Information Systems Engineering

Elias Grünewald, M.Sc.

Elias Grünewald has been researching and teaching for his PhD at the Information Systems Engineering group at TU Berlin since 11/2020 on privacy engineering, cloud computing, and the interplay between computer science and society. He completed his Master of Science in Information Systems Management at TU Berlin and Politecnico di Milano (2018-2020). Previously, he completed a Bachelor's degree in Business Informatics at TU Berlin and Universidad de Sevilla (2014-2018). During his studies, he was a long-term teaching assistant in Information Governance, Information Systems & Data Analytics, Introduction to Programming, and Internet & Privacy. He then conducted research on AI-based transparency and data access in the DaSKITA project (2020-2021). His achievements have been supported and funded by Alliance4Tech, Erasmus+, the Deutschlandstipendium, and the Software Campus program. He is leading the BMBF-funded project TOUCAN on regulatory transparency in cloud-based systems (2023-2024).

Elias is involved in science and higher education policy. Among other positions, he has already been active in the Academic Senate, as Vice-Chair of the Extended Academic Senate, in various appointment and ad-hoc commissions of the TU Berlin or in the Berlin University Alliance (Advisory Board of the Collaboration Platform) as well as the European Universities Initiative ENHANCE (General Assembly). He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the KVF at Verbraucherzentrale NRW e.V. Elias is a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Research interests

  • (Cloud Native) Privacy Engineering
  • Transparency and Accountability in Distributed Systems
  • Internet & Society / Technnology & Regulation

Teaching

  • Programming Practical: Data Management and Web-based Application Systems (ST 2021, ST 2022)
  • (Advanced) Distributed Systems Prototyping: Cloud, Fog, Blockchain / Cloud Prototyping (WT 2021/22, ST 2022)
  • Information Governance (WT 2022/2023)
  • Cloud Native Architecture and Engineering (ST 2023)
Office EN14
Room E-N 250

Publications

2023

Grünewald, Elias; Kiesel, Jannis; Loechel, Louis; Janke, Thomas; Akbayin, Siar-Remzi
Advancing Transparency Enhancing Tools for Cloud-Native Architectures and Engineering
Forum Privatheit 2023,
Publisher: Forum Privatheit
October 2023
Gebauer, Michael; Maschhur, Faraz; Leschke, Nicola; Grünewald, Elias; Pallas, Frank
A ‘Human-in-the-Loop’ Approach for Information Extraction from Privacy Policies under Data Scarcity
2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Page 76-83
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA
July 2023
Grünewald, Elias; Halkenhäußer, Johannes M.; Leschke, Nicola; Washington, Johanna; Paupini, Cristina; Pallas, Frank
Enabling Versatile Privacy Interfaces Using Machine-Readable Transparency Information
In Schiffner, Stefan and Rodriguez, Adrian Quesada and Ziegler, Sebastien, Editor, Privacy Symposium 2023
In Schiffner, Stefan and Rodriguez, Adrian Quesada and Ziegler, Sebastien, Editor
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
2023
Grünewald, Elias; Kiesel, Jannis; Akbayin, Siar-Remzi; Pallas, Frank
Hawk: DevOps-driven Transparency and Accountability in Cloud Native Systems
2023 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Page 167–174
Publisher: IEEE
2023
Leschke, Nicola; Kirsten, Florian; Pallas, Frank; Grünewald, Elias
Streamlining personal data access requests: From obstructive procedures to automated web workflows
In Garrigós, Irene and Murillo Rodríguez, Juan Manuel and Wimmer, Manuel, Editor, Web Engineering. ICWE 2023Volume13893fromLecture Notes in Computer Science, Page 111–125
In Garrigós, Irene and Murillo Rodríguez, Juan Manuel and Wimmer, Manuel, Editor
Publisher: Springer, Cham
2023
Grünewald, Elias; Halkenhäußer, Johannes M.; Leschke, Nicola; Pallas, Frank
Towards Cross-Provider Analysis of Transparency Information for Data Protection
Publisher: under review
2023

2022

Heiss, Jonathan; Grünewald, Elias; Tai, Stefan; Haimerl, Nikolas; Schulte, Stefan
Advancing Blockchain-based Federated Learning through Verifiable Off-chain Computations
2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain), Page 194–201
2022
Grünewald, Elias
Cloud Native Privacy Engineering through DevPrivOps
Privacy and Identity Management. IFIP International Summer School, Esch-sur-Alzette, 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham
2022
Pallas, Frank; Hartmann, David; Heinrich, Paul; Kipke, Josefine; Grünewald, Elias
Configurable Per-Query Data Minimization for Privacy-Compliant Web APIs
Proceedings of the 2022 ICWE International Conference on Web Engineering, Bari
2022
Grünewald, Elias; Schurbert, Leonard
Scalable Discovery and Continuous Inventory of Personal Data at Rest in Cloud Native Systems
In Troya, Javier and Medjahed, Brahim and Piattini, Mario and Yao, Lina and Fernández, Pablo and Ruiz-Cortés, Antonio, Editor, Service-Oriented Computing, Page 513–529
In Troya, Javier and Medjahed, Brahim and Piattini, Mario and Yao, Lina and Fernández, Pablo and Ruiz-Cortés, Antonio, Editor
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham
2022
ISBN
978-3-031-20984-0

2021

[de] Grünewald, Elias; Pallas, Frank
Datensouveränität für Verbraucher:innen: Technische Ansätze durch KI-basierte Transparenz und Auskunft im Kontext der DSGVO
Verbraucherdatenschutz - Technik und Regulation zur Unterstützung des IndividuumsfromAlexander Boden, Timo Jakobi, Gunnar Stevens, Christian Bala (Hgg.): Verbraucherdatenschutz - Technik und Regulation zur Unterstützung des Individuums, Page 1–17
2021
ISBN
978-3-96043-095-7
Pallas, Frank; Legler, Julian; Amslgruber, Niklas; Grünewald, Elias
RedCASTLE: practically applicable $k_s$-anonymity for IoT streaming data at the edge in node-RED
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA
2021
ISBN
978-1-4503-9167-2/21/12
Grünewald, Elias; Pallas, Frank
TILT: A GDPR-Aligned Transparency Information Language and Toolkit for Practical Privacy Engineering
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and TransparencyfromFAccT '21
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA
2021
Grünewald, Elias; Wille, Paul; Pallas, Frank; Borges, Maria C.; Ulbricht, Max-R.
TIRA: An OpenAPI Extension and Toolbox for GDPR Transparency in RESTful Architectures
2021 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS\&PW)
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
2021

2019

Hasenburg, Jonathan; Grambow, Martin; Grünewald, Elias; Huk, Sascha; Bermbach, David
MockFog: Emulating Fog Computing Infrastructure in the Cloud
2019 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC), Page 144–152
Publisher: IEEE
2019