Contact

✉️ [email protected]

📍 Hannover, Germany

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Interests

🏀 Basketball

⚽ Football

🎾 Tennis

🏙️ Day Trips

🎮 Video Games

🦥 Wasting hours on random YouTube videos

Languages

🇩🇪 German (Native Speaker)

🇺🇸 English (Professional working proficiency)

🇦🇱 Albanian (Enough for playground insults)

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I am Dren, a Ph.D. student at the L3S research center in Hannover, Germany. My research interests are basically everything covered in the Wikipedia page for Adversarial Machine Learning. I am particularly fond of adversarial examples, LLM security, and model stealing 🕵️

I graduated from Leibniz University Hannover in 2022 with a master’s degree in Computer Science.

Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss anything related to AI!

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Employment History (+ Projects)

Research Associate

L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

July 2022 - Present

Research in the field of robust AI
Over 10 talks to general audiences about the impact and utility of AI technology
Involved in four grant proposals, three led by our research center, one co-conceived by me
Supervision of +10 students ranging from seminars to theses
Involved in multiple transfer projects to support local organizations and enterprises
Local Organizer of WSDM 2025
Teaching Assistant of the LUH Course “Agentic AI” (Summer 2026)

Researcher

SisWiss, Sichere Sprachmodelle für das Wissensmanagement, Hannover, Germany

June 2025 - Present

BMFTR-funded research project, focussing on sensitivity awareness (SA)
SA $\equiv$ An LLM’s ability to securely disseminate sensitive/secret information w/ users
Directly aligned with my dissertation → two of my papers are already relevant for the project!
In cooperation with DFKI, CISPA, and Laverana

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AI Expert

European Digital Innovation Hub for AI and Cybersecurity (DAISEC), Germany

January 2025 - March 2026

Involved as an AI Expert in European Transfer Project
Consulting of local SMEs, particularly craftsmen
Development of larger prototype systems, predominantly for local education sector

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Project Coordinator of "Zukunftslabor Gesellschaft und Arbeit”

Zentrum für digitale Innovationen Niedersachsen, Germany

July 2022 - April 2025

Research focus of the project: Impact of (AI-driven) digitization on labor and the society in general
Managed & coordinated over 20 researchers across 8 research institutes in Lower Saxony
Mediated between research consortium and over 20 associated partners
Organized a project symposium involving renowned researchers, industry partners, and key political figures