Category: Research Activities

Description: We are happy to share the outstanding news that Irene Hiess has successfully defended her master’s thesis on the fascinating topic “Exact Methods of Generation of Covering Arrays”. On March 13th, Irene Hiess showcased her expertise, dedication, and unwavering commitment to state-of-the-art research, earning from all examiners the highest possible grade. Irene, who started…

Copyright: Martin Schmiedecker Description: The MATRIS Applied Research Consulting Team organized the second meetup of the Automotive Security Meetup series for the automotive community at SBA Research. The meeting format of the Automotive Security Research Group (ASRG Vienna) aims to foster discussion about ideas, methods, and testing techniques to improve the know-how of security testing…

Commend‘s software engineers and product experts are working closely with SBA Research as part of the “Symphony: Intercom as a Cloud Service” project. © Commend One part of the project has now been brought to a highly successful conclusion. Since March 2022, the joint team of experts had been focusing on Commend’s software development in order to…

We are congratulating Bernhard Garn for being accepted to the IRDR’s (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk) Young Scientist Programme. IRDR is cosponsored by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and supported by the China Association of Science and Technology (CAST). The International Programme Office of IRDR…

We are happy to announce that the 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2024) will be held at the end of May 2024 in Toronto, Canada, co-located with ICST 2024. For interested parties, CfP is available via this link. MATRIS lead; Dimitris Simos will serve as the general chair, while the workshop’s PC will…

Description: On Oct 17, 2023, Bernhard Garn joined as MC member of Austria the meeting MC1 of the COST Action NERO (CA22164 – european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr). This meeting marks the start of this COST Action, which focuses on novel fire regimes characterized by extreme events. NERO’s objectives include: The goals and activities…

On Monday, October 9, 2023, Bernhard successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Design Theory Methods and their Applications to the Science of Security’ in his defensio. The committee was chaired by Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien) and in addition consisted of Edgar Weippl (University of Vienna), Rachel Tzoref-Brill (IBM Research), D. Richard Kuhn (US NIST) and…

Bernhard Garn from the DEFSYS team has joined the management committee of two COST Actions, where he will represent MATRIS/SBA and Austria: COST Action aims to build an interdisciplinary research network on pre-selected project topics by bringing researchers and innovators from distinct disciplines together to investigate a topic of their choice for 4 years. COST…

Copyright: MATRIS Description: Professor Lucia Moura from the University of Ottawa, Canada, visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days focusing on research discussion and mutual exchange, from the 29th-30th of June 2023. Prof. Moura is a distinguished researcher in the filed of combinatorial designs – their theory and their applications. During her visit, Prof.…

Reinhard KuglerCopyright: ITSN!23/dessy Description: You wouldn’t STEAL a CAR? – Security in Automotive Control Units: This year’s IT-S NOW conference was held at FH Campus Vienna of the University of Applied Sciences in June. Reinhard Kugler gave a talk on the first day of the conference about security in automotive control units and methods of…