David Pape
I am a PhD student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, advised by Dr. Lea Schönherr.
My research focuses on the security and trustworthiness of large language models and AI agents. I am particularly interested in adversarial robustness, security evaluation, and reproducibility.
Before joining CISPA, I obtained my Master's degree in IT Security from Ruhr University Bochum, where I focused on machine learning security.
Publications
Invited Talks
Protecting, Executing, and Auditing: Security Challenges Across the LLM Lifecycle
AI Security Afternoon, organized by AI Safety Saarland · Saarbrücken, Germany
Event pageTeaching & supervision
Trustworthy Machine Learning
Teaching Assistant · University of Hamburg
Trustworthy Generative Machine Learning (Seminar)
Teaching Assistant · Saarland University
Security courses
Teaching Assistant · Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Chairs of Systems Security, Embedded Security, and Cryptology & IT Security
Thesis supervision
Saarland University · One bachelor’s thesis and one master’s thesis
Reviewing
Conferences
CYBERSEC 2026 · ICML 2026 (Gold Reviewer) · NeurIPS 2026 · AAAI 2027
Workshops
AISec (ACM CCS 2024, 2025, 2026; Top Reviewer, 2025) · DeMeSSAI (IEEE EuroS&P 2025, 2026) · FLMSec (NeurIPS 2026)
Artifact evaluation
USENIX Security 2026