Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck

Contact

Email	k.rieck@tu-bs.de (PGP key)
Telephone	+49 531 391-55120
Fax	+49 531 391-55130
Room	116
Address	Technische Universität Braunschweig Institute of System Security Rebenring 56 38106 Braunschweig, Germany

About me

I am a Professor of Computer Science at TU Braunschweig. Since 2016 I am leading the Institute of System Security. Prior to taking this position, 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 vulnerabilities in software. 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 distant academic relative of David Hilbert and Carl Friedrich Gauß. See here.

Recent Publications

Static Program Analysis as a Fuzzing Aid.
Bhargava Shastry, Markus Leutner, Tobias Fiebig, Kashyap Thimmaraju, Fabian Yamaguchi, Konrad Rieck, Stefan Schmid, Jean-Pierre Seifert and Anja Feldmann.
Proc. of 20th Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID), to appear September 2017.

Privacy Threats through Ultrasonic Side Channels on Mobile Devices.
Daniel Arp, Erwin Quiring, Christian Wressnegger and Konrad Rieck.
Proc. of 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), April 2017.

Efficient and Flexible Discovery of PHP Application Vulnerabilities.
Michael Backes, Konrad Rieck, Malte Skoruppa, Ben Stock and Fabian Yamaguchi.
Proc. of 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), April 2017.

Automatically Inferring Malware Signatures for Anti-Virus Assisted Attacks.
Christian Wressnegger, Kevin Freeman, Fabian Yamaguchi and Konrad Rieck.
Proc. of 12th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), 587–598, April 2017.

A complete list of my publications is available here.

Awards

• CAST/GI Dissertation Award IT-Security 2010
• ACSAC Outstanding Paper Award 2012
• Google Faculty Research Award 2014
• RAID Outstanding Reviewer Award 2015
• DIMVA Best Paper Award 2016
• German Prize for IT-Security 2016 (2nd Place)

Academic Memberships

• Editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
• Guest editor of the special issue "Vulnerability Analysis" in Information Technology
• Guest editor of the special issue "Threat Detection, Analysis and Defense" in JISA
• Steering committee of the GI SIG Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR)
• Steering committee of the International Conference DIMVA
• Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e.V. (FIfF)

Conference and Workshop Organization

• Program chair: Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware (DIMVA'13)
• General chair: European Conference on Computer Network Defense (EC2ND'10)
• Local organization: GI Graduate Workshop on Reactive Security (SPRING'06)

Recent PC Memberships

• 2018: ICDCS; ASIACCS; SAC;
• 2017: ACSAC; DIMVA; ASIACCS; SAC; AISEC; EUROSEC; LASER; ROOTS;
• 2016: CCS; ACSAC; RAID; EUROS&P; DIMVA; SAC; SEC; AISEC; EUROSEC;
• 2015: CCS; ACSAC; RAID; DIMVA; WWW; ESSOS; SEC; AISEC; EUROSEC;
• 2014: CCS; RAID; DIMVA; EUC; ARES; AISEC; EUROSEC; ECRIME; LSP;
• 2013: DIMVA; ARES; PST; AISEC; MLOSS;

A complete list of my community services is available here.

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Influential Security Papers

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Whenever Possible

I am a member of "Verband der krawattenlosen Wissensträger" (VDKW)