Sebastian Schrittwieser

Head of the Laboratory

Sebastian serves as the head of the CD Laboratory. In his role, he coordinates research activities across all topics and contributes his expertise in software protection. His responsibilities further include defining novel compile-time software protections, the formal verification of protecting transformations, and exploring hardware support for software protections.

Sebastian Raubitzek

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sebastian Raubitzek researches on methodologies for layering multiple software protections using group theory. His work aims to optimize the combination of protection techniques to maximize overall protection strength while maintaining efficiency

Philip König

PhD Student

Philip König brings his expertise in resilience modeling, complexity science, and machine learning to the lab, contributing primarily to research on novel protected code complexity metrics and enhancing the potency and resilience of software protections through interdisciplinary research.

Patrick Felbauer

PhD Student

Patrick Felbauer works on our comprehensive toolchain for the automated generation and analysis of obfuscation sample sets, which is instrumental for the lab's research on potency measurements and layering

Caroline König

Research Assistant

Caroline König focuses on resilience measurements of software protections and in particular on ground truth measurements in the compiler.

David Schmidt

PhD Student

David Schmidt brings his experience in mobile application security to the lab.

Daryna Oliynyk

PhD Student

Daryna Oliynyk conducts research on enchancing security of machine learning models against Man-at-the-end attacks.

Tanja Šarčević

PhD Student

Tanja’s research interests focus on privacy-preserving data analysis, including techniques such as data anonymisation. Her research interests also include data and machine learning models leakage detection by mechanisms such as watermarking and fingerprinting, focusing on the robustness and effects on data utility for fingerprinting schemes.

Yana Sakhnovych

PhD Student

Yana Sakhnovych researches intellectual property protection of machine learning assets, including machine learning models and AI-generated content.