Platform enables safe and data protection-compliant use of AI in business and science

The Technical University of Darmstadt and the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence hessian.AI are playing a key role in the development of DataHub Europe, a new platform for the secure use and provision of data for training AI models. This platform, which was presented by Schwarz Digits and Deutsche Bahn AG at the German government's 2024 “Digital-Gipfel”, helps companies to efficiently implement specific solutions using artificial intelligence (AI) in a manner that complies with data protection regulations.

PhD students Johannes Czech and Jannis Blüml are researching artificial intelligence (AI) and chess

Johannes Czech and Jannis Blüml work at the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab (AIML Lab) at TU Darmstadt. Together with Professor Kristian Kersting, head of the AIML Lab, and Hedinn Steingrimsson, a scientist specialising in AI reliability at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Safe System 2, they published a research paper on artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of chess in August. This week they are presenting their paper at ECAI, one of the major European conferences for AI research, in Santiago de Compostela.

Interdisciplinary research

TU computer science professor Christian Bischof has taken part in a flight expedition to Greenland. One of the aims of the mission with the research aircraft ‘Polar6’ was to collect data for glacier simulations on the high-performance computer ‘Lichtenberg’ at TU Darmstadt.

Interview with Prof Dr Dr h.c. Ralf Steinmetz before his retirement

After 28 years at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Professor Ralf Steinmetz is retiring. Until the end of the special research centre ‘MAKI – Multi-Mechanism Adaptation for the Future Internet’, he has agreed to take on all tasks as its spokesperson. In this interview, the head of the Multimedia Communication Lab at the etit Department and Member of courtesy at the Computer Science Department looks back on this time. He talks about challenges and his grand vision, provides insights into how the collaboration between different researchers and different technical communication systems has been successful – and reveals how research and teaching can continue to be successfully organised in the future.

AI and NLP for Mental Health

Dr Shaoxiong Ji has headed the new Independent Research Group (IRG) ‘AI and NLP for Mental Health’ since October. The group is funded as part of the LOEWE centre DYNAMIC and works closely with the UKP group. After completing his PhD at Aalto University, Ji worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki in the field of high-performance language technology. Learn more about Ji and his research in the following interview.

An interview with Professor Kristian Kersting and Professor Markus Rohrbach, co-speakers of the RAI cluster project

The research initiative „Reasonable Artificial Intelligence’ (RAI) is one of three projects involving TU Darmstadt that are in the running for a Cluster of Excellence. Professor Kersting and Professor Rohrbach give an insight into their research – and explain who could benefit from it in the future. Part two of a three-part video series on TU Darmstadt's Cluster of Excellence applications.

ENCRYPTO lab presents research

On Monday (16 September), members of the Hessian state parliament Lucas Schmitz (spokesman for science and the arts) and Peter Franz (member of parliament for the Darmstadt II constituency; both CDU) were guests at TU Darmstadt.

LOEWE Center emergenCity develops important addition to existing warning system

As part of the warning day organised by the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), the LOEWE centre ‘emergenCITY’ is looking into the question of how the population can be warned in the event of a prolonged power outage. The idea is to integrate the good old advertising column into the warning system.

Award for outstanding contributions by young researchers in the fields of pattern recognition, machine vision and machine learning

TU Professor Justus Thies was awarded the German Pattern Recognition Prize at this year's GCPR-VMV conference in Munich.

ERC supports TU professor Justus Thies with Starting Grant

TU professor Justus Thies is receiving a Starting Grant totalling 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project ‘Learning Digital Humans in Motion’. The exciting research goal: to develop AI-based image processing and graphic tools to create lifelike digital representations of people for the immersive digital world.

TU professor Georgia Chalvatzaki receives ERC Starting Grant for her project SIREN

The “SIREN” research project at TU Darmstadt has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Georgia Chalvatzaki will receive around 1.5 million euros of funding for five years. The computer scientist is researching innovative AI robot software architectures, which enable human-like robots to perform challenging tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments.

Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

How do we want to organise our future mobile interaction with information?

From 28 to 30 August, more than 150 scientists will come together for the International Conference on Resilient Systems (ICRS) at the CREATE Tower in Singapore. The ICRS is one of the leading interdisciplinary conferences in resilience research. For the first time, it will also be co-organised by emergenCITY representatives. The LOEWE centre emergenCITY is an interdisciplinary and cross-location cooperation under the leadership of TU Darmstadt.

TU Darmstadt part of new lab with Aleph Alpha

TU Darmstadt is establishing a joint laboratory with Aleph Alpha Research, the research arm of the Heidelberg-based AI company Aleph Alpha. The aim of ‘Lab 1141’ is to further develop safe and transparent generative artificial intelligence (AI). The collaboration is intended to close gaps between academic research and industrial development.

Study led by the UKP lab shows limitations of ChatGPT & co.

According to a new study led by TU Darmstadt, AI models such as ChatGPT are apparently less capable of learning independently than previously assumed. According to the study, there is no evidence that what are known as large language models (LLMs) are beginning to develop a general “intelligent” behaviour that would enable them to proceed in a planned or intuitive manner or to think in a complex way. The study will be presented in August at the annual conference of the renowned Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Bangkok, the largest international conference on automatic language processing.