Thomas Prantl - Chair of Computer Science II

Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Prantl

Chair of Software Engineering (Informatik II)
Department of Computer Science University of Würzburg
Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg
Informatikgebäude, 1.OG, Room A118
Email: thomas.prantl@uni-wuerzburg.de

Research Interests

Security
Blockchain
IoT
Security and Blockchain Benchmarking

Selected Publications:

Oratio Homomorphico: Creating a Lecture for Homomorphic Encryption by applying Design-Based Research. Prantl, Thomas; Schneider, Tobias; Horn, Lukas; Engel, Simon; Iffländer, Lukas; Krupitzer, Christian; Bonilla, Rafael; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 4th EAI Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science (2025).
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@inproceedings{Oratio_Sardinen_2025, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Schneider, Tobias and Horn, Lukas and Engel, Simon and Iffländer, Lukas and Krupitzer, Christian and Bonilla, Rafael and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th EAI Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science}, keywords = {t_interdisciplinary}, month = {07}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {EAI CSECS 2025}, title = {Oratio Homomorphico: Creating a Lecture for Homomorphic Encryption by applying Design-Based Research}, year = 2025 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 Oratio_Sardinen_2025 %A Prantl, Thomas %A Schneider, Tobias %A Horn, Lukas %A Engel, Simon %A Iffländer, Lukas %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Bonilla, Rafael %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 4th EAI Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science %D 2025 %I Springer %T Oratio Homomorphico: Creating a Lecture for Homomorphic Encryption by applying Design-Based Research
Privacy-Preserving Training and Inference of CNNs: A Medical Performance Case Study. Prantl, Thomas; Schneider, Louis; Engel, Simon; Horn, Lukas; Borst, Vanessa; Krupitzer, Christian; Kounev, Samuel; Bonilla, Rafael; in Proceedings of the 5th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (2025).
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@inproceedings{MPC_Sardinen_2025, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Schneider, Louis and Engel, Simon and Horn, Lukas and Borst, Vanessa and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel and Bonilla, Rafael}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {05}, publisher = {IEEE}, series = {ICSC2025}, title = {Privacy-Preserving Training and Inference of CNNs: A Medical Performance Case Study}, year = 2025 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 MPC_Sardinen_2025 %A Prantl, Thomas %A Schneider, Louis %A Engel, Simon %A Horn, Lukas %A Borst, Vanessa %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %A Bonilla, Rafael %B Proceedings of the 5th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference %D 2025 %I IEEE %T Privacy-Preserving Training and Inference of CNNs: A Medical Performance Case Study
Quo Vadis CKKS: Comparison of the Realization of Basic Mathematical Functions for the Homomorphic Cryptosystem CKKS using De Bello and Polynomial Approximations. Prantl, Thomas; Horn, Lukas; Engel, Simon; Bauer, André; Kounev, Samuel; in Journal of Information Security and Applications (2025). 93
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@article{HE_Sardinen_2025, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Horn, Lukas and Engel, Simon and Bauer, André and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Journal of Information Security and Applications}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {Quo Vadis CKKS: Comparison of the Realization of Basic Mathematical Functions for the Homomorphic Cryptosystem CKKS using De Bello and Polynomial Approximations}, volume = 93, year = 2025 }

%0 Journal Article %1 HE_Sardinen_2025 %A Prantl, Thomas %A Horn, Lukas %A Engel, Simon %A Bauer, André %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2025 %I Elsevier %J Journal of Information Security and Applications %T Quo Vadis CKKS: Comparison of the Realization of Basic Mathematical Functions for the Homomorphic Cryptosystem CKKS using De Bello and Polynomial Approximations %U https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214212625001474 %V 93
Challenges in the evaluation of earth observation products: Accuracy assessment case study using convolutional neural networks. Prantl, Thomas; Barthel, Til; Kaiser, Dennis; Schwinger, Maximilian; Bauer, André; Kounev, Samuel; in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2024).
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@article{PrBaKaScBaKo_2024_EO_Challenges, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Barthel, Til and Kaiser, Dennis and Schwinger, Maximilian and Bauer, André and Kounev, Samuel}, journal = {Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment}, keywords = {t_journalmagazine}, month = 12, publisher = {Elsevier BV}, title = {Challenges in the evaluation of earth observation products: Accuracy assessment case study using convolutional neural networks}, year = 2024 }

%0 Journal Article %1 PrBaKaScBaKo_2024_EO_Challenges %A Prantl, Thomas %A Barthel, Til %A Kaiser, Dennis %A Schwinger, Maximilian %A Bauer, André %A Kounev, Samuel %D 2024 %I Elsevier BV %J Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment %R 10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101420 %T Challenges in the evaluation of earth observation products: Accuracy assessment case study using convolutional neural networks %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101420
Security Analysis of a Decentralized, Revocable and Verifiable Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme. Prantl, Thomas; Lauer, Marco; Horn, Lukas; Engel, Simon; Dingel, David; Kounev, Samuel; Bauer, André; Krupitzer, Christian; Kounev, Samuel; in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (2024). 1–11.
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@inproceedings{ARES_2024_ABE, author = {Prantl, Thomas and Lauer, Marco and Horn, Lukas and Engel, Simon and Dingel, David and Kounev, Samuel and Bauer, André and Krupitzer, Christian and Kounev, Samuel}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security}, keywords = {descartes}, month = {07}, pages = {1-11}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {ARES 2024}, title = {Security Analysis of a Decentralized, Revocable and Verifiable Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme}, year = 2024 }

%0 Conference Paper %1 ARES_2024_ABE %A Prantl, Thomas %A Lauer, Marco %A Horn, Lukas %A Engel, Simon %A Dingel, David %A Kounev, Samuel %A Bauer, André %A Krupitzer, Christian %A Kounev, Samuel %B Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security %D 2024 %I ACM %P 1-11 %R https://doi.org/10.1145/3664476.3664487 %T Security Analysis of a Decentralized, Revocable and Verifiable Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme

List of all publications: Thomas Prantl

Teaching

Provisioning of topics for "Seminar Software Engineering" and supervision of participating students
Supervisions of software project in the "Softwarepraktikum" (practical course teaching students to complete software projects in a team)
Coordination of the exercises on the bachelor's lecture "Softwaretechnik" by Prof. Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg

Conference and Workshop Organisation

ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Evaluation (ICPE) 2022 as Web Chair
SPS Special Session on Cyber Resilience and Antifragility in Complex Distributed Systems (CyRA) 2021 as PC member
Workshop on Self-Aware Computing (SEAC) 2020 as Publicity Chair

Selected Reviewer Activities

Mascots 2020
Mascots 2019
Subreviewer ICPE 2019

Degrees

Master Informatik (Master of Computer Science)
1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt am Gymnasium (Physik/Informatik)
Bachelor Informatik (Bachelor of Computer Science)
Bachelor Naturwissenschaftliche Grundlagen (Bachelor of Natural Science Foundations)

List of all publications: Thomas Prantl

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