I am a Professor of Computer Science at TU Berlin, where I head the Chair of Machine Learning and Security within the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data. Previously, I have been working at TU Braunschweig, University of Göttingen, and Fraunhofer Institute FIRST. Additionally, I have been a Guest Professor at TU Wien in 2024.
My research interests revolve around computer security and machine learning. My group is developing novel methods for detecting computer attacks, analyzing malicious software and discovering security vulnerabilities. Moreover, we explore the security and privacy of learning algorithms. I am also interested in efficient algorithms for analyzing structured data, such as strings, trees, and graphs.
My Erdős number is 3 (Müller → Jagota → Erdős) and my Bacon number is ∞. I am a very distant academic relative of Carl Friedrich Gauß (see here), although this doesn't help when solving math problems.
Seeing through: Analyzing and Attacking Virtual Backgrounds in Video Calls.
Proc. of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium, 2025. (to appear)
Dancer in the Dark: Synthesizing and Evaluating Polyglots for Blind Cross-Site Scripting.
Proc. of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024.
Distinguished Paper Award
No more Reviewer #2: Subverting Automatic Paper-Reviewer Assignment using Adversarial Learning.
Proc. of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023.
Machine Unlearning of Features and Labels.
Proc. of the 30th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2023.
See all publications.
For fun, I am tracking my reviewing and email activity. Here are two plots showing my reviewing activity over the last years. As you can see, I am writing a lot of reviews per year. Most of the time, this is fun.
Similarly, here are two plots showing the number of incoming and outgoing emails on my university account over the last two weeks. The average and standard deviation are calculated over several years (see week number in legend).
I am maintaining a list of top-cited security papers. The list is automatically created based on citations of papers published at the four tier-1 security conferences.
I am a member of "Verband der krawattenlosen Wissensträger" (VDKW)