IT Security Engineering

Forschende und Studierende, die an Security Analytics, sicheren Identitäten, Cyber Defence und Sicherheitsbildung arbeiten.

LEITUNG

Dr. rer. nat. Feng Cheng

Senior Researcher · Head of the Security Engineering · Chair Representative

feng.cheng@hpi.de

+49 (0)331 5509-519

O1-E.07 · HPI Campus II

Heads the IT Security Engineering team and represents the Chair of Internet Technologies and Systems.

Schwerpunkte

Data-driven security engineering, Security analytics, Network and multi-cloud security, Attack modelling and penetration testing

ASSISTENZ

Katrin Heinrich

Kontakt

office-cheng@hpi.de
+49 (0)331 5509-222
O1-E.04 · HPI Campus II

AKTUELLE MITGLIEDER

Dr.-Ing. Pejman Najafi

Postdoc

Schwerpunkte

Cybersecurity, Graph analytics for cybersecurity, Big-data architectures and analytics for cybersecurity

Kontakt

O1-E.06 · HPI Campus II

Mehryar Majd, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Research assistant

Schwerpunkte

Web-log anomaly detection in security operations centres, Cloud workload prediction, LLM security

Kontakt

O1.E-04 · HPI Campus II

Farzad Motlagh, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Research assistant

Schwerpunkte

AI Security, LLM Security, Prompt Injection

Kontakt

O1.E-06 · HPI Campus II

Dominic Schaa, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Research assistant · Sec-Eng Lab Admin

Schwerpunkte

Security Architecture, Agentic SOC, Advanced Analytics

Kontakt

O1.E-06 · HPI Campus II

Hendrik Graupner, M.Sc.

Externe Promotion · Bundesdruckerei

Schwerpunkte

Resource-Level and Identity-Level Authentication for Confidential Access to Online Data

Kontakt

O1.E-04 · HPI Campus II

Laurenz Gilbert, B.Sc.

Studentische Hilfskraft

Schwerpunkte

Threat Intelligence, AI Assisted Vulnerability Management, AI Incidents Analysis

Kontakt

O1.E-06 · HPI Campus II

Fenris Heidemann, B.Sc.

Masterarbeit

Ongoing thesis: Composed Adversarial Strategies Against Frontier Large Reasoning Models.

Schwerpunkte

Adversarial strategies, Large reasoning models

Kontakt

O1.E-06 · HPI Campus II

Julian Fuchs, B.Sc.

Masterarbeit

Ongoing thesis: AI-Native Threat Intelligence Management and Serving.

Schwerpunkte

Threat intelligence, AI-native systems

Kontakt

O1.E-04 · HPI Campus II

Weitere Doktorand*innen

Hong Guo, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Ongoing · MML

Schwerpunkte

Efficient Low-Bit CUTLASS GEMM Optimization, Base Model Reasoning Sharpening

Kontakt

O1.E-04 · HPI Campus II

Jona Otholt, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Ongoing · MML

Schwerpunkte

Generalized Category Discovery,

Kontakt

O1.E-04 · HPI Campus II

Dr. Max Thomas (Dipl. Chem.)

Doktorand*in · Ongoing · openHPI

Schwerpunkte

Automatic Determination of Skills and Topics in MOOCs, Recommendation Services for Learners

Kontakt

O1.E-04 · HPI Campus II

Sebastian Serth, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Thesis submitted · openHPI

Schwerpunkte

Scaling Programming Education in Massive Open Online Courses

Zuhra Sofyan, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Thesis submitted · openHPI

Schwerpunkte

Learning Analytics in MOOCs, Behavioral Patterns, and Learner Engagement

Theresa Lemm, M.Sc.

Doktorand*in · Thesis submitted · openHPI

Schwerpunkte

Empowering MOOC Learners: Integrating Learning Assistants for Effective Support in Digital Learning Environments

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Promovierte Alumni (15)

Name	Abschluss	Jetzt bei	Arbeit
Dr.-Ing. Eric Klieme	March 2025	50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Berlin	Securing Cyber and Physical Assets: Enhancing the Behavioral Authentication Landscape
Dr.-Ing. Alexander Mühle	November 2024	Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building, Berlin	Decoding Control: An Exploration of Self-Sovereign Identity
Dr. Daniel Köhler	November 2024	Tanium, Berlin	Scalable Online Education to Enhance Phishing Awareness among the General Population
Dr. Seyed Ali Alhosseini	November 2023	Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin	Classification, Prediction and Evaluation of Graph Neural Networks on Online Social Media Platforms
Dr.-Ing. Pejman Najafi	September 2023	PostDoc@Sec-Eng	Leveraging Data Science & Engineering for Advanced Security Operations
Dr. Andreas Grüner	October 2022	Atruvia AG, Frankfurt am Main	Towards Practical and Trust-Enhancing Attribute Aggregation for Self-Sovereign Identity
Dr. Muhammad Sukmana	March 2022	PPI AG, Hamburg	Security Improvements for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing Systems
Dr. Aragats Amirkhanyan	December 2019	Yara International, Berlin	Methods and Frameworks for GeoSpatioTemporal Data Analytics
Dr. Konrad-Felix Krentz	November 2019	Siemens, Erlangen	A Denial-of-Sleep-Resilient Medium Access Control Layer for IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
Dr.-Ing. David Jaeger	September 2019	Airbus Defence and Space, Munich	Enabling Big Data Security Analytics for Advanced Network Attack Detection
Dr.-Ing. Marian Gawron	March 2019	DB Systel GmbH, Berlin	Towards Automated Advanced Vulnerability Analysis
Dr. Andrey Sapegin	March 2019	Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, Berlin	High-Speed Security Log Analytics Using Hybrid Outlier Detection
Dr.-Ing. Martin Ussath	May 2018	Materna SE, Dortmund	Analytical Approaches for Advanced Attacks
Dr. Amir Azodi	April 2016	DSGV, Berlin	Towards Real-time SIEM Based Network Monitoring and Intrusion Detection Through Advanced Event Normalization
Dr. Sebastian Roschke	May 2012	Snap Inc., California	Towards High Quality Security Event Correlation Using In-Memory and Multi-Core Processing

Abgeschlossene Master- oder Diplomarbeiten (21)

Name	Abschluss	Arbeit	Art
Moritz Moser	May 2026	Automating Compliance Requirement Mapping: A Multi-Stage, Audit-Oriented Pipeline	Master thesis
Emirkan Toplu	April 2026	Security Monitoring and Operations in Modern Vehicle Systems	Master thesis
Mohamed Budagow	September 2025	RedOps: An Integrated Platform for Red Team Exercises	Master thesis
Dominic Schaa	June 2025	Enable Advanced Analytics for Security Information and Event Management Systems: AA4SIEM	Master thesis
Lieven Leue	March 2025	Covert Channels and Micro-Protocols in Botnets	Master thesis
Lars Prepens	March 2025	Fuzzing Apache: Improving Code Coverage and Bug Detection	Master thesis
Jonas Schmitz	August 2024	Towards Data-driven Detection for Command and Control Traffic	Master thesis
Till Nowakowski	September 2023	Predicting Privilege Necessity to Mitigate Lateral Movement Attacks in an Active Directory	Master thesis
Lukas Ehrmann	November 2022	Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks Based on a Graph Neural Network	Master thesis
Leonard Marschke	October 2022	On the Feasibility of Integrating OpenID Connect into Open-source Desktop Environments	Master thesis
Wenzel Pünter	February 2022	Towards Mining Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence from Process Behaviour Graphs	Master thesis
Kaja Schmidt	January 2022	Mitigating Sovereign Data Exchange Challenges: A Conceptual Framework to Apply Privacy- and Trust-Enhancing Technologies	Master thesis
Volker Schiewe	January 2020	Identity Recovery in Decentralised Systems	Master thesis
Balthasar Martin	February 2019	Evaluating the Security of Cloud-based Remote Access for the Internet of Things	Master thesis
Daniel Stelter-Gliese	December 2016	User-centric Realtime Embedded Web Application Firewalls	Master thesis
Marian Gawron	September 2013	Vulnerability Modeling and Analytics: HPI-VDB	Master thesis
David Jaeger	August 2012	Monitoring in Scenario-based Security Experiments	Master thesis
Robert Schuppenies	March 2009	Automatic Extraction of Vulnerability Information for Attack Graphs	Master thesis
Sebastian Roschke	November 2008	IDS Management on Lock-Keeper	Master thesis
Michael Menzel	August 2006	Securing Web Services Using Lock-Keeper	Diploma thesis
Christian Liesegang	August 2006	A Network Security Measurement Framework	Master thesis

Ehemalige Teammitglieder (26)

Name	Rolle	Zeitraum
Chris Pelchen, M.Sc.	Research assistant	April 2016–February 2022
Christian Tietz, M.Sc.	Research assistant	July 2015–June 2020
Kennedy Torkura, M.Sc.	Research assistant	October 2013–October 2019
Tatiana Gayvoronskaya	Research assistant	February 2016–July 2019
Leonard Marschke	Working student	September 2019–March 2023
Mirko Krause	Working student	October 2018–March 2019
Marcus Konrad	Student assistant	January–December 2015
Daniel Stelter-Gliese	Working student	April 2012–July 2015
Willi Gierke	Student assistant	January–July 2015
Carl Ambroselli	Student assistant	February–December 2014
Marian Gawron	Student assistant	April 2012–September 2013
Richard Meissner	Student assistant	October 2010–July 2013
Florian Westphal	Student assistant	September 2010–April 2013
David Jaeger	Student assistant	July 2009–July 2012
Hubert Hesse	Student assistant	April–July 2012
Bjoern Groneberg	Student assistant	September 2010–June 2011
Thanh Dien Tran	Student assistant	November 2008–September 2009
Robert Schuppenies	Student assistant · Google	January 2007–March 2009
Ge Zhang	Intern · Google	October 2007–May 2008
Sebastian Roschke	Student assistant	April 2007–October 2008
Johannes Harungguan	Visiting researcher · November 2012–January 2013	Indonesia
Dr. Yong Zhang	Visiting researcher · June–September 2011	China
Piotr Szymanski	Visiting student · February–September 2010	Poland
Dr. Lijuan Duan	Visiting researcher · June–September 2009	China
Dr. Lichun Wang	Visiting researcher · June–July 2009	China
Alberto Diniz Bueno Filho	Visiting student · July–September 2004	Brazil