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On 7 December, the Department of Computer Science held its first Winter Colloquium. As at the annual colloquium in June, the programme included a review of the year and an outlook by the Dean, Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter, the brief introduction of four new professors and the awarding of feedback prizes by the Student Committee.

Structural condition is being checked

Due to a structural inspection, a large lecture hall in the Department of Computer Science at the TU Darmstadt will not be available for courses and exams with immediate effect.

TU Professor Thomas Schneider receives ERC Consolidator Grant

The European Research Council is funding Professor Thomas Schneider and his project PRIVTOOLS with around two million euros. The aim of the project is to develop tools for the automatic generation of software that protects personal data and functions.

On average 40 dissertations per year

On 21 November 2023, the Department of Computer Science at Technical University Darmstadt awarded its 1000th doctoral degree. This milestone 50 years after its foundation illustrates the remarkable development of the department over the years.

The prestigious German Pattern Recognition Award for 2023 was officially presented to Professor of Computer Science, Prof. Anna Rohrbach, during the GCPR conference in Heidelberg from 19 to 22 September 2023. This annual award, established by the DAGM (German Association for Pattern Recognition), recognises the outstanding contributions of young scientists in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision and machine learning.

Cybersecurity with a focus on implementation security

Amir Moradi is a new professor in the Department of Computer Science. His area of research is IT security, in particular implementation security. The 44-year-old scientist previously worked at the University of Cologne and the Ruhr University Bochum. On the occasion of his start at the TU, we asked Professor Moradi a few questions:

TU Darmstadt inaugurates Lichtenberg II high-performance computer

Today, the TU Darmstadt officially inaugurated the new Lichtenberg II high-performance computer. Equipped with the latest technology, it sets standards in performance and energy efficiency and thus offers the best conditions for excellent research. Lichtenberg II is also part of the Network for National High Performance Computing (NHR) and supports the nationwide provision of computing power for science in a particularly sustainable and resource-efficient way. The computer is named after the polymath Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799).

Darmstädter Rettungsroboter gewinnen mit bester autonomer Strahlungskartierung eines Atomkraftwerks

Das Rettungsrobotik-Team Hector vom Fachgebiet Simulation, Systemoptimierung und Robotik der TU Darmstadt belegte bei dem internationalen Robotikwettbewerb EnRicH den ersten Platz in der Kategorie Strahlungskartierung und hat damit bei allen vier Durchführungen dieses zweijährlichen Wettbewerbs regelmäßig einen ersten Platz erzielt.

Departmental Coordinator Dr. Jana Dittrich

Since 1 June 2023 Dr. Jana Dittrich is Department Coordinator in the Departmental Office of the Department of Computer Science. She received her Dr. rer. pol. in the field of microeconomics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2020. In addition to her work as a research assistant, she was a member of the Quality Assurance and Ethics Committee team at the Karlsruhe Decision & Design Lab (KD²Lab). In late 2022, she joined TU Darmstadt as personal assistant to the president. We asked Dr. Dittrich about her work:

TU presents new system for reducing exploit stockpiles

A new paper from the research groups ENCRYPTO and PEASEC at TU Darmstadt proposes a privacy-preserving approach that allows state actors to compare exploit inventories without revealing national secrets. The method can provide a practical approach to cyber arms control and promote cyber security for civilians, as identified exploits that are known to multiple states can potentially be disclosed to be fixed. The paper has now been published in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and also received the CROSSING Collaboration Award 2022.

Start in winter semester 2023/24 / Online application possible until 15.7.

The M.Sc. in Computer Science is compatible with Anglo-Saxon degrees with the same name and is particularly well-suited for prospective international students. Students can choose their major to be either Data Science and Engineering, Distributed Computing or Visual Computing. Who is the Master's program aimed at? Dean of studies, Jan Peters on the special features of the program.

Start in winter semester 2023/24 / Online application possible until 15.7.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have started to become ubiquitous in their application to both daily life as well as many important societal tasks. The Department of Computer Science has expanded its course portfolio in AI and ML – previously integrated primarily in the computer science master's programme – to establish a new master's program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIM). What is special about the M.Sc. program at TU Darmstadt, what can students expect? Dean of Studies Jan Peters about the new program.

Start in winter semester 2023/24 / Online application possible until 31.8.

Robots are supposed to make more tasks easier for humans in the future. But how can we get them to independently master new tasks and cooperate with us? With the new Master's program Autonomous Systems and Robotics with German as language of instruction, the Department of Computer Science combines modern computer science methods with knowledge from classical engineering education. Through close cooperation with other relevant departments at the TU, the program offers a particularly diverse range of courses. What exactly awaits the students and what job opportunities do the graduates have? Professor Jan Peters from the Department of Computer Science provides answers about the new degree program.

Benjamin Hilprecht, an alumnus of the department, has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the prestigious ACM Jim Gray Dissertation Award in 2023. The award, which is presented annually at the SIGMOD conference, recognizes outstanding research work by doctoral students in the field of databases. The main criteria are novelty, depth, and significance of the research contribution, the potential impact on theory and practice, and the quality of the presentation. The SIGMOD conference is one of the most important and selective in the field of database management systems and data management technology.

Former doctoral student honored at EuroSys'23

Dr.-Ing. Ghada Dessouky, a former doctoral student at the System Security Lab of Professor Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, has won the Roger Needham PhD Award 2023. The award has been presented at EuroSys'23 in Rome, Italy.