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Prof. Jan Peters brings first Amazon Research Award to TU Darmstadt

For a research project on “Learning Robot Manipulation from Tactile Feedback”, the Autonomous Intelligent Systems department of computer science professor and hessian.AI founding member Jan Peters has been awarded an Amazon Research Awards (ARA) 2021. As announced by the company on 18 July 2022, the team will receive funding of approximately $95,000, as well as access to selected Amazon research infrastructure. The award will support the work of one to two PhD students or postdocs for one year.

Third funding phase includes new project area “Transfer”

The Collaborative Research Center CROSSING continues into its third funding period. The Grants Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) agreed to extend the funding until the end of June 2026 to research and develop cryptography-based security solutions enabling trust in new and next generation computing environments.

50 years Department of Computer Science: Interview with Emeritus Professor Wolfgang Bibel

He is regarded as one of the top ten personalities in German AI history: Wolfgang Bibel, professor emeritus of TU Darmstadt, was one of the first scientists in Germany to conduct research in the area of Artificial Intelligence, achieving international recognition. As professor for Intellectics and an expert for deduction, he was for two decades a leading figure and formative force of the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, and he laid the foundation for the department’s leading position in AI research.

European Union Funds AI Project for Innovative Analysis of Text

Professor Iryna Gurevych wins one of the highly-coveted “ERC Advanced Grants” and receives 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for her project “InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in a Cross-Document Context”.

Radical approach for sustainable security

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Professor of System Security at the Technical University of Darmstadt, has been awarded a prestigious “ERC Advanced Grant” by the European Research Council (ERC). His research project HYDRANOS is being funded with around 2.5 million euros over a period of five years.

Dr. Kristina Hostáková recognized with first place for dissertation

As part of the conference “GI Sicherheit 2022”, the CAST/GI Promotionspreis IT-Sicherheit 2022 was awarded at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Dr. Kristina Hostáková, an alumna of our department, took first place.

How to “detox” potentially offensive language from an AI

Researchers from the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt demonstrate that artificial intelligence language systems also learn human concepts of “good” and “bad”. The results have now been published in the journal “Nature Machine Intelligence”.

First Transition Grant of the European Innovation Council goes to TU Darmstadt

For its new Transition Grant, the European Innovation Council (EIC) has for the first time selected 42 projects from 292 proposals to receive a total of €99 million in EU funding. The very first Transition Grant goes with the highest possible score to computer science professor Jan Peters and his team at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group. For their pioneering project “Visual Robot Programming”, they will receive funding of over 1 million euros over two years.

Doctorate students in cybersecurity can apply for a scholarship

University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA), as a partner university of TU Darmstadt, currently has an open call for a full-time research exchange scholarship to fund PhD students in cybersecurity from TU Darmstadt for a 3-months visit starting in late August 2022.

August 8-19, 2022 at Aalto University, Finland

3 ECTS. School participation is free of charge for B.Sc. students from Unite! universities. Application period March 1 – May 15, 2022!

Making robots useful parts of our society

Since February, Georgia Chalvatzaki has been assistant professor for “Intelligent Robotic Systems for Assistance” at the Department of Computer Science. Chalvatzaki has been leading the iROSA research group since 2021 as part of the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation. Previously, the 33-year-old researcher was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Intelligent Autonomous Systems in the Department of Computer Science. We asked Professor Chalvatzaki about her work:

Understanding our nature and the capabilities of our world through quantum technologies

Since February 1, Mariami Gachechiladze has been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, heading the quantum computing group. We asked the 30-year-old scientist about her work.

Recognition for outstanding scientific contributions to computing

Prof. Max Mühlhäuser, Professor of Computer Science and head of the Telecooperation Lab, was named a 2021 Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM named 63 Distinguished Members in 2021 for outstanding contributions to the field of computing. All distinguished members are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that advance computing as a science and a profession.

Recognition and strenghtening of the twin disciplines of Cognitive Science and AI

Endowed with a Humboldt Professorship, Angela Yu is invited to assume a bridging function between artificial intelligence and the neurosciences. Yu is currently conducting negotiations with TU Darmstadt.

We're looking for your favourite CS department memories.

The Department of Computer Science was found on May 15th, 1972. We want to celebrate our 50th anniversary on May 12th, 2022, and through several smaller highlights across the coming year. Whether you are (or were) a student, staff or alumni – we look forward to hear your stories, see pictures and learn more about your favorite moments from the past 50 years.