Huyen Tran

Huyen Tran is currently a research assistant at the “Systems Engineering chair” at TU Dresden, working on the EU project AI-Sprint. She started working with the chair in September 2022. 

Research interests

• Confidential Computing & Zero Trust Architecture 
  Designing secure cloud-native systems based on Zero Trust principles, leveraging Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to establish trust and protect sensitive applications and data.
• Distributed Systems, Consensus & Blockchain
  Researching secure distributed systems with focus on consensus mechanisms, decentralized trust, blockchain-based security models, and reliable coordination among distributed components.
• Key Management & Trust Establishment
  Exploring secure key lifecycle management, trust establishment, and automated security workflows for confidential and distributed applications.
• Secure State Management & Rollback Prevention
  Designing mechanisms to ensure consistency and integrity of stateful security policies and distributed applications, with a focus on rollback attack prevention and trusted state transitions.

I am open to collaboration on the topics mentioned above.

Publications

Teaching

• SFT Exercise (Summer '23, '24, '25)
• SE Exercise (Winter '22, 23, '24, '25, '26)
• Confidential Computing (Winter '25)

• CDS Lab (2026)

Supervised Students

• Md. Hasibul Kabir - Confidential Deployment and Evaluation of
  YugabyteDB with SCONE
• Andrey Basov - Evaluation of YugabyteDB’s availability, latency and recover ability for workloads distributed across two or more regions 

Contact Information:

•   Email: huyen.tran@tu-dresden.de
• Linkedin
•  Office:   APB 3075