Computer Science
Awards received
Awards received
The department's scientists and students are regularly recognized for their research. Here you will find a selection from the last few years.
2021
| Award | Award Winner | Awarded by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd place at the 8th German IT Security Awards | Thomas Schneider, Daniel Kales, Christian Rechberger, Matthias Senker and Christian Weinert | Foundation “Horst Görtz-Stiftung” | Project “ContactGuard”: Mobile privacy-preserving contact discovery |
| LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur | Iryna Gurevych | Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE | Ubiquitous knowledge processing |
2020
| Award | Award Winner | Awarded by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appointment as a Fellow of ACL | Iryna Gurevych | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | Outstanding work in the field of natural language processing and machine learning. |
| „Proof of Concept“-Grant | Jan Peters | European Research Council (ERC) | Project „Assembly Skills“ |
| Longuet-Higgins Prize 2020 |
Stefan Roth and his co-autores Deqing Sun and Michael J. Black |
IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Technical Committee at each year’s CVPR | „Secrets of Optical Flow Estimation and Their Principles“, 2010 (opens in new tab) |
| Google Women Techmakers Scholarship for Computer Science |
Kristina Hostáková |
Googles Women Techmakers program | Several essays discussing the question of how to be a strong female leader and encouraging women to pursue a career in computer science |
| Copernicus-Award | Sebastian Faustand Stefan Dziembowski | German Research Foundation (DFG) and Foundation for Polish Science | Research in cryptography and IT-security |
| Appointment into Selection Committee of the ERC Scientific Council | Mira Mezini | European Research Council (ERC) | Continuance and renewal of activities of the Scientific Council regarding „Horizon Europe“, the next research and innovation program of the EU |
2019
| Award | Award Winner | Awarded by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award | Felix Günther | ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) | Dissertation „Modeling Advanced Security Aspects of Key Exchange and Secure Channel Protocols“ |
| Weizenbaum-Award | Philipp Imperatori | Forum of Computer Scientists and IT Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) | Bachelor-Thesis „Verschlüsselungspolitik der USA – Eine vergleichende Analyse der historischen Entwicklung“ |
| Member in Quadriga for the National Pact of Cybersecurityt | Mira Mezini | Federal Ministry of the Interior | Development and presentation of a macrosocial declaration for cybersecurity |
| Honorary doctorate | Dieter W. Fellner | University of Rostock | Honorary doctorate of engineering (Dr.-Ing. eh.) |
| German AI-Award | Kristian Kersting | Business journal „BILANZ“ | Development of new methods for machine learning and artificial intelligence |
| ERC Starting Grant | Thomas Schneider | European Research Council (ERC) | Project „PSOTI“ (Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet) |
| Dr.-Heinz-Sebiger-Foundation-Award and European IT-Security-Award | Felix Günther |
Foundation “DATEV-Stiftung Zukunft” and European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) |
Dissertation „Modeling Advanced Security Aspects of Key Exchange and Secure Channel Protocols“ |
| Appointment as a Fellow of the EurAI | Kristian Kersting | European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) | Continued contribution of excellent research in the field of artificial intelligence |
| Funding LOEWE-Centre “emergenCITY” | Matthias Hollick | Hessian Ministry of Science | Scientic centre coordination |
| Appointment into Panel of Eminent Persons of the Cyber Security Cluster | Matthias Hollick | Cyber Security Cluster Bonn e.V. | Recommendations in cybersecurity for politics and economics |
| 1. place in „Hack the News Datathon“ | Iryna Gurevych with her team | Data Science Society | Recognition of propaganda in news papers by means of artificial intelligence |
2018
| Award | Award Winner | Awarded by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Contributions Award | Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi | ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) | For dedicated research, teaching and management in the security community and pioneering contributions for content protection, mobile security and Hardware-assisted security |
| APEX Award of Excellence | Johannes Buchmann | IEEE Computer Society | Award for edition of IEEE Security & Privacy concerning Postquantum Cryptography |
| IEEE Trustcom 2018 Best Paper Award | Max Mühlhäuser, Sheikh Mahbub Habib and Nikolaos Alexopoulos | IEEE Computer Society | „Trust4App: Automating Trustworthiness Assessment of Mobile Applications“ |
| Election in GDNÄ-board | Johannes Buchmann | Society “Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e. V. (GDNÄ)” | Professional represantation in the field of computer science/ mathematics |
| Appointment into Fellow of the IEEE | Jan Peters | IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) | For contributions to motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles |
| Funding „EXIST-Forschungstransfer" | Oskar von Stryk and his team Stefan Kohlbrecher, Dorian Scholz and Alberto Romay | Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy | Funding of the team “Energy Robotics” for the development of autonomous mobile robot applications |
| Uni-DAS Science Award | Marius Cordts | Group Uni-DAS e.V. | Dissertation "Understanding Cityscapes: Efficient Urban Semantic Scene Understanding“ |
| Appointment into Fellow of the society “Gesellschaft für Informatik” | Ralf Steinmetz | Society “Gesellschaft für Informatik” | Contribution to research of the synchronisation of multimedia data and adaptive communication systems |
| Distinguished Service Award | Wolfgang Bibel | European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) | Professional and organizational earnings in establishment of artificial intelligence (AI) |
| Google Faculty Research Award | Mira Mezini | Project „Identifying Problematic Children Apps“ |
2017
| Award | Award Winner | Awarded by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Konrad-Zuse-Medaille | Johannes Buchmann | Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) | Recognition of his contributions to computer science |
| ARGOS Challenge | German-austrian„Argonauts“-Team | Simulation, Systems Optimization and Robotics Group und Taurob GmbH, Wien | Total | Intelligent, autonomous surface robots on oil and gas platforms |
2016
| Award | Award Winner | Awarded by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appointment into GI-Junior-Fellow (opens in new tab) | Juliane Krämer | Society “Gesellschaft für Informatik” | Mediation of the importance of computer science and relevance of IT and data security |
| GFFT Honorary membership for lifetime achievement | Johannes Buchmann | Society “Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers e.V. (GFFT)” | Honoring of lifetime achievement in the field of IT security and cryptography |
2015
| Award | Award Winner | Awarded by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Research Collaboration Award (opens in new tab) | Mira Mezini and Eric Bodden | Oracle | “FlowTwist: Efficient Context-sensitive Inside-out Taint Analysis for Large Codebases” |
