Dr.-Ing. Niclas Kannengießer

Dr.-Ing. Niclas Kannengießer

  • Kaiserstraße 89
    76133 Karlsruhe

Niclas Kannengießer is postdoctoral researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He has a background in economics, mechanical engineering, and computer science. His research is mainly concerned with decentralized information systems.

Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience:

  • Since 09/2024: Visiting researcher at the Information Management Research Group, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Since 07/2021: Research associate at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 03/2018-06/2021: Research associate at the DLT Research Group, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
  • Since 08/2016: Freelancer: Consultant and Software Developer
  • 04/2016 - 07/2016: Student assistant at the Institute for Algorithms & Data Structures, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
  • 05/2015 - 06/2016: Founder of and Chief Developer at simbar GbR, Kassel, Germany
  • 10/2014 - 06/2017: Student assistant at the Institute for Human-Machine-Systems, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
  • 06/2011 - 09/2011: Intern at HÄRTER Stanztechnik GmbH, Königsbach-Stein, Germany
  • 08/2010 - 08/2010: Intern at Studsvik UK Ltd., Gateshead, United Kingdom
  • 05/2009 - 06/2009: Intern at Studsvik SAS, Sens, France
  • 03/2007 - 08/2010: Web-Developer at Werbedesign Perla, Königsbach-Stein, Germany


Education:

  • 10/2019 - 10/2019: Blockchain Summer School at the IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Since 03/2018: PhD student in Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 04/2016 - 02/2018: Master of Science in Economic Engineering at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
  • 10/2013-2020: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
  • 10/2011 - 05/2016: Bachelor of Science in Economic Engineering at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany


Voluntary Engagement:


Awards & Honors:

Research Interests

  • Decentralized Information Systems
  • Software Engineering

Reviewer for

  • Business & Information Systems Engineering
  • Computer Communications
  • Connection Science
  • Electronic Markets
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • European Conference on Information Systems
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Journal of Information Technology
  • Wirtschaftsinformatik

Publications


2025
Zeller, S. C.; Kandora, P.-N. K.; Kirste, D.; Kannengießer, N.; Rebennack, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2025). Automated Market Makers: A Stochastic Optimization Approach for Profitable Liquidity Concentration. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.5445/IR/1000180710 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Sproll, Y.; Heinrich, R.; Le, L. B. Q.; Kannengießer, N. (2025). SM-SIM: A Simulator for Analyzing Selfish Mining Attacks in Blockchain Systems. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.5445/IR/1000180433 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2024
Kirste, D.; Poddey, A.; Kannengießer, N.; Sunyaev, A. (2024). On the influence of conventional and automated market makers on market quality in cryptoeconomic systems. Electronic Markets, 34 (1), Art.-Nr.: 42. doi:10.1007/s12525-024-00723-1 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Kannengießer, N. (2024, October 2). Purposeful Information System Decentralization based on Distributed Ledger Technology. PhD dissertation. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT).
Lamberty, R.; Kirste, D.; Kannengießer, N.; Sunyaev, A. (2024). HybCBDC: A Design for Central Bank Digital Currency Systems Enabling Digital Cash. IEEE Access, 12, 137712–137728. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3458451 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Jin, D.; Kannengießer, N.; Rank, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2024). Collaborative Distributed Machine Learning. ACM Computing Surveys. doi:10.1145/3704807
2022
Kannengießer, N.; Lins, S.; Sander, C.; Winter, K.; Frey, H.; Sunyaev, A. (2022). Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development. IEEE transactions on software engineering, 48 (11), 4291–4318. doi:10.1109/TSE.2021.3116808
Pfister, M.; Kannengießer, N.; Sunyaev, A. (2022). Finding the Right Balance: Technical and Political Decentralization in the Token Economy. Blockchains and the Token Economy. Ed.: M. C. Lacity, 53–86, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95108-5_3
Hasebrook, N.; Morsbach, F.; Kannengießer, N.; Zöller, M.; Franke, J.; Lindauer, M.; Hutter, F.; Sunyaev, A. (2022). Why Do Machine Learning Practitioners Still Use Manual Tuning? A Qualitative Study. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.48550/ARXIV.2203.01717 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Leinweber, M.; Kannengießer, N.; Hartenstein, H.; Sunyaev, A. (2022). Leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology for Decentralized Mobility-as-a-Service Ticket Systems. Towards the New Normal in Mobility : Technische und betriebswirtschaftliche Aspekte. Hrsg.: H. Proff, 547–567, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-39438-7_32 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Jin, D.; Kannengießer, N.; Sturm, B.; Sunyaev, A. (2022). Tackling Challenges of Robustness Measures for Autonomous Agent Collaboration in Open Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, 03.01.2022-07.01.2022, 7585–7594. doi:10.24251/HICSS.2022.911 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2021
Heines, R.; Kannengießer, N.; Sturm, B.; Jung, R.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Need for Change: Business Functions Affected by the Use of Decentralized Information Systems. 42nd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Association for Information Systems (AIS).
Gojka, E.-E.; Kannengießer, N.; Sturm, B.; Bartsch, J.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Security in Distributed Ledger Technology: An Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Attack Vectors. Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of the 2021 Computing Conference, Volume 3. Ed.: K. Arai, 722–742, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-80129-8_50
Lücking, M.; Kretzer, F.; Kannengießer, N.; Beigl, M.; Sunyaev, A.; Stork, W. (2021). When Data Fly: An Open Data Trading System in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Electronics, 10 (6), 654. doi:10.3390/electronics10060654 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Sunyaev, A.; Kannengießer, N.; Beck, R.; Treiblmaier, H.; Lacity, M.; Kranz, J.; Fridgen, G.; Spankowski, U.; Luckow, A. (2021). Token Economy. Business & information systems engineering, 63 (4), 457–478. doi:10.1007/s12599-021-00684-1 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2020
Lücking, M.; Kannengießer, N.; Kilgus, M.; Riedel, T.; Beigl, M.; Sunyaev, A.; Stork, W. (2020). The Merits of a Decentralized Pollution-Monitoring System Based on Distributed Ledger Technology. IEEE access, 8, 189365–189381. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3028430 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Kannengießer, N.; Lins, S.; Dehling, T.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Trade-offs between Distributed Ledger Technology Characteristics. ACM computing surveys, 53 (2), Art. Nr.: 42. doi:10.1145/3379463 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Kannengießer, N.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Uncertainties toward permissioned distributed ledgers: a multi-actor uncertainty conceptualization. Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2020, AIS eLibrary (AISeL).
Gräbe, F.; Kannengießer, N.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Do Not Be Fooled: Toward a Holistic Comparison of Distributed Ledger Technology Designs. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2020, Maui, Hawaii, January 7 - 10, 2020, ScholarSpace. doi:10.24251/HICSS.2020.770 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Kannengießer, N.; Pfister, M.; Greulich, M.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Bridges Between Islands: Cross-Chain Technology for Distributed Ledger Technology. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2020, Maui, Hawaii, January 7 - 10, 2020, ScholarSpace. doi:10.24251/HICSS.2020.652
Thiebes, S.; Kannengießer, N.; Schmidt-Kraepelin, M.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Beyond Data Markets: Opportunities and Challenges for Distributed Ledger Technology in Genomics. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2020), Maui, Hawaii, 3275–3284, ScholarSpace. doi:10.24251/HICSS.2020.400 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Smetanin, S.; Ometov, A.; Kannengießer, N.; Sturm, B.; Komarov, M.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Modeling of Distributed Ledgers: Challenges and Future Perspectives. Proceedings 2020 IEEE 22nd Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2020): Antwerp, Belgium, 22-24 June 2020. Volume 2 - Research-in-Progress and Workshop Papers. Ed.: W. Guédria, 162–171, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CBI49978.2020.00025
2019
Lamberti, R.; Fries, C.; Lücking, M.; Manke, R.; Kannengießer, N.; Sturm, B.; Komarov, M. M.; Stork, W.; Sunyaev, A. (2019). An Open Multimodal Mobility Platform Based on Distributed Ledger Technology. Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems: 19th International Conference, NEW2AN 2019, and 12th Conference, ruSMART 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 26-28, 2019, Proceedings. Ed.: O. Galinina, 41–52, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30859-9_4
Kannengießer, N.; Lins, S.; Dehling, T.; Sunyaev, A. (2019). What Does Not Fit Can be Made to Fit! Trade-Offs in Distributed Ledger Technology Designs. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences : January 8-11, 2019, Maui, Hawaii. Ed.: Tung X. Bui, 7069–7078, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library, ScholarSpace. doi:10.24251/HICSS.2019.848
2018
Hegenberg, J.; Kannengießer, N.; Klose, E.; Schmidt, L. (2018). CAVE-basierte Nutzerstudie eines Aufenthalts-Empfehlungssystems. Mensch und Computer 2018 - Tagungsband, Dresden, 02.–05. September 2018. Hrsg.: R. Dachselt, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). doi:10.18420/muc2018-mci-0303