Dr.-Ing. Julian Wilhelm Renner

I'm a senior researcher in the group Coding and Cryptography (COD) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and I am working in the area of IT security.

Besides IT security, I have published articles in the fields of applied coding theory and communications engineering. Furthermore, I have submitted an application for a patent for radar sensing.

I'm interested in

Cybersecurity, Telecommunications, and Sensing

Enabling secure, fast and reliable communication and radar by developing new methods in the fields of cryptography, error correction codes, information theory, and digital signal processing.

Machine Learning in Capital Markets

The theory of financial decision making under uncertainty, and the implementation of portfolios based on artificial intelligence and scientifically-sound and well studied factors.

IT Services Implemented on Linux Servers

Home servers based on virtualization management platforms that provide functionalities like virtual private network connections, DNS resolution, cloud storage, website hosting, etc.

Resume

Experience

10/2017 - Current
Technical University of Munich

Scientist

Group: Coding and Cryptography

Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Research area: Post-quantum cryptography

03/2019 - 05/2019
University of Rennes 1
02/2017 - 10/2017
Eindhoven University of Technology

Scientist

Group: Signal Processing Systems

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frans Willems

Research area: Embedding digital communication in automotive radars

03/2015 - 08/2015
Rohde & Schwarz

Part-time Engineer

Department: Development of Baseband-HW and Signalgenerators for Wireless Applications

Tasks: development and implementation of automatization and test routines in C++

08/2013 - 10/2013
Rosenberger High-Frequency Technology

Intern

Department: Research and Development

Measurement of cable-connector combinations with spectrum analyzers

04/2013 - 07/2014
Technical University of Munich

Student Teaching Assistant

Lecture: Control Systems 1 (Prof. Buss’s Chair of Automatic Control Engineering)

Laboratory: Audio and Image Processing (Prof. Rigoll’s Institute for Human-Machine Communication)

Education

10/2020 - 08/2022
Technical University of Munich

M.Sc. Management

Focus on capital markets and financial management

Master’s thesis on ”Machine Learning in Global Markets: a Private Investor Perspective” at the Chair of Financial Management and Capital Markets in collaboration with Prof. Horlemann, University of St.Gallen.

Grade average: 1.4 (passed with distinction, US-equivalent: A)

11/2017 - 11/2021
Technical University of Munich

Doktoringenieur

Group: Coding and Cryptography (COD)

Focus on cryptography and applied coding theory

Dissertation: ’Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Hamming Metric, the Rank Metric, and the Sum-Rank Metric’ refereed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Sigl, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Horlemann

06/2014 - 12/2016
Technical University of Munich

M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Focus on communication systems, information theory, and digital signal processing

Master’s thesis on ”Multidimensional Probabilistic Shaping for the Nonlinear Fiber Channel” at the Institute for Communications Engineering in collaboration with Prof. Forchhammer, Technical University of Denmark.

Grade average: 1.0 (passed with high distinction, US-equivalent: A+)

08/2015 - 01/2016
Technical University of Denmark

ERASMUS program in the fall term

Focus on machine learning and pattern recognition, optimization and data fitting, the programming language C++

Grade average: 12 on 7-grades-scale (TUM-equivalent: 1.0, US-equivalent: A+)

05/2011 - 06/2014
Technical University of Munich

B.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Focus on communication technology and digital signal processing

Bachelor’s thesis on ”Quantization of Log-Likelihood-Ratios in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems” at Prof. Utschick’s Chair of Signal Processing Methods

Grade average: 1.5 (passed with distinction, US-equivalent: A)

Awards

2016/2017
Sponsorship by Rheinmetall

Deutschlandstipendium

Scholarship for young outstanding talents at Technical University of Munich

2016
Sponsorship by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

FIT weltweit

Performance-related scholarship for international research stays

2015/2016
Sponsorship by MAN Truck & Bus Company

Deutschlandstipendium

Scholarship for young outstanding talents at Technical University of Munich

2014/2015
Sponsorship by Wipro Technologies

Deutschlandstipendium

Scholarship for young outstanding talents at Technical University of Munich

Coding Skills

C/C++

85%

Matlab

95%

Python

95%

VHDL

55%

Git

80%

LaTeX

90%

SageMath

90%

Research

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Assuming a cyber attack initiated from a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, several classical public-key algorithms become insecure. These algorithms are based on factoring large integers and the discrete logarithm problem which are easy-to-solve in a post-quantum world. Thus, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization. My research focuses on assessing the hardness of mathematical problems that can serve as the core to such cryptosystems, analysing the security of existing schemes and constructing new efficient public-key algorithms in the context of post-quantum cryptography.

Fiber-Optic Communication

In today’s communication systems, virtually all IP-based traffic is transmitted over non-linear optical fiber channels. Scenarios of future demands indicate a requirement of higher and higher data-rates, making the improvement of optical communication systems especially important. A key technology for achieving a higher throughput is coherent fiber optic telecommunication. This development allows for the use of not only the power but also the phase of the signal to transmit information, i.e., higher order modulation techniques, like quadrature amplitude modulation, can be applied. However, uncompensated Kerr nonlinearity limits the effective signal-to-noise ratio and thus, the throughput cannot be increased by increasing the modulation alphabet size. Therefore, I'm interested in developing new methods that increase the spectral efficiency of nonlinear fiber systems.

MIMO Communication

Modern wireless communication systems have to provide higher and higher data rates. Since conventional methods like using more bandwidth or higher order modulation types are limited, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology constitutes a breakthrough. The technology offers significant increases in data throughput without additional bandwidth or increased transmit power. This is possible by the fact, that the channel capacity of a MIMO channel is larger than the channel capacity of a Single-Input Single-Output channel. In order to have a rate close to channel capacity, the signals are encoded before the transmission and decoded at the receiver side. The used decoding algorithms require statements about the certainty of the received signals. Log-Likelihood-Ratios deliver such information, but since they have a continuous range, their standard representation as floating point numbers requires a disproportional large amount of bandwidth. Thus,  I investigate new quantization strategies that improve the bandwidth efficiency but still allow a good decoding performance.

Publications

Over the years, I have collaborated with more than 20 engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists, who are from over 10 different countries. They were working in academia, in the industry, or at defense organizations. These collaborations led to peer-reviewed journal publications and conference papers in the areas of post-quantum cryptography, coding theory, fiber-optic communications, and radar. The order of the authors on my publications was not always consistent – depending on the co-authors, the author names were occasionally ordered alphabetically. All my papers can be found on Google Scholar and either on ArXiv or on Cryptology ePrint Archive.

 

Journal Publications

Generic Decoding in the Sum-Rank Metric

Puchinger, S.; Renner, J. and Rosenkilde, J.; IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022

Rank-Metric Codes and Their Applications

Bartz, H.; Holzbaur, L.; Liu, H.; Puchinger, S.; Renner, J. and Wachter-Zeh, A.; Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, 2022

LIGA: A Cryptosystem Based on the Hardness of Rank-Metric List and Interleaved Decoding

Renner, J.; Puchinger, S. and Wachter-Zeh, A.; Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, 2021

Low-Rank Parity-Check Codes over Galois Rings

Renner, J.; Neri, A. and Puchinger, S.; Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, 2020

Cryptanalysis of a System Based on Twisted Reed–Solomon Codes

Lavauzelle, J. and Renner, J.; Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, 2020

Experimental Comparison of Probabilistic Shaping Methods for Unrepeated Fiber Transmission

Renner, J.; Fehenberger, T.; Yankov, P.; Da Ros, F.; Forchhammer, S.; Böcherer, G and Hanik, N.; IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017

Patents

Radar Sensing

Laghezza, F.; Renner, J.; Willems, F.; Serbetli, S.; Alvarado, A.; Patent application 16/402932, 2019

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

[Preprint] LowMS: a new rank metric code-based KEM without ideal structure

Aragon, N.; Dyseryn, V.; Gaborit, P.; Loidreau, L.; Renner, J. and Wachter-Zeh, A.; Submitted to International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC), 2023

Generic Decoding in the Cover Metric

Bitzer, S.; Renner, J.; Wachter-Zeh, A. and Weger, V.; IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2023

Interleaved Prange: A New Generic Decoder for Interleaved Codes

Porwal, A.; Holzbaur, L.; Liu, H.; Renner, J.; Wachter-Zeh, A. and Weger V.; International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrytpo), 2022

A Power Side-Channel Attack on the Reed-Muller Reed-Solomon Version of the HQC Cryptosystem

Schamberger, T.; Holzbaur, L.; Renner, J; Wachter-Zeh, A. and Sigl, G.; International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrytpo), 2022

Information-Set Decoding with Hints

Horlemann, A.; Puchinger, S.; Renner, J; Schamberger, T. and Wachter-Zeh, A.; International Workshop on Code-Based Cryptography (CBCrytpo), 2021

Decoding High-Order Interleaved Rank-Metric Codes

Renner, J; Puchinger, S. and Wachter-Zeh, A.; IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021

Efficient Decoding of Gabidulin Codes over Galois Rings

Puchinger, S.; Renner, J.; Wachter-Zeh, A. and Zumbrägel, J.; IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021

Randomized Decoding of Gabidulin Codes Beyond the Unique Decoding Radius

Renner, J.; Jerkovits, T.; Bartz, H.; Puchinger, S.; Loidreau, P.; Wachter-Zeh, A.; The Eleventh International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrypto), 2020

Generic Decoding in the Sum-Rank Metric

Puchinger, S.; Renner, J.; Rosenkilde, J.; IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020

Low-Rank Parity-Check Codes over the Ring of Integers Modulo a Prime Power

Renner, J.; Puchinger, S.; Wachter-Zeh, A.; Hollanti, C.; Freij-Holanti, R.; IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020

A Power Side-Channel Attack on the CCA2-Secure HQC KEM

Schamberger, T.; Renner, J.; Sigl, G.; Wachter-Zeh A.; 19th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS2020), 2020

On Software Implementation of Gabidulin Decoders

Kunz, J.; Renner, J.; Maringer, G.; Schamberger, T.; Wachter-Zeh, A.; Seventeenth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory (ACCT), 2020

Efficient Decoding of Interleaved Low-Rank Parity-Check Codes

Renner, J.; Jerkovits, T.; Bartz, H.; XVI International Symposium Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems, 2019

Interleaving Loidreau’s Rank-Metric Cryptosystem

Renner, J.; Puchinger, S.; Wachter-Zeh, A.; XVI International Symposium Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems, 2019

Twisted Gabidulin Codes in the GPT Cryptosystem

Puchinger, S.; Renner, J.; Wachter-Zeh, A.; Sixteenth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory (ACCT), 2018

Repairing the Faure-Loidreau Public-Key Cryptosystem

Wachter-Zeh, A.; Puchinger, S.; Renner, J.; IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2018

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Impressum

Julian Renner
Technical University of Munich
Institute for Communications Engineering
Theresienstrasse 90
80333 München
Germany

Telephone: +49 89 289 29053
Email: julian.renner@tum.de

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Julian Renner
Technical University of Munich
Institute for Communications Engineering
Theresienstrasse 90
80333 München
Germany

Telephone: +49 89 289 29053
Email: julian.renner@tum.de

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