Shubham Agarwal

Shubham Agarwal

Scientific Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy · Bochum, DE

I am a scientific researcher in the SPRING Lab, headed by Carmela Troncoso, at the Max Planck Institute of Security and Privacy. Prior to this, I was a Ph.D student in the Secure Web Applications Group (SWAG) at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, where I was supervised by Dr.-Ing. Ben Stock.

My research interests include Application Security & Data Privacy. I currently focus on the client-side security of Web applications, large-scale vulnerability detection, and understanding S&P perspectives of different stakeholders.

Feel free to reach out if you are interested in any of these research areas, or would like to work with us and have fun playing with the Web.


🔒 Applications Security 🛡️ Online Privacy 👥 Stakeholders Analysis

2025 — present

Scientific Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Security and Privacy Engineering Lab (SPRING)

2021 — 2025

Ph.D Computer Science

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Secure Web Applications Group (SWAG)

2020 — 2021

Research Assistant

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

(D3) Internet Architecture

Jun — Nov 2019

Developer Assistant

Foldio GmbH

IT Inkubator at Universität des Saarlandes

2018 — 2021

M.Sc. Computer Science

Universität des Saarlandes

2017 — 2018

Product Engineering Trainee

INSZoom Technology Services Pvt. Ltd.

2013 — 2017

B.Tech. Computer Science with Specialization in Bioinformatics

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore