Updates

Sep 30, 2026 After many years at the Institute of Distributed Systems at Ulm University, I have officially left my position in academia. I am deeply grateful for the collaborations, insightful research, and great memories with colleagues. I look forward to starting my next chapter in industry.
Apr 15, 2026 Additional publications related to the Trust Assessment Framework concepts have been accepted: Improving Misbehaviour Detection Through Infrastructure Support Without Raising Complexity (IEEE VTC2026-Spring), VeReMi NextGen: A Dataset for Evaluating Misbehavior Detection Systems in VANETs (IEEE VNC 2026), and Disbelief-Favouring Trust Discounting for Adversarial Multi-Hop Trust Assessment using Subjective Logic (FUSION 2026).
Oct 01, 2025 The Horizon Europe CONNECT project was successfully completed. Relevant source code artifacts have been released as open source at github.com/horizon-connect-eu. This includes the Trust Assessment Framework (TAF) prototype, for which I served as lead architect. Latest versions of the TAF can be found here at github.com/vs-uulm/go-taf.
Sep 15, 2025 Several new publications on our ongoing work on the Trust Assessment Framework concepts have been accepted and published: Quantification Methods for Trust in Cooperative Driving (IEEE VNC 2025), Demo: Quantifying Trust in a Trust Assessment Framework (IEEE VNC 2025), Vehicle-to-Everything Trust: Enabling Autonomous Trust Assessment of V2X Data by Vehicles (ACM CSCS 2025), and Hyperparameter Optimization-Based Trust Quantification for Misbehavior Detection Systems. (IEEE ITSC 2025).
Nov 08, 2024 Our paper on PrePaMS – a privacy-preserving participant management system for studies – has been accepted for the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2025.1.
Jun 20, 2022 I have been invited as a guest lecturer for the Reykjavík Summer School on Secure and Reliable Distributed Systems 2022 and gave a talk on Reliable Online Event Processing with Event Sourcing.
Apr 28, 2022 I have been awarded internal research start-up funding from Ulm University as part of the ProTrainU program for my work on privacy-enhanced empirical research platforms.
Jan 17, 2022 New personal website online.