Ben Stock
Tenured Faculty At CISPA Helmholtz Center For Information Security
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolBen Stock is a tenured faculty member and group leader at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security with eight years of focused experience in web, network, and malware security research. He progressed from a PhD and research fellowship at University Erlangen-Nuremberg to postdoctoral work and a tenure-track appointment at CISPA, and spent a Microsoft Research internship honing malware-detection techniques. Ben blends academic rigor with hands-on offensive practice—co-founding a university CTF team and actively recruiting students into competitive security contests—which informs his pragmatic, tooling-oriented research. Based in Saarbrücken, he publishes and leads work on secure web applications and systems, translating deep technical insights into practical defenses and student mentorship.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtDr.-Ing., Dr.-Ing. at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergBSc, Informatik, BSc, Informatik at Universität Mannheim
English
Github Skills (14)
science10
computer-science10
react10
ranking10
security10
application-security9
vulnerabilities9
owasp9
privacy8
chrome-extension6
chrome6
browser5
foundation4
caniuse2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ben-stock/CSrankings
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues.
Contributions:6 pushes in 11 months
reactscienceresearch-outputselectivedepartments
ben-stock/sec-deadlines.github.io
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
Deadline countdowns for academic conferences in Security and Privacy
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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