Research Group
Machine Learning
and Security
and Security
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Here, we provide updates on our latest endeavors, breakthroughs, and collaborations in the field of computer security and machine learning. Explore our journey through conferences, projects as well as teaching.
June 3, 2026 — We are attending AsiaCCS in Bangalore, 🇮🇳. Felix is presenting our paper on shape-shifting malicious code using large language models.
April 22, 2026 — The summer semester is here! We offer new courses, including our lecture on machine learning for security and seminars on physical AI attacks and LLMs in security. Sign up on the ISIS platform 📚.
April 18, 2026 — We are attending ICSE in Rio de Janeiro, 🇧🇷. Lukas is presenting our paper on LLM-based vulnerability discovery and its unexpected relation to code metrics.
March 23, 2026 — We are attending SaTML in Munich, 🇩🇪 with several team members. Konrad has been serving as Program Chair for the second year, and we are looking forward to the program.
December 11, 2025 — We are honored and grateful to receive the Test-of-Time Award at ACSAC for our work on detecting JavaScript attacks. Thank you all so much! 🏆😊
October 15, 2025 — We are thrilled to receive the Distinguished Paper Award at CCS for our work on manipulating weather forecasts of AI models 🏆.
October 13, 2025 — We are attending CCS in Taipei, 🇹🇼. Erik is presenting our work on manipulating weather forecasts of AI models, and Anna is presenting a workshop paper on threat modeling for cloud applications.
October 1, 2025 — We are starting the winter semester with new courses, including our lecure on adversarial machine learning and projects on AI attacks and defenses. Register in the ISIS platform 📚.
August 13, 2025 — We are attending the USENIX Security Symposium in Seattle, 🇺🇸. Felix is presenting our paper on attacking virtual backgrounds in video calls.
July 16, 2025 — We are attending ICML in Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Jonas is presenting our work on creating Chimera examples, adversarial inputs that yield different predictions for the same model depending on the underlying backend.
April 22, 2025 — We are starting the summer semester with new courses, including our lecure on machine learning for security and a project on reproducing AI attacks and defenses. Register in the ISIS platform 📚.
April 9, 2025 — We are attending SaTML in Copenhagen, 🇩🇰. Thorsten is presenting his paper on verifiable machine unlearning, while Konrad is chairing the conference.
January 6, 2025 — There are 10 open PhD student positions in the BIFOLD Graduate School! Further details are available here. The deadline for application is February 3, 2025.
December 11, 2024 — We are attending ACSAC in Hawaii, 🇺🇸. Alex is presenting our paper on implanting machine learning backdoors into hardware, such as FPGAs and GPUs.
October 22, 2024 — We are starting the winter semester with new courses, including our new lecture on adversarial machine learning. Register in the ISIS platform 📚.
September 22, 2024 — We are proud that Josiane has been selected as one of the most promising young researchers to attend the prestigious 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 🎩.
August 26, 2024 — We are hiring! 🧑💻 We have a new open PhD student position in our research group. Further details are available here. The deadline for application is September 20, 2024.
August 14, 2024 — We are happy to receive the Distinguished Paper Award at the USENIX Security Symposium for our work on blind cross-site scripting. This was a great collaboration with our friends from TU Braunschweig.
July 4, 2024 — We present four papers at ASIACCS in Singapore, 🇸🇬. Felix discusses target selection in fuzzing, Jonas explores differential testing of JSON, Josiane tackles simbox fraud, and Alwin investigates instruction embeddings.
May 20, 2024 — We are honored and grateful to receive the IEEE S&P Test-of-Time Award for our work on code property graphs. Thank you all so much! 🏆😊
May 12, 2024 — As part of a guest professorship, Konrad is visiting our dear colleages from the security and privacy group at TU Wien. He is teaching a doctoral course on artificial intelligence in security.
April 26, 2024 — Congratulations to Tom on successfully defending his PhD thesis about improving software defect localization using machine learning. Great work, Dr. Ganz 🎓!
April 22, 2024 — We are starting the summer semester with new courses, including our lecure on machine learning for security and the applied security lab. Register in the ISIS platform 📚.
April 16, 2024 — Congratulations to Alex on successfully defending his PhD thesis, which focuses on security viewpoints in explainable machine learning. Very well done, Dr. Warnecke 🎓!
March 13, 2024 — We visit our colleagues from CODE 🪖. Konrad will give an invited talk as part of the Colloquium Series of the Research Institute CODE at University of the Bundeswehr Munich.
February 8, 2024 — We are hiring! 🧑💻 We have two open PhD student positions in our research group. Further details are available here. The deadline for application is Match 8, 2024.
January 2, 2024 — We happily welcome our new postdoc Dr. Anne Josiane Kouam 👋. We look forward to tackling the challenges of security, fraud, and data-driven defenses with you.
December 4, 2023 — We are presenting two papers at ACSAC in Austin, 🇺🇸. Tom is introducing our work on patch-based vulnerability discovery and Erwin speaks about the detection of image-scaling attacks.
November 26, 2023 — It is great that the 30th anniversary of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security is celebrated in Europe. Our entire team is attending the conference in Copenhagen, 🇩🇰.
November 18, 2023 — We have started the project AIGENCY, which explores the opportunities and risks of generative AI in security. It is a joint work with Fraunhofer AISEC, CISPA, FU Berlin, and Aleph Alpha.
October 24, 2023 — For the first time, we are attending the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). Stefan is presenting our large-scale study on the (in)security of SPF configurations in the wild.
October 1, 2023 — We are starting our second semester at TU Berlin with new courses, including our smart lab and a project on large language models for steganography. Register in the ISIS service 📚.
September 25, 2023 — It is time for the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) in The Hague, 🇳🇱. Lukas is presenting our joint work with Qwiet AI on learning type inference for JavaScript.
September 12, 2023 — We are happy to visit our colleagues from ATHENE 🦉. Konrad will give an invited talk as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE).
September 1, 2023 — Welcome aboard our new postdoc Dr. Thorsten Eisenhofer 👋. We look forward to sailing the rough seas of security and machine learning with you 🌊.
August 9, 2023 — Next up, USENIX Security Symposium in Anaheim, 🇺🇸. Thorsten is presenting our work on attacking automatic paper-reviewer assignments using adversarial learning.
July 3, 2023 — We are attending the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023 in Delft, 🇳🇱. Tom is presenting our paper on analyzing explanation methods for vulnerability discovery using directed fuzzing.
May 3, 2023 — We are happy to visit our colleagues in Vienna, 🇦🇹. Konrad will give an invited talk as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Vienna Cybersecurity and Privacy Research Cluster (VISP).
April 1, 2023 — We are kicking off our first semester at TU Berlin with several new courses, including a hacking lab and a lecture on machine learning for computer security. Register in the ISIS service 📚.
February 27, 2023 — We are attending the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, 🇺🇸. Alex is presenting our paper on machine unlearning of features and labels using influence functions.
