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Professor Dr.-Ing. Andriy Panchenko
Chair of IT Security

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I'm a full professor (W3) at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), head of chair for IT Security. I'm also director of studies and head of the examination board for an English-taught international master degree programme Cyber Security at BTU. Additionally, I'm a member of expert committee on IT and Innovation of chamber of commerce and industry (IHK), member of the advisory board (Beirat) of the center for scientific advanced training, and technology transfer mentor (Transferpate) at BTU. Before, I was a Research Scientist (permanent faculty) and deputy head of the SECAN-Lab within the Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC/FSTC) and associated with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. I hold Dr.-Ing. (Doctorate in Engineering) degree with distinction from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. My doctoral thesis "Anonymous Communication in the Age of the Internet" was awarded the KuVS prize ([1], [2]) for the best doctoral dissertation 2010 from the German Computer Science Society (GI) and VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE-ITG), the Science Award ("Bernd-Hentschel-Wissenschaftspreis") ([1], [2]) of the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD), as well as the "Borchers Medal" award of RWTH Aachen University. I also hold Master degree in Computer Science from the RWTH Aachen University (my master thesis was in the final round of the David Kopf prize competition for the best master/diploma thesis in Germany) and Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering (with a minor in Applied Mathematics) from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (NTUU "KPI").

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  1. Mitseva, A.; Pennekamp, J.; Lohmöller, J.; Ziemann, T.; Hoerchner, C.; Wehrle, K.; Panchenko, A.: POSTER: How Dangerous is My Click? Boosting Website Fingerprinting By Considering Sequences of Webpages In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2021), Seoul -- Virtual Event, South Korea, November 2021. ACM Press.
  2. Panchenko, A.; Mitseva, A.; Knabe, S.: WhisperChord: Scalable and Secure Node Discovery for Overlay Networks In Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2021), Edmonton - Virtual Event, Canada, October 4-7, 2021. IEEE Xplore. ISBN: tba
  3. Reuter, S.; Hiller, J.; Pennekamp, J.; Panchenko, A.; Wehrle, K.: Demo: Traffic Splitting for Tor -- A Defense against Fingerprinting Attacks In Proceedings of the Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2021), Luebeck, Germany, September 13-16, 2021. In Journal on Electronic Communications of the EASST (ECEASST). ISBN: tba
  4. Panchenko, A.; Mitseva, A.; Ziemann, T.; Hering, T.: GuardedGossip: Secure and Anonymous Node Discovery in Untrustworthy Networks In Proceedings of the 17th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2021), Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 6-9, 2021. Springer. ISBN: tba
  5. De la Cadena, W.; Kaiser, D.; Panchenko, A.; Engel, T.: Out-of-the-box Multipath TCP as a Tor Transport Protocol: Performance and Privacy Implications In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2020), Cambridge (MA) - Virtual Event, USA, November 24-27, 2020. IEEE Xplore. ISBN: 978-1-7281-8326-8
  6. De la Cadena, W.; Mitseva, A.; Hiller, J.; Pennekamp, J.; Reuter, S.; Filter, J.; Engel, T.; Wehrle, K.; Panchenko, A.: TrafficSliver: Fighting Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Traffic Splitting In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2020), Orlando (FL) - Virtual Event, USA, November 9-13, 2020. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-7089-9/20/11 [pdf] [dataset] [no-defense-dataset] [src] (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
  7. Mitseva, A.; Alexandrova, M.; Engel, T.; Panchenko, A.: Security and Performance Implications of BGP Rerouting-resistant Guard Selection Algorithms for Tor In Proceedings of the 35rd International IFIP Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC), Maribor - Virtual Event, Slovenia, September 2020. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISBN: 978-3-030-58201-2
  8. Mitseva, A.; Engel, T.; Panchenko, A.: Analyzing PeerFlow -- A Bandwidth Estimation System for Untrustworthy Environments In Proceedings of the German Informatics Society (GI) biennial conference of the technical committee on Security, Protection and Reliability (GI SICHERHEIT), Goettingen, Germany, March 2020. GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). ISBN: 978-3-88579-695-4
  9. De la Cadena, W.; Mitseva, A.; Pennekamp, J.; Hiller, J.; Lanze, F.; Engel, T.; Wehrle, K.; Panchenko, A.: POSTER: Traffic Splitting to Counter Website Fingerprinting In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2019), London, UK, November 2019. ACM Press. [Text] ISBN: 978-1-4503-6747-9/19/11
  10. Hiller, J.; Pennekamp, J.; Dahlmanns, M.; Henze, M.; Panchenko, A.; Wehrle, K.: Tailoring Onion Routing to the Internet of Things: Security and Privacy in Untrusted Environments In Proceedings of the 27th annual IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP 2019), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2019. IEEE Press. [Text] ISBN: 978-1-7281-2700-2 (Acceptance Rate: 14% for full papers, 19% overall)
  11. Pennekamp, J.; Hiller, J.; Reuter, S.; De la Cadena, W.; Mitseva, A.; Henze, M.; Engel, T.; Wehrle, K.; Panchenko, A.: Multipathing Traffic to Reduce Entry Node Exposure in Onion Routing In Proceedings of the 27th annual IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (Poster) (IEEE ICNP 2019), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2019. IEEE Press. [Text] ISBN: 978-1-7281-2700-2
  12. De la Cadena, W.; Kaiser, D.; Mitseva, A.; Panchenko, A.; Engel, T.: Analysis of Multi-path Onion Routing-based Anonymization Networks In 33rd Annual IFIP Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2019), Charleston, South Carolina, USA, July 2019. Springer LNCS (volume 11559). ISBN: 978-3-030-22478-3 (print), 978-3-030-22479-0 (online) [pdf]
  13. Pennekamp, J.; Henze, M.; Hohlfeld, O.; Panchenko, A.: Hi Doppelgänger: Towards Detecting Manipulation in News Comments In 30th The Web Conference (formely known as WWW conference) CyberSafety Workshop: The Workhop on Computational Methods in Online Misbehavior (CyberSafety 2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2019. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-6675-5 [pdf]
  14. Mitseva, A.; Panchenko, A.; Engel, T.: The State of Affairs in BGP Security: A Survey of Attacks and Defenses In Computer Communications Journal, June 2018, Volume 124, pages 45-60, Elsevier. [Text] ISSN: 0140-3664
  15. Panchenko, A.; Mitseva, A.; Henze, M.; Lanze, F.; Wehrle, K.; Engel, T.: Analysis of Fingerprinting Techniques for Tor Hidden Services In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) 16th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (ACM WPES 2017), Dallas, Texas, USA, October 2017. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-5175-1/17/10 [pdf] (Acceptance Rate: 25%)
  16. Mitseva, A.; Panchenko, A.; Lanze, F.; Henze, M.; Wehrle, K.; Engel., T.: POSTER: Fingerprinting Tor Hidden Services In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2016), Vienna, Austria, October 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4503-4139-4/16/10 [pdf]
  17. Panchenko, A.; Lanze, F.; Zinnen, A.; Henze, M.; Pennekamp, J.; Wehrle, K.; Engel, T.: Website Fingerprinting at Internet Scale In Proceedings of the 23rd Internet Society (ISOC) Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2016), San Diego, USA, February 2016. ISBN: 1-891562-41-X [pdf] [scripts and datasets] (Acceptance Rate: 15%)
  18. Panchenko, A.: On the Impact of Cross-Layer Information Leakage on Anonymity in Crowds In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM Q2SWinet 2015), Cancun, Mexico, November 2015, pages 35-42. ISBN: 978-1-4503-3757-1 [pdf]
  19. Oestlund, S.; Panchenko, A.; Engel, T.: A study on ethical aspects and legal issues in e-learning In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on E-Learning (e-Learning'15), Berlin, Germany, September 2015, pages 286-292. ISSN 2367-6698 (Best Paper Award)
  20. Lanze, F.; Panchenko, A.; Engel, T.: A Formalization of Fingerprinting Techniques In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Recent Advances of Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE RATSP 2015), held in conjunction with IEEE TrustCom 2015, Helsinki, Finland, August 2015, pages 818-825. IEEE Press. ISBN: 978-1-4673-7952-6/15
  21. Lanze, F.; Panchenko, A.; Ponce-Alcaide, I.; Engel, T.: Hacker's Toolbox: Detecting Software-Based 802.11 Evil Twin Access Points In Proceedings of the 12th annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2015), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 2015, IEEE Press. ISBN: 978-1-4799-6389-8 [pdf]
  22. Lanze, F.; Panchenko, A.; Ponce-Alcaide, I.; Engel, T.: Undesired Relatives: Protection Mechanisms Against The Evil Twin Attack in IEEE 802.11 In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM Q2SWinet 2014), Montreal, QC, Canada, September 2014, pages 87-94. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-3027-5 [pdf]
  23. Lanze, F.; Panchenko, A.; Braatz, B.; Engel, T.: Letting the Puss in Boots Sweat: Detecting Fake Access Points using Dependency of Clock Skews on Temperature In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2014), Kyoto, Japan, June 2014, pages 3-14. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-2800-5 (Acceptance Rate: 20%) [pdf]
  24. Panchenko, A.; Lanze, F.; Engel, T.: Improving Performance and Anonymity in the Tor Network In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IEEE IPCCC 2012), Austin, Texas, USA, December 2012, pages 1-10. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-1-4673-4882-9 [pdf] (Acceptance rate: 27%)
  25. Lanze, F.; Panchenko, A.; Braatz, B.; Zinnen, A.: Clock Skew Based Remote Device Fingerprinting Demystified In Proceedings of the 55th International IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2012), Anaheim, California, USA, December 2012, pages 831-837. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-1-4673-0919-6 [pdf]
  26. Egners, A.; Gatzen, D.; Panchenko, A.; Meyer, U.: Introducing SOR: SSH-based Onion Routing In Proceedings of the Eighth International IEEE Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA-2012), part of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (IEEE AINA 2012), Fukuoka, Japan, March 2012. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-0-7695-4652-0 [pdf] (Acceptance Rate: 28%)
  27. Boehm, F.; Zinnen, A.; Panchenko, A.: New rights for internet users in the EU's data protection framework (data portability and the right to be forgotten and to erasure) -- legal challenges and technical limits In Proceedings of the 27th Annual BILETA Conference (British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association) (Extended Abstract), Newcastle, UK, March 2012.
  28. Panchenko, A.; Spaniol, O.; Egners, A.; Engel, T.: Lightweight Hidden Services In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2011), Changsha, China, November 2011. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-0-7695-4600-1 [pdf] (Acceptance Rate: 26%)
  29. Panchenko, A.; Niessen, L.; Zinnen, A.; Engel, T.: Website Fingerprinting in Onion Routing Based Anonymization Networks In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (ACM WPES 2011), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2011. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0948-6 [pdf] (Acceptance Rate: 16%)
  30. Digital Privacy: PRIME -- Privacy and Identity Management for Europe, (contribution to a book chapter), Springer LNCS 6545, Jan Camenisch, Ronald Leeners and Dieter Sommer (Eds.), 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-19049-0
  31. Panchenko, A.: Privacy in Communications on the Internet In Journal on Practice of Information Processing and Communication / Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation (PIK), Volume 34 (2), June 2011. ISSN (Print) 0930-5157, ISSN (Online) 1865-8342.
  32. Panchenko, A.: Anonymous Communication in the Digital World In Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Communication in Distributed Systems (KiVS'11), Kiel, Germany, March 2011. OASIcs -- OpenAccess Series in Informatics (ISSN: 2190-6807), Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik.
  33. Ries, T.; Panchenko, A.; State, R.; Engel, T.: Comparison of Low-Latency Anonymous Communication Systems -- Practical Usage and Performance In Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC 2011), Perth, Australia, January 2011. Australian Computer Society (ACS) Press. Colin Boyd and Josef Pieprzyk Eds., ACS. 77-86 ISBN: 978-1-920682-96-5
  34. Panchenko, A.: Anonymous Communication in the Age of the Internet Doctorate (PhD) Thesis. Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen, September 2010. ISBN: 978-3-86130-623-9
  35. Panchenko, A.: Anonymous Communication In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the German Research Training Groups in Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, May 31 -- June 2, 2010. Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen, 2010. ISBN: 978-3-86130-146-6
  36. Panchenko, A.; Richter, S.; Rache, A.: NISAN: Network Information Service for Anonymization Networks In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2009), Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 2009. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-60558-894-0 [pdf] (Acceptance Rate: 18%)
  37. Krempels, K.-H.; Panchenko, A.; Stülpnagel, J.; Terwelp, C.: Interconnected Tool-Assistance for Development of Agent-Oriented Software Systems In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD), part of International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K), Madeira, Portugal, October 2009, pages 308-315. Springer CCIS. ISBN: 978-989-674-012-2
  38. Armac, I.; Panchenko, A.; Pettau, M.; Retkowitz, D.: Privacy-Friendly Smart Environments In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2009), Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 2009. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3786-3 [pdf]
  39. Panchenko, A.; Westermann, B.; Pimenidis, L.; Andersson, C.: SHALON: Lightweight Anonymization based on Open Standards In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN 2009), San Francisco, California, USA, August 2009. IEEE Press. ISBN: 978-1-4244-4581-3 [pdf]
  40. Panchenko, A.; Renner, J.: Path Selection Metrics for Performance-Improved Onion Routing In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (IEEE SAINT 2009), Seattle, Washington, USA, July 2009. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3700-9 [pdf]
  41. Westermann, B.; Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.: A Kademlia-based Node Lookup System for Anonymization Networks In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009), Seoul, South Korea, June 2009, pages 179-189. Springer LNCS. Volume 5576. ISBN: 978-3-642-02616-4 [pdf] (Acceptance Rate: 29%)
  42. Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.: Cross-Layer Attack on Anonymizing Networks In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2008), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2008. IEEE Xplore. ISBN: 978-1-4244-2036-0 [pdf]
  43. Andersson, C.; Martucci, L.; Kohlweiss, M.; Panchenko, A.: A Self-certified and Sybil-Free Framework for Secure Digital Identity Domain Buildup In Proceedings of the Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices 2008: Smart Devices, Convergence and Next Generation Networks (WISTP 2008), Sevilla, Spain, May 2008. Springer LNCS. [Text] ISBN: 978-3-540-79965-8 [pdf]
  44. Martucci, L.; Kohlweiss, M.; Andersson, C.; Panchenko, A.: Self-certified Sybil-Free Pseudonyms: Introducing Privacy in Infrastructureless Wireless Networks In Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (ACM WiSec 2008), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, April 2008. ACM Press. ISBN: 978-1-59593-814-5 [pdf] (Acceptance Rate: 27%)
  45. Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.; Renner, J.: Performance Analysis of Anonymous Communication Channels Provided by Tor In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2008), Barcelona, Spain, March 2008, pages 221-228. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3102-1 [pdf] (Acceptance rate: 22%)
  46. Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.: Crowds Revisited: Practically Effective Predecessor Attack In Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT-Systems (NordSec 2007), Reykjavik, Iceland, October 2007. ISBN: 978-9979948346 [pdf]
  47. Krempels, K.-H.; Panchenko, A.: Preference-based Scheduling of Hospital Scenarios In Proceedings of the 21. Workshop "Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren, Entwerfen" (PuK 2007), Osnabrück, Deutschland, September 2007.
  48. Andersson, C.; Panchenko, A.: Practical Anonymous Communication on the Mobile Internet using Tor In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Value of Security through Collaboration (IEEE SECOVAL 2007) part of IEEE SECURECOMM'07, Nice, France, September 2007. ISBN: 1-4244-0975-6 [pdf]
  49. Krempels, K.-H.; Panchenko, A.: KR-driven Development Process Integration 10th Intl. Protégé Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007.
  50. Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.: Using Trust to Resist Censorship in the Presence of Collusion In Proceedings of the 22th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security Conference (IFIP SEC 2007), Springer IFIP Series in Computer Science 232, Sandton, South Africa, May 2007. ISBN: 978-0-387-72366-2 [pdf]
  51. Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.: Trust-Based Collusion Resistant Directory Service In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on System and Information Security (SSI 2006), Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 2006. ISBN: 85-87978-13-6
  52. Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.: Fundamental Limits of Anonymity Provided by Crowds In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on System and Information Security (SSI 2006), Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 2006. ISBN: 85-87978-13-6
  53. Panchenko, A.; Pimenidis, L.: Towards Practical Attacker Classification for Risk Analysis in Anonymous Communication In Proceedings of the 10th IFIP Conference in the Communications and Multimedia Security (IFIP CMS), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 2006. [Text] ISBN: 3-540-47820-5 [pdf]
  54. Krempels, K.-H.; Panchenko, A.: Dialog-Based Intelligent Operation Theatre Scheduler In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), E.K. Burke, H. Rudova (Eds.), pp. 524--527, Brno, Czech Republic, August 2006. ISBN: 80-210-3726-1
  55. Krempels, K.-H.; Panchenko, A.: An Approach for Automated Surgery Scheduling In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), E.K. Burke, H. Rudova (Eds.), pp. 209--233, Brno, Czech Republic, August 2006. ISBN: 80-210-3726-1
  56. Panchenko, A.: Preference-Based Scheduling of Operation Theaters, Master Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, June 2005.
  57. Becker, M.; Krempels, K.-H.; Navarro, M; Panchenko, A.: Agent Based Scheduling of Operation Theatres. In Proceedings of the EU-LAT Workshop on e-Health: Application of Computer Science in Medicine and Health Care, I. Rudomin, J. Varquez-Salceda, J.L. Diaz de Leon Santiago (Eds.), pp. 220--227, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Decemeber 2003. ISBN: 970-36-0118-9
  58. Emmes, F.; Krempels, K.-H.; Panchenko, A.: Agentenorientierte OP-Planung. Informatiktage 2003, Bad Schussenried, Germany, November 2003. Konradin Verlag. ISBN: 3-920560-21-3
  59. Panchenko, A.: Road Traffic Monitoring Systems. Seminar Datenkommunikation und Verteilte Systeme, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, July 2003.
  60. Hennig, K.; Krempels, K.-H.; Panchenko, A.: Lösen von Scheduling-Konflikten durch Verhandlungen zwischen Agenten. Informatiktage 2002, Bad Schussenried, Germany, November 2002. Konradin Verlag. ISBN: 3-920560-17-5

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