Staff
Saleh Mulhem, Dr.-Ing.

Research Group Leader
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Building 64, Room 123 (2nd Floor)
Email: | saleh.mulhem(at)uni-luebeck.de |
Phone: | +49 451 3101 6317 |
Fax: | +49 451 3101 6304 |
Ongoing PhD Students
- Christian Ewert, Fault-Resilient Methods for Computing System Design
- Andrija Neskovic, Side-channel Analysis of Computing System.
- Henrik Strunck, Hardware Root of Trust Design.
- Daniel Najork, Quantum Security.
- Eike Schultz, Trustworthy DNN Engine Design.
- Tavia Plattenteich, Power Estimation of Computing System.
- Mouadh Ayache, Design for Testability and Hardware Trust. (External)
Open Bachelor and Master Thesis Offers
If you are looking for a Master's thesis, Bachelor's thesis, or research internship, the following topics are offered for interested student; .
- Integrated Circuit Design for Low-Power Computing System.
- Integrated Circuit Power Estimation at NETLIST level.
- AI Chip Design for Embedded System Applications.
- Reliability Evaluation of Embedded Roboticss.
- Reliability and Security Evaluation of In-Memory Computing.
- Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) Acceleration Design.
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Method.
- Efficient Post-quantum Engine implementation like Dilithium, Falcon etc
- Dependable Neural Engine Design.
- Studying Security of In-memory-computing Concept.
- Detecting Hardware Trojan Methods.
- Secure Processor Design and implementation.
- Designing Hardware Root of Trust.
- Reliability Test and Evaluation of Integrated Circuit.
- Practical Studying Ultra Lightweight cryptography.
- New Class of Side-Channel Attacks Resilient S-boxes.
- Hardware accelerator for post-quantum cryptography.
We still have topics regarding: Dependable Computing, Trustworthy Artificial intelligence Acceleration, Design for Testability, Design for Trust, and Hardware security, feel free to contact me
Supervised Master and Bachelor Theses
1 | Felix Muuss | Practical Machine Learning Approach for Hardware Trojan Detection | Bachelor Thesis | 2021 |
Nr | Student | Title | Type | Graduation Year |
26 | Robin Sehm | Fault Injection Tool for Security Evaluation | Master Thesis | Ongoing |
25 | Alexandru Scurtu | Power Side-Channel Assessment for PQC | Bachelor Thesis | Ongoing |
24 | Gero Mertin | Asymmetric Co-Processor for trusted chain | Bachelor Thesis | Ongoing |
23 | Stefan Benox | GAN For Anomaly Detection | Bachelor Thesis | Ongoing |
22 | Lukas Völkl | Adversarial Example Analysis of NN | Master Thesis | Ongoing |
21 | Leon Dietrich | Fault Resilient Secure Computing System | Master Thesis | 2024 |
20 | Jean Kock | Power Side-Channel Analysis of 32bit RISC Microcontroller | Bachelor Thesis | 2024 |
19 | Lukas Groth | Hardware/Software Co-Design for Efficient AI Acceleration | Master Thesis | 2024 |
18 | Fuad Alyafei | RTL-Level Hardware Trojan Detection using AI | Bachelor Thesis | 2024 |
17 | Katharina Gerber | Unified Engine for CCM and GCM Modes of AES-based Authenticated Encryption Schemes | Bachelor Thesis | 2024 |
16 | Tavia Plattenteich | Power Estimation of DNN Accelerator and its Security Application | Master Thesis | 2024 |
15 | Abdulhay Alsajir | System Model for Rowhammer Analysis | Bachelor Thesis | 2024 |
14 | Youran Wang | New IP Protection Technique for Deep Neural Networks | Bachelor Thesis | 2024 |
13 | Tim Hardow | Low-Power RISC-V Processor Design | Bachelor Thesis | 2024 |
12 | Eike Schultz | Hardware Implementation of Efficient Systolic Accelerator for NTT | Master Thesis | 2024 |
11 | Laurin Wagner | Benchmarking Customized MLP for Intrusion Detection System | Bachelor Thesis | 2024 |
10 | Amrit Sharma Poudel | Analysis of Fault Injection Impacts on Cryptographic Primitives | Bachelor Thesis | 2023 |
9 | Daniel Najork | Hardware Root-of-Trust Design for Embedded Systems Applications | Master Thesis | 2023 |
8 | Christoph Hübner | Reliability Test of a Hardware Module at Electronic System Level | Bachelor Thesis | 2023 |
7 | Celine Thermann | Trustworthy AI Hardware Accelerator Design | Master Thesis | 2022 |
6 | Henrik Strunck | Enabling Hardware Root of Trust for RISC-V Trusted Execution Environment | Master Thesis | 2022 |
5 | Tim Muller | Safe AI Hardware Accelerator for Autonomous Driving | Master Thesis | 2022 |
4 | Konstantin Krebs | FPGA-based AI Acceleration for Autonomous Driving | Bachelor Thesis | 2022 |
3 | Andra-Karina Poetschki | NTT Hardware Acceleration for Homomorphic Encryption in Medical Applications | Bachelor Thesis | 2022 |
2 | Robin Sehm | Side-channel Analysis of Cryptographic Functions | Bachelor Thesis | 2022 |
Publications
2025
2024
- Mulhem, S.; Ewert, C.; Neskovic, A.; Poudel, A.; Hübner, C.; Berekovic, M.; Buchty, R.: Secure Software/Hardware Hybrid In-Field Testing for System-on-Chip. 2024 IFIP/IEEE 32nd International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), IEEE, Tanger, Morocco 2024 [Paper].
- Moualhi, A.; Nezami, M.; Mulhem, S.; Schildbach, G.: Experimental Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks for Vehicle Model Identification. 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE, Stockholm, Sweden 2024 [Paper].
- Ayache, M.; Rama, E.; Mulhem, S.; Berekovic, M.; Korb, M.: Holistic Framework for Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Integrated Circuits. 2024 IFIP/IEEE 32nd International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), IEEE, Tanger, Morocco 2024.
- J. Bouhlila, F. Last, R. Buchty, M. Berekovic and S. Mulhem, "Machine Learning for SRAM Stability Analysis," 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Singapore, Singapore, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISCAS58744.2024.10558564.
- Rama, E.; Ayache, M.; Buchty, R.; Bauer, B.; Korb, M.; Berekovic, M.; Mulhem, S.: Trustworthy Integrated Circuits: From Safety to Security and Beyond. IEEE Access, IEEE, 2024. [Paper]
- P. Schmidt et al., "EMDRIVE Architecture: Embedded Distributed Computing and Diagnostics from Sensor to Edge," 2024 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Valencia, Spain, 2024, pp. 1-6.
- Foudhaili, W., Nechi, A., Thermann, C., Al Johmani, M., Buchty, R., Berekovic, M., & Mulhem, S. (2024, March). Reconfigurable Edge Hardware for Intelligent IDS: Systematic Approach. In International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (pp. 48-62). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Mulhem, S., Muuss, F., Ewert, C., Buchty, R., and Berekovic, M., ML-Based Trojan Classification: Repercussions of Toxic Boundary Nets, in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, doi: 10.1109/LES.2023.3338543.[Paper]
2023
- Neškovic, A., Mulhem, S., Treff, A., Buchty, R., Eisenbarth, T., & Berekovic, M. (2023, October). SystemC Model of Power Side-Channel Attacks Against AI Accelerators: Superstition or not?. In 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
- Hirsch, D., Hoffmann, F., Neskovic, A., Thermann, C., Buchty, R., Berekovic, M., & Mulhem, S. Efficient AI-based Attack Detection Methods for Sensitive Edge Devices and Systems. In Advancing Edge Artificial Intelligence (pp. 177-196). River Publishers.
- Grothe, P., Mulhem, S., Berekovic, M. (2023). An Almost Fully RRAM-Based LUT Design for Reconfigurable Circuits. In: Palumbo, F., Keramidas, G., Voros, N., Diniz, P.C. (eds) Applied Reconfigurable Computing. Architectures, Tools, and Applications. ARC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42921-7_22.
- Nechi,A., Groth, L., Mulhem, S., Merchant, F., Buchty, R., Berekovic, M.,: FPGA-based Deep Learning Inference Accelerators: Where Are We Standing?. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, ACM, New York 2023. [Paper]
- Nechi, A.; Mahmoudi, A.; Herold, C.; Widmer, D.; Kürner, T.; Berekovic, M.; Mulhem, S: Practical Trustworthiness Model for DNN in Dedicated 6G Application. 19th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), IEEE, Montreal, QC, Canada 2023 [Paper]
2022
- Bauer B.; Ayache M.; Mulhem S.; Nitzan M.; Athavale J.; Buchty R.; Berekovic M.: On the Dependability Lifecycle of Electrical/Electronic Product Development: The Dual-Cone V-Model. in Computer, vol. 55, no. 9, 99-106, 2022
Previous publications and patents (Click here) or visit My Google Scholar.

- Staff
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mladen Berekovic
- Dr. rer. nat. Javad Ghofrani
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erik Maehle
- Anne Bullwinkel
- Stephanie Jahnke
- Annika Strang
- Waiel Aljnabi, B. Sc.
- Abdulhay Alsajir, B. Sc.
- Faika Bozankaya, M. Sc.
- Christopher Blochwitz, M. Sc.
- Robin Brendel, B. Sc.
- Dr. rer. nat. Rainer Buchty
- Leon Dietrich, B. Sc.
- Sven Dreier, M. Sc.
- Dr.-Ing. Kristian Ehlers
- Christian Ewert, M. Sc.
- Wadid Foudhaili, M. Sc.
- Melf Fritsch, B. Sc.
- Lukas Groth, M. Sc.
- Philipp Grothe, M. Sc.
- Tim Hardow, B. Sc.
- Janik Hippmann, M. Sc.
- Christoph Hübner, B. Sc.
- Ahmed Kabour, B. Sc.
- Julian Kaduk, M. Sc.
- Jean Marcel Kock, B. Sc.
- Tim-Louis Lewejohann, M. Sc.
- Hsin-Kun Lin, M. Sc.
- Ahmed Mahmoudi, M. Sc.
- Erik Meier, B. Sc.
- Dipl.-Ing. Rolf Meyer
- Amira Moualhi, B. Sc.
- Dr.-Ing. Saleh Mulhem
- Felix Muuss, B. Sc.
- Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Jamin Naghmouchi
- Daniel Najork, M. Sc.
- Anouar Nechi, M. Sc.
- Andrija Neskovic, M. Sc.
- Simon Nolte, M. Sc.
- Dipl.-Ing. Noureddine Ouertani
- Julian Petzold, M. Sc.
- Nguyen-Hoang-Hai Pham, M. Sc.
- Tavia Plattenteich, M. Sc.
- Zeinab Rabani, M. Sc.
- Tim-Lucas Rabbel, M. Sc.
- Julia Richter, M. Sc.
- Ahmet Salah, B. Sc.
- Eike Schultz, M. Sc.
- Robin Sehm, B. Sc.
- Amrit Sharma Poudel, B. Sc.
- Hassan Shayea, B. Sc.
- Henrik Strunck, M. Sc.
- Celine Thermann, M. Sc.
- Lukas Völkl, B. Sc.
- Dipl.-Ing. Steffen Prehn
- Randa Zarrouk, M. Sc.
- Fethia Zerai, M. Sc.