Collaborations of TruST

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Academic Collaborations
Partner	Research Topic
University of Waterloo	Scalable Verification of Imperative Programs
TU Wien	LLMs in IT Security Research, XAI in Security
Stanford University, Computer Science Department and Law School	Operationalizing ‘Risk’ as a Legal and Computational Concept under the EU AI Act
Singapore University of Technology and Design	Cyber Secure Critical Infrastructure: Joint Lab Experiments KASTEL Security Lab Energy & iTrust
Politecnico di Milano, University of Bergamo	Human-Machine Interaction, Intersymbolic AI and Explainability
Institute of Science Tokyo, University of Malaga	Trustworthy Self-adapting Systems
INRIA – National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology	E-Voting
Georgia Institute of Technology	Sensor Reconfiguration Attacks for Stealthy UAV Manipulation
EPFL	Differential Fuzzing
Convide (CRC 1608) at KIT	Consistency in the View-Based Development of Cyber-Physical Systems
Carnegie Mellon University	Trustworthy Anomaly Detection for Industrial Control Systems

PhD Programs
Partner
University of Luxembourg
University of Southern Denmark

Transfer to Industry
Partner	Research Topic
ABB AG	Design Methodologies for Cloud-native Systems in the Context of Industrial Automation
ABB Corporate Research Center	Attack Detection in Heterogenous Systems
BASF SE	ChemCrypt – Suitability of a Specific Approach for a Physical Proof of Work
IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH	Hardware-based Cryptography
IBM Research Zurich	Group Verifiable Random Functions
Infineon Technologies AG, WIBU-SYSTEMS AG	Sec4IoMT – Security for the Internet of Medical Things
Mercedes-Benz AG	VINKRYPTOR – Pseudonymization of Vehicle Identification Numbers
Pionix GmbH	Identification of Security Requirements and Assumptions for the “EVerest” Software
S.A.F.E. – Association for the Promotion of and Research and Consumer Protection in the Field of Electromobility	IIP 2.0 – Certification of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
SAP SE	Cryptographic Enclave

Transfer to Society
Partner	Research Topic
Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI), Canada	CAN/DGSI 111-1: Online Electoral Voting – Part 1: Implementation of Online Voting in Canadian Municipal Elections
Federal Government Commissioner for Information Security (BfIT)	Scientific Working Group of the National Cybersecurity Council
German Bundestag, Committee on Education, Research, and Technology Assessment	E-Voting – Alternative Voting Formats and Their Security Measures
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), USA	Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization

Collaboration with Helmholtz Centers
Partner	Research Topic
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security	Everlasting Security for Quantum Cryptographic Protocols for Encrypted Computing
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security	LLMs in IT Security Research, XAI in Security
DKFZ German Cancer Research Center	SECAIMED – Secure and Compliant AI for Medical Data
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf (HZDR)	ROCK-IT – remote, operando controlled, knowledge-driven, IT-based
Forschungszentrum Jülich Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon	Joint Lab: Explainable AI based Autonomous Laboratory Control for Health Tech Applications (Health-X)