Vincent Immler

Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oregon State University

Security From the Ground Up!

Vincent Immler is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University. Beforehand, he was a subject matter expert in cryptanalysis at the Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector, a German government agency serving the law enforcement and intelligence community. He is author of the 2018 Best Paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) which presented a novel anti-tamper envelope. In the past, he also worked for Fraunhofer Institute AISEC, IBM R&D, and ESCRYPT Inc.

Interests

Hardware Security
Reverse-Engineering/Hacking
Embedded Software Security
Anti-Tamper Mechanisms
Digital Forensics
Applied Cryptography
High-Performance Computing

Education

PhD in Hardware Security, 2019

TU Munich
MSc in IT Security, 2013

Ruhr University Bochum
BSc in IT Security, 2010

Ruhr University Bochum

Advising

I am fortunate to advise the following great researchers and students at Oregon State University:

Garren Dutto [ECE] (MS, Winter 2024 - present)
Gabriel Cojocaru [ECE] (PhD, Fall 2023 - present)
Darius Salagean [ECE] (PhD, Fall 2023 - present)
Stefan Ene [CS] (BS, Honors Thesis, Winter 2024 - present)
Stefan Ene [CS] (BS, REU, Summer 2023)
Luke Dobrean [CS] (BS, Workforce Development, Summer 2023)
Julio Ruiz Ibarra [CS] (BS, Workforce Development, Summer 2023 - Fall 2023)
Jonah Bosland [CS] (BS, Workforce Development, Summer 2023 - Fall 2023)
Trevor Horine [ECE] (MS, Winter 2023 - Fall 2023)
Daniil Lytikov [ECE] (MS, Winter 2023 - Fall 2023)
Stan Lyakhov [CS] (MS, Winter 2022 - Spring 2023)

Teaching

I have been teaching the following courses at Oregon State University:

CS 579/ECE 599: Physical Attacks and Countermeasures (Winter 2024)
CS/ECE 372: Introduction to Computer Networks (Spring 2023)
CS 579/ECE 599: Physical Attacks and Countermeasures (Winter 2023)
CS/ECE 372: Introduction to Computer Networks (Spring 2022)
CS 599/ECE 599: Physical Attacks and Countermeasures (Winter 2022)

Experience

Assistant Professor

Oregon State University

Dec 2021 – Present Corvallis, Oregon

Teaching hardware security (attacks and countermeasures), networks (foundations), advising students, and doing research.

Subject Matter Expert for Cryptanalysis

Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector

Apr 2019 – Dec 2021 Munich, Germany

Serving Germany’s law enforcement and intelligence community in the areas of cryptanalysis and digital forensics.

Security Researcher

Fraunhofer Institute AISEC

Oct 2013 – Mar 2019 Garching near Munich, Germany

Research and development for industry projects. In parallel to PhD studies at TU Munich.