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Marc-Oliver Pahl

Professor for Cybersecurity at IMT Atlantique | Chairholder CyberCNI.fr | VP German Chapter of the ACM | Cybersecurity Expert | Speaker at IMT Atlantique

Marc-Oliver Pahl is Professor at the Technical University IMT Atlantique at the campus Rennes, Brittany, France. He heads the Chair of Cybersecurity in Critical Networked Infrastructures (Cyber CNI) with currently 9 PhD students, 4 PostDocs, and 11 associated professors. He also supervises PhD students at Technical University of Munich.

Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver’s research focus is on a holistic approach to cybersecurity. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards.

Marc-Oliver holds a Diploma from University of Tübingen and a PhD from 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.

Latest posts by Marc-Oliver Pahl (see all)

• 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2025 - January 31, 2025
• Manage-IoT 2025: 5th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management - January 16, 2025
• Season’s Greetings from the Chair Cyber CNI! - December 26, 2024

My research

My research domain is cybersecurity. I follow a holistic multi-disciplinary approach, including the areas security-by-design, continuous monitoring and data analytics for anomaly detection, (semi-) automated defence for increasing resilience, and human-in-the-loop with multi-modal 3D interfaces.

Some keywords are: cybersecurity, security-by-design, digital twins, anomaly detection, semantics, microservices, middleware, access control, authentication, authorization, certificate-based security, end-to-end security, secure middle, peer-to-peer.

My publications

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title = {On using home networks and cloud computing for a future internet of things},

author = {Heiko Niedermayer and Ralph Holz and Marc-Oliver Pahl and Georg Carle},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

booktitle = {Future Internet-FIS 2009: Second Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2009, Berlin, Germany, September 1-3, 2009 2},

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@article{pahl2010authone,

title = {AutHoNe-Autonomic Networking},

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@inproceedings{pahl2009knowledge,

title = {Knowledge-based middleware for future home networks},

author = {Marc-Oliver Pahl and Andreas M\"{u}ller and Georg Carle and Christoph Niedermeier and Mario Schuster},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

booktitle = {2009 2nd IFIP Wireless Days (WD)},

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@article{luckenbach2009autonomic,

title = {An autonomic home networking infrastructure},

author = {Thomas Luckenbach and Mario Schuster and Marc-Oliver Pahl},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {ERCIM News},

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@article{Pahl2009,

title = {Knowledge-based middleware for future home networks},

author = {Marc Oliver Pahl and Andreas M\"{u}ller and Georg Carle and Christoph Niedermeier and Mario Schuster},

doi = {10.1109/WD.2009.5449684},

isbn = {9781424456604},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {2009 2nd IFIP Wireless Days, WD 2009},

abstract = {Humans are lazy. They want to get as much support and assistance in their daily life as possible. To provide sophisticated digital butler functionality a system has to monitor the humans and their environment to understand their desires. It has to control all devices to translate the deduced wills into actions. To provide an integrated intelligent environment to the residents it is necessary to overcome the borders of different manufacturers, devices and access technologies. A management and control middleware is needed that shields users as well as high level management services from the technical details of the network of devices by providing a standardized, resilient and secure communication channel. We present a knowledge-based middleware as base for that purpose in this paper. The novel approach is the transparent connection of highly heterogeneous home devices by requiring only very limited functionality per device. Our design allows the desired high autonomicity in a secure and efficient way},

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@inproceedings{carle2008autonomic,

title = {Autonomic Home Networks in the BMBF project AutHoNe},

author = {Georg Carle and Holger Kinkelin and Andreas M\"{u}ller and Heiko Niedermayer and Marc-Oliver Pahl and Alexander K\"{o}nig and Thomas Luckenbach and Klaus Scholl and Mario Schuster and Lasse Thiem and others},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

booktitle = {8th W\"{u}rzburg Workshop on IP (EuroView 2008)},

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@article{pahl2008spy360,

title = {spy360. net-Webcampanoramen bis 360 Grad in HDR},

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@article{awalehdetection,

title = {Detection and Defense of Cyber-Physical Attacks},

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title = {Formalization of network properties for resilient DLTs},

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@article{martignonalberto,

title = {Alberto Schaeffer-Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Andr\'{e}s Murillo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Eduardo Cerqueira, Universidade Federal do Par\'{a} \& University of California, Los Angeles, Brazil},

author = {Fabio Martignon and Farid Benbadis and France Hassine Moungla and France Descartes and Jocelyne Elias and Lu\'{i}s Henrique Costa and Marc-Oliver Pahl and France Marcelo Carvalho and Marcelo Rubinstein and Maurizio Naldi and others},

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My students

I am continuously supervising students since 2008. I supervised more than 150 Master- and Bachelor theses, 5 PhD theses at Tu Munich, and 6 PhD theses at IMT Atlantique.

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Alexandre Kabil

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Anthony DAVID

Internship student at IMT Atlantique

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Awaleh Houssein Meraneh

PhD student at IMT Atlantique

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• IMT Symposium: Awaleh HOUSSEIN MERANEH, “Side-channels based intrusion detection for industrial control systems” - May 18, 2022

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Christian Lübben

PhD student at TU München

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Erkin Kirdan

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Julius Bünger

PhD Student at IMT Atlantique

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Lars Wüstrich

PhD student at TU München

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Léo Lavaur

PhD Student at IMT Atlantique

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• We welcomed the CEO of EDF - October 30, 2023
• Tutorial on Federated Learning at the Networks of the Future conference 2023 in Izmir - October 27, 2023
• IMT Symposium: Léo Lavaur, “Federated Approaches to Defend Cyber-Attacks” - April 13, 2022

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Manel SMINE

PhD student at IMT Atlantique

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• IMT Symposium: Manel Smine “Software-defined Security for Network Function Virtualization” - May 2, 2022

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Mathis Frouin

Internship student at IMT Atlantique

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• [RU1/21] Mariana SEGOVIA, Cyber résilience des systèmes cyber physiques et tolérance aux attaques - October 13, 2021
• [RU1/21] Manel SMINE, Software Defined Security for Internet of Things - October 6, 2021
• [RU1/21] Hassan CHAITOU, Optimizing security risk learning on data in presence of heterogenity - September 29, 2021

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Nicolas Delcombel

PhD Student at IMT Atlantique

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• IMT Symposium: Nicolas Delcombel, “Virtual Reality for cybersecurity” - April 20, 2022
• Cyber CNI 2021 fall Research Updates: Update of our Platform - March 16, 2022
• Cyber CNI 2021 fall Research Updates: revue of the year 2021 - March 9, 2022

My teaching

I am teaching continuously at universities since 2003. I received multiple awards for my teaching including the 2013 Ernst Otto Fischer teaching award for excellent teaching and the 2020 supervisory award for excellent PhD supervision, both from Technical University of Munich.

Lighthouse activities are:

• The conception, creation, and operation of the biggest computer networks and distributed systems hands-on class series in Germany, the iLab, more at https://ilab.ilabxp.com/
• The MOOC iLabX – The Internet Masterclass https://ilabx.ilabxp.com/
• The PhD school series Future-IoT: IoT meets… More at https://future-iot.org/

The following table gives an overview on my teaching activities:

Current Positions

• Full Professor (2019-) Directeur de Recherches Grande Ecole (Technical University) Institut Mines Télécom
  (IMT) Atlantique (prior Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne) / Department SRCD / Chaire Cyber CNI, Rennes, France
• Chairholder of the Chaire Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (Cyber CNI) (1/2020-)
  • –  8 professors
  • –  1 engineer
  • –  3 post-docs
  • –  11 PhDs
  • –  5industrypartners(Airbus,Amossys,BNPParibas,EDF, Nokia Bell Labs)
  • –  2 regional partners (Région Bretagne, Pôle d’Excellence Cyber)
• Previously Co-Director of the multi-institute research team(UMR6285) LAB-STICC/IRIS (Sécurité et Résilience des Systèmes d’Information) (1/2020-2/2021) – 14 professors
  – 1 research position – 1 technician
  – 11 post-docs
  – 22 PhDs
• Member of the Steering Committee of the German-French Academy for the industry of the future (GFA) (2019-)
• Coordinator“FutureEducation” of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA) (2017-)
• Adjunct Professor, Carleton University, Canada (2019-)
• Vice-President, German Chapter of the ACM (2020-)

Previous Academic Position

• 2014-2020 Head of the IoT Smartspace Research Team at the Chair for Network Architectures and Services at Technical University of Munich, Germany – 5 PhD students and more than 200 Master, Bachelor and Diploma students under my supervision. – ProLehre Media and Didactics / External lecturer
• 2016-2017 Advisor of the Board of the Munich Center for Internet Research (MCIR), preparation of the transition to the current Bavarian Institute of Digital Transformation (BIDT)
• 2008-2014 Researcher and Lecturer at the Technical University of Munich
• 2005 External consultant for the interactive learning DVD “Netzwerktechnik” and Trainer at German “Berufsschulen”

Awards

• Supervisory Award for excellent PhD supervision (Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2020)
• Ernst Otto Fischer Lehrpreis (outstanding teaching award) (Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2013)
• Excellent teaching award (Technical University of Munich, 2018)
• Excellent teaching award (Technical University of Munich, 2016)
• Excellent teaching award (Technical University of Munich, 2015)
• Excellent teaching award (Technical University of Munich, 2014)
• Fellowship of the Klaus Tschira Foundation for the Heidel- berg Laureate Forum (2016)

Education

• 2018 Zertifikat Hochschullehre der Bayerischen Universitäten – Vertiefungsstufe (highest teaching certificate of Bavaria)
• 2014 PhD (Summa cum Laude), Technical University of Munich, “Distributed Smart Space Orchestration,” Focus on Internet of Things, Advisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Carle, Munich; Prof. Gudrun Klinker, PhD, Munich
• 2008 Diploma (1.0 (best possible grade)), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, “spy360.net — Webcampanoramen bis 360 Grad in HDR,” Focus on Image Processing, Advisors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schilling, Tübingen; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Straßer, Tübingen

Languages

• German (mother tongue): fluent
• English (working language): fluent
• French (working language): fluent
• Latin (“Großes Latinum”)

Memberships

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• German Chapter of the ACM (GChACM) – Vice-President (2020-2023; 2 terms)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation
• German Society for Informatics (GI)
• Deutscher Hochschullehrerverband (DHV)

Invited Talks

1. “, “ AI for industry summer school, 2021
2. Young Security Conference (YSC) 2021
3. “CollaborativeRemoteSituationalCybersecurityAwareness,” SNCF Cyber Fusion Center, 2021
4. “A holistic Approach to Cybersecurity, “ New Brunswick Cybersummit, 2021
5. “IoT meets Security, “ 3rd Future-IoT PhD school, 2020
6. “When data is the new oil, it is our role to prevent the blowout!, “ AI for industry summer school, 2020
7. “When COVID-19 brings out the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, ” Atos Popup College, 2020
8. “When Data is the New Oil, Security is the Blowout Preventer, ” IDSA VIRTUAL EXPO “Scaling in Europe with Data Sovereignty – a French Perspective”, 2020
9. “IoT Smart Environment Research Vision, ” IMT Atlantique Séminaire au Vert, Département SRCD, Carnac, France, 2019 ̈
10. “Ziemlich beste Freunde? Uber die Vereinbarkeit von Digitaler Transformation und Privatsphäre” (Pretty much best friends? On the compatibility of digital transformation and privacy), German Informatics Society, Munich, Germany, 2019
11. “Privacy or why should I care? Security and Privacy aspects of Autonomous Driving,” Autonomous Vehicle Safety and Security meetup, Munich, Germany, 2019
12. “Cross-layer optimization for time- and security-critical IoT applications,” Huawei, San Jose, USA, 2019
13. “Composing the (Industrial) Internet of Things(IIoT),”Siemens CKI Forum, Munich, Germany, 2019
14. “Taming the Internet of Things: DS2OS – a secure data- centric service-oriented approach,” Arctic University (Randi Karlson), Tromsø, Norway, 2019
15. “Securing the Internet of Things – Because it is Your Data!,” Data61/ CSIRO (Ingo Weber), Sydney, Australia, 2018
16. “The Future of Teaching? How Combining Online and Of- fline Learning can become the Key,” University of Sydney (Ralph Holz), Sydney, Australia, 2018
17. “Securing the Internet of Things,” keynote at the AdHoc Now conference (Nicolas Montavont), St. Malo, France, 2018
18. “The iLab Concept – Making Teaching better, at Scale,” Ja- cobs University Bremen (Jürgen Schönwälder), Bremen, Ger- many, 2018
19. “Smart Space Orchestration – How to make the Internet of Things smart?”, Eurecom (Jérome Härri), Sophia Antipolis, France, 2016
20. “Datenzentrierte Modulare Gebäudeautomatisierung im Internet der Dinge,” (Datacentric Modular Building Automation
    in the Internet of Things), keynote at the IT4ENERGY-Workshop 2015 – Dezentrale Energiesysteme in der Gebäude- und Wohnungswirtschaft (Armin Wolf), Berlin, Germany, 2015
21. “ServiceorientierteArchitektureninBaaS,”(Service-Oriented Architectures in BaaS), keynote at the IT4ENERGY-Workshop 2014 – Gebäudewirtschaft und Energienetze (Thomas Luckenbach), Berlin, Germany, 2014
22. “The iLab experience – a blended learning hands-on course concept,” keynote at the EU Tempus Event for the Modernisation of Higher Education (Helmut Seidl), Munich, Germany, 2013

Raised Funding

I am constantly mounting projects with a volume for my groups of over 2 000 000 EUR (in overall projects of several 10 MEUR) until 2021. I am experienced in the national and international public and private funding acquisition sectors. From the beginning, I am often in leading roles in projects. The funding covers research and teaching activities.

Project Coordination

• 2018-2021 BMBF/ Business Finland (DE, FI) Decentralized Cross-commodity Energy Management (DECENT): Overall coordinator DE consortium, PI TUM
• 2013-2016 BMBF / ITEA (DE, ES, TR) Building as a Service (BaaS): Technical Coordinator, PI TUM
• 2008-2011 BMBF / CELTIC (DE, FR, SE) Autonomic Home Networking (Authone): Technical Project Lead TUM
• Lead author of numerous national and international proposals that unluckily did not get funded.

Community Service

• Publication co-chair, ACM/ IEEE/ IFIP Network Operations and Service Managment (NOMS) 2022
• Experience Session Co-Chair of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) 2021
• Workshop Co-Chair ACM/ IEEE/ IFIP Network Operations and Service Managment (NOMS) 2020
• Student Travel Grant Chair ACM/ IEEE/ IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) 2019
• Associate Editor ACM International Journal of Network Ma- nagement (IJNM) (2018-)
• Guest Editor Special Issue Wiley’s Internet Technology Let- ters (with Michel Barbeau (Carlton University, Canada; Joaquin, IMT Sud Paris, France) 2019
• General Co-Chair of the IFIP / IEEE Decentralized Orchestration and Management of Distributed Heterogeneous Things (DOMINOS) Workshop 2018, 2019
• TPC Co-Chair Global Information Infrastructure and Net- working Symposium (GIIS) 2019, IEEE International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (Adhoc-Now) 2018
• Panel Co-Chair of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) 2019
• Demo Co-Chair IFIP / IEEE Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT) 2018
• Organizer IFIP / IEEE HOT topics in Network and Service Management (HOTNSM) 2019
• Organizer IFIP / IEEE Distributed Orchestration and Management of Distributed Heterogeneous Things (DOMINOS) 2018

My review activity

I am in the OC of multiple conferences, mainly in the network service and management community.

Conferences

To be filled

• 2022-01 CIoT
• 2021-12 ICC

Journals

• 2022-01 TNSM

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