SNSF Project Grant for Ivan De Oliveira Nunes
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Ivan De Oliveira Nunes on receiving an SNSF Project Grant for his new research project “Foundations for Next-Generation In-Process Isolation and Derived Security Services”!
Prof. Dr. Ivan De Oliveira Nunes has received an SNSF Project Grant of CHF 826,162 for his new research project, which will run from January 2027 to December 2031.
Modern computing systems rely on process-level isolation as a fundamental mechanism for creating security boundaries between applications, programs, and workloads. This approach underpins widely deployed systems such as web browsers, mobile platforms, and cloud services. However, it comes at a considerable cost in terms of performance and complexity and also has security limitations.
With his new project, Ivan aims to rethink this long-standing paradigm and investigate how isolation can be achieved more efficiently and at a much finer granularity. The goal is to establish isolation as a first-class system abstraction, enabling strong security guarantees with significantly lower overhead while maintaining compatibility with existing software.
Ivan leads the Security, Privacy, and Networked Systems (SPINS) group at the Department of Informatics.