I am a Professor of Computer Science at TU Braunschweig where I head the Institute of System Security. From 2019 to 2021, I have been the Dean of Studies for Computer Science. Previously, I have been working at the University of Göttingen, Technische Universität Berlin, and Fraunhofer Institute FIRST.
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. 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.
Dos and Don'ts of Machine Learning in Computer Security.
Daniel Arp, Erwin Quiring, Feargus Pendlebury, Alexander Warnecke, Fabio Pierazzi, Christian Wressnegger, Lorenzo Cavallaro and Konrad Rieck.
Proc. of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, August 2022.
Distinguished Paper Award
Misleading Deep-Fake Detection with GAN Fingerprints.
Vera Wesselkamp, Konrad Rieck, Daniel Arp and Erwin Quiring.
Proc. of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Deep Learning and Security (DLS),
May 2022.
LaserShark: Establishing Fast, Bidirectional Communication into Air-Gapped Systems.
Niclas Kühnapfel, Stefan Preußler, Maximilian Noppel, Thomas Schneider, Konrad Rieck and Christian Wressnegger.
Proc. of the 37th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2021.
Explaining Graph Neural Networks for Vulnerability Discovery.
Tom Ganz, Martin Härterich, Alexander Warnecke and Konrad Rieck.
Proc. of the 14th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISEC), November 2021.
Best Paper Award
LogPicker: Strengthening Certificate Transparency Against Covert Adversaries.
Alexandra Dirksen, David Klein, Robert Michael, Tilman Stehr, Konrad Rieck and Martin Johns.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), July 2021.
A complete list of my publications is available here.
A complete list of my academic services is available here.
Here are two plots showing my reviewing activity. As you can see, I am writing a lot of reviews per year. Most of the time, this is fun.
I am also tracking my email activity. Here are two plots showing the number of incoming and outgoing emails over the last two weeks.
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)