Dr. Severin Kacianka
- E-Mail: kacianka(at)in.tum.de
- PGP Public Key (0x7CC2A383)
- Room: MI - 01.11.057
- Tel.: +49 89 289 17 378
Postal Address
- Severin Kacianka
- Chair I4
- Boltzmannstr. 3
- 85748 Garching bei München
- Germany
About me
I am a PostDoc Researcher at the Chair of Software Engineering headed by Professor Pretschner. In my PhD thesis I focused on accountability for Cyber-Physical Systems and showed how we can use the mathematics of causality to express and compare notions of accountability. Additionally I work on a joint project with the bidt where we invesitagate how to best embed ethical deliberation into software development processs.
Before joining the chair I studied at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt in Austria where I received my Master's degree with distinction. In my master's thesis I worked on video streaming for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks.
Research Interests
- Accountability
- Causality
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Machine Learning
- Security
- Social Engineering
Thesis Topics
Open Topics
If you want to write a thesis in one of my areas of research, please just send me an e-mail!
Ongoing Topics
Completed Topics
- Li Nguyen: "Digitalisierung und Demokratie" (IDP)
- Hannah Kuehn: "Digitizing EDAP - A Tool for Ethical Deliberation in Agile Processes" (Bachelor Thesis)
- Felix Lange: "Ethik in der agilen Softwareentwicklung" (IDP)
-
Li Nguyen: "IT Security Awareness: Comparing Inoculation Methods" (Master Thesis)
-
Sanjay Jayaprakash: "Quantifying Digital Literacy" (Application Project)
-
Sanjay Jayaprakash: "Measuring Digitalization" (Master Thesis)
-
Severin Schmid: "Accountability for Industrial Manufacturing Robots" (Bachelor Thesis)
-
Andreas Zimmerer: "Accountability for an Autonomous Car Prototype" (Bachelor Thesis)
- Valentin Zieglmeier: "Real-Time Remote Intrusion Detection" (Master Thesis)
- Lukas Welte: "Accountability Infrastructure for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" (Master Thesis)
- Christoph Caprano: "Accountability for Cloud Controlled Robots" (Bachelor Thesis)
- Christina Miller: "Causal Models for Cyber Physical Systems" (Research Praktikum)
- Christian Wörle: "Accountability for a Smart Parking Lot" (Guided Research)
Courses
Winter 2023
Summer 2023
Summer 2022
Winter 2021
Winter 2019
- Praktikum: Ethical Software and Systems Engineering (IN2106, IN0012, IN4275)
- Funktionale Sicherheit (IN2247)
- Master-Praktikum - Automotive Software Entwicklung (IN2106, IN4124)
Summer 2019
- Seminar: Ethik und Digitalisierung (IN0014, IN2107, IN4966)
- Master-Praktikum - Automotive Software Entwicklung (IN2106, IN4124)
- Automotive Software - Methoden und Technologien (IN2114)
Winter 2018
- Master Seminar: Ethical Software and Systems Engineering (IN2107, IN4944)
- Funktionale Sicherheit (IN2247)
- Master-Praktikum - Automotive Software Entwicklung (IN2106, IN4124)
Summer 2018
- Automotive Software Engineering (IN2114)
- Master-Praktikum - Automotive Software Entwicklung (IN2106, IN4124)
Winter 2017
Summer 2017
- Automotive Software Engineering (IN2114)
- Master-Praktikum - Automotive Software Entwicklung (IN2106, IN4124)
Winter 2016
- Advanced Topics of Software Engineering (IN2309, IN2126)
- Master-Praktikum - Automotive Software Entwicklung (IN2106, IN4124)
Summer 2016
- Automotive Software Engineering (IN2114)
- Proseminar Accountability (IN0013)
- Master-Praktikum - Automotive Software Entwicklung (IN2106, IN4124)
Winter 2015
Publications
-
Elsner, D., Kacianka, S., Lipp, S., Pretschner, A., Habermann, A., Graber, M., & Reimer, S. (2023, April). BinaryRTS: Cross-language Regression Test Selection for C++ Binaries in CI. In 2023 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) (pp. 327-338). IEEE.
-
Lipp, S., Elsner, D., Kacianka, S., Pretschner, A., Böhme, M., & Banescu, S. (2023). Green Fuzzing: A Saturation-based Stopping Criterion using Vulnerability Prediction. In ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.
-
Hundt, A., Agnew, W., Zeng, V., Kacianka, S., & Gombolay, M. (2022, June). Robots enact malignant stereotypes. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 743-756).
-
Biebl, B., Arcidiacono, E., Kacianka, S., Rieger, J. W., & Bengler, K. (2022). Opportunities and limitations of a gaze-contingent display to simulate visual field loss in driving simulator studies. Frontiers in neuroergonomics, 3, 916169
-
Zuber, N., Gogoll, J., Kacianka, S., Pretschner, A., & Nida-Rümelin, J. (2022). Empowered and embedded: ethics and agile processes. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), 1-13.
-
Zuber, N., Kacianka, S., & Gogoll, J. (2022). Big data ethics, machine ethics or information ethics? Navigating the maze of applied ethics in IT. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.13494.
-
Unni, A., Trende, A., Pauley, C., Weber, L., Biebl, B., Kacianka, S., ... & Rieger, J. W. (2022). Investigating differences in behavior and brain in human-human and human-autonomous vehicle interactions in time-critical situations. Frontiers in neuroergonomics, 3, 3.
-
A. Pretschner., N. Zuber, J. Gogoll, S. Kacianka and J. Nida-Rümelin (2021). Ethik in der agilen Software-Entwicklung. Informatik Spektrum, 44(5), 348-354.
- B. Biebl, S. Kacianka, A. Unni, A. Trende, J. W. Rieger, A. Lüdtke, A. Pretschner and K. Benglee. (2021). A Causal Model of Intersection-Related Collisions for Drivers With and Without Visual Field Loss. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 219-234). Springer, Cham
- J. Gogoll, N. Zuber, S. Kacianka, T. Greger, A. Pretschner and J. Nida-Rümelin (2021). Ethics in the Software Development Process: from Codes of Conduct to Ethical Deliberation. Philosophy & Technology, 1-24.
- S. Kacianka. and A. Pretschner (2021). Designing Accountable Systems. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 424-437).
- A. Pretschner and S. Kacianka (2021). Accountability for Cyber-Physical Systems. In Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy (pp. 1-3). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- N. Pöchhacker and S. Kacianka (2021). Algorithmic accountability in context. Socio-technical perspectives on structural causal models. Frontiers in big Data, 55.
- N Zuber, S Kacianka, J Nida-Rümelin, A Pretschner (2020) Ethical Deliberation for Agile Software Processes: EDAP Manual.In Digital Transformation and Ethics
- A. Ibrahim, T. Klesel, E. Zibaei, S. Kacianka and A. Pretschner (2020). Actual causality canvas: A general framework for explanation-based socio-technical constructs. In ECAI 2020 (pp. 2978-2985). IOS Press.
- A. Ibrahim, S. Kacianka, A. Pretschner, C. Hartsell, and G. Karsai. Practical causal models for cyber-physical systems. In 11th Annual NASA Formal Methods Symposium, 2019. Accepted for publication.
- S. Kacianka, A. Ibrahim, A. Pretschner, A. Trende, and A. Lüdtke. Extending causal models from machines into humans. In 4th Workshop on Formal Reasoning about Causation, Respon- sibility, & Explanations in Science & Technology, 2019. Accepted for publication.
- V. Zieglmeier, S. Kacianka, T. Hutzelmann and A. Pretschner (in-press) A Real-Time Remote IDS Testbed for Connected Vehicles In: 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Limassol, Cyprus https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10945
- S. Kacianka and A. Pretschner (2018) Understanding and Formalizing Accountability for Cyber-Physical Systems In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Myiazaki, Japan https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09704
- S. Kacianka, K. Beckers, F. Kelbert, P. Kumari (2017) How Accountability is Implemented and Understood in Research Tools. In: Felderer M., Méndez Fernández D., Turhan B., Kalinowski M., Sarro F., Winkler D. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10611. Springer, Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_15
- B. Dieber, B. Breiling, S. Taurer, S. Kacianka, S. Rass, P. Schartner, Security for the Robot Operating System, Robotics and Autonomous Systems(2017), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2017.09.017
- C. Cârlan, B. Gallina, S. Kacianka, and R. Breu, "Arguing on Software-Level Verification Techniques Appropriateness," International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP), Trento, Italy, 2017, pp. 39-54. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-66266-4_3
- B. Dieber, S. Kacianka, S. Rass and P. Schartner, "Application-level security for ROS-based applications," 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, South Korea, 2016, pp. 4477-4482. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759659
- S. Kacianka, F. Kelbert, and A. Pretschner, (2016). "Towards a unified model of accountability infrastructures." In Gössler, G. and Sokolsky, O., editors, Proceedings First Workshop on Causal Reasoning for Embedded and safety-critical Systems Technologies, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8th April 2016, volume 224 of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, pages 40–54. Open Publishing Association. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.224.5
- S. Kacianka and H. Hellwagner, (2015) "Adaptive Video Streaming for UAV Networks." In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Workshop on Mobile Video (MoVid '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 25-30. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2727040.2727043