Department receives two new LOEWE professorships

The Technical University of Darmstadt continues to expand its leading international position in artificial intelligence (AI) research: The Department of Computer Science receives no less than two new LOEWE professorships for multimodal learning. One LOEWE Top Professorship is awarded to Dr Marcus Rohrbach, who is at the same time taking up his Humboldt Professorship at TU Darmstadt, and one LOEWE Start Professorship to Dr Anna Rohrbach. Both LOEWE professorships are funded with funds from the LOEWE research programme of the State of Hesse totalling five million euros.

Multi-Party Computation frameworks ABY and MOTION

The United Nation's Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics has released its “Guide on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for Official Statistics”. The guide includes two tools from the ENCRYPTO research group of Professor Thomas Schneider at TU Darmstadt.

Intelligent Algorithms in Modeling and Simulation (IAMS) Group

Since January 1, Dominik L. Michels is professor for Intelligent Algorithms in Modeling and Simulation at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt. His research aims for the development of principled computational methods targeting simulation tasks in the fields of Visual and Scientific Computing. This is based on solid theoretical foundations resulting from fundamental research comprising Algorithmics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Algebra, Machine Learning, Mathematical Modeling, and Numerical Analysis.

GI/ITG special interest group KuVS honors postdoc for research in the field of distributed systems

Dr. Manisha Luthra, a post-doctoral researcher in professor Carsten Binnig's research group Data and AI Systems (Systems Group), has been awarded the KuVS Award for her 2021 doctoral dissertation. The award of the special interest group Communication and Distributed Systems (KuVS) is jointly presented by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE e.V. (ITG).

Dr.-Ing- Doreen Böhnstedt

Dr.-Ing. Doreen Böhnstedt has been Managing Director of the Department of Computer Science since November 1, 2022. She holds a doctorate from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (etit) at TU Darmstadt and, among other things, led a research group in the field of distributed sensor networks at the “Multimedia Communication” department for several years. We asked Dr. Böhnstedt about her work:

Third Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for TU Darmstadt – Dr Marcus Rohrbach awarded

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has once again granted TU Darmstadt a Humboldt Professorship, Germany’s most highly endowed research award. The winner Dr Marcus Rohrbach – an expert in multimodal learning who was nominated by TU now has the chance to conduct research as a Humboldt Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the TU and at the Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI). He reinforces a field of research in which the Technical University of Darmstadt plays a leading international role.

Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi as expert advisor on distributed machine learning

Machine learning systems are increasingly being integrated in many processes of our society and economy. For example, machine learning algorithms take on important functions in driverless vehicles or digital healthcare. In these areas of application, AI systems must not only make reliable predictions, but also resist attacks and manipulation to ensure privacy of sometimes sensitive data as well as maintain trust in the technology.

Prof. Jan Peters brings first Amazon Research Award to TU Darmstadt

For a research project on “Learning Robot Manipulation from Tactile Feedback”, the Autonomous Intelligent Systems department of computer science professor and hessian.AI founding member Jan Peters has been awarded an Amazon Research Awards (ARA) 2021. As announced by the company on 18 July 2022, the team will receive funding of approximately $95,000, as well as access to selected Amazon research infrastructure. The award will support the work of one to two PhD students or postdocs for one year.

Third funding phase includes new project area “Transfer”

The Collaborative Research Center CROSSING continues into its third funding period. The Grants Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) agreed to extend the funding until the end of June 2026 to research and develop cryptography-based security solutions enabling trust in new and next generation computing environments.

50 years Department of Computer Science: Interview with Emeritus Professor Wolfgang Bibel

He is regarded as one of the top ten personalities in German AI history: Wolfgang Bibel, professor emeritus of TU Darmstadt, was one of the first scientists in Germany to conduct research in the area of Artificial Intelligence, achieving international recognition. As professor for Intellectics and an expert for deduction, he was for two decades a leading figure and formative force of the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, and he laid the foundation for the department’s leading position in AI research.

European Union Funds AI Project for Innovative Analysis of Text

Professor Iryna Gurevych wins one of the highly-coveted “ERC Advanced Grants” and receives 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for her project “InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in a Cross-Document Context”.

Radical approach for sustainable security

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Professor of System Security at the Technical University of Darmstadt, has been awarded a prestigious “ERC Advanced Grant” by the European Research Council (ERC). His research project HYDRANOS is being funded with around 2.5 million euros over a period of five years.

Dr. Kristina Hostáková recognized with first place for dissertation

As part of the conference “GI Sicherheit 2022”, the CAST/GI Promotionspreis IT-Sicherheit 2022 was awarded at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Dr. Kristina Hostáková, an alumna of our department, took first place.

How to “detox” potentially offensive language from an AI

Researchers from the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt demonstrate that artificial intelligence language systems also learn human concepts of “good” and “bad”. The results have now been published in the journal “Nature Machine Intelligence”.

First Transition Grant of the European Innovation Council goes to TU Darmstadt

For its new Transition Grant, the European Innovation Council (EIC) has for the first time selected 42 projects from 292 proposals to receive a total of €99 million in EU funding. The very first Transition Grant goes with the highest possible score to computer science professor Jan Peters and his team at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group. For their pioneering project “Visual Robot Programming”, they will receive funding of over 1 million euros over two years.