Christian Wressnegger
Professor at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Wressnegger is a security-focused researcher and software engineer with 13 years of experience blending machine learning, distributed systems, and applied computer security. He progressed from industry roles in distributed-systems engineering to multi-institutional academic research, culminating in professorship at KIT after PhD work at Göttingen and TU Braunschweig. His work sits at the intersection of practical software engineering and adversarial ML, bringing algorithmic rigor to real-world security problems. Colleagues know him for translating complex research into production-ready tools and for a rare career path that moved from electrical/mechatronics roots through robotics vision to applied security research. Based in Karlsruhe, he combines deep technical breadth with a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration and teaching.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Applied Machine Learning in Computer Security, PhD, Applied Machine Learning in Computer Security at Georg-August-Universität GöttingenMSc, IT-Security, Computational Intelligence, MSc, IT-Security, Computational Intelligence at Graz University of TechnologyMechatronics, Mechatronics at HTBLA2 LinzBSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at Johannes Kepler University Linz
Github Skills (31)
ngram10
similarity9
ranking9
vector-space9
react8
unit-test8
computer-science8
science8
machine-learning8
tar7
ctest7
zip6
zstd5
7zip5
backup5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chwress/salad
Sep 2013 - Jun 2016
A Content Anomaly Detector based on n-Grams
Contributions:2 releases, 181 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
ngram
chwress/ctest
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:19 pushes, 18 branches in 17 days
testingtest-frameworkunitctestunit-test
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