U.S. FBI Honorable Mention for Zeus P2P Botnet Takedown
Capitol - Young Elite - 40 below 40
Technology Review - Top Innovators Below 35 in Germany
I am Faculty at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) in Saarbrücken, Germany, and lead the System Security research group. I also hold a professorship from the CS department of Saarland University. From 2014 until 2016, I was an Independent Research Group leader at the Cluster of Excellence MMCI at Saarland University. Before, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the VU Amsterdam (Herbert Bos) and the Ruhr University Bochum (Thorsten Holz). Before my postdoctoral stays, I worked at the Institute for Internet Security if(is) in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and obtained my PhD degree from the VU Amsterdam in April 2013. My primary research centers on in these areas: Cyber Threats (e.g., malware), Network Security and Privacy, Program Analysis and Attack Traceback.
ASIACCS
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS '21)AsiaCCS 2021
EuroS&P
6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
ACSAC
Annual Computer Security Applications ConferenceAnnual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020)
IMC
Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference2020 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference
FOCI
10th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet
USENIX-Security
29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 20)
NDSS
NDSS Symposium 2019
EuroS&P
4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
USENIX-Security
27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 18)
Basis Lecture: Foundations of Cyber Security II
Proseminar: Malware