Faculty
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.
USENIX-Security
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX '14)
ACSAC
Proc. of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'14)
Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 18th International Conference, FC 2014, Christ Church, Barbados, March 3-7, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2014)
Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT ’14)
Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses
NDSS
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '14)
Proceedings of the Seventh European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec '14)
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC '13, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013
8th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software: "The Americas", MALWARE 2013, Fajardo, PR, USA, October 22-24, 2013
Basis Lecture: Foundations of Cyber Security II
Proseminar: Malware