student. After answering exams' questions written by others for five years, the thesis is the occasion where you will define your own question and answer it in a dissertation.

Here you will find some of the questions I am trying to answer; if those resonate with you and you want to make them yours, let us discuss about them. If instead you feel that you'd like to address some other question around which you have some vague idea let us discuss about it too and see whether we can make it more concrete.

Always bear in mind that the choice must be made actively by you; do not expect to be passively "assigned" a thesis on a "whatever comes around" basis.

Open topics

3 thesis areas

MS · automotive · hw & sw design · varies

Embedded systems for automotive

Engage in the HAL4SDV project, a pioneering European initiative in software-defined vehicles, where you will collaborate with semiconductor providers like

Institution
STMicroelectronics
Support
internship
Where
STMicroelectronics' Agrate Brianza plant

Thesis topic list

  • 1 thesis in Automatic generation of multicore embedded code.
  • 1 thesis in Linux-based Continuous Integration (CI) framework for Model-Based Design workflows.
  • 1 thesis in Integration of NEON SIMD intrinsic functions into the Embedded Coder workflow for Model-Based Design.

MS · security · cryptography · high

Cryptography and Security

This thesis aims to formally verify a new protocol, designed to enhance the security of physical communication between an embedded microcontroller and a secure element. The proposed new

Institution
Security Pattern
Support
internship

Thesis topic list

  • 1 MS thesis in formal verification of a new protocol for securing on-chip physical communication

MS · security · operating systems · low

Topics in secure and safe operating systems

This is a general umbrella topic --- valid even if you are thinking of a Ph.d. Bring your own ideas!

Institution
Politecnico di Milano

Thesis topic list

  • 1 thesis in developing a software virtualisation approach for retargetability and long term sustainability of IoT software systems
  • 2 theses in measurement and characterisation of virtualisation (XEN) on an embedded hardware board (ARM/RISCV)
  • 1 thesis in DDoS attacks in mixed-criticality, real-time operating systems