Communication and Distributed Systems
RWTH Aachen University
Ahornstr. 55
52074 Aachen, Germany
E-Mail: jan.pennekamp[[at]]comsys.rwth-aachen.de
Phone: +49 241 80-21411
Office: Building E3, Room 9032
Website: https://jpennekamp.de/
Short CV
Research
My fields of research cover the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Cloud Computing and Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). In particular, I am interested in security & privacy implications and the application and the design of secure computation. In particular, I look into privacy-preserving and privacy-enhancing technologies. Currently, I am mainly researching in the cluster of excellence "Internet of Production". I am the deputy workstream coordinator for CRD-A Workstream I (since April 2019). As a student assistant (2016-2018), I was involved in the TRINICS project to increase the consumer awareness of cloud services.
Background
Since June 2018, I am a researcher and Ph.D. student at the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems. I am part of the Security and Privacy research group. In 2011, I began my studies in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, received my B.Sc. degree in 2014, and graduated with M.Sc. degree in 2018. In 2014, I studied abroad at Aalto University for one academic year. Besides, in 2015, I interned at the SECAN-Lab at the University of Luxembourg for six month where I worked on website fingerprinting in anonymization networks.
Awards
I received a stipend to attend RWC 2020. Furthermore, I was awarded the 1st prize of TDWI Award 2018 for the best master thesis in the area of analytics, big data, and business intelligence. Besides, in 2018, I received a Google Scholarship for my Ph.D. studies due to my academic achievements and my persistent demonstration of leadership. During my studies, as part of a Research Focus Class, our team's submission to the 2016 iDASH Genome Privacy & Security Competition was ranked runner-up and awarded with the HLI and Genecloud Award.
Teaching
For a list of advised theses, see the list below. You may send me a message if you are interested in writing a thesis with me. For a list of (other) teaching activities I was involved in, please take a look at my personal website.
Professional Service
See also Publons.
Program Committee Member
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Student PC, 2020), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Poster Jury, 2020)
Reviewer for Conferences
CSAE (2020), HICSS (2021), MobiQuitous (2020), PETS (2020.3, 2020.4, 2021.2, 2021.3)
Reviewer for Journals
Computer (2020), Computers & Security (2021), International Journal of Information Management (2018), Journal of Information Security and Applications (2020, 2021), Pervasive and Mobile Computing (2019)
Supervisor for UROP Intern
Recognizing Websites in Tor with Machine Learning (2019)
Publications
See also Google Scholar and DBLP.
2021 | |
| 35. |
Proceedings of the 19th Symposium for Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW '21), September 13-17, 2021, Dresden, Germany, page 371-395.
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik,
September
2021
DOI: 10.18420/btw2021-20
ISBN: 978-3-88579-705-0
accepted
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| 34. |
Proceedings of the 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '21), June 6-10, 2021, Heraklion, Greece
Publisher: Springer,
June
2021
accepted
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| 33. |
Information Processing & Management,
58(3)
May
2021
ISSN: 0306-4573
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| 32. |
Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SaT-CPS '21), co-located with the 11th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '21), April 26-28, 2021, Virtual Event, USA
Publisher: ACM,
April
2021
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8319-6/21/04
accepted
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| 31. |
CoinPrune: Shrinking Bitcoin's Blockchain Retrospectively
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,
2021
ISSN: 1932-4537
accepted
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2020 | |
| 30. |
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC '20), December 15, 2020, Virtual Event, page 31-44.
Publisher: HomomorphicEncryption.org,
December
2020
DOI: 10.25835/0072999
ISBN: 978-3-00-067798-4
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| 29. |
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '20), December 7-11, 2020, Austin, TX, USA, page 510-525.
Publisher: ACM,
December
2020
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8858-0/20/12
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| 28. |
Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '20), November 9-13, 2020, Orlando, FL, USA, page 1971-1985.
Publisher: ACM,
November
2020
ISBN: 978-1-4503-7089-9/20/11
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| 27. |
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW '20), co-located with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC '20), November 1-6, 2020, Athens, Greece, Volume 2821, page 53-58.
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
November
2020
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| 26. |
Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '20), October 27-29, 2020, Virtual Event, USA, page 101-110.
Publisher: ACM,
October
2020
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8138-3/20/10
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| 25. |
Utilizing Public Blockchains for the Sybil-Resistant Bootstrapping of Distributed Anonymity Services
Proceedings of the 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '20), October 5-9, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, page 531-542.
Publisher: ACM,
October
2020
ISBN: 978-1-4503-6750-9/20/10
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| 24. |
September
2020
submitted
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| 23. |
Procedia Manufacturing,
49:61-68
July
2020
ISSN: 2351-9789
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| 22. |
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec '20), co-located with the 8th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS '20), June 29-July 1, 2020, Avignon, France
Publisher: IEEE,
July
2020
ISBN: 978-1-7281-4760-4
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| 21. |
Proceedings of the 14th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering (ICME '20), July 14-17, 2020, Gulf of Naples, Italy
Publisher: Elsevier,
July
2020
accepted
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| 20. |
Proceedings of the 19th IFIP Networking 2020 Conference (NETWORKING '20), June 22-26, 2020, Paris, France, page 298-306.
Publisher: IEEE,
June
2020
ISBN: 978-3-903176-28-7
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| 19. |
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops '20), 1st Workshop on Blockchain for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems (BIoTCPS '20), June 7-11, 2020, Dublin, Ireland
Publisher: IEEE,
June
2020
ISBN: 978-1-7281-7440-2
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| 18. |
IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
7(4):3243-3253
April
2020
ISSN: 2327-4662
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| 17. |
Proceedings of the 1st ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec '20), April 2-3, 2020, Tübingen, Germany
Publisher: University of Tübingen,
April
2020
|
| 16. |
Advanced Structured Materials,
125:101-118
April
2020
ISSN: 1869-8433
ISBN: 978-981-15-2956-6
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| 15. |
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN '20), January 7-10, 2020, Barcelona, Spain, page 529-534.
Publisher: IEEE,
January
2020
ISBN: 978-1-7281-4199-2
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2019 | |
| 14. |
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Internet of Things (GCIoT '19), December 4–7, 2019, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Publisher: IEEE,
December
2019
ISBN: 978-1-7281-4873-1
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| 13. |
Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '19), November 11-15, 2019, London, United Kingdom, page 2533-2535.
Publisher: ACM,
November
2019
ISBN: 978-1-4503-6747-9/19/11
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| 12. |
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and PrivaCy (CPS-SPC '19), co-located with the 26th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '19), November 11-15, 2019, London, United Kingdom, page 27-38.
Publisher: ACM,
November
2019
ISBN: 978-1-4503-6831-5/19/11
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| 11. |
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '19), October 7-10, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA
Publisher: IEEE,
October
2019
ISBN: 978-1-7281-2700-2
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| 10. |
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '19) - Poster Session, October 7-10, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA
Publisher: IEEE,
October
2019
ISBN: 978-1-7281-2700-2
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| 9. |
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '19) - Poster Session, October 7-10, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA
Publisher: IEEE,
October
2019
ISBN: 978-1-7281-2700-2
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| 8. |
Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW '19 Companion), 4th Workshop on Computational Methods in Online Misbehavior (CyberSafety '19), May 13–17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, page 197-205.
Publisher: ACM,
May
2019
ISBN: 978-1-4503-6675-5/19/05
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| 7. |
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS '19), May 6-9, 2019, Taipei, TW, page 31-37.
Publisher: IEEE,
May
2019
ISBN: 978-1-5386-8500-6/19
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2018 | |
| 6. |
Uncovering Doppelgängers in Online Communities
Master Thesis
Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
February
2018
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2017 | |
| 5. |
Pervasive and Mobile Computing,
42:58-76
December
2017
ISSN: 1574-1192
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| 4. |
Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous '17), November 7-10, 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, page 262-271.
Publisher: ACM,
November
2017
ISBN: 978-1-4503-5368-7
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| 3. |
BMC Medical Genomics,
10(Suppl 2):29-42
July
2017
ISSN: 1755-8794
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2016 | |
| 2. |
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '16), February 21-24, 2016, San Diego, CA, USA
Publisher: Internet Society,
February
2016
ISBN: 1-891562-41-X
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2014 | |
| 1. |
Evaluating Website Fingerprinting Attacks in Real-World Settings
Bachelor Thesis
Communication and Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
August
2014
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Advised Theses
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Integrity and Authenticity in Distributed Information Systems
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Reliable Data Immutability in an Internet of Production
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Web-Based Privacy-Preserving Comparison of KPIs
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2020
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Privacy-Preserving Company Benchmarking
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2020
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Performance and Security Implications of PeerFlow — Distributed Load Balancing in Tor
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, August 2020
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Privacy-Preserving Exchange of Process Parameters
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2020
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
Berthold Vöcking Master Award in 2020 & FOLKS Award for the best Master's thesis in 2020
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A Distributed Data Revisioning System for the Internet of Production
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2020
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Privacy and Transparency in Digital Supply Chains
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2020
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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A tailored Communication Infrastructure for the Construction Site of Tomorrow
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2019
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Path Splitting for Tor — A Countermeasure against Fingerprinting Attacks
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2019
KuVS prize for best Bachelor's thesis in 2019
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Online integration of industrial IOT data into custom OPC UA information models
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2019
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Exploiting User Sessions for Website Fingerprinting
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2019
FOLKS Award for the best Bachelor's thesis in 2019
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Anonymity for the Tiny: Realizing Tor for the Internet of Things
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2018
FOLKS Award for the best Master's thesis in 2018
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