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Dr. Lea Schönherr is a tenure-track faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security interested in information security with a focus on adversarial machine learning. She received her Ph.D. in 2021 from Ruhr University Bochum, where she was advised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dorothea Kolossa at the Cognitive Signal Processing group at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany. She received two scholarships from UbiCrypt (DFG Research Training Group) and CASA (DFG Cluster of Excellence).

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Since 2022
Tenure-track faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
2015 - 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher Ruhr University Bochum, Phd Student (2015-2021)
2013 – 2015
Ruhr University Bochum Master of Science - MSElectrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
2009 – 2013
Mannheim University of Applied Science Bachelor of Science - BSBiomedical/Medical Engineering

Publications by Lea Schönherr

Year 2026

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GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
Adversarial Robustness of AI-Generated Image Detectors in the Real World

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GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
Whispers in the Machine: Confidentiality in Agentic Systems

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International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Are Modern Speech Enhancement Systems Vulnerable to Adversarial Attacks?

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International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
"That's another doom I haven't thought about": A User Study on AI Labels as a Safeguard Against Image-Based Misinformation

Article

Pattern Recognition Buffer-free class-incremental learning with out-of-distribution detection

Conference / Medium

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
Chasing Shadows: Pitfalls in LLM Security Research

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Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
Trust Me, I Know This Function: Hijacking LLM Static Analysis using Bias

Year 2025

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International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Code Generation of Smart Contracts with LLMs: A Case Study on Hyperledger Fabric

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Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
Prompt Obfuscation for Large Language Models

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GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
Exploring the Potential of LLMs for Code Deobfuscation