I am currently a Security Engineer at WIIT AG, where I lead defense initiatives through planning and implementing our security stack, as well as providing oversight of security operations. In the past, I have held various positions in academia and industry, working at the intersection of machine learning and computer security.

I received my PhD from the Technical University of Braunschweig, where I worked with Konrad Rieck at the Institute of System Security. Previous to this, and after graduating in Telecommunication Engineering at the Carlos III University of Madrid, I was an associate researcher at the Machine Learning Group of Klaus-Robert Müller at the Technical University of Berlin.

My interests currently focus on applying machine learning, particularly generative AI, to enhance security operations through advanced threat analysis, the integration of threat intelligence, and the refinement of detection engines, ultimately streamlining security workflows.

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
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)