Ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Fakultät
Dominik Herrmann was a coordinator of the degree programmes and students' advisor at the Faculty.
His overall research interests are security and privacy (in communication networks and in software/hardware systems). This includes the development of systems that provide anonymity and unobservability to end users. Recently, he has become interested in the application of data mining techniques to current challenges in IT security.
Since 2002 he studied Management Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at University of Regensburg. He graduated in March 2008 with the degree `Diplom with Honors` in the Elite Network of Bavaria (Elitenetzwerk Bayern). In 2006, he visited University College Dublin, Ireland, where he attended various computer science classes. His studies were sponsored by stipends from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Bavarian state. His diploma thesis on traffic analysis attacks against encryptedly transmitted websites (`Analyse von datenschutzfreundlichen Übertragungstechniken hinsichtlich ihres Schutzes vor Datenverkehrsanalysen im Internet`, working title: website fingerprinting) was awarded the 1st place of the CAST sponsorship award 2008 (1. Platz beim CAST-Förderpreis 2008 in Kategorie 1 Master-Diplomarbeiten).
During his studies he founded his own company which supports schools with their IT needs. He briefly peeked into the world of global business during two internships at McKinsey&Company (BTO) and Deutsche Bank (GTO GSS). Since April 2008 he works as programme coordinator for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Business Information Systems at University of Regensburg. In this role he is supporting Studiendekan Prof. Dr. Hannes Federrath in various areas in order to improve the overall service quality and the quality of teaching at the Faculty. In parallel, Dominik is working on his PhD thesis in the field of IT security.
In May 2011 he relocated to the Security in Distributed Systems research group at University of Hamburg.
