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.

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2025

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize Prof. Mira Mezini Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) Significant long-term contribution to the field in research or engineering
Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki Krupp-Foundation Support for young university professors in the natural sciences and engineering with outstanding academic qualifications and a proven track record of excellent research achievements.

2024

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
Dr. Hans Messer Stiftungspreis Prof. Mariami Gachechiladze Hans und Ria Messer Stiftung (bis 2024 Dr. Hans Messer Stiftung) Promotion of research and teaching for scientists in the early stages of their careers who have achieved outstanding results
German Pattern Recognition Award Prof. Justus Thies The German Association for Pattern Recognition Outstanding, research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning.
ERC Starting Grant Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki European Research Council (ERC) SIREN – Structured Interactive Perception and Learning for Holistic Robotic Embodied Intelligence
ERC Starting Grant Prof. Justus Thies European Research Council (ERC) Learning Digital Humans in Motion
Milner Award Prof. Iryna Gurevych The Royal Society Major contributions to natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence
LOEWE-Top-Professorship Prof. Carsten Binning Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – kurz: LOEWE Data and AI Systems
Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2024 Prof. Justus Thies European Association for computer graphics His contributions to computer graphics in the field of markerless motion capture and synthesis
Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship Prof. Marcus Rohrbach Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Multimodal Reliable AI
ERC Consolidator Grant Prof. Thomas Schneider European Research Council (ERC) PRIVTOOLS – Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy
Election to the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment Prof. Carsten Binnig VLDB Endowment Particular commitment to the Foundation's objectives through their previous work
AAAI Fellow Prof. Kristian Kersting Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Significant contributions to the foundations and applications of statistical relational AI and neurosymbolic learning.

2023

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
German Pattern Recognition Award Prof. Dr. Anna Rohrbach The German Association for Pattern Recognition Outstanding, research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning.
Full Member of acatech Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi acatech – National Academy
of Science and Engineering 		Recognition of his scientific achievements
LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur Prof. Dr. Mira Mezini Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – kurz: LOEWE InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in Cross-Document Context
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) Association of outstanding scientists
Best-Performer at the European Robotics Hackathon Rettungsrobotik-Team Hector, SIM Group EnRicH- The European Robotics Hackathon Radiation Mapping

2022

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
ERC Consolidator Grant Prof. Dr. Sebastian Faust European Research Council (ERC) „CRYPTOLAYER – Cryptography for Second Layer Blockchain Protocols“
ERC Advanced Grant Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych European Research Council (ERC) InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in Cross-Document Context
ERC Advanced Grant Prof. Dr. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi European Research Council (ERC) Project “HYDRANOS”
EIC Transition Grant Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D. European Innovation Council (EIC) Visual Robot Programming
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) Association of outstanding scientists

2021

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
2nd place at the 8th German IT Security Awards Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider, Daniel Kales, Christian Rechberger, Matthias Senker and Christian Weinert Foundation “Horst Görtz-Stiftung” Project “ContactGuard”: Mobile privacy-preserving contact discovery
ERC Proof of Concept Grant Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D. European Research Council (ERC) Project „AssemblySkills“
LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE Ubiquitous knowledge processing
ACM Distinguished Member Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing

2020

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
Appointment as a Fellow of ACL Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Outstanding work in the field of natural language processing and machine learning.
ERC Consolidator Grant Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D. European Research Council (ERC) Project “RED – Robust, Explainable Deep Networks in Computer Vision”
ERC Starting Grant Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider European Research Council (ERC) Project „PSOTI“
Longuet-Higgins Prize 2020 Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D.
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 Dr. 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 Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D. and 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 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. 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 Dr. 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 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini Federal Ministry of the Interior Development and presentation of a macrosocial declaration for cybersecurity
Honorary doctorate Prof. Dr. Dr. eh. Dieter W. Fellner University of Rostock Honorary doctorate of engineering (Dr.-Ing. eh.)
German AI-Award Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting Business journal „BILANZ“ Development of new methods for machine learning and artificial intelligence
ERC Starting Grant Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider European Research Council (ERC) Project „PSOTI“ (Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet)
Dr.-Heinz-Sebiger-Foundation-Award and European IT-Security-Award Dr. 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 Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) Continued contribution of excellent research in the field of artificial intelligence
Funding LOEWE-Centre “emergenCITY” Prof. Dr. Matthias Hollick Hessian Ministry of Science Scientic centre coordination
Appointment into Panel of Eminent Persons of the Cyber Security Cluster Prof. Dr. Matthias Hollick Cyber Security Cluster Bonn e.V. Recommendations in cybersecurity for politics and economics
1. place in „Hack the News Datathon“ Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych with her team Data Science Society Recognition of propaganda in news papers by means of artificial intelligence
ERC Proof of Concept Grant Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini European Research Council (ERC) REScala – A Programming Platform for Reactive Data-intensive Applications

2018

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
Outstanding Contributions Award Prof. Dr. 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 Prof. D. Johannes Buchmann IEEE Computer Society Award for edition of IEEE Security & Privacy concerning Postquantum Cryptography
IEEE Trustcom 2018 Best Paper Award Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser, Sheikh Mahbub Habib and Nikolaos Alexopoulos IEEE Computer Society „Trust4App: Automating Trustworthiness Assessment of Mobile Applications“
Election in GDNÄ-board Prof. Dr. 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 Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) For contributions to motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles
Funding „EXIST-Forschungstransfer" Prof. Dr. 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 Dr. Marius Cordts Group Uni-DAS e.V. Dissertation "Understanding Cityscapes: Efficient Urban Semantic Scene Understanding“
Appointment into Fellow of the society “Gesellschaft für Informatik” Prof. Dr. Ralf Steinmetz Society “Gesellschaft für Informatik” Contribution to research of the synchronisation of multimedia data and adaptive communication systems
Distinguished Service Award Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bibel European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) Professional and organizational earnings in establishment of artificial intelligence (AI)
Google Faculty Research Award Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini Google Project „Identifying Problematic Children Apps“

2017

Award Award Winner Awarded by Topic
Konrad-Zuse-Medaille Prof. Dr. 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) Dr. 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 Prof. Dr. 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 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini and Eric Bodden Oracle “FlowTwist: Efficient Context-sensitive Inside-out Taint Analysis for Large Codebases”
ERC Starting Grant Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D. European Research Council (ERC) SKILLS4ROBOTS – Policy Learning of Motor Skills for Humanoid Robots