Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl

Professor for Cybersecurity (IMT Atlantique, FR), Adjunct Professor (Carlton University, CA)

Postal address

  • Institut für Informatik der
  • Technischen Universität München
  • Lehrstuhl I8
  • Boltzmannstr. 3
  • 85748 Garching bei München - Germany

Contact

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Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the Chair of Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (https://cyberni.fr/) at IMT Atlantique in Rennes, France. He is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver also heads the IoT Smart Space research team (https://s2o.net.in.tum.de/) at the Chair for Network Architectures and Services at Technical University of Munich.

Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (https://germany.acm.org/). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (https://future-industry.org/).

Marc-Oliver’s research focus is on a holistic approach to cybersecurity. He works on security-by-design, anomaly detection, human-in-the-loop, and automation. His goal is making cybersecurity manageable, resulting in highly resilient and reliable systems. Marc-Oliver publishes regularly in the network and service management and security communities.

Marc-Oliver is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer. He holds several teaching-related awards. Marc-Oliver developed various teaching concepts and teaches continuously at university level since 2004. Besides specialized audience, he continuously runs activities for fostering the dialog between science and society, including https://talk.cybercni.fr, https://future-iot.org, and https://being-human-with-algorithms.org.

Current Roles

  • Professor for Cybersecurity at the Institut Mines Telecom (IMT) Atlantique, Rennes, France (since 2019)
  • Head of the IoT Smart Space research team (s2o) (since 2014)
  • Coordinator of Digital Teaching for the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA) (since 2017)
  • Steering committee member of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA) (since 2017)
  • Vice-President German Chapter of the ACM (since 2020)

Details

Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the IoT Smart Space (s2o) research team. The s2o team focuses on enablers for a secure, interoperable, resilient, and scalable Internet of Things (IoT). The s2o team currently hosts the following PhD candidates:

Since October 2019, Marc-Oliver is also Research Director at the Institut Mines Telecom in Rennes, France.

During his PhD he developed the Distributed Smart Space Orchestration System (DS2OS), which structures and facilitates the creation of services that implement Pervasive Computing scenarios. The design of DS2OS provides a basis for crowdsourced software development for smart spaces, complementing the hardware maker culture that is currently emerging with platforms such as the Arduino.

Marc-Oliver Pahl studied Informatics at the Universität Tübingen with emphasis on computer networks, computer graphics, and media science. In 2008 he joined the Network Architectures and Services group at Technische Universität München where he finished his PhD with highest honor in 2014.

In 2003, Marc-Oliver Pahl created one of the first eLearning-supported hands-on labs in Germany. He developed a special blended learning concept for supporting and motivating students in their learning. Until 2014 more than 1200 students practically acquired basic and advanced networking skills in his lab courses. In 2013 he received the Ernst Otto Fischer teaching price from Technische Universität München. In 2020 he received the TUM supervisory award for outstanding PhD supervision.

Publications

2024-05-01 Lars Wüstrich, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Stephan Günther, Georg Carle, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Shells Bells: Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Data Centers,” in 2024 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024), Seoul, Korea, May 2024. [Pdf] [Bib]
2023-09-01 Lars Wüstrich, Markus Schacherbauer, Markus Budeus, Dominik Freiherr von Künßberg, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “Network Profiles for Detecting Application-Characteristic Behavior Using Linux eBPF,” in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions, New York, NY, USA, Sep. 2023, pp. 8–14. [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-01-01 Christian Lübben, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Distributed Device-Specific Anomaly Detection using Deep Feed-Forward Neural Networks,” in NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2023, pp. 1–9. [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-01-01 Christian Lübben, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Distributed Device-Specific Anomaly Detection for Resource-Constrained Devices,” in NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2023, pp. 1–3. Best Demo Award [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2022-04-01 Lars Wüstrich, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “AC/DCIM Acoustic Channels for Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring,” in 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022), Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 2022. [Pdf] [Slides] [Recording] [Poster] [Bib]
2022-01-01 Christian Lübben, Simon Schäffner, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Continuous Microservice Re-Placement in the IoT,” in NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2022, pp. 1–6. [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2022-01-01 Christian Lübben, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Autonomous convergence mechanisms for collaborative crowd-sourced data-modeling,” in NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2022, pp. 1–5. [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2021-11-01 Satu Paiho, Jussi Kiljander, Roope Sarala, Hanne Siikavirta, Olli Kilkki, Arpit Bajpai, Markus Duchon, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Lars Wüstrich, Christian Lübben, Erkin Kirdan, Josef Schindler, Jussi Numminen, Thomas Weisshaupt, “Towards Cross-Commodity Energy-Sharing Communities – A Review of the Market, Regulatory, and Technical Situation,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 151, p. 111568, Nov. 2021. [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2021-05-01 Lars Wüstrich, Lukas Schröder, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection for ICS,” in 2021 IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2021), Bordeaux, France (Virtual Conference), May 2021. [Bib]
2021-01-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Florian Bauer, Christian Lübben, “Pipeline for Crowdsourced IoT Data-Modeling with AI-Supported Convergence,” in 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), 2021, pp. 702–706. [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2021-01-01 Christian Lübben, Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Advances in ML-Based Anomaly Detection for the IoT,” in 2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet), 2021, pp. 18–22. [Url] [DOI] [Bib]
2020-01-01 Lars Wüstrich, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Stefan Liebald, “An extensible IoT Security Taxonomy,” in IEEE ISCC 2020, 2020. [Bib]
2020-01-01 Christian Lübben, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Mohammad Irfan Khan, “Using Deep Learning to Replace Domain Knowledge,” in IEEE ISCC 2020, 2020. [Bib]
2020-01-01 Alessandro Piccoli, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Lars Wüstrich, “Group Key Management in Constraint IoT Settings,” in IEEE ISCC 2020, 2020. [Bib]
2020-01-01 Nikolas Mühlbauer, Erkin Kirdan, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “Open-Source OPC UA Security and Scalability,” in ETFA 2020, 2020. [Bib]
2020-01-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “iLab@Home: Hands-On Networking Classes without Lab Access,” in Sigcomm 2020 Education, 2020. [Bib]
2019-11-01 M. Pahl, “Learning by Teaching: Professional Skills and New Technologies for University Education,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 74–80, Nov. 2019. [DOI] [Bib]
2019-04-01 Irfan Khan, Francois-Xavier Aubet, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Jérôme Härri, “Deep Learning-aided Resource Orchestration for Vehicular Safety Communication,” in 2019 Wireless Days (WD) (WD2019), Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain), Apr. 2019. [Bib]
2019-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Lorenzo Donini, “Giving IoT Edge Services an Identity and Changeable Attributes,” in International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), Washington DC, USA, Apr. 2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Stefan Liebald, “A Modular Distributed IoT Service Discovery,” in International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), Washington DC, USA, Apr. 2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Stefan Liebald, Lars Wüstrich, “Machine-learning based IoT Data Caching,” in Hot Topics in Network and Service Management (HotNSM) at International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), Washington DC, USA, Apr. 2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Multi-Tenant IoT Service Management towards an IOT App Economy,” in Hot Topics in Network and Service Management (HotNSM) at International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), Washington DC, USA, Apr. 2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-03-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Stefan Liebald, “Information-Centric IoT Middleware Overlay: VSL,” in 2019 International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys) (NetSys’19), Garching b. München, Germany, Mar. 2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-03-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Stefan Liebald, Christian Lübben, “DEMO: VSL: A Data-Centric Internet of Things Overlay,” in 2019 International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys) (NetSys’19), Garching b. München, Germany, Mar. 2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-02-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Taming the Internet of Things: DS2OS - a secure data-centric service-oriented approach.” Research talk at the UI Tromsø invited by Randi Karlson, Feb-2019. [Pdf] [Bib]
2019-01-01 Maximilian Von Tschirschnitz, Marcel Wagner, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “A Generalized TDoA/ToA Model for ToF Positioning,” CoRR, vol. abs/1909.09405, 2019. [Url] [Bib]
2019-01-01 Maximilian Von Tschirschnitz, Marcel Wagner, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “Clock Error Analysis of Common Time of Flight based Positioning Methods,” CoRR, vol. abs/1909.09398, 2019. [Url] [Bib]
2018-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Francois-Xavier Aubet, Stefan Liebald, “Graph-Based IoT Microservice Security,” in Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Apr. 2018. [Pdf] [Bib]
2018-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Markus Loipfinger, “Machine Learning as a Reusable Microservice,” in Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Apr. 2018. [Pdf] [Bib]
2018-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Lorenzo Donini, “Securing IoT Microservices with Certificates,” in Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Apr. 2018. [Pdf] [Bib]
2018-03-01 François-Xavier Aubet, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Stefan Liebald, Mohammad Reza Norouzian, “Graph-based Anomaly Detection for IoT Microservices,” in Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Mar. 2018. [Pdf] [Bib]
2017-01-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “The iLab Concept: Making Teaching Better, at Scale,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 178–185, 2017. [Url] [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2016-05-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, Gudrun Klinker, “Distributed Smart Space Orchestration,” in Network Operations and Management Symposium 2016 (NOMS 2016) - Dissertation Digest, May 2016. [Pdf] [Bib]
2015-05-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Data-Centric Service-Oriented Management of Things,” in 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2015), Ottawa, Canada, May 2015. [Pdf] [Bib]
2014-06-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “Distributed Smart Space Orchestration,” PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, München, Jun. 2014. [Pdf] [Bib]
2014-05-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “Crowdsourced Context-Modeling as Key to Future Smart Spaces,” in Network Operations and Management Symposium 2014 (NOMS 2014), May 2014. [Pdf] [Bib]
2013-10-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Heiko Niedermayer, Holger Kinkelin, Georg Carle, “Enabling Sustainable Smart Neighborhoods,” in 3rd IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability 2013 (SustainIT 2013), Palermo, Italy, Oct. 2013. [Pdf] [Bib]
2013-09-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “The iLab experience - a blended learning hands-on course concept.” EU Tempus Event for the Modernisation of Higher Education (invited talk), München, Sep-2013. [Pdf] [Bib]
2013-09-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “Taking Smart Space Users Into the Development Loop,” in UbiComp 2013 Adjunct (HomeSys 2013), Zürich, Switzerland, Sep. 2013. [Pdf] [Bib]
2013-01-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “The Missing Layer - Virtualizing Smart Spaces,” in 10th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services 2013 (MUCS 2013), San Diego, USA, 2013, pp. 139–144. [Pdf] [Bib]
2011-12-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “One Cloud for All - Virtual Revolution?” Dagstuhl Report on the Seminar Secure Computing in the Cloud, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, Dec-2011. [Url] [Bib]
2010-08-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “Automatic control and Management Platform (ACMP).” Demo at IPTComm 2010, Munich, Germany, Aug-2010. [Url] [Bib]
2010-03-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Andreas Müller, Mario Schuster, Thomas Luckenbach, Christoph Niedermeier, Juergen Reichmann, “AutHoNe - Autonomic Networking.” Celtic News, Mar-2010. [Bib]
2009-12-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, Christoph Niedermeier, Mario Schuster, Andreas Müller, Georg Carle, “Knowledge-Based Middleware for Future Home Networks,” in IEEE IFIP Wireless Days conference Paris, Paris, France, Dec. 2009. [Url] [Pdf] [Bib]
2009-09-01 Heiko Niedermayer, Ralph Holz, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Georg Carle, “On Using Home Networks and Cloud Computing for a Future Internet of Things,” in Proc. Future Internet Symposium 2009 (FIS 2009), Berlin, Germany, Sep. 2009. [Bib]
2009-04-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl Thomas Luckenbach Mario Schuster, “An Autonomic Home Networking Infrastructure,” ERCIM News - Special theme: Future Internet Technology, no. 77, p. 41, Apr. 2009. [Url] [Bib]
2008-07-01 Georg Carle, Holger Kinkelin, Andreas Müller, Heiko Niedermayer, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Alexander König, Thomas Luckenbach, Klaus Scholl, Mario Schuster, Lasse Thiem, Leo Petrak, Markus Steinmetz, Christoph Niedermeier, Jürgen Reichmann, “Autonomic Home Networks in the BMBF project AutHoNe,” in 8th Würzburg Workshop on IP (EuroView 2008), Jul. 2008. [Bib]
2008-01-01 Marc-Oliver Pahl, “spy360.net - Webcampanoramen bis 360 Grad in HDR,” diploma thesis, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, 2008. [Pdf] [Bib]