# CURRICULUM VITAE

Source: <https://schnack.dev/cv/>

Author: Lucas Schnack

## Experience

### Security Researcher

Jun 2023 — present

Freelance

- All-time top 10 on HackenProof
- Security research on blockchain protocols and infrastructure
- Discovered vulnerabilities in compilers, gossip protocols, networking infrastructure, and AMM logic
- Security research across the LLM tooling ecosystem
- Discovered remote code execution in leading coding harnesses and open-weight model serving frameworks

## Education

### M.Sc. Informatics

Apr 2024 — present

Technical University of Munich

- Focus: Graph Neural Networks, Deepfake Detection, 3D Gaussian Splatting

### B.Sc. Informatics — 1.0 (top 0.8%)

Oct 2020 — Apr 2024

Technical University of Munich

- Thesis: "Privacy Amplification via Random Transformations"
- Minor: Mathematics (Probability Theory)

### Abitur — 1.0 (886/900 pts, top of the year)

Sep 2011 — Jul 2019

Klenze Gymnasium München

- Seminar thesis on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for the board game "Scotland Yard"

## Projects & competitions

### [CheckMate](https://www.ja.tum.de/ja/projekte/projekte-2022/checkmate/)

Oct 2021 — Jul 2023

TUM: Junge Akademie

- Study on software-based approaches to countering fake news among German high-school students

### Kaggle Master

Kaggle

- Halite IV by Two Sigma — 4th / 1143 teams, gold medal
- Rock, Paper, Scissors — 37th / 1667 teams, silver medal

### TUM Programming Competitions

Technical University of Munich

- Quoridor AI — 1st place
- Domineering AI — 2nd place

## Scholarships & awards

- **HackenProof Vanguard** Aug 2026  
  Selected as one of ten security researchers out of 82,000+ hackers on HackenProof to join the Vanguard community program
- **best.in.tum** Oct 2021 & Jun 2025  
  Top 2% of CS students at TUM (awarded for both bachelor's and master's)
- **Max Weber Program** Apr 2022  
  Merit-based scholarship from the Bavarian Elite Network, awarded to 400 students per year
- **Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes** Mar 2021
  - German Academic Scholarship Foundation, merit-based
  - Spokesperson for the Munich local group (1000+ scholarship holders), May 2022 — Jun 2025, reelected twice
- **TUM: Junge Akademie** Oct 2021  
  Interdisciplinary scholarship program at TUM
- **Dr. Hans Riegel Prize for Computer Science** Jun 2019  
  Awarded for seminar thesis on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning applied to a board game

## Interests

Differential Privacy, (Blockchain) Security, Machine Learning, Deepfake Detection