Below we give examples for open thesis topics for bachelor and master projects. Students who attended at least one of our courses are very welcome to contact us regarding more unannounced topics or to apply for innovative self-proposed topics that match our research profile. To allow us to find a suitable topic, please send a list of courses you attended successfully, ideally in form of a current transcript of records.
For an idea what our thesis topics can be about, check out currently running and finished theses.
Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis
The goal of this thesis is (1) to analyze the existing file formats for describing circuits for secure multi-party computation (MPC) and (2) to design a new well-defined, flexible file format and in-memory intermediate representation for describing MPC functionalities, circuits, and implementation-specific optimizations.
Master Thesis
Privacy has become a crucial topic that nowadays is addressed in a wide range of domains outside of cryptography. It has been shown that such research proposing non-standard secure computation constructions can be seriously flawed, as fundamental impossibility results were not considered. This thesis aims at surveying the literature for such cases, identifying misuse of secure computation, and proposing specific attacks and, if possible, fixes.
Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis
This thesis should investigate and improve the efficiency of state-of-the-art privacy-preserving neural network training leveraging trusted execution environments (TEEs).
Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis
This thesis should investigate and improve the state-of-the-art in privacy-preserving clustering by designing a highly efficient and practical private clustering scheme that achieves good clustering quality.
