Senior Researcher, Head of IT Security Engineering Team
Post-Doc / PhD Students / Master Students
- Dr.-Ing. Pejman Najafi
- Eric Klieme, M.Sc. (Thesis Submitted)
- Alexander Mühle, M.Sc. (Thesis Submitted)
- Daniel Köhler, M.Eng. (Thesis Submitted)
- Mehryar Majd, M.Sc.
- Farzad Motlagh, M.Sc.
- Hendrik Graupner, M.Sc.(external PhD student, Bundesdruckerei)
- Kennedy Torkura, M.Sc. (external, Mitigant GmbH, Potsdam)
- Kaja Schmidt M. Sc., (extenal PhD student, European Commision)
- Mehrdad Hajizadeh, M.Sc. (Visiting PhD Student, TU Chemnitz)
- Dominic Schaa: XDR, SOAR, and next-Gen SIEM (Master student assistant)
- Lars Prepens: Fuzzing Test on Apache HTTP Server (ongoing Master thesis)
- Lieven Leue: Micro-Protocols for Data Exfiltration (ongoing Master thesis)
- Mohamed Budagow: Ideation, Design, Implementation, Execution, and Analysis of Red Team Exercises (ongoing Master thesis)
- Julian Fuchs: Cyber Threat Intelligence: Sources, Platforms, and Use Cases (ongoing Masther thesis)
We are hiring:
- Currently there are several open positions for Research Assistants and PhD stduents on:
- Security Analytics
- Cyber Attack and Defence
- Authentication & Secure Identities
- We also have the following topics (for thesis or student job) opened for Master and Bachelor students:
- open topics (if you are interested, just drop me a line):
- Big Data Security Analytics (Data Engineering and Data Science for Cybersecurity)
- Unified and Intuitive Serving for NextGen SIEMs (Data Engineering)
- High-Performance Event Streaming for Security Analytics (Data Engineering)
- Deep Learning Architectures for Security Analytics (Data Engineering)
- Online Signature Matching and Correlation Engine (Data Engineering & Science)
- In-Stream Advanced Analytics (Data Engineering & Science)
- Intrusion Detection with Machine Learning (Data Science)
- Graph Analytics for Threat Detection (Data Science)
- Deep Learning-based Anomaly Detection (Data Science)
- Predictive Analytics for Threat Detection (Data Science)
- Malicious Process (Anomaly) Detection in Windows Process Logs (Data Science)
- DGA Detection via Proxy and DNS Logs (Data Science)
- Typosquatting Detection (Data Science)
- Advanced Cyber Attacks and Defense
- Zero Day Vulnerability Collection
- Attack Graph Construction using Unified Data
- Security of IoT Devices and Applications
- Next-Gen Authentication and Secure Identity Management
- Security Awareness
- Identify and Prevent Password Reuse
- Advanced Capture the Flags
- Virtualization for Security Lab Generator
Alumni
- Dr. Seyed Ali Alhosseini: Classification, Prediction and Evaluation of Graph Neural Networks on Online Social Media Platforms (PhD Dissertation, November.2023, now with Max-Plank-Insitute for Human Development, Berlin)
- Dr.-Ing. Pejman Najafi: Leveraging Data Science & Engineering for Advanced Security Operations (PhD Dissertation, September.2023, now with HPI)
- Dr. Andreas Grüner: Towards Practical and Trust-Enhancing Attribute Aggregation for Self-Sovereign Identity (PhD Dissertation, October 2022, now with Atruvia AG, Frankfurt am Main)
- Dr. Muhammad Sukmana: Security Improvements For Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing System (PhD Dissertation, March 2022, now with Resility GmbH, Potsdam)
- Dr. Aragats Amirkhanyan: Methodes and Frameworks for GeoSpatioTemporal Data Analytics (PhD Dissertation, December 2019, now with Yara International, Berlin)
- Dr. Konrad-Felix Krentz: A Denial-of-Sleep-Resilient medium Access control Layer for IEEE 802.15.4 Networks (PhD Dissertation, November 2019, now with Siemens, Erlangen)
- Dr.-Ing. David Jaeger: Enabling Big Data Security Analytics for Advanced Network Attack Detection (PhD Dissertation, September 2019, now with Airbus Defense and Space, Munich)
- Dr.-Ing. Marian Gawron: Towards Automated Advanced Vulnerability Analysis (PhD Dissertation, March 2019, now with DB Systel GmbH, Berlin)
- Dr. Andrey Sapegin: High-Speed Security Log Analytics Using Hybrid Outlier Detection (PhD Dissertation, March 2019, now with Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, Berlin)
- Dr.-Ing. Martin Ussath: Analytical Approaches for Advanced Attacks (PhD Dissertation, May 2018, now with Materna SE, Dortmund)
- Dr. Amir Azodi: Towards Real-time SIEM Based Network Monitoring and Intrusion Detection Through Advanced Event Normalization (PhD Dissertation, April 2016, now with DSGV, Berlin)
- Dr. Sebastian Roschke: Towards High Quality Security Event Correlation Using In-Memory and Multi-Core Processing (PhD Dissertation, May 2012, now with Snap Inc., CA, USA)
- Jonas Schmitz: Towards Data-driven Detection for Command and Control Traffic (Master Thesis, Aug. 2024, now with Wire Swiss GmbH, Berlin)
- Till Nowakowski: Predicting Privilege Necessity to Mitigate Lateral Movement Attacks in an Active Directory (Master Thesis, Sept. 2023, now with Dussmann Stiftung & Co. KGaA, Berlin)
- Lukas Ehrmann: Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks based on a Graph Neural Network (Master Thesis, Nov. 2022, now with DB Systel GmbH, Berlin)
- Leonard Marschke: On the feasibility of integrating OpenID Connect into open-source desktop environments (Master Thesis, Oct. 2022, now with HPI, Potsdam)
- Wenzel Pünter: Towards Minding Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence from Process Behaviour Graphs (Master Thesis, Feb. 2022, now with HPI, Potsdam)
- Kaja Schmidt: Mitigating Sovereign Data Exchange Challenges: A Conceptual Framework to Apply Privacy- and Trust-Enhancing Technologies (Master Thesis, Jan. 2022, now with European Commission, Brussels)
- Balthasar Martin: Evaluating the Security of Cloud-based Remote Access for the Internet of Things (Master Thesis, Feb. 2019, now with SRLabs, Berlin)
- Volker Schiewe: Identity Recovery in Decentralised Systems (Master Thesis, Jan. 2020, now with Netlight Consulting, Berlin)
- Daniel Stelter-Gliese: User-centric Realtime Embedded Web Application Firewalls (Master Thesis, Dec. 2016, now with Google Inc., Zurich)
- Marian Gawron, MSc.: Vulnerability Modeling and Analytics: HPI-VDB (Master Thesis, Sept. 2013, now with DB Systel GmbH, Berlin)
- David Jaeger, MSc.: Monitoring in Scenario-based Security Experiments (Master Thesis, Aug. 2012, now with Airbus SE, Munich)
- Robert Schuppenies, MSc.: Automatic Extraction of Vulnerability Information for Attack Graphs(Master Thesis, Mar. 2009, now with Google Inc, CA, USA.)
- Sebastian Roschke: IDS Management on Lock-Keeper (Master Thesis, Nov. 2008, now with Snap Inc., CA, USA)
- Diplom.-Inf. Michael Menzel: Securing Web Services using Lock-Keeper (Diplomarbeit, Aug. 2006, now with Senacor Technologies AG)
- Christian Liesegang, MSc.: A Network Security Measurement Framework (Master Thesis, Aug. 2006, now with Remerge GmbH)
- MP-WS2022: Towards Red Team Exercising (Master Project: Lars Yavor, Til Bussmann, Adnan Kadric)
- MP-SS2022: Vulnerability Database for Cyber Threat Intelligence (Master Project: Till Nowakowski, Jonas Schmitz, Lieven Leue, Mario Freund)
- MP-SS2019: Cyber Threat Hunting Detection via Data Science and Engineering (Master Project: Leana Neuber, Patrick Jattke, Johannes Kroschewski, Nils Strassenburg)
- MP-WS2018: Self-Sovereign Identity with Blockchain Technology (Master Project: Sebastian Schmidl, Benedikt Bock, Volker Schiewe, Alexander Meissner)
- MP-WS2017: Behavioral Authentication (Master Project: Robert Stark, Niklas Hoffmann)
- MP-SS2011: An IDS Correlation Platform using In-Memory and Multi-Core (Master Project: Martin Kreichgauer, Michael Frister, Florian Thomas)
- BP2017-M1: A Big Security Data Analytical Framework (Bachelor Project, cooperated with SAP SE and T-Systems International GmbH, October 2017-July 2018)
- BP2012-M2: Security Testing and Surveillance for Large-Scale Software (Bachelor Project, cooperated with SAP AG and SAP Innovation Center, Oct. 2012 -- Sept. 2013)
- BP2008-M3: Lock-Keeper Web Services Gateway for Advanced Management and High Security of Service-oriented Applications (Bachelor Project, cooperated with Siemens and Actisis GmBH, Oct. 2008 -- Sept. 2009)
- BP2006-B2: Development of a Service-Oriented Architecture for Police Brandenburg's Internetwache based on Lock-Keeper (Bachelor Project, cooperated with Police Brandenburg, Oct. 2006 -- Sept. 2007)
- BP2006-M2: Database Replication over Lock-Keeper (Bachelor Project, cooperated with Siemens Switzerland, Apr. 2006 -- Mar. 2007)
- Hannah Wetterau, B.Sc. (Student Assistant, Apr. 2023 -- Nov. 2023)
- Chris Pelchen, M.Sc. (Research Assistant, Apr. 2016 -- Feb. 2022)
- Christian Tietz, M.Sc. (Research Assistant, Jul. 2015 -- Jun. 2020)
- Kennedy Torkura, M.Sc. (Research Assistant, Oct. 2013 -- Oct. 2019 )
- Tatiana Gayvoronskaya (Research Assistant, Feb. 2016 -- Jul. 2019)
- Leonard Marschke (Work Student, Sept. 2019 -- Mar. 2023)
- Mirko Krause (Work Student, Oct. 2018 -- Mar. 2019)
- Marcus Konrad (Student Assistant, Jan. 2015 -- Dec. 2015)
- Daniel Stelter-Gliese (Work Student, Apr. 2012 -- Jul. 2015)
- Willi Gierke (Student Assistant, Jan. 2015 -- Jul. 2015)
- Carl Ambroselli (Student Assistant, Feb. 2014 -- Dec. 2014)
- Marian Gawron (Student Assistant, April. 2012 -- Sept. 2013)
- Richard Meissner (Student Assistant, Oct. 2010 -- Jul. 2013)
- Florian Westphal (Student Assistant, Sept. 2010 -- Apr. 2013)
- David Jaeger (Student Assistant, Jul. 2009 -- Jul. 2012)
- Hubert Hesse (Student Assistant, April. 2012 -- Jul. 2012)
- Bjoern Groneberg (Student Assistant, Sept. 2010 -- Jun. 2011)
- Thanh Dien Tran (Student Assistant, Nov. 2008 -- Sept. 2009)
- Robert Schuppenies(Student Assistant, Jan. 2007 -- Mar. 2009, now with Google Inc.)
- Ge Zhang (Intern Student, Oct. 2007 -- May. 2008, now with Google Inc.)
- Sebastian Roschke (Student Assistant, Apr. 2007 -- Oct. 2008)
- Johannes Harungguan (Visiting Researcher from Indonesia, Nov. 2012 -- Jan. 2013)
- Dr. Yong Zhang (Visiting Researcher from China, Jun. -- Sept. 2011)
- Piotr Szymanski (Visiting Student from Poland, Feb. -- Sept. 2010)
- Dr. Lijuan Duan (Visiting Researcher from China, Jun. -- Sept. 2009)
- Dr. Lichun Wang (Visiting Researcher from China, Jun. -- Jul. 2009)
- Alberto Diniz Bueno Filho (Visiting Student from Brazil, Jul. -- Sept. 2004)
