Martin Stopczynski, M.Sc.

SIT Research Group, PhD Student 

About Me

Since October 2011, Martin Stopczynski has been working as a PhD student in the SIT Research Group of Prof. Dr. Michael Waidner at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. As an employee at  Fraunhofer SIT, Martin Stopczynski is also working on different projects within the field of IT Security and Privacy.
Before joining the research group, he was working as a student assisten in the SecUSo Research Group at CASED supporting among others the project 'Usability Analysis and Interface Improvement of the E2E Verifiable Helios Internet Voting System' supervised by Dr. Melanie Volkamer. In this position he also assisted the group of Prof. Thorsten Strufe in evaluating a user-friendly privacy interface for the online social network Facebook. 
Martin Stopczynski obtained his Bachelor in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2009; the topic of his thesis was “Advanced User Interface Management to Interact with Secure Connections in Browsers”.
He graduated from the Technische Universität Darmstadt with a Master's degree in Computer Science in 2011. The topic of his thesis was “Analysis and Design of new Scenarios for Protecting Websites”, supervised by Dr. Melanie Volkamer.

Research Interests

• Secure Engineering
• Privacy and Identity Management
• Awareness of Security Threats and Privacy on Websites
• Detection and Prevention of Web-Tracking and Browser-Fingerprinting

Teaching

Next Term:

• Seminar: Advances in Security and Privacy

Current Term:

• Web Application Security & Privacy Lab (Praktikum)

Past Terms:

• Seminar: Advances in Security and Privacy (2012)
• Seminar Security and Privacy in Information Technology (2012)
• Grundlagen der Informatik 1 - Assistant (2012) 
• Seminar Advances in Security and Privacy (2011)
• Bachelor Praktikum (Dashboard in Smart Grid) (2011)

Fraunhofer SIT Projects

•  Browser Tracking Protection List 

Talks

2011:

• Usability Analysis and Interface Improvement of the E2E Verifiable Helios Internet Voting System, in: HCI2011 - Workshop "Health, Wealth and Identity Theft", Newcastle/UK, July 2011.

Conferences

• Reviewer: GI Sicherheit 2012, PETS 2012, CCS 2012, ESORICS 2012