Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck
Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck
Research Group Lead
Konrad Rieck is a professor at TU Berlin, where he leads the Chair of Machine Learning and Security as part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). Previously, he held academic positions at TU Braunschweig, the University of Göttingen, and Fraunhofer Institute FIRST. His research focuses on the intersection of computer security and machine learning. He has published over 100 papers in this area and serves on the PCs of the top security conferences (aka the system security circus).
Recent Project
- ERC Consolidator Grant: "MALFOY: Machine Learning for Offensive Computer Security"
- Excellence Cluster CASA: "TELLY: Testing the Limits of Machine Learning in Vulnerability Discovery
- Excellent Cluster CASA: "PACO: Analysis and Discovery of Parser-Confusion Vulnerabilities"
- DFG Project: "ALISON: Attacks against Machine Learning in Structured Domains"
- USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award 2022
- ERC Consolidator Grant 2021
- AISEC Best Paper Award 2021
- Winner of Microsoft MLSEC competition 2020
- LehrLeo: Best Lecture at TU Braunschweig 2019
- LehrLeo: Best Lab Course at TU Braunschweig 2019
- German Prize for IT-Security 2016 (2nd Place)
- DIMVA Best Paper Award 2016
- Google Faculty Research Award 2014
- ACSAC Outstanding Paper Award 2012
- CAST/GI Dissertation Award IT-Security 2010
- Intelligent Security Systems
- Attack Detection and Prevention
- Malware and Vulnerability Analysis
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- BMBF Plattform Lernende Systeme
- European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
- Gesellschafft für Informatik
- Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung
Thorsten Eisenhofer, Erwin Quiring, Jonas Möller, Doreen Riepel, Thorsten Holz, Konrad Rieck
No more Reviewer #2: Subverting Automatic Paper-Reviewer Assignment using Adversarial Learning
Alexander Warnecke, Lukas Pirch, Christian Wressnegger, Konrad Rieck
Machine Unlearning of Features and Labels
Daniel Arp, Erwin Quiring, Feargus Pendlebury, Alexander Warnecke, Fabio Pierazzi, Christian Wressnegger, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Konrad Rieck
Dos and Don’ts of Machine Learning in Computer Security
Alexander Warnecke, Daniel Arp, Christian Wressnegger, Konrad Rieck
Evaluating Explanation Methods for Deep Learning in Security
Erwin Quiring, David Klein, Daniel Arp, Martin Johns, Konrad Rieck
Adversarial Preprocessing: Understanding and Preventing Image-Scaling Attacks in Machine Learning
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Alexander Warnecke
Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Warnecke who succesfully defended his PhD "Security Viewpoints on Explainable Machine Learning" on April 16, 2024.
Project Launch AIgenCY
With the innovative research project "AIgenCY - Opportunities and Risks of Generative AI in Cybersecurity," leading experts from academia and industry take on the challenge of exploring the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity.
Email security under scrutiny: Examining SPF weaknesses
Cyber security researchers at BIFOLD found weaknesses in Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records, which protect email users from forged senders. The paper “Lazy Gatekeepers: A Large-Scale Study on SPF Configuration in the Wild” includes an analysis of 12 million domains’ SPF records and was now presented at the 2023 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.
Adversarial Papers: New attack fools AI-supported text analysis
Security researchers have found significant vulnerabilities in learning algorithms used for text analysis: With the help of a novel attack, they were able to show that topic recognition algorithms can be fooled by even small changes in words, sentences and references.
BIFOLD welcomes Israel delegation
Among other institutions the BIFOLD hosted a delegation from Israeli universities as part of Germany's "Willkommen" Visitors Programme. Various BIFOLD researchers gave a short introduction to their research foci in AI. The “Willkommen” programme invites opinion leaders to experience Germany and gain a nuanced understanding of the country.
Machine Learning and Security
Welcome to Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck, who heads the new workgroup Machine Learning and Security at BIFOLD and TU Berlin and started January 1, 2023.
Cybersecurity under scrutiny
In cybersecurity research, machine learning (ML) has emerged as one of the most important tools for investigating security-related problems: However, a group of European researchers from TU Berlin, TU Braunschweig, University College London, King’s College London, Royal Holloway University of London, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/KASTEL Security Research Labs, led by BIFOLD researchers from TU Berlin, have shown recently that research with ML in cybersecurity contexts is often prone to error.
Preventing Image-Scaling attacks on Machine Learning
BIFOLD Fellow Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck, head of the Institute of System Security at TU Braunschweig, and his colleagues provide the first comprehensive analysis of image-scaling attacks on machine learning, including a root-cause analysis and effective defenses. Konrad Rieck and his team could show that attacks on scaling algorithms like those used in pre-processing for machine learning (ML) can manipulate images unnoticeably, change their content after downscaling and create unexpected and arbitrary image outputs. The work was presented at the USENIX Security Symposium 2020.