Enhancing Research Oriented Teaching in Computer Science (Research Focus Classes)

The goal of the project is to analyze, further develop and document the concept of research focus classes (RFCs). RFCs with an interdisciplinary, practice-oriented research focus offer the opportunity to integrate strategic partners. Specifically, within the department of computer science, we plan to support the establishment of new RFCs to increase its offers of research-based learning opportunities for students. Their availability will give a larger number of students the opportunity to gain scientific experience at an early stage. The project will document how RFCs are currently being organized to subsequently develop a concept (or toolbox), which supports lecturers in setting up corresponding modules themselves.

This project focuses on the evolution of teaching concepts at RWTH Aachen University, i.e., to sustainably transfer RFCs beyond the department of computer science. As such, it pursues several important direction:

  • Innovative teaching with digital and analog teaching, learning and examination formats
  • Promoting interdisciplinary skills
  • Qualifications for a modern world
  • Greater individualization of studies

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Publications

Transformer-Based Integrative Patient Representations from Single-Cell RNA Data. Learning Meaningful Representations of Life Workshop (LMRL ‘25), Apr 28 - Apr 28, 2025, Singapore, Singapore. Event co-located with the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR '24). April 2025.
scE(match): Privacy-Preserving Cluster Matching of Single-Cell Data. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom ‘24), Dec 17 - Dec 21, 2024, Sanya, China. December 2024.
mcBERT: Patient-Level Single-cell Transcriptomics Data Representation. bioRxiv. November 2024.
One IDS is not Enough! Exploring Ensemble Learning for Industrial Intrusion Detection. Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS ‘23), vol. 14345, Sep 25 - Sep 29, 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands. September 2023.
Poster: Ensemble Learning for Industrial Intrusion Detection. 38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ‘22), Dec 5 - Dec 9, 2022, Austin, TX, USA. December 2022.
A False Sense of Security? Revisiting the State of Machine Learning-Based Industrial Intrusion Detection. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS ‘22), May 30 - May 30, 2022, Nagasaki Japan. Event co-located with the 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '22). May 2022.
Missed Opportunities: Measuring the Untapped TLS Support in the Industrial Internet of Things. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS ‘22), May 30 - Jun 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan. May 2022.
Transparent End-to-End Security for Publish/Subscribe Communication in Cyber-Physical Systems. Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SaT-CPS ‘21), Apr 28 - Apr 28, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. Event co-located with the 11th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '21). April 2021.
Easing the Conscience with OPC UA: An Internet-Wide Study on Insecure Deployments. Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ‘20), Oct 27 - Oct 29, 2020, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. October 2020.
Assessing the Security of OPC UA Deployments. Proceedings of the 1st ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec ‘20), Apr 2 - Apr 3, 2020, Tübingen, Germany. April 2020.
Dispute Resolution for Smart Contract-based Two Party Protocols. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2019 (ICBC 2019), May 14 - May 17, 2019, Seoul, South Korea. May 2019.
Smart Contract-based Car Insurance Policies. 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Dec 9 - Dec 13, 2018, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. December 2018.
Secure and anonymous decentralized Bitcoin mixing. Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 80. March 2018.
BLOOM: BLoom filter based Oblivious Outsourced Matchings. BMC Medical Genomics, vol. 10, no. Suppl 2, Nov 11 - Nov 11, 2016, Chicago, IL, USA. July 2017.
CoinParty: Secure Multi-Party Mixing of Bitcoins. The Fifth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2015), San Antonio, TX, USA. March 2015.