Andrew D. Zonenberg, Ph.D
If you want a less formal introduction, see the “about” page
Research Interests
- Semiconductor reverse engineering
- Embedded systems security
- Computer architecture
- High-speed digital design
- Electronic test and measurement
- Parallel computing and GPU acceleration
I am particularly interested in open source tooling and interdisciplinary projects combining several of the above fields.
Publications
Most of my work is presented at industry events rather than formal academic venues, so I’ve listed peer-reviewed academic publications in this section separately from presentations.
- Muench, Marius, Aedan Cullen, Kévin Courdesses, and Andrew D. Zonenberg. Security through Transparency: Tales from the RP2350 Hacking Challenge In 19th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 25), pp. 1-17. 2025.
- Zonenberg, Andrew D., Antony Moor, Daniel Slone, Lain Agan, and Mario Cop. Extraction of Secrets from 40nm CMOS Gate Dielectric Breakdown Antifuses by FIB Passive Voltage Contrast In 19th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 25), pp. 19-33. 2025.
- Cirimelli-Low, Jesharrie, Muhammad Hadir Khan, Samuel Crow, Amogh Lonkar, Bugra Onal, Andrew D. Zonenberg, and Matthew R. Guthaus. Sram design with openram in skywater 130nm In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2023.
- Zonenberg, Andrew, and Bülent Yener. Antikernel: a decentralized secure hardware-software operating system architecture In International Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, pp. 237-256. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016.
Presentations
Not all presentations were recorded or have public slides on the venue website. If you are interested in more information about a talk without details linked here, please reach out.
This list only includes talks at public conferences or large, named internal events. Invited talks for academic / corporate research groups or small corporate events are generally not included.
- “GB/s Real Time Oscilloscope Waveform Processing in Vulkan”, Vulkanised 2027 (to appear)
- “High speed debug with ngscopeclient”, Technolution SI/PI Probefest & Seminar 2026 Slides
- “Anti-RE Countermeasures in a Real Secure Element”, HARRIS 2026 Slides
- “Extracting Antifuse Secrets from the RP2350 by FIB PVC”, ESCAR USA 2026 (invited talk)
- “Extracting Antifuse Secrets from the DEF CON 32 badge (RP2350)”, REcon 2025
- “Extracting Antifuse Secrets from the RP2350 by FIB PVC”, HARRIS 2025 (invited keynote) Slides
- “Secure Element Vs. Cloners: A Case Study”, HARRIS 2024. Slides
- “Open Source T&M for Hardware Reverse Engineering”, HARRIS 2023 Slides
- “Down the Rabbit Hole: A Close Look at Ethernet”, CanSecWest 2021
- “Boost your hardware reversing with glscopeclient”, hardwear.io USA 2021 Presentation video
- “SSP21 BitW in FPGA”, S4x20 Slides
- “Reverse Engineering of Programmable Logic Bitstreams”, Hardwear.IO NL 2017 Presentation video
- “Antikernel: a decentralized secure hardware-software operating system”, S4x17 Presentation video
- “Hardware Hacking Live”, S4x16 Demo video
- “Antikernel: a decentralized secure hardware-software operating system architecture.”, MooseCon 2016 (VMWare internal corporate event, slides not public)
- “From Silicon To Compiler: Reverse-Engineering the CoolRunner-II Bitstream Format”, REcon 2015. Presentation video Slides
Teaching
Primary Instructor
- High-speed Oscilloscope Probing (conference training): October 2026
- Hardware Reverse Engineering (RPI): Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant
- Cryptography + Network Security (RPI): multiple sessions over 2011-2015
- Computer Organization: multiple sessions over 2011-2015
Employment
- 2023 - present: Principal Security Consultant, IOActive
- 2020 - 2023: Associate Principal Security Consultant, IOACtive
- 2015 - 2020: Senior Security Consultant, IOActive
- 2009 - 2015: Teaching Assistant, Rensselaer Polytechnic INstitute
- 2010 - 2011: Scientist / Engineer, DrawerSteak Technologies LLC
- 2006 - 2009: Software Developer, Zonenberg Software
Education
- 2015: Ph.D Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 2011: BS Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute