Department of Computer Science successful with RAI and TAM

A major success for Technical University of Darmstadt: two of its research projects will receive funding as Clusters of Excellence. The Excellence Commission in the competition for the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments selected the proposals ‘Reasonable Artificial Intelligence’ (RAI) and ‘The Adaptive Mind’ (TAM) from the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences for funding. The commission consisted of an interdisciplinary panel of experts and the federal and state ministers responsible for science. A total of 98 projects were submitted to the German Research Foundation, 70 of which will now be able to call themselves ‘Clusters of Excellence’.

Researchers from TU Darmstadt and ccollaborators present study

In the future, autonomous delivery drones could independently assess whether their remaining battery charge is sufficient for upcoming deliveries. A team of researchers from Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA) and industry partner Ingeniarius Ltd, has developed a new method for energy-aware deployment planning. The approach enables each drone to learn what orders it is capable of fulfilling even when not knowing its own battery health. It is shown to reduce delivery times and increase the number of processed orders compared to conventional approaches.

Major award in the field of object-oriented software engineering

Der renommierte Dahl-Nygaard Senior Preis 2025 wird dieses Jahr an Professorin Dr.-Ing. Mira Mezini von der TU Darmstadt verliehen. Die Auszeichnung wird im Rahmen der diesjährigen European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP) vergeben, die vom 30. Juni bis 4. Juli stattfindet. Damit werden ihre langjährigen, wegweisenden Beiträge zur Softwaretechnik gewürdigt.

Seit April unterstützt Dr. Svana Esche das Studiendekanat als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Post-Doc) für Fachdidaktik. Esche schloss 2024 ihre Promotion mit Titel „Focus on Language in Introductory Programming“ am Fachgebiet Algorithmik bei Prof. Karsten Weihe ab. Neben ihrer Tätigkeit in Forschung und Grundlehre engagiert sich seit einigen Jahren im Gleichstellungsteam. Wir wünschen einen guten Start und haben ihr ein paar Fragen gestellt, um sie besser kennenzulernen.

Professor Mira Mezini has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences by the Presidium of the Leopoldina, one of the oldest scientific academies in the world. This is one of the highest scientific honours. As a member of the Leopoldina, Mezini is a member of the Information Sciences Research Group.

First Gender Mint Professorship for Computer Science

From March, we will welcome Dr. Isabella Graßl as our first Gender MINT Visiting Professor of Computer Science for two years. In her background and research, she combines computer science and the humanities: she holds Bachelor's degrees in Internet Computing and in Linguistics and Textual Studies, as well as Master's degrees in Computer Science and in Textual and Cultural Semiotics from the University of Passau. She completed her doctorate there with a thesis on diversity in programming education. The 32-year-old brings international research experience from the University of Cambridge, where she was most recently a Research Associate in Computing Education. The visiting professorship is based in the Software Engineering Research Group of Prof. Mira Mezini. It is funded by the German Federal and State Government's Women's Professorship Programme III in the first year and by the Department itself in the second year. To get to know her better, we asked her a few questions

Examination manager for the Master's degree programmes

Since January, Alessandra Nesensohn has been supporting the Office of Student Affairs as the new Examinations Manager. She previously worked in the Department of History and Social Sciences. We wish her a good start and asked her a few questions to get to know her better.

Humanoid robot TALOS at TU Darmstadt for research into human-like learning

The Technical University of Darmstadt is expanding its portfolio of large-scale interdisciplinary research equipment with a special addition: the state-of-the-art humanoid robot ‘TALOS’. There are currently only five other research centres in the world with such a robot, and Darmstadt's TALOS is the only one in Germany. Its arrival today also marked the launch of the new Laboratory for Humanoid Robotics.

Image and Video Analysis

Simone Schaub-Meyer has been Professor of Image and Video Analysis at the Department of Computer Science since February. The 35-year-old scientist completed her doctorate at ETH Zurich, and in her dissertation, which was awarded the ETH Medal, she developed innovative methods for motion visualisation and video image interpolation.

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CROSSING, emergenCITY, the cluster project The Third Wave of AI (3AI), and the Zuse School ELIZA recognize exceptionally well performances of female students.

Professor Mira Mezini, Head of the Research Group Software Engineering, has been appointed as an ACM Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt.

Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding (BHABU)

Naser Damer has been a professor at TU Darmstadt since the beginning of January. He has taken over the newly created professorship for ‘Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behaviour Understanding (BHABU)’ at the Department of Computer Science, where he will strengthen the work of the National Research Centre for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE.

The expertise that computer science alumnus Kai Beckmann acquired and the people he met at TU Darmstadt provided him with important stimulus and inspiration for his professional career at Merck

Kai Beckmann studied computer science at TU Darmstadt in the 1980s and completed his doctorate in economics at the university ten years later part-time while working. Beckmann began his career at the science and technology company Merck as an IT system consultant. Today, the alumnus is a Member of the Executive Board of Merck responsible for the Electronics business sector (semiconductors and specialty chemicals), the Darmstadt site, patents and inhouse consulting.

Interview with Dr. Simone Schaub-Meyer, early career researcher in the cluster project “RAI”

In the “RAI” project, Dr. Simone Schaub-Meyer is working to improve our understanding of widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models and to make them more robust. In this interview, the computer scientist reveals why this is important, who could benefit from it in the future and what drives her personally. Part two of a video series with early career researchers in the planned clusters of excellence involving TU Darmstadt.

manager magazin and BCG honour their formative influence

Professor Dr Iryna Gurevych, Head of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt, has been named one of the ‘Top 100 most influential women in German business’ by manager magazin and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).