TT.-Prof. Dr. Christian Wressnegger

About me

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) heading the "Artificial Intelligence and Security" research group. I am holding a PhD from TU Braunschweig and graduated from Graz University of Technology where I majored in Computer Science.

My research revolves around combining machine learning (or AI in the broader scope) and computer security. I develop methods in the area of system security and application security, for instance, approaches for attack detection or vulnerability discovery in software. Moreover, I research the robustness of machine learning against attacks striving for "secure AI." In this context, I am particularly interested in the security of XAI.

Publications

A complete list of my publications is available here.

Awards

• ACSAC Top Reviewer Award 2023
• USENIX Security Distinguished Reviewer 2023
• SatML Notable Reviewer 2023
• USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award 2022
• WWW Honorable Mentioned PC Member 2022
• WWW Best Paper Award 2022 (Runner-up)
• Best CS Lecture at KIT 2021 (Summer Term)
• ARES Best Reviewer Award 2021
• CVPR-SAIAD Best Paper Award 2021 (Runner-up)
• WWW Best PC Member 2021
• DIMVA Best Paper Award 2019 (Runner-up)
• ARES Best Paper Award 2019 (Runner-up)
• Best Lecture at TU Braunschweig 2019
• Best Practical Course at TU Braunschweig 2019
• CAST/GI Dissertation Award for IT-Security 2019 (Runner-up)
• DIMVA Best Paper Award 2016
• German Prize for IT-Security 2016 (2nd Place)

Conference and Workshop Organization

• Workshop chair: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2024, 2025
• PC chair: GI Sicherheit 2024
• General and PC chair: GI Sicherheit 2022
• PC chair: International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security 2020
• Publication chair: EuroSec Workshop 2021
• Publicity chair: EuroSec Workshop 2018, 2019, 2020
• Web chair: Deep Learning and Security Workshop 2019
• General chair: myPhD Workshop 2016

Program Committee Memberships

• USENIX Security Symposium (SEC) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2024, 2025
• IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SatML) 2023, 2024, 2025
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland") 2022, 2023, 2024
• ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2023, 2024
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2022, 2023, 2024
• Deep Learning and Security Workshop (DLS) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• GI Sicherheit 2020, 2022, 2024
• Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISEC) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) 2021, 2022, 2023
• European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• ACM Workshop on Robust Malware Analysis (WoRMA) 2022, 2023
• The Web Conference (WWW; International World Wide Web Conference) 2020, 2021, 2022
• International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES) 2020, 2021, 2022
• ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) 2022
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) 2021
• International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP) 2020
• NIPS Workshop "Machine Learning Open Source Software" 2018
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland") Student PC 2018

Artifact Evaluation Committee Memberships

• USENIX Security Symposium (SEC) 2020, 2021
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs/PETS) 2020, 2021
• USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) 2019
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2017, 2018, 2019

Sub-Reviewing for Conferences & Workshops

• 2020: IEEE S&P, NDSS, SAC
• 2019: IEEE S&P, EuroS&P, USENIX Security, ACSAC, ECML/PKDD, RAID, SAC
• 2018: ACSAC, SAC, AsiaCCS, DIMVA, DLS
• 2017: ACSAC, AsiaCCS, DIMVA, AISEC
• 2016: ACSAC, EuroS&P, RAID, DIMVA, IFIP SEC, AISEC, ARES
• 2015: CCS, ACSAC, RAID, ESSoS, WWW, IFIP SEC, AISEC, ARES
• 2014: CCS, DIMVA, WOOT, EUROSEC, ICML/LSP, AISEC, ARES, SICHERHEIT
• 2013: DIMVA, AISEC, ARES
• 2012: DIMVA, AISEC, ARES

Reviewing for Journals

• ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
• ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• EURASIP Journal on Information Security (JIS)
• Journal of Machine Learning Research: MLOSS Track (JMLR/MLOSS)
• Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA)
• International Journal of Information Security (IJIS)
• Computers & Security (COSE)
• Computer Communications (COMCOM)

Software

I do love open-source software and I enjoy writing code as well which I glady make public. Some of the tools I've contributed to in the course of my research are: Harry, Sally and Salad