M. Sc. Jens Ernstberger
Postal address
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Munich
Associate Professorship of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things
Arcisstr. 21
80333 Munich - Germany
Contact
E-mail: jens.ernstberger@tum.de
Languages: English, German
Room: 0509.04.3965
Research Interests
You can find an overview of the research projects I am involved in here
- Security & Privacy
- Data Sovereignty
- Decentralized Finance
Publications
- SoK: Data Sovereignty
Jens Ernstberger, Jan Lauinger, Fatima Elsheimy, Liyi Zhou,
Sebastian Steinhorst, Ran Canetti, Andrew Miller, Arthur Gervais and Dawn Song
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023 - Blockchain Censorship
Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin,
Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin,
Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais - Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options
Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou, Phillip Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais
Financial Cryptography 2023 - SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Incidents
Liyi Zhou, Xihan Xiong, Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Zhipeng Wang,
Ye Wang, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Dawn Song, and Arthur Gervais
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2023 - A-PoA: Anonymous Proof of Authorization for Decentralized Identity Management
Lauinger, Jan; Ernstberger, Jens; Regnath, Emanuel; Hamad, Mohammad, Steinhorst, Sebastian
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2021
Talks
- SoK: Data Sovereignty [Video]
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC), Berkeley, November 2022 - SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks
Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, Lunch Seminar, September 2022 - An Empirical Study of DeFi Liquidations: Incentives, Risks, and Instabilities
Science of Blockchain Conference, Stanford, August 2022 - Data Sovereignty and Decentralized Data Science
UC Berkeley Haas Institute for Business Innovation, IBI Brown Bag Seminar, July 2022
Teaching
| Course | Semester |
| Software Architecture for Distributed Embedded Systems | WS21/22, WS22/23 |
| Seminar Embedded Systems and IoT | WS21/22, SS22, WS22/23, SS23 |
Supervision
| Name | Topic | Type |
| Trung Nguyen | Decentralized Finance Attack Optimization (Ongoing) | BA |
| Nader Bennour | Early Identification of Security Issues in Decentralized Finance | BA |
| Tobias Krug | Scaling Verification of Data Provenance | MA |
| Zucheng Han | Investigating Airdrop Clustering Heuristics on Ethereum | FP |
| Yinnan Wu | Liberating Web Data with Decentralized Oracles | MA |
| Venkata Prasanna Kumar Nandyala | On-Chain Identity Management Framework with policy Based Access Control | MA |
Request for work
If you are interested in doing your research internship or master's thesis with me, then feel free get in touch with me via e-mail.
You can find current proposals for thesis topics here.
In the e-mail, please state your area of interest as well as your motivation to work on the respective topic. Please include a timely resume, a grade report and your desired starting date.
Below are some of the topics that I am involved in:
- Decentralized Identity Management
- Identity Management in the context of Decentralized Finance
- Decentralized Access Control for user-centric architectures
- Bockchain-based auditable storage and sharing of IoT data