Research Interests

• (Explainable) security in distributed systems
• Softwarearchitecture and -modelling
• Software qualities (Focus: Longevity and Sustainability)

Topics for Theses

The following list provides an approximate basis for possible thesis topics.
Related topics are also possible.

Cybersecurity

• Penetration Testing
• Spam and Phishing Detection
• Malware Obfuscation and Detection
• Usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Cybersecurity
• (Cyber)security in distributed systems

Longevity & Sustainability

• Software Qualities
• Longevity in Software Development

Supervised Theses

	Degree	Title
01/2025	Bachelor	Fuzzing-Based Penetration Testing of Application Layer Protocols

Research-related Activities

Organizer

• International Workshop on Longevity in Internet of Things Systems
  • LongevIoT 2024 (co-located with ACM IoT 2024 in Oulu, Finland)
• International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing
  • PerFail 2025 (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2025 in Washington DC, USA)
  • PerFail 2024 (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2024 in Biarritz, France)

Web Chair

• The 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things (ACM IoT 2024)

Volunteering

• Appointment Committee “Verification of Complex Systems”
• Student Volunteer at IEEE ISMAR 2024
• Student Volunteer at IEEE PerCom 2022

Videos of Presentations

• ICDF2C 2024

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Talks

• Investigating the Effectiveness of Bayesian Spam Filters in Detecting LLM-modified Spam Mails, ICDF2C 2024 - International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (Dubrovnik, Croatia), Oktober 10, 2024
• LLMs as a Cyber Threat, FoMSESS 2024 Annual Meeting (Karlsruhe, Germany) , Oktober 7, 2024

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Projects

• AR-InGo - Augmented Reality for the Faculty of Engineering
• Boarding – Automated Attendance Checks at the University
• EIN Quantum NRW

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Publications (3)

2024 (1)

• Josten, Malte and Weis, Torben
  Investigating the Effectiveness of Bayesian Spam Filters in Detecting LLM-modified Spam Mails
  In: 15th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C 2024)
  DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.14293

2023 (2)

• Becks, Eileen and Josten, Malte and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
  Revising Poor Man's Eye Tracker For Crowd-Sourced Studies
  In: 21st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2023)
  DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150386
• Becks, Eileen and Josten, Malte and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
  Artifact: Revising Poor Man's Eye Tracker For Crowd-Sourced Studies
  In: 21st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2023)
  DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150307