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.

Doctorate students in cybersecurity can apply for a scholarship

University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA), as a partner university of TU Darmstadt, currently has an open call for a full-time research exchange scholarship to fund PhD students in cybersecurity from TU Darmstadt for a 3-months visit starting in late August 2022.

August 8-19, 2022 at Aalto University, Finland

3 ECTS. School participation is free of charge for B.Sc. students from Unite! universities. Application period March 1 – May 15, 2022!

Making robots useful parts of our society

Since February, Georgia Chalvatzaki has been assistant professor for “Intelligent Robotic Systems for Assistance” at the Department of Computer Science. Chalvatzaki has been leading the iROSA research group since 2021 as part of the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation. Previously, the 33-year-old researcher was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Intelligent Autonomous Systems in the Department of Computer Science. We asked Professor Chalvatzaki about her work:

Understanding our nature and the capabilities of our world through quantum technologies

Since February 1, Mariami Gachechiladze has been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, heading the quantum computing group. We asked the 30-year-old scientist about her work.

Recognition for outstanding scientific contributions to computing

Prof. Max Mühlhäuser, Professor of Computer Science and head of the Telecooperation Lab, was named a 2021 Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM named 63 Distinguished Members in 2021 for outstanding contributions to the field of computing. All distinguished members are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that advance computing as a science and a profession.

Recognition and strenghtening of the twin disciplines of Cognitive Science and AI

Endowed with a Humboldt Professorship, Angela Yu is invited to assume a bridging function between artificial intelligence and the neurosciences. Yu is currently conducting negotiations with TU Darmstadt.

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.