Intern
Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

Lukas Horn

 

Chair of Software Engineering (Informatik II)
Department of Computer Science
University of Würzburg

Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg

Informatikgebäude, 1.OG, Room A104

E-Mail lukas.horn@uni-wuerzburg.de
Phone +49 (931) 31 83211
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Research Interests

  • Homomorphic Encryption
  • Secure Multiparty Computation
  • Functional Encryption
  • Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
  • Cryptography
  • Performance Benchmarking

List of all publications: Lukas Horn

Teaching

Lectures

  • Systems Benchmarking (SS25)

Seminars

  • Learning without knowing what to learn: Training neural networks using homomorphic encryption (SS25)

Teaching Assistant (as student)

  • Fundamentals of Programming (WS20, WS21, WS22, WS23)
  • Software Technology (SS20)
  • Practical Course in Programming (WS20, SS21, WS21, SS22, WS22, SS23, WS23, SS24, WS24)
  • Preparatory Programming Course (WS21)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (SS22, SS23, SS24)
  • Further Education in Theoretical Computer Science for Teachers (SS22)

Open Theses

Fehleruntersuchung in homomorpher Verschlüsselung
Homomorphe Verschlüsselung

Functions and Memberships

  • SPEC RG Security (Secretary)

Awards

  • Scholarship holder of the "Exposéstipendium" by the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (May 2025 - October 2025)
  • Würzburg Software Engineering Award 2022: Best Bachelor Thesis
    Towards Homomorphic Data Science: Pitfalls and Insights
  • Scholarship holder at the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (December 2021 - March 2025)

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).
  • 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).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Benchmarking of Secure Group Communication schemes with Focus on IoT. Prantl, Thomas; Bauer, André; Engel, Simon; Horn, Lukas; Krupitzer, Christian; Iffl"{a}nder, Lukas; Kounev, Samuel; in Discover Data (2024). 2(1)

(Sub-)Reviewer Activities

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

since May 2025 Research assistant at the Chair of Software-Engineering (Informatik II) headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg
October 2020 - April 2025 Multiple Occupations as Student Researcher and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
October 2022 - March 2025 Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany
October 2019 - February 2023 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany
June 2019 Abitur at the Friedrich-Rückert Gymnasium Ebern, Germany

 

Last Update: May 2025