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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.

Neues Graduiertenkolleg an der TU Darmstadt

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat das neue Graduiertenkolleg „LokoAssist – Nahtlose Integration von Assistenzsystemen für die natürliche Fortbewegung des Menschen“ an der TU Darmstadt bewilligt. Beteiligt sind die Universität Heidelberg und das Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit in Mannheim. Das Kolleg wird ab 2022 für viereinhalb Jahre mit voraussichtlich rund 6 Millionen Euro gefördert. Am Graduiertenkolleg sind auch Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D. sowie Prof. Dr. Oskar von Stryk vom Fachbereich Informatik beteiligt.

Research on the “fake wake phenomenon” for better privacy protection

Researchers from the System Security Lab at the Department of Computer Science, together with a team from China's Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, have studied the “fake wake phenomenon” in voice assistants. The findings can be used to train the voice-controlled devices so that they are less susceptible to unintentional activation.

Reasearch at Telecooperation Lab

Could we as consumers actually make the future electricity grid more stable? A research team headed by Rolf Egert and Max Mühlhäuser is working on exactly this kind of vision.

Transfer project of the System Security Lab receives funding from the Pioneer Fund

The project “DÏoT – Autonomous and Distributed Intrusion Detection for IoT Networks” at the System Security Lab of Professor Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi will be supported by the university's internal funding program Pioneer Fund starting January 2022.

Recognition for organizing the world's largest hardware security competition "HACK@Event

Cybersecurity researcher Professor Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, head of the System Security Lab in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded the Intel Academic Leadership Award along with Professor Jeyavijayan Rajendran (Texas A&M). The award was presented at the internationally renowned USENIX Security Symposium 2021.

Framework “OpenHaystack” enables tracking of personal Bluetooth devices

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science provide an open-source framework for locating personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's offline finding system “Find My”. A corresponding scientific demo paper was awarded the Best Demo Award at the ACM conference WiSec'21 in July 2021.

“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 .