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Who is Dominik?

2024-02-01

Dominik Meyer is a principal investigator and Cybersecurity researcher at the computer engineering group of the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg (HSU). He is also a part time hacker, FPGA hardware developer, and rowing coach.
He is responsible for two projects including the HSU part of the SOVEREIGN project.
His main research interests are:

Application Specific Processors (ASP),
hardware based security,
resilient systems,
reconfigurable hardware

Education

Dominik finished his Diploma Thesis 2008 at the Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel. The title of his thesis has been "Digitale Signaturen in der Prüfungsorganisation" (Digital Signatures in Exam Organization).

2015 Dominik finished his PhD at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg with the title "Multicore Reconfiguration Platform - A Research and Evaluation FPGA Framework for Runtime Reconfigurable Systems".

Work

Dominik started his work life during the .com boom in Germany at an Internet Service Provider (ISP). He was responsible for all the required servers for services like:

DNS,
NNTP,
Email (SMTP, IMAP, POP3),
HTTP,
ISDN Dial-In

He fullfilled the position of the Chief Technology Officer from 1999 - 2003.

From 2003 - 2009 Dominik was responsible for the webhosting infrastructure of a network centric company. He was also the lead system architect for Linux based firewall and groupware solutions.

2009 Dominik switched to computer science research and has been working at the computer engineering group of the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. His research responsibilites has been:

reconfigurable systems,
network on chips,
partial reconfiguration,
FPGAs

Since his PhD 2015 Dominik has been working as a principal investigator at the same computer engineering group. He is responsible for a cooperation project with the german navy evaluating communication structures for integrated air and missile defence within the Maritime Theatre Missile Defence (MTMD Forum). This project also includes international standardization. His research responsibilites switched to:

FPGA4GPC (FPGA for General Purpose Computing),
Computer Networks,
Hardware Based Cybersecurity

Favourite Programming Languages

VHDL
C++
C
Perl

Organizations

Helene Lange Gymnasium Ruderclub e.V.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Industrial Electronics Society (IES)
Gesellschaft für Informatik, Fachgruppe APS
AG Secure Platform
Geraffel

general

Membership in Organizations

2021-05-17

Dominik is engaged as a member in different organizations. Volunteer work is very important to him.

security

Introduction to CPU Backdoors

2021-03-26

On 2021-03-26 I gave a short introduction about CPU Backdoors in the Geraffel Online Bar. The talk and slide language is german.

teaching

Teaching capabilities

2021-02-26

Since 2008 Dominik has been teaching different undergraduate and graduate exercises and classes, including Digitial Hardware Design, Programming in C, and Secure Computer Networks. The languages he is comfortable teaching in are German and English.