Thomas Rosenstatter

Researcher in Cybersecurity
th**as@ro********er.se

CV

Education

Ph.D. @ Networks and Systems, Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University, Sweden, 2016 – 2021
- Focus on vehicular security
- Ph.D. Thesis "On the Secure and Resilient Design of Connected Vehicles: Methods and Guidelines"
- Licentiate Thesis "Towards a Standardised Framework for Securing Connected Vehicles"
M.Sc. @ Embedded and Intelligent Systems, Halmstad University, Sweden, 2016
- Master thesis "Modelling the Level of Trust in a Cooperative Automated Vehicle Control System"
- This master thesis received the SAIS Best AI Master’s Thesis Award 2017
DI @ Information Technology & Systems Management, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria, 2016
- Master thesis "Modelling the Level of Trust in a Cooperative Automated Vehicle Control System"
B.Sc. @ Information Technology & Systems Management, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria, 2014
- Bachelor theses:
  - Intelligent UMTS/LTE data connectivity for relief forces afield
  - Performance analysis of a datacollector service that provides realtime sensor data

Publications

Towards Synthetic Data Generation of VANET Attacks for Efficient Testing

T. Rosenstatter, and K. Melnyk. 2023. Towards Synthetic Data Generation of VANET Attacks for Efficient Testing. 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Anchorage, AK, USA, 2023, IEEE.

Systematic Evaluation of Automotive Intrusion Detection Datasets

A. Vahidi, T. Rosenstatter, and N. Mowla. 2022. Systematic Evaluation of Automotive Intrusion Detection Datasets. In Computer Science in Cars Symposium (CSCS '22), December 8, 2022, Ingolstadt, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages.

RIPOSTE: A Collaborative Cyber Attack Response Framework for Automotive Systems

R. Jolak, T. Rosenstatter, S. Aldaghistani, and R. Scandariato, "RIPOSTE: A Collaborative Cyber Attack Response Framework for Automotive Systems," 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Gran Canaria, Spain, 2022, pp. 350-357, doi: 10.1109/SEAA56994.2022.00062.

CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security

R. Jolak, T. Rosenstatter, M. Mohamad, et al., CONSERVE: A framework for the selection of techniques for monitoring containers security. The Journal of Systems and Software (2021), doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2021.111158

Ph.D. Thesis – On the Secure and Resilient Design of Connected Vehicles: Methods and Guidelines

T. Rosenstatter, "On the Secure and Resilient Design of Connected Vehicles: Methods and Guidelines," Ph.D. Thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, 2021.

V2C: A Trust-Based Vehicle to Cloud Anomaly Detection Framework for Automotive Systems

T. Rosenstatter, T. Olovsson, M. Almgren, "V2C: A Trust-Based Vehicle to Cloud Anomaly Detection Framework for Automotive Systems," 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 23, 1–10.

Resilient Shield: Reinforcing the Resilience of Vehicles Against Security Threats

K. Strandberg, T. Rosenstatter, R. Jolak, N. Nowdehi, T. Olovsson, "Resilient Shield: Reinforcing the Resilience of Vehicles Against Security Threats," 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, 2021, pp 1-7.

REMIND: A Framework for the Resilient Design of Automotive Systems

T. Rosenstatter, K. Strandberg, R. Jolak, R. Scandariato, T. Olovsson, "REMIND: A Framework for the Resilient Design of Automotive Systems," 2020 IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2020, pp. 81-95.

Extending AUTOSARs Counter-based Solution for Freshness of Authenticated Messages in Vehicles

T. Rosenstatter, C. Sandberg and T. Olovsson, "Extending AUTOSAR's Counter-Based Solution for Freshness of Authenticated Messages in Vehicles," 2019 IEEE 24th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Kyoto, Japan, 2019, pp. 1-109.

Licentiate Thesis – Towards a Standardised Framework for Securing Connected Vehicles

T. Rosenstatter, "Towards a Standardised Framework for Securing Connected Vehicles," Licentiate Thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, 2019.

HoliSec Deliverable 3.2 – Secure Communication

Towards a Standardized Mapping from Automotive Security Levels to Security Mechanisms

T. Rosenstatter and T. Olovsson, "Towards a Standardized Mapping from Automotive Security Levels to Security Mechanisms," 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Maui, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 1501-1507.

Open Problems when Mapping Automotive Security Levels to System Requirements

T. Rosenstatter and T. Olovsson, "Open Problems when Mapping Automotive Security Levels to System Requirements," 4th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS), Funchal, 2018, pp. 251-260.

Team Halmstad Approach to Cooperative Driving in the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2016

M. Aramrattana et al., "Team Halmstad Approach to Cooperative Driving in the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2016," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1248-1261, April 2018.

Modelling the Level of Trust in a Cooperative Automated Vehicle Control System

T. Rosenstatter and C. Englund, "Modelling the Level of Trust in a Cooperative Automated Vehicle Control System," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1237-1247, April 2018.

Applicability of IEC 61499 for event based Smart Grid applications

T. Rosenstatter, R. Wanger, S. Huber, T. Heistracher and D. Engel, "Applicability of IEC 61499 for event based Smart Grid applications," 2015 International Symposium on Smart Electric Distribution Systems and Technologies (EDST), Vienna, 2015, pp. 278-283.

Work experience

Since 06/2023: Senior Lecturer and Researcher with focus on cybersecurity and networks
- Salzburg University of Applied Sciences; Information Technologies and Digitalisation
- Josef Ressel Centre for Intelligent and Secure Industrial Automation (JRZ ISIA)
11/2021 – 04/2023: Researcher in cybersecurity with focus on transport and automotive
- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden; Digital Systems, Department Mobility and Systems, Unit Digital Innovation
2016 – 2021: Ph.D. candidate
- Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Focus on vehicular security
- Supervisor: Tomas Olovsson
2016: Part of Team Halmstad for the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) 2016
- Duties included:
  - Perception of the ego vehicle and identification of the surrounding vehicles
  - Sensorfusion of inertial sensor data with the geographic position via GPS
  - Sensorfusion of Vehicle-to-Vehicle information
  - Development/Implementation of the Decision Making module
  - Development/Implementation of a Trust System. Read more.
2015: Student Assistant (8 hours/week)
- International Office, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Duties included:
  - Coordination and support of the university’s buddy student network
2012-2014: Engineer Conova Academy (12 hours/week)
- conova communications GmbH, Austria
- Duties included:
  - Development of a Datacollector Service for sensors within the data centres
  - Evaluation and demonstration of Puppet for Windows Server platforms within a data centre environment

Certificates

CCNA Routing and Switching (2013 – 2016)
CCNA Routing and Switching Modules 1 – 4 for Instructors
Database Design and Programming with SQL Oracle Academy
European Business Competence* Licence Level A