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. Besides, I am interested in all kinds of research methodology (in computer science). 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 in part time. I am a member 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. The corresponding artifacts were selected as a finalist for the Artifacts Competition and Impact Award at ACSAC 2022.
Awards
Recently, my team and I received the "Young Researcher Award 2022" of the Cluster of Excellence "Internet of Production" for our interdisciplinary research. In 2021, the profile area of information and communication technology awarded me with the "ICT Young Researcher Award". Besides, I received stipends to attend RWC 2020 and ACSAC 2022. 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. 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 Web of Science.
Program Committee Member
International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (2023), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Student PC, 2020), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Poster Jury, 2020), The ACM Web Conference (2024)
Reviewer for Conferences
CITA (2021), CSAE (2020, 2021), EuroS&P (2022), FEBM (2021), HICSS (2021, 2022, 2023), MobiQuitous (2020), PETS (2020.3, 2020.4, 2021.2, 2021.3, 2022.2)
Reviewer for Journals
applied sciences (2023), Blockchain: Research and Applications (2022), Computer (2020), Computer Communications (2022, 2023), Computers in Industry (2022, 2023), Computers & Security (2021, 2022, 2023), Expert Systems with Applications (2022), Future Generation Computer Systems (2022, 2023), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2022, 2023), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2022), International Journal of Information Management (2018), International Journal of Information Security (2023), International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (2022), Internet of Things (2022), Journal of Big Data (2023), Journal of Information Security and Applications (2020, 2021, 2023), machines (2022), Pervasive and Mobile Computing (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023), Security and Communication Networks (2023), sensors (2021, 2022), SoftwareX (2022), sustainability (2022), systems (2022), Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (2021)
Young Researcher Supervision
Development of a Privacy-preserving Infection Risk Assessment Protocol (2021, Co-supervisor as part of a Mitacs Globalink Research Award), Ensemble Learning to the Rescue: Improving Machine Learning-based Industrial Intrusion Detection (2022, Speed Fund Project in RWTH's ICT Profile Area), Recognizing Websites in Tor with Machine Learning (2019, Supervisor for UROP Intern)
Publications
See also Google Scholar and DBLP.
2024 | |
| 59. |
ACM Computing Surveys,
56(2)
February
2024
ISSN: 0360-0300
DOI: 10.1145/3606693
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2023 | |
| 58. |
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’23), November 26-30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
Publisher: ACM,
November
2023
ISBN: 979-8-4007-0050-7/23/11
Accepted
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| 57. |
Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS '23), September 25-29, 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands
Publisher: Springer,
September
2023
Accepted
|
| 56. |
Proceedings of the 21th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN '23), July 17-20, 2023, Lemgo, Germany
Publisher: IEEE,
July
2023
ISBN: 978-1-6654-9313-0
|
| 55. |
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE '23), June 12-16, 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, page 489-505.
Publisher: Springer,
June
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-34559-3
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| 54. |
Internet of Production: Fundamentals, Applications and Proceedings
Publisher: Springer,
February
2023
ISBN: 978-3-030-98062-7
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| 53. |
Internet of Production: Fundamentals, Applications and Proceedings
Publisher: Springer,
February
2023
ISBN: 978-3-030-98062-7
|
| 52. |
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
2023
ISSN: 1533-5399
DOI: 10.1145/3599968
Accepted
|
| 51. |
Tool: Automatically Extracting Hardware Descriptions from PDF Technical Documentation
Journal of Systems Research,
2023
ISSN: 2770-5501
Accepted
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2022 | |
| 50. |
38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '22), December 5-9, 2022, Austin, TX, USA
Publisher: RWTH Aachen University,
December
2022
|
| 49. |
Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition and Impact Award at 38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '22), December 5-9, 2022, Austin, TX, USA
Publisher: ACSA,
December
2022
|
| 48. |
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Ecosystems (DEco '22), co-located with the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '22), September 5-9, 2022, Sydney, Australia, Volume 3306, page 51-63.
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
September
2022
|
| 47. |
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '22), May 30-June 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan, page 252-266.
Publisher: ACM,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-4503-9140-5/22/05
|
| 46. |
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS '22), co-located with the 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS '22), May 30-June 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan, page 73-84.
Publisher: ACM,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-4503-9176-4/22/05
|
| 45. |
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC '22), May 2-5, 2022, Shanghai, China
Publisher: IEEE,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-6654-9538-7/22
|
| 44. |
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC '22), May 2-5, 2022, Shanghai, China
Publisher: IEEE,
May
2022
ISBN: 978-1-6654-9538-7/22
|
| 43. |
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things,
3(2)
May
2022
ISSN: 2691-1914
DOI: 10.1145/3502265
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2021 | |
| 42. |
Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER '20), co-located with the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '20), December 7-11, 2020, Austin, TX, USA
Publisher: ACSA,
December
2021
ISBN: 978-1-891562-81-5
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| 41. |
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM '21), December 13-16, 2021, Singapore, Singapore, page 739-744.
Publisher: IEEE,
December
2021
ISBN: 978-1-6654-3771-4
|
| 40. |
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '21), November 15-19, 2021, Seoul, Korea, page 2411-2413.
Publisher: ACM,
November
2021
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8454-4/21/11
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| 39. |
Blitz Talk at the 2021 Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW '21), co-located with the 28th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '21), November 15-19, 2021, Seoul, Korea
Publisher: RWTH Aachen University,
November
2021
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| 38. |
ACM Transactions on the Web,
15(4)
November
2021
ISSN: 1559-1131
DOI: 10.1145/3466722
|
| 37. |
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys '21), September 13-16, 2021, Lübeck, Germany
Publisher: TU Berlin,
September
2021
|
| 36. |
Automation,
2(3):202-219
September
2021
ISSN: 2673-4052
|
| 35. |
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,
18(3):3064-3078
September
2021
ISSN: 1932-4537
|
| 34. |
ERCIM News,
126:24-25
July
2021
ISSN: 0926-4981
|
| 33. |
Proceedings of the 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '21), June 6-10, 2021, Heraklion, Greece Volume 12731, page 265-283.
Publisher: Springer,
June
2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-77384-7
|
| 32. |
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,
May
2021
DOI: 10.18420/btw2021-20
ISBN: 978-3-88579-705-0
|
| 31. |
Procedia CIRP,
99:448-453
May
2021
ISSN: 2212-8271
|
| 30. |
Information Processing & Management,
58(3)
May
2021
ISSN: 0306-4573
|
| 29. |
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, page 78–87.
Publisher: ACM,
April
2021
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8319-6/21/04
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2020 | |
| 28. |
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
|
| 27. |
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
|
| 26. |
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
|
| 25. |
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
|
| 24. |
Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '20), October 27-29, 2020, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, page 101-110.
Publisher: ACM,
October
2020
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8138-3/20/10
|
| 23. |
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
|
| 22. |
Procedia Manufacturing,
49:61-68
July
2020
ISSN: 2351-9789
|
| 21. |
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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 18. |
IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
7(4):3243-3253
April
2020
ISSN: 2327-4662
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 10. |
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
|
| 9. |
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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
2017 | |
| 5. |
Pervasive and Mobile Computing,
42:58-76
December
2017
ISSN: 1574-1192
|
| 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
|
| 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: 978-1-891562-41-9
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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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Systematically Exploring the Fusibility of State-of-the-Art Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2023
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Detecting Sensor Anomalies in Supply Chains Using Semantic Checks
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2022
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Applying Trusted Execution for Privacy-Preserving Company Benchmarking
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2022
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
FOLKS Award for the best Bachelor's theses in 2022
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Holistic Data Extraction From Technical Documentation For Generating Embedded Software
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2022
|
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Implementing FAIR Principles for Long-term Sensor Data Storage in the Internet of Production
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2022
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Analysis of Existing Concepts to Evaluate 5G Technology Implementation for Latency-Critical Applications in Production
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2021
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Improving Privacy-Preserving Company Benchmarking with Modern FHE Schemes
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Integrative Process & Data Management for Safety-critical Industries
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Enhancing Supply Chain Management with Trustworthy and Reliable Sensor Data
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, August 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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Incident Reporting and Security in Smart Supply Chains
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
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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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Two-way Privacy For Purchase Inquiries in Industry
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, January 2021
Research within the Internet of Production (IoP)
FOLKS Award for the best Master's thesis in 2021 & Finalist of the eurobits Excellence Award 2021
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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 & Finalist of the eurobits Excellence Award 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)
Young Researcher Award 2021 of the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD)
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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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