I am a Professor of Computer Science at TU Berlin, where I head the Chair of Machine Learning and Security within the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data. Previously, I have been working at TU Braunschweig, University of Göttingen, and Fraunhofer Institute FIRST. Additionally, I have been a Guest Professor at TU Wien in 2024.
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. Moreover, we explore the security and privacy of learning algorithms. 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.
LLM-based Vulnerability Discovery through the Lens of Code Metrics.
48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2026. (to appear)
Manipulating Feature Visualizations with Gradient Slingshots.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 39 (NeurIPS), 2025. (to appear)
Adversarial Observations in Weather Forecasting.
32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025.
Distinguished Paper Award
Seeing through: Analyzing and Attacking Virtual Backgrounds in Video Calls.
34th USENIX Security Symposium, 2025.
Adversarial Inputs for Linear Algebra Backends.
42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
See all publications.
For fun, I am tracking my reviewing and email activity. Here are two plots showing my reviewing activity over the last years. As you can see, I am writing a lot of reviews per year. Most of the time, this is fun.
Similarly, here are two plots showing the number of incoming and outgoing emails on my university account over the last two weeks. The average and standard deviation are calculated over several years (see week number in legend).
I am a member of "Verband der krawattenlosen Wissensträger" (VDKW)