About Me

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Employment

Current: Group Lead Secure Software Engineering Group at DLR Institute of Data Science.
Research in automated threat modeling, vulnerability detection and intelligent monitoring.
Group strategy, grant applications, PhD student supervision.; Lecturer Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at FSU Jena.
Secure software engineering lecture in summer terms.; Freelancer
Training in software security methods.
Software archeology / reverse engineering projects.

2023-2024: Acting Department Lead Data Acquisition and Mobilization at DLR Institute of Data Science.
Deputy position during maternity leave. Responsible for research area “secure software engineering and data availability”
2022-2024: Acting Group Lead Secure Software Engineering Group at DLR Institute of Data Science.
Research in vulnerability detection and other security-related software engineering applications of ML.
Group strategy, grant applications, PhD student supervision.
2017-2021: Research Associate Computer Vision Group at FSU Jena.
Research in lifelong learning and semantic knowledge integration.
Teaching.

2022: PhD in Computer Science at FSU Jena.
Thesis: Semantic Knowledge Integration for Learning from Semantically Imprecise Data. Supervisors: Joachim Denzler and Björn Barz.
2017: Master of Science in Computational and Data Science at FSU Jena.
Thesis: Incremental Learning of the Object Detection System YOLO.
Supervisor: Christoph Käding.
2014: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at FSU Jena.
Thesis: Semantic Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Networks for Automatic Road Segmentation.
Supervisors: Sven Sickert, Marcel Simon and Erik Rodner.

I’ve reviewed for the following publications / events. See my publons profile for further information.

IEEE:
- Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)
- Access
Elsevier:
- Pattern Recognition
- Global Ecology and Conservation (GECCO)
- Engineering Failure Analysis
Wiley:
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Springer:
- Machine Vision and Applications

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
USENIX Security Symposium AE
Research Software Engineering (RSECon)
ACCV Workshop on Advanced Machine Vision for Real-life and Industrially Relevant Applications (AMV)
ICMLA Workshop on Advanced Machine Vision for Real-life and Industrially Relevant Applications (AMV)

I’ve been a session chair at the following events: