PhD student and Software Engineer.

I’m Niklas, a PhD student and Software Engineer based in Münster, Germany. I am broadly interested in machine learning, computer security, and building useful web applications.

Limits of Machine Learning for Automatic Vulnerability Detection

Recent results of machine learning for automatic vulnerability detection have been very promising indeed: Given only the source code of a function f, models trained by machine learning techniques can decide if f contains a security flaw with up to 70% accuracy ...

Work

  1. Company
    Max-Planck-Institute for Security and Privacy
    Role
    Doctoral Candidate
    Date
  2. Company
    clockin
    Role
    Software Engineer
    Date
  3. Company
    Bielefeld University
    Role
    Research Assistant
    Date

Education

  1. Company
    Max-Planck-Institute for Security and Privacy
    Role
    PhD
    Date
  2. Company
    Bielefeld University
    Role
    Intelligent Systems (M.Sc.)
    Date
  3. Company
    Bielefeld University
    Role
    Cognitive Computer Science (B.Sc.)
    Date