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]
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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
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SPOQchain: Platform for Secure, Scalable, and Privacy-preserving Supply Chain Tracing and Counterfeit Protection. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2024, June).
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Kako: Mirai’s Vaccine Using Worm-Like Propagation Methods To Immunize Devices. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2024, January).
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PUF-Based Device-to-Device Authentication in IoT without Trusted Intermediaries. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2024, February).
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Email Discovery in Modern Applications. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, July).
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Ensuring Integrity of NVMe Offloaded Data in Large-Scale Machine Learning. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, January).
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Gamification of Ethical Hacking Lab. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, February).
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Penetration Testing of the eSano Platform. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, March).
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Adversarial Training in Federated Learning using Constrained Optimization Methods. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, May).
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Penetration Testing of the eSano Platform with the focus on Patient and eCoach components. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, July).
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Vulnerability Assessment of Smart Contracts using Explainable AI Methods. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, January).
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Sybil Attack in Tor - Shedding Light to the Diversity Problem in Tor. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2023, August).
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Constrained Learning for Improved Attack Resilience in Federated Learning. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2023, September).
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Security Analysis of UniNow App. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2021, June).
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Intrusion Detection Using Machine Learning in Databases. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2021, April).
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Security and Privacy Aspects of Digital Contact Tracing. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2021, October).
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Remote Attestation for IoT with Smart Verifier. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2021, January).
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Evaluating the Privacy of Contact Discovery. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2020, July).
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Aggregatable Remote Attestation for IoT. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, December).
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Strategies for the Security Assessment of IoT Devices by Certification Authorities. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, May).
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Detection of Software Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts using Deep Learning. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2020, October).
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Testbed for Security Testing of Smart Contracts. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, November).
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Understanding UI attacks on Android. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2020, December).
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Group Encryption Scheme. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2019, December).
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Hardening Bitcoin Against Off-Topic Data Inclusion Attacks. Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2018, August).
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DIMAQS - Dynamic Identification of Malicious Query Sequences. Thesis; Master Thesis. (2018, June).
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Design of a Shared Parking System with Special Attention to Security Aspects. Thesis; Bachelor Thesis. (2018, August).
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