Vladislav Mladenov
My name is Vladislav Mladenov. I'm a PostDoc at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Research Interests
Protocol Security |
Security of modern and widely deployed authentication and authorization protocols like SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect. |
Document Security | Systematic security evaluation of the most used document formats like PDF, Open Document, and MS Office. |
Data Format Security |
Multiple scientific contributions related to the security of widely deployed data formats like JSON, XML, and PostScript |
Identity Management |
Analysis of strong authentication mechanisms like eID, two-factor authentication, and FIDO. |
Scientific Career
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’. |
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). |