Faculty
2025: Werner-von-Siemens-Fellow
2025: ERC Starting Grant
2024: GI Junior-Fellow
2024: Busy Beaver Award "Differential Privacy: Mathematical Foundations and Applications in Machine Learning“, Saarland University
Franziska Boenisch is a tenure-track faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. At CISPA, she co-leads the SprintML Lab (Secure, Private, Robust, Interpretable, and Trustworthy Machine Learning), where her research focuses on advancing trustworthy machine learning. Prior to joining CISPA, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nicolas Papernot. She received her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, where she also served as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC).
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Stealing and Defending Transformer-based Encoders