Thesis Topics

GenAI to Detect and Extract Requirements from Security Standards: A Feasibility Study

Master In Progress
How well can GenAI detect, extract and formulate actionable software requirements from security standards?
Objectives
  • Analyze the potential and limitations of AI to detect requirements
  • Analyze the performance of AI in extracting requirements information
  • Evaluate the usefulness of different software requirement formulations
Requirements
  • Strong understanding of NLP, LLMs, and prompt engineering
  • Strong security and security compliance knowledge
Expected Duration: 6 months

Industrial Product Backlog Exploration: Potential and Limitations of NLP-based Analyses for Security Purposes

Bachelor In Progress
How reliably can NLP techniques support engineers by providing security advice for backlog items that are relevant for the security of our product?
Objectives
  • Employ NLP techniques to detect backlog items relevant for the product security
  • Map relevant security advice/rules to backlog items
  • Evaluate the effectiveness and reliability of the approach
Requirements
  • Basic understanding of NLP techniques
  • Basic understanding of security & security compliance
Expected Duration: 4 months

On the Feasibility of Automated Relation Analysis of Regulatory Security-Relevant Requirements

Bachelor Open
To what extent can we analyze the relations between requirements originating from different regulations or even internal policies to understand overlaps and contradictions?
Objectives
  • Build a corpus of relations between different requirements from regulatory documents - based on published resources
  • Prototype different NLP approaches for the analysis of the relation between those requirements
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the approaches and outline limitations
Requirements
  • Strong understanding of NLP techniques
Expected Duration: 4-6 months - Start: October/November 2025

How to Apply

Interested in one of the available thesis topics? Please contact me with:

  • A brief motivation explaining your interest and experience
  • Relevant project work or publications (if any)
  • Preferred thesis topic(s) from the list above

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