Linus Henke
About Me
Hello! This is the personal web page of Linus Henke. I am a year old physics student currently doing my masters degree at the University of Innsbruck. I am currently working at Josef Ressel centre for security analysis of IoT devices.
Although my background is not in computer science I have a strong base in computational methods, which makes me a good fit for writing software that is connected to a physical system, or requires a deep knowledge of mathematical problem solving.
Education
I began my bachelors degree in physics in October of 2018 at the University of Siegen. During my bachelors degree I learned the mathematical background to approach complex problems but also the computational methods to solve them. I wrote my bachelors thesis with Prof. Dr. Alexander Lenz to learn methods of theoretical particle physics. Specifically doing numerical lattice calculations for quantum chromodynamics on a distributed memory system using the Hadrons library. I finished the degree in September of 2022 with the title of my thesis being O(a) Improvement Operators for the Relativistic Heavy Quark Action in Hadrons.
Immediately after finishing my bachelors degree I started with my masters studies at the University of Innsbruck to continue my physics degree. I will likely finish the degree in 2026 with no specialization set yet. Notable lectures include topics of computational physics like distributed memory parallelization and numerical maths, but also some theoretical lectures like quantum field theory or general relativity.
In 2024 I also started a supplementary study program in computer science which the University of Innsbruck is is offering. I will finish this program within 2025.
Work Experience
My first work experience outside of manual labour was working as a research assistant for the experimental particle physics group working on the ATLAS project at the University of Siegen. I started this job in 2019 when I was in seconds semester. At first I was just assigned to do SMD soldering and wire bonding for the ATLAS pixel detector modules. This later turned into measuring these modules, analysis of that data and also helping with some basic scripting tasks. This job was a great opportunity to view the day to day operations of a physics research group. I worked in that group until I left for Innsbruck.
My first job in Innsbruck was as a project assistant at the Secure Machine Learning (SMiLE) project at MCI. I was tasked with implementing more functionalities into the HE-MAN framework, a client allowing machine learning inference on encrypted data using fully homomorphic encryption and ONNX models. The aim of this project was to research the feasibility of machine learning on homomorphically encrypted data. The project ended in January of 2024.
After that project has finished I started working at Josef Ressel centre for security analysis of IoT devices, also at MCI. This project is working on automating processes for testing security aspects of IoT devices. This is also my current job, where I am tasked with developing a pipeline for test automation using model based testing.
Skills
My software skills I acquired over the years. On more information on what the bars mean, click here.