Teaching at the Professorship of Cyber Trust
Theses and Student Projects
We offer motivated students interested in our research projects the opportunity to write their Thesis (Bachelor or Master) or to conduct Guided Research Projects.
Application
Please send your application to one of our chair members via email, including your motivation (i.e. why you are interested in our research), a short CV and your current Examination Report (TUMonline → Studies → Transcripts → Print Examination Report). Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.
Open Student Projects
This list is not comprehensive. Please browse through our researchers' websites if you are looking for different topics you may be interested to work on.
| Title | Type | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive Review of Participatory Approaches (= inclusion of citizens) regarding AI Discourses (What project was the participatory method used for and what are the perceived values/ the perceived challenges? E.g.: open dialogue on AI UNESCO; Die digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft 2040) | Bachelor/Master/GDS | Chiara Ullstein |
| Comprehensive Literature Review: What inferences from facial images are drawn using facial inference AI in academic research and how is inference-making motivated? (e.g., Appearance/Perceived Trustworthiness vs. Actual/Real Trustworthiness) | Bachelor/Master/GDS | Chiara Ullstein |
| Analysis of Submissions to the European Commission's Call for Feedback on the Draft AI Act (Topic Modeling; Can thematic differences in submissions by different groups of participants, e.g., EU citizen vs. company vs. academic, be identified?) | Bachelor/Master/GDS | Chiara Ullstein |
| Empirical Study on the Perception of Facial Inference AI in Asia/ Africa/ South America (Each continent can be assigned to one master thesis/ GDS) | Bachelor/Master/GDS | Chiara Ullstein |
Assigned Student Projects
| Title | Type | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Requirement Elicitation for AI Interventions against sexist behavior on Instagram based on interviews with female influencers | Bachelor | J. Sasse |
| Sexism on Social Media - Extent, Handling and Possible Solutions from Moderators' Point of View. | Bachelor | J. Sasse |
| Comprehensive Review of Facial Inference AI tools that are currently used/ placed on the market | Master | Ch. Ullstein |
| Community Guidelines and their Enforcement in Volunteer Online Communities | Master | T. Kuo |
| Development of a tool for standardizing and visualizing data exports under Art. 20 GDPR "Right to Data Portability" | Master | E. Syrmoudis J. Grossklags |
| Comparing Machine Learning Models for Breaking CAPTCHAs in Darknet Marketplaces | Bachelor | M. Chen |
| An Investigation of the Measures of the Credit Scoring Industry for Protecting Consumers during Economic Crises. | Bachelor | C. Löfflad |
| An Emprical Investigation of the Helpfulness of Online Product Reviews - A Case Study on Amazon. | Bachelor | C. Löfflad |
| How are Consumers' Credit Scores protected during Economic Crisis? - A Comparative Analysis of Credit Scoring Systems in the U.S and China | Bachelor | C. Löfflad |
| Data Portability between Online Services: GDPR Compliance and Security Implications | Bachelor | E. Syrmoudis J. Grossklags |
| Extraction and Insertion of Personal Data from/to Online Services: An Emprical Analysis of the Governance of Personal Data | Bachelor | E. Syrmoudis J. Grossklags |
| A Study on the Chinese Social Credit System - Based on the Perspective of Chinese Internet Enterprises | Bachelor | C. Löfflad M. Chen |
| Effects of Nudging and Reputation Mechanisms on the Trustworthiness on E-Commerce Platforms - A Comparative Survey | Bachelor | C. Löfflad M. Chen |
| Data Portability and Erasure: GDPR Compliance of Third-Party Tracking Vendors | Master | E. Syrmoudis |
| Data portability under GDPR Art. 20: An empirical examination of data exports and imports | Bachelor | E. Syrmoudis |
| A comparative analysis of nudge units and the Chinese Social Credit System | Master | M. Chen |
| Economics of Interoperability - Data and Privacy in Interconnected Ecosystems | Master | E. Syrmoudis |
| Evaluting on the ball decision making from shooting positions in Professional Soccer | Master | J. Grossklags |
| A Comparison of Different Implementation Alternatives for the Administration of Privacy-Preserving Cross-Organizational Document Sharing Systems | Bachelor | J. Grossklags |
| Internetzensur inmitten von COVID-19: Eine datengestützte Analyse rund um den Globus | Guided Research | M. Chen |
| A Critical Investigation of Personalized AI-based Interventions against Online Norm Violations | Guided Research | J. Grossklags |
| An ethical analysis of user modeling techniques for social media networks | Bachelor | S. Engelmann |
Completed Student Projects
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Serious Game for Cloud Security | Master | 2022 |
| Methodology and Implementation of a Cyber Security Risk Management Tool | Master | 2022 |
| On the relationships between different Android frameworks and associated security issues | Master | 2022 |
| Nudging to Increase the SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Rate | Bachelor | 2022 |
| Comparison of Contact Tracing by Smartphone Apps during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom and China | Bachelor | 2022 |
| Development of an Application for the Visualization of Data Exports under Article 20 GDPR | Bachelor | 2022 |
| The perception of AI decision-making in the adverstisement and hiring context: A mixed-methods analysis of influence factors. | Master | 2022 |
| Fighting corruption and fraud concerning EU funds by making use of smart city technologies | Master | 2022 |
| A Quantitative Analysis of Rule-Breaking Behavior in an Online Community | Bachelor | 2022 |
| A Survey Study on Intervention against Online Hate Speech and its Implications | Master | 2021 |
| Peer Review Verification with Verifiable Credentials and Zero-Knowledge Proofs | Master | 2021 |
| How Useful is the GDPR´s Right to Data Portability? An Empirical Study | Bachelor | 2021 |
| Unfamiliar Ground: Real World Analysis of a Modern NIST-Guided Password Policy | Bachelor | 2021 |
| Development and usage of automated systems for content moderation | Master | 2021 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Security Warnings on GitHub | Bachelor | 2021 |
| A Comparative Study about Nudge Units in Different Countries | Bachelor | 2021 |
| History of Security Advice on Stack Overflow | Master | 2021 |
| A Comparison of the acceptance of contact-tracing apps in the Covid-19 pandemic in the USA, India, the UK and Germany | Bachelor | 2021 |
| How should Android vulnerabilities be disclosed? An Analysis of Android Security Bulletins. | Master | 2021 |
| Measuring Code Review in the Linux Kernel | Master | 2021 |
| Bewertung der Einhaltung von Software-Sicherheitsstandards in kontinuierlicher Software-Entwicklung | Guided Research | 2021 |
| Prototypical implementation and evaluation of an anonymization solution for textual data. | Master | 2020 |
| Natural Language Semantic Code Search Using Learning to Rank | Master | 2020 |
| An Empirical Analysis of Enterprise Credit Reporting Systems in China | Bachelor | 2020 |
| An Empirical Evaluation of the Right to Erasure in the GDPR | Bachelor | 2020 |
| The Right to Data Portability - Impact on Digital Platforms | Master | 2020 |
| Fairness in the Chinese Social Credit Systems - A Contest-Based Approach to Answering a Design Question | Master | 2020 |
| Investigating the maturity of IT security of emerging companies in Germany according to a maturity model | Master | 2020 |
| Data Portability: Empirical Study on User Expectations about Data Exports from Social Network Sites | Bachelor | 2020 |
| An analysis of hate comments in the Korean Internet Society | Bachelor | 2020 |
| An Empirical Evaluation of the Right to Erasure in the GDPR | Bachelor | 2020 |
| The Perceived Value of Our Data – A User's Perspective on Data Portability in the Context of Social Media | Bachelor | 2020 |
| End User Awareness of IoT Device Users in the domain of smart homes - A survey study | Bachelor | 2020 |
| Show Don't Tell: Improving user perception and understanding of privacy or anti-tracking tools | Master | 2020 |
| Analysis of process mining in the context of cyber security with the example of identity and access management | Master | 2020 |
| Social Media Behavior in the Context of Genealogy Platforms | Bachelor | 2020 |
| "I understand it now, which I like. But trust? No!" - The Relation Between Transparency & Trust in Visual Data-Based Automated Hiring Procedures. | Bachelor | 2020 |
| A survey study on mobile operating system upgrade practices | Master | 2020 |
| A data-driven comparative analysis of blacklists and redlists in the Chinese Social Credit System | Bachelor | 2020 |
| An investigation of the Critical Infrastructure requirements as owner of a Critical Infrastructure | Bachelor | 2019 |
| Development of the Social Credit System in China and how it effects German Companies | Bachelor | 2019 |
| A comprehensive empirical study on the Android patching ecosystem | Master | 2019 |
| A Survey Study on the Treatment of Personal Friends' Data in the Context of Smartphone Usage | Bachelor | 2019 |
| Implementation of the Critical Infrastructure requirements as owner of a Critical Infrastructure | Bachelor | 2019 |
| Search Engine for Security Documentation | Guided Research | 2019 |
| Learning Program Representations from Big Code | Guided Research | 2019 |
| Analysis of pseudonymous data to evaluate information flow in web-based fringe communities | Master | 2019 |
| An open-source intelligence collection and analysis platform for actionable product threat intelligence and coordinated cyber incident response | Master | 2019 |
| Analysis of the Changes in Privacy Policies for Mobile Apps | Master | 2019 |
| Privacy Related Behavior, Lifestyles, Trust and Knowledge: Do People Securely Erase Confidential Data? | Bachelor | 2019 |
| Privacy and data sensivity in health promotion apps: Perceptions in private and workplace health apps | Master | 2019 |
| KRACK Attack: Security and Security Awareness in Multiperson Households | Bachelor | 2018 |