Ongoing Projects
DIFPILOT
🇦🇹 FFG Bridge (01/2026 – 06/2028)
Develops and evaluates novel approaches to assist digital forensic investigators in automating workflows and analyzing data using LLMs.
LLEA
🇦🇹 FFG KIRAS (10/2025 – 09/2027)
Develops and evaluates LLM-based methods for data analysis in law enforcement.
🇩🇪 Volkswagen Foundation (06/2025 – 04/2029)
Investigates how AI-powered tools can be used in criminal investigations while meeting law enforcement requirements and complying with German and European legal obligations.
🇪🇺 HORIZON-CL3-2023-FCT-01-06 (11/2024 – 10/2027)
Combats cross-border cybercrime using advanced AI-based technology, multi-stakeholder investigation processes, training, and awareness.
Past Projects
🇦🇹 FFG KIRAS (01/2024 – 12/2025)
Focuses on detection of disinformation campaigns and associated technical, legal, and ethical aspects. Led by AIT.
🇦🇹 FFG KIRAS (10/2023 – 09/2025)
Creates algorithmic methods to detect illegal transactions in cross-ledger DeFi systems.
🇦🇹 FFG - Bridge (03/2023 – 08/2025)
Investigates the applicability and effectiveness of automated graph learning techniques in large multilayer cryptoasset transaction networks.
DeFiQuant
🇦🇹 WAW Innovation/18 - 21+ (02/2022 – 01/2024)
Supported users in investigating and understanding the structure of DeFi protocols and their interrelations.
🇦🇹 FFG - Production of the Future (04/2021 – 03/2023)
Designed and developed workflows and algorithmic methods enabling machine learning in distributed edge computing environments despite missing or insufficient ground-truth data.
🇦🇹 FFG KIRAS (10/2020 – 09/2022)
Developed generic cryptoasset analysis methods supporting the analysis of smart contracts and off-chain transactions in addition to native cryptocurrency transactions.
🇦🇹 FFG - ICT of the future (10/2019 – 09/2022)
Provided a deep learning pipeline equipped with generic algorithmic building blocks for predicting outages of machineries based on sensor data streams.
Austrian Blockchain Center (ABC)
🇦🇹 FFG COMET (10/2019 – 10/2023)
Served as Austria's one-stop-shop research center for blockchain and related technologies, applied in industrial, financial, energy, logistics, and government applications.
🇦🇹 FWF DACH (04/2018 – 03/2021)
Analyzed German language travelogues from 1500-1875 to gain insight into the perception of the Other (focusing on the Orient). Developed novel mixed qualitative and quantitative methods for serial analysis of large-scale text corpora.
🇦🇹 FFG KIRAS (01/2018 – 06/2020)
Developed novel algorithms and methods for tracing criminal transactions in post-Bitcoin era cryptocurrencies, considering illegitimate activities in Darknet marketplaces.
🇪🇺 EU Horizon 2020 (05/2017 – 05/2020)
Researched, developed, and validated novel data-driven techniques to support Law Enforcement Agencies investigating criminal or terrorist activities involving virtual currencies and darknet markets.
🇦🇹 FFG - IKT der Zukunft (09/2015 – 11/2017)
Researched and developed novel algorithmic solutions for detecting anomalies in large-scale, dynamically changing graph datasets, focusing on transaction networks from virtual currencies.
🇩🇪🇦🇹 Bilateral: BMBF (DE) + BMVIT (AT) (10/2014 – 09/2016)
Researched and developed methods to prevent and prosecute organised crime in virtual currencies, including novel Anti Money Laundering strategies.
🇺🇸 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (12/2011 – 04/2014)
Researched, developed, and deployed mechanisms for large-scale synchronization of web resources, building on OAI-PMH strategies using modern web technologies.
🇪🇺 EU PEOPLE IOF (Marie Curie) (03/2011 – 02/2014)
Researched interactive link discovery in scholarly publications, strategies for maintaining link integrity, and novel web-based resource aggregation interfaces.
🇺🇸 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (12/2011 – 02/2013)
Examined application of the Open Annotation Specification for digitized historical maps. Built a collaborative web environment for scholars and citizens to contribute knowledge to high-resolution online maps.
🇦🇹 Austrian Research Fund (FWF) (07/2009 – 12/2012)
Built a collaborative web-based solution for organizing digitized content objects from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom period using open, collaboratively developed vocabularies. Interdisciplinary project with the Institute for Egyptology at the University of Vienna.