Vladislav Mladenov
My name is Vladislav Mladenov. I'm a PostDoc at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Research Interests
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Information & Data Security |
Investigation of technologies protecting sensitive data, e.g., documents, from unauthorized access, misuse, disclosure, destruction, alteration, or disruption. |
| Authentication & Authorization |
Discovery, exploitation and measurement of modern and widely deployed authentication and authorization protocols in web, industry systems, and IoT. |
| Data Format Security |
Multiple scientific contributions related to the security of widely deployed data formats like JSON, XML, and PostScript |
| Network Protocols | Security analysis of network protocols used in public and private networks. |
Scientific Career
| since 2025 | Junior Research Group Leader |
| since 06.2022 | Project Coordinator, Project "North Rhine-Westphalian Experts on Research in Digitalization" (NERD II), Bochum. - Tasks: Project supervision and administration |
| since 01.07.2021 | Associated Principal Investigator, Cluster of Excellence CASA - Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries, Bochum. - Tasks: Supporting PhD students, Networking |
| since 01.10.2020 | Postdoc, Chair for Network and Data Security, Bochum. - Tasks: Teaching, Supporting PhD students, Research, Projects acquisition |
| 04.2020-09.2022 | Substitute Professorship, Cyber Physical Systems, Konstanz. - Tasks: Teaching, Research |
| 07.2017-03.2020 | Postdoc, Chair for Network and Data Security, Bochum. - Tasks: Teaching, Supporting PhD students, Research, Projects acquisition |
| 02.2012-06.2017 | Ph.D., Chair for Network and Data Security, Ruhr University Bochum. Title: ”On the Security of Single Sign-On” Supervisor: Prof. Jörg Schwenk, Advisor: Prof. Felix Freiling |
| 10.2004-01.2012 |
Dipl.-Ing ‘IT-Security’, Chair for Network and Data Security, Ruhr University Bochum. Supervisor: Prof. Jörg Schwenk, Advisor: Prof. Jörg Tüchelman |
| 2004 | High Scool, High school for foreign languages , Russe/Bulgaria |
Community Contributions
| since 2021 | ISO and DIN working groups, Member, Security advisory for the current PDF specification. |
| since 2021 | PDF Association, Member, Working group ‘Securing the PDF specification’. |
| since 2024 | Programm Committee at USENIX Security and RAID |
| 2016–2023 | Reviewer Experience, Usenix19/21 (sub-reviewer), Usenix’21/22/23 Artifact Evaluation (reviewer), WOOT19 (sub-reviewer, artifact evaluation), ACNS16 (sub-reviewer), CCS16 (sub-reviewer). |