WWW Best Paper Award Runner-Up and Honorable Mentioned PC Member 2022
CVPR-SAIAD Best Paper Award Runner-Up 2021
DIMVA and ARES Best Paper Award Runner-Up 2019
CAST/GI Dissertation Award for IT-Security Runner-Up 2019
DIMVA Best Paper Award 2016
German Prize for IT-Security 2nd Place 2016
Multiple teaching awards, including Best CS Lecture at KIT (2021) and Best Lecture/Practical Course at TU Braunschweig (2019)
Held key organizational roles: Artifact Evaluation Chair for USENIX Security 2026, Workshop Chair for IEEE EuroS&P 2024/2025, PC Chair for GI Sicherheit 2024, etc.
Longstanding PC member for top-tier conferences including IEEE S&P, NDSS, USENIX Security, ACSAC, CCS, WWW, SatML, AISEC, DIMVA, and more
Background
Professor of Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Head of the 'Artificial Intelligence and Security' research group
Research focuses on the intersection of machine learning (or AI broadly) and computer security
Develops methods in system and application security, e.g., attack detection and vulnerability discovery in software
Studies robustness of machine learning against adversarial attacks, aiming for 'secure AI'
Particularly interested in the Security of Explainable AI (XAI)