I am a researcher in the group Certifiable Trustworthy IT Systems at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. From June 2009 to August 2010, I was a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern. Prior to joining the Fraunhofer IESE, I was at SAP Labs India, where I worked on agile development using Service Oriented Architecture. I graduated with a Master of Technology degree from IIIT-Bangalore in 2007 where I did my masters thesis on Quality of Service in Storage Area Networks under the supervision of Prof G. N. Srinivasa Prasanna.

Research interests

My research interests lie in the area of privacy and data protection in general, and distributed data usage control in particular. I am presently working on the translation of high-level usage control policies into low-level implementation-specific policies.

In the past, I have worked on many different topics. You can see the complete list of my publications here. For my earlier academic work as a student, visit my student academic profile.

Please write to me if

• you are looking for a thesis topic, or a hiwi job assignment
• you are curious about the state of the art in data protection and ready to take the challenge
• you have a cool idea and need some guidance/support

Open topics

Master's thesis

Usage control enforcement for the MySQL database server

Hiwi assignment

A Dashboard for Privacy in Social Networks

Ongoing

Hiwi assignment

Malte Schönbrunn and Björn Deiss - Connecting smart meter to a web-based social network (Facebook)

Completed

Hiwi assignment

Jens Kuhn - Sharing smart energy

Bachelors thesis

Jens Kuhn - Data usage control for a Web Application: in the Server
Jonas Peschla - Data usage control for a Web Application: in the Client

Bachelors seminar

Erik Müller - Security Analysis of Public Key Infrastructure

Masters seminar

Denis Feth - Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Stefan Willenbrock - Architecture of social networking systems for privacy
Tobias Wuechner - Privacy in Online Social Networking

• Kumari, P., Kelbert, F., Pretschner, A.:
  Data Protection in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems: A Smart Meter Example
  Proc. Dependable Software for Critical Infrastructures, October 2011

• Kumari, P., Pretschner, A., Peschla, J., Kuhn, J.:
  Distributed Data Usage Control for Web Applications: A Social Network Implementation
  Proc. 1st ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), pp. 85-96, February 2011
  © ACM, 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proc. ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy.