Proof of Concept: Professor Peters receives 150.000 euros from European Research Council

Professor Jan Peters has been awarded a “Proof of Concept” grant of 150,000 euros by the European Research Council (ERC). He receives the award for his project “AssemblySkills”. The aim of the project is to give robots the ability to learn autonomously with the help of artificial intelligence.´

Fundamental contribution to Computer Vision

Professor of Computer Science Stefan Roth is today honoured with the Longuet Higgins Prize 2020 for fundamental contributions in the field of computer vision. With this prize, a jury of experts each year highlights a publication that was published exactly ten years earlier and had a lasting influence on the further development of computer vision during this time. The award is presented at the prestigious CVPR conference and is endowed with a plaque and $3,000.

Kristina Hostáková – Ph.D. student from the Applied Cryptography research group at the department of omputer Science – was selected to receive the Women Techmakers Scholarship for computer science sponsored by Google as one of 20 scholars from the EMEA region. T

Cryptography expert receives the Copernicus Award

Their many years of joint cutting-edge research in the field of cryptography and IT security is honoured with a prestigious award: Sebastian Faust, Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and Professor Dr. Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw) will each receive half of the Copernicus Award 2020 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (FNP, Foundation for Polish Science), which is endowed with 200,000 euros.

First year PhD student Jonas Pfeiffer was selected to receive a 2020 IBM PhD Fellowship Award . This highly competitive award honors and supports exceptional PhD students in pioneering research areas. Jonas Pfeiffer is pursuing his PhD, supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych, at the UKP Lab where his focus is on on multi-modal, multi-lingual and multi-task machine learning.

Protection against attacks via side channels

Spectacular security loopholes discovered in modern processors are setting new challenges for scientists: Computer Science Professor Heiko Mantel and his team are studying the danger of difficult to detect attacks via so-called side channels and possible countermeasures.

TU graduates and TU robotics experts found „Energy Robotics“

Four graduates and the computer science professor and robotics expert Oskar von Stryk have founded the company “Energy Robotics”. Their software for autonomous inspection robots has made the team a global leader in the market for monitoring oil, gas and chemical plants. An example of the successful transfer of ideas and knowledge at Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt.

Award for outstanding PhD theses in IT Security

At this year's flagship security conference ACM CCS 2019 in London, Dr. Felix Günther was awarded the ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation award on November 13, 2019. The highly competitive award recognizes internationally outstanding PhD theses in computer and information security and includes prize money of 1,500 US dollar.

ERC Starting Grant for Research in Security and Privacy

Professor Thomas Schneider from the Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt was awarded an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). His project “PSOTI” obtains funding of about 1.5 million Euros over a period of five years. This again underlines the high importance of research in Security and Privacy at TU Darmstadt.

TU Darmstadt together with six universities successful in Initiative competition

TU Darmstadt is awarded the title of “European University” by the EU Commission, together with six European technical universities. The alliance known as “UNITE!” will receive five million Euro of funding for three years. The aim is to create a trans-European campus.

Research at the Institute of Parallel Programming

Computer scientists from TU Darmstadt are using a trick from astrophysics to predict the rewiring of nerve cells in the brain. The aim of their model is to support neurosurgeons and advance artificial intelligence.

When your Apple device allows file stealing, reveals first name and blacks out

International research team discovers security and privacy vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS and macOS. The researchers strongly recommend users of Apple devices to install updates.

Members of the research group Applied Cryptography led by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Faust from the department of Computer Science presented the startup Perun at the IT Career Summit in Darmstadt.

TU awards Robert Piloty Prize to computer scientist and mathematician

Prof. Dr. Klara Nahrstedt and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dahmen have been awarded the Robert Piloty Prize 2018 of the TU Darmstadt for their many years of outstanding research and development work. The internationally renowned personalities each received a representative Robert Piloty medal and prize money of 5,000 euros.