TUM Info VIII: Dr. Ali Fessi

Dr. rer. nat. Ali Fessi

Since Feb. 2012, I work for EADS where I joined the Cassidian Cyber Security Competence Centre. Thus, info at this web site is not up to date.

My former affiliation at TUM:

Degrees:
- Doctoral degree in 2010 from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and
- Diplom (~Master) degree in 2004 in Computer Science (major) and Mathematics (minor) from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
Professional experience:
- Since 2004, Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) with a strong focus on Network Security
  - University of Tübingen (Sep. 2004 to Jun. 2008)
  - TU Munich (Jul. 2008 till now)
- R&D projects:
  - Contributed to and co-managed several research projects (EU, national and industrial).
  - Topics differ from Intrusion Detection (Fixed and Mobile Networks), to Trusted Computing, Home Networking and Resilient Network Services.
  - Industrial partners include Siemens AG, Nokia Siemens Networks, NEC, France Télécom and AT&T.
- Teaching activities:
  - Ali gave a lecture on Network Security for 5 years, and thus had the pleasure to contribute to the education of more than 200 computer scientists.
  - He supervised more than 20 master or bachelor students and had the pleasure to work with brilliant students.
- European NEC Network Laboratories (Nov. 2003 - Jun. 2004): Contributed to R&D and standardization as a master student
- IBM Toronto Lab/Canada (Jan. 2002 - Aug. 2002): 8 months internship. Software development at the in the DB2/UDB SQL compiler team.

Recent Activities

2011 Jul. 01: Registration is open for our Network Resilience course. The course is open for graduate students, PhD students and young researchers from universities and industrial laboratories around Europe.
TPC member in the International Workshop on Network Resilience: From Research to Practice
2011 Feb. 11: Teaching material on Network Resilience is available online.