I’m the Security Operations Lead at WIIT AG, where I design, deploy, and continuously refine our security stack while overseeing day‑to‑day operations and coordinating SOC analysts and engineers to ensure rapid detection, response, and remediation.

In the past I have held several research and engineering roles across academia and industry, working at the intersection of machine learning and computer security. These days I’m especially excited about the real possibilities of automation and generative AI to streamline security operations, building faster, more accurate engines for threat analysis and detection.

Peer Review

Journals
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI)
Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA)
Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
Computers & Security (COSE)
International Journal of Information Security (IJIS)
Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective (ISJ)
Information Security Technical Report (ISTR)
Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA)
Security and Communication Networks (SCN)
Applied Sciences - Computing and Artificial Intelligence (APPLSCI)
IET Information Security (IET-IS)
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
Sensors (SENSC9)
Entropy (ENTRFG)
Computer & Informatics (CAI)
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE)
The SciTech Journal (SciTech)
Computing (COMP)

External Reviewer
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) [2015]
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) [2015, 2017]
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) [2015, 2016]
Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) [2014, 2016]
ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISEC) [2014, 2016]
Internacional Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) [2013, 2014]
Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCRIME) [2014]
International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSOS) [2014]
IT-Sicherheitskonferenz (Sicherheit) [2014]
IFIP Information Security Conference & Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC) [2015, 2016]
International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO) [2014]
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2018 (EuroS&P) [2016]
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) [2017, 2018]
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) [2018]

PC Memberships
Jornadas Nacionales de Ciberseguridad (JNIC) [2018]
International Workshop on FORmal methods for Security Engineering (ForSE) [2017, 2016]


Organizations

The Honeynet Project
Chairman Board of Directors
Norway Chapter Lead

The AI Guild
Founding Member

Society of Spanish Researchers in Germany (CERFA/SFBD)
Member


Teaching

ICAI School of Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Cybersecurity [SS20, SS21, SS22, SS23]
MSc in Cybersecurity

Technical University of Braunschweig
Deep Learning for Malware Analysis - Machine Learning for Computer Security [SS17, SS18]
Seminar Malware Analysis and Detection [WS15, WS16, WS17]
MSc in Computer Science

University of Göttingen
Smartphone Security - Computer and Network Security [WS14, WS15]
MSc in Applied Computer Science


Supervision

Theses
Automated Penetration Testing of Web Applications Using Large Language Models - Tarek Almerei [BS/2025]
Utilizing Large Language Models for Security Incident Analysis in Log Data - Badiee Murad [BS/2025]
Generating Stateful Black Box Fuzzers For Network Protocol Implementations - Christian Bruns [MS/2016]
Explicit Feature Spaces for Learning with Graphs - Benjamin Plock [BS/2015]

Code Projects
Protocol and adversary identification in Go - Google Summer of Code 2017
Droitbot - Google Summer of Code 2015
HpfeedsHoneyGraph - Google Summer of Code 2013


Awards

German Prize for IT-Security 2016 (2nd Place)