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Secure Software Systems Group

Theses/Practicum

Bachelor Thesis / Master Thesis / Master Practicum

The following topics are available at SS 25

 

Security of Systems and Protocols

(Master Thesis)  Three times the charm - Implementation of FPGA-based Fuzzing against CPU Simulation Software [Contact Person: Melanie]

(Practicum / Bachelor/ Master Thesis) Guide the Blind: RL/LLM-Guided Fuzzing of eBPF Runtimes [Contact Person: Melanie]

(Practicum / Bachelor/ Master Thesis) LLMs for Intelligent Network Protocol Implementation Fuzzing [Contact Person: Melanie]

 

Application of AI for Improving Security

(Master Thesis) Securing Software Systems with Graph Clustering: Towards Automated Compartmentalization [Contact Person: Melanie​​​​​​​]

(Practicum) LLM-Based Agentic RAG for Automated Program Repair and Security Vulnerability Fixes [Contact Person: Varun]

(Practicum) RESTing LLAMA: LLM-based REST API Fuzzing  [Contact Person: Varun]

 

Improving the Security of Machine Learning

(Master Thesis) Countering LLM Jailbreaks - Improving LLM Safety Allignment via Parameter Entanglement [Contact Person: Torsten]

(Master Thesis) Forget About This! - Removing Tasks from Large Language Models [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Practicum) Evaluation of Siamese Networks for Quality Insurance in the Image Domain [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Practicum/ Bachelor Thesis) MatreshkaNN: Hide Multiple AI Models within Each Other [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Bachelor/ Master Thesis) Similarity-Preserving Hash Functions for Prediction Trust Scoring of AI Models [Contact Person: Torsten​​​​​​​]

(Master Thesis) The Space of Language: Fuzzing LLMs for Defects [Contact Person: Varun​​​​​​​]

(Bachelor/ Master Thesis) Semantically-Aligned Poisoning attack on LLM-RAG Systems [Contact Person: Varun​​​​​​​]

(Master Thesis) Inception: Email Phishing for LLM RAG Injection  [Contact Person: Melanie]

 

Contact

If you are interested in the topics above, please contact the respective group member mentioned above via E-mail.. 

Please note that some topics advertised as a master thesis may also be suitable for a bachelor thesis with some modifications. You may also propose topics of your own choosing.

Past Theses written by our Students