Timo Pohl, M.Sc.

Contact
Phone:	+49 228 73-54246
Fax:	+49 228 73-54254
Email:	pohl@REMOVETHISPART.cs.uni-bonn.de
PGP public key:	0x4872A6DD1019A4D8

Visitor address:	Institute of Computer Science 4 Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8 D-53115 Bonn Germany
Postal address:	Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 5
Room:	1.018

Research interests

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Classifying Package Differences of npm Packages for Reproducible Builds (Bachelor Thesis)
Automatically Collecting Metadata of Malicious npm Packages (Bachelor Thesis)
Systematization of Package-Repositories in the Context of Reproducible Builds (Bachelor Thesis)
Quantifying Anonymity on the Internet (Master Seminar)
Determining the Usefulness of CPU Utilization Metrics for Cryptojacking Detection (Master Seminar)
Deanonymizing Academic Reviews using Stylometry (Master Lab)
Analyzing the Reproducibility of Rust Crates (Master Thesis)

Assessing the security of AI assisted code completion (Bachelor PG)
Automatic collection of malicious software packages (Bachelor PG)
State of the Art in Stylometry (Master Seminar)
State of the Art in Reproducible Builds for Software Components (Master Seminar)
Applicability of LLMs in Stylometry (Master Lab)
Recovering npm Package Build Environments from Provenance Information (Bachelor Thesis)

Automatic creation of JavaScript bundles with ground truth (Bachelor PG)
Detection of JavaScript libraries within JavaScript bundles (Bachelor PG)
State of the Art in Software Metrics used for Project Security Assessments (Master Seminar)
Suitability of Software Metrics for Vulnerability Prediction (Master Lab)
State of the Art of Mitigations against Software Supply Chain Attacks (Master Seminar)
Attacks via IDE Extensions (Bachelor PG)

"Exploring the Susceptibility to Fraud of Monetary Incentive Mechanisms for Strengthening FOSS Projects", Ben Swierzy, Timo Pohl, Marc Ohm, Michael Meier; in Availability, Reliability and Security 2025
"SoK: Towards Reproducibility for Software Packages in Scripting Language Ecosystems", Timo Pohl, Pavel Novák, Marc Ohm, Michael Meier; in Availability, Reliability and Security 2025
"An Exploratory Study on Teaching Software Supply Chain Security Concepts to High School Students", Marc Ohm, Yannik Börgener, Timo Pohl; in Availability, Reliability and Security 2025

"SoK: Automated Software Testing for TLS Libraries", Ben Swierzy, Felix Boes, Timo Pohl, Christian Bungartz, Michael Meier; in Availability, Reliability and Security 2024
"You Can Run But You Can't Hide: Runtime Protection Against Malicious Package Updates For Node.js", Timo Pohl, Marc Ohm, Felix Boes, Michael Meier; in Sicherheit 2024

"Measuring Resource Efficiency of LaTeX Paper Templates", Timo Pohl, Marc Ohm; in EnviroInfo 2023
"Power Consumption of Common Symmetric Encryption Algorithms on Low-Cost Microchips", Marc Ohm, Lars Taufenbach, Karsten Weber, Timo Pohl; in EnviroInfo 2023
"Benutzerfreundliche Schutzmechanismen gegen USB-basierte Angriffe unter Linux", Timo Pohl, Arnold Sykosch; in 17. Deutscher IT-Sicherheitskongress des BSI