“Athene Young Investigator” Christian Janson is carrying out research into the secure exchange of encrypted messages

Privacy and data protection are becoming more and more important in our increasingly digital everyday and working lives. The cryptographer Christian Janson is carrying out research into secure communication. The newly appointed “Athene Young Investigator” is working on, amongst other things, encryption methods that remain secure even against increasingly powerful attackers.

TU-Researchers discover significant privacy leak in Apple's file-sharing service

Apple users can share files with each other using AirDrop. But studies by TU researchers at the Department of Computer Science show that uninvited people can also tap into data. The research team developed a solution that could replace the flawed AirDrop. Apple has not yet closed the discovered privacy gap – the users of more than 1.5 billion Apple devices are still vulnerable.

Students facilitate virtual Easter egg hunt for elementary school children

The MINT Club at Herzenbergschule in Hadamar organized a virtual Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday. This was made possible by self-built robots that acted as avatars for the participating elementary school children. The software for remote control of the avatars was developed by five students at the Department of Computer Science as part of a semester project within their bachelor's programme.

German and Russian scientists join forces to improve performance tuning on supercomputers

To better understand the efficiency of programs on supercomputers, scientists rely on performance measurements. However, these also reflect random delays, for example, caused by concurrently running programs running. The performance of the actual algorithm is therefore difficult to evaluate. In a German-Russian joint project, coordinated by computer science professor Felix Wolf at TU Darmstadt, partners from Darmstadt, Jülich and Moscow are working on less sensitive analysis methods.

TU Darmstadt occupies top positions in international ranking

TU Darmstadt has once again proven its internationally outstanding position in the field of computer science. Professor Oskar von Stryk is listed in 21st place in the ranking of the Top 25 Influential Computer Scientists Today. In addition, Professor Kristian Kersting recieved an "honorable mention“. In the ranking of the most influential universities in the field of computer science, the TU also reached an excellent result with 35th place as the only German university among the top 50. The ranking was compiled by the Academic Influence platform.

Prof. Sorin Huss Fund also promotes individual child care solutions

The Prof. Sorin Huss Fund supports students and doctoral candidates at TU Darmstadt in financing childcare. The funding is intended to help relieve the burden on parents studying or doing a doctorate, especially in financially critical situations.

Distinction for exceptionally qualified early career researchers

Georgia Chalvatzaki, a postdoctoral researcher at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group (IAS) in the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, has been accepted into the renowned Emmy Noether Programme (ENP) of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The AI-ready healthcare project creates the world's largest infrastructure for the consistently structured acquisition and analysis of radiological data about pandemics.

A total of 36 German university hospitals, two research institutes and the Technical University of Darmstadt have joined forces to combat COVID-19 in the BMBF project RACOON. The aim is to record and evaluate radiological findings in a structured and thus machine-readable way. This is one step towards making healthcare ready for Artificial Intelligence (AI). The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin .

Professor Iryna Gurevych was selected as one of nine new Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for her outstanding work in the field of natural language processing and machine learning.

Daniel Günther awarded for innovative Master Thesis

Daniel Günther won the first prize in the category “Best Master Thesis” at the CAST IT Security Award 2020 . The jury chose his work on “Optimizing Private Information Retrieval for Compromised Credential Checking” among four finalists.

TU computer scientists lead new joint project EVA-KI with 1.7 million euros in funding

The earlier a pulmonary embolism is detected, the better the chances of recovery. In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) will help physicians to identify embolisms correctly and quickly on X-rays. With this goal, the joint project EVA-KI – Establishment of a platform for the development and validation of AI solutions in clinical routine – is now starting.

DFG priority program enters second phase | TU Darmstadt with project successful

Data management architectures will change radically in the next few years: The spectrum of applications that have to process large amounts of data has expanded significantly. In addition, new trends are making it possible to rethink current system architectures – both at the hardware and operating system level.

Success in the THE Subject Rankings

In this year’s THE World University Rankings by Subject, TU Darmstadt was once again well represented with very prominent rankings internationally. The university was ranked in 61st place for the subject “Computer Science” and thus achieved its best result since the publication of the rankings, despite a further increase in the number of ranked universities.

Focus on the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence

A new group of young female scientists at TU Darmstadt funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will be conducting research over the next four years into “Interactive AI for Domain Experts and Everyday Users” (IKIDA). The team will be headed by Dr. Dorothea Koert from the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science. She was awarded the AI Newcomer Prize in 2019.

Research group PEASEC: IT meets peace and conflict research

Professor Christian Reuter, head of the research group of „Science and Technology for Peace and Security“ (PEASEC), is conducting research and teaches on the interface between computer science and peace and conflict research. He explains in the following interview how IT can be used during war and to bring about peace.