Intern
Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

Thomas Prantl

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).
  • 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
  • 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).
  • 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.

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)