Nicolai Neuer
| Telephone | +49 721 608-46190 |
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| Room | 163 |
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute of Information Security and Dependability Am Fasanengarten 5, Geb. 50.34 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany |
About me
I am a doctoral student in the research group Artificial Intelligence and Security led by Prof. Dr. Christian Wressnegger at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). I received my B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering at DHBW Mosbach in cooperation with Bosch Group in 2022. Afterwards, I completed my M.Sc. in Information Technology at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences in 2024, where I focused my studies on machine learning, embedded systems, and IT security. For my master’s thesis, I was part of a research group for artificial intelligence at Vector Informatik. Here I worked on machine learning methods for predicting semantic similarity between textual sequences.
Currently, my research is concentrated on explanation-aware backdoor attacks for transformer architectures. In the future, I will continue my work in the field of explainability, particularly for generative LLMs.
Publications
2026
Chasing Shadows: Pitfalls in LLM Security Research.
Jonathan Evertz, Niklas Risse, Nicolai Neuer, Andreas Müller, Philipp Normann, Gaetano Sapia, Srishti Gupta, David Pape, Soumya Shaw, Devansh Srivastav, Christian Wressnegger, Erwin Quiring, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Daniel Arp and Lea Schönherr.
Proc. of 33rd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2026.