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M.Sc. Michaela Brunner

Technische Universität München

Lehrstuhl für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (Prof. Sigl)

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Lehrstuhl für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (Prof. Sigl)

Theresienstr. 90(0101)/1.ZG
80333 München

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  • E-Mail: michaela.brunner(at)tum.de

Raum: N1008ZG

Research Interests

  • Sequential netlist reverse engineering
  • Gate-level netlist analysis
  • Netlist obfuscation and locking methods

Teaching

Embedded Systems and Security WiSe 18/19, WiSe 19/20, SoSe 20, SoSe 21, SoSe 22

Open positions for students

If you are interested to be involved in one of my research topics as part of your Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis or research internship, feel free to contact me. In addition to the topics below, also unsolicited applications are always welcome.

Publications

2024

  • Brunner, Michaela and Lee, Hye Hyun and Hepp, Alexander and Baehr, Johanna and Sigl, Georg: Hardware Honeypot: Setting Sequential Reverse Engineering on a Wrong Track. 2024 27th International Symposium on Design & Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS), 2024Kielce, Poland more… BibTeX
  • Mildner, Michael and Brunner, Michaela and Gruber, Michael and Baehr, Johanna and Sigl, Georg: Fault-Simulation-Based Flip-Flop Classification for Reverse Engineering. 2024 27th International Symposium on Design & Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS), 2024Kielce, Poland more… BibTeX

2023

  • Lippmann, Bernhard and Hatsch, Joel and Seidl, Stefan and Houdeau, Detlef and Subrahmanyam, Niranjana Papagudi and Schneider, Daniel and Safieh, Malek and Passarelli, Anne and Maftun, Aliza and Brunner, Michaela and Music, Tim and Pehl, Michael and Siddiqui, Tauseef and Brederlow, Ralf and Schlichtmann, Ulf and Driemeyer, Bjoern and Ortmanns, Maurits and Hesselbarth, Robert and Hiller, Matthias: VE-FIDES: Designing Trustworthy Supply Chains Using Innovative Fingerprinting Implementations. 2023 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2023 more… BibTeX

2022

  • Baehr, Johanna and Hepp, Alexander and Brunner, Michaela and Malenko, Maja and Sigl, Georg: Open Source Hardware Design and Hardware Reverse Engineering: A Security Analysis. Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design DSD, 2022Maspalomas, Gran Canarias, Spain more… BibTeX
  • Brunner, Michaela and Hepp, Alexander and Baehr, Johanna and Sigl, Georg: Toward a Human-Readable State Machine Extraction. ACM Trans. Des. Autom. Electron. Syst. 27 (6), 2022 more… BibTeX
  • Brunner, Michaela; Ibrahimpasic, Tarik; Li, Bing; Zhang, Grace Li; Schlichtmann, Ulf; Sigl, Georg: Timing Camouflage Enabled State Machine Obfuscation. 2022 IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), 2022Huntsville, USA more… BibTeX

2021

  • Ludwig, Matthias and Hepp, Alexander and Brunner, Michaela and Baehr, Johanna: CRESS: Framework for Vulnerability Assessment of Attack Scenarios in Hardware Reverse Engineering. 2021 IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), 2021Washington DC, US more… BibTeX

2020

  • Brunner, M. and Gruber, M. and Tempelmeier, M. and Sigl, G.: Logic Locking Induced Fault Attacks. 2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2020Limassol, CYPRUS more… BibTeX
  • Zhang, G. L. and Li, B. and Li, M. and Yu, B. and Pan, D. Z. and Brunner, M. and Sigl, G. and Schlichtmann, U.: TimingCamouflage+: Netlist Security Enhancement with Unconventional Timing. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systemsde IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems , 2020, 1-1 more… BibTeX
  • Zhang, G. L. and Brunner, M. and Li, B. and Sigl, G.and Schlichtmann, U.: Timing Resilience for Efficient and Secure Circuits. 2020 25th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2020Beijing, China, 623-628 more… BibTeX

2019

  • Brunner, M. and Baehr, J. and Sigl, G.: Improving on State Register Identification in Sequential Hardware Reverse Engineering. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2019Washington, D.C., USA more… BibTeX
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