News
Many more can be found on the websites of the research groups:
 AIFB Thematic Issue 2026In our newly published AIFB Thematic Issue 2026, “Menschzentrierte Informatikforschung,” you will find the latest information, facts, and figures from Institute AIFB, as well as an invitation from the Verein Angewandte Informatik Karlsruhe e. V. to the 41st AIK Symposium. The symposium bears the same title and will take place on November 6, 2026. More... |
 Visit to the Institute by the Vice President for Transfer and International AffairsOn May 12, 2026, KIT’s Vice President Transfer and International Affairs, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth, visited the Institute AIFB. More... |
 13 Papers and Best Paper Award at the IEEE IV 2025 (02.07.2025)At the IEEE IV 2025 in Romania, our research group was represented with 13 accepted papers. In addition, Ahmed Abouelazm won the Best Paper Award with his contribution "TPK: Trustworthy Trajectory Prediction Integrating Prior Knowledge For Interpretability and Kinematic Feasibility". More |
 Girls´Day 2024 (25/04/2024)On Girls' Day 2024, 5 schoolgirls came to our research group "Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems" to get an insight into how we came to our profession, where you are allowed to "play" with robots. More |
 Autonomous driving with Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Volker Wissing on Campus North (01/03/2024)On March 1, 2024, the KIT Center for Mobility Systems and the Energy Lab at Campus North received an official visit from Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, and Members of the Bundestag Michael Theurer and Parsa Marvi. More |
 Angewandte Informatik und smarte Systeme (7.5.2025)Am Tag der offenen Tür und beim Campustag am KIT haben wir unsere Forschungsgruppe zahlreichen kleinen und großen Besucher*innen vorgestellt. In unseren Institutsräumen präsentierten wir verschiedene Systeme und Roboter, die in Forschung und Lehre bei uns zum Einsatz kommen. Darüber hinaus beteiligten wir uns an der Wissensrallye sowie am „Weg der Nachhaltigkeit“ und freuten uns über spannende Gespräche mit interessierten Gästen. |
| Robots Control Traffic – KIT Tests Future Technology for Safe School Routes (07.07.2025) A robot that helps children cross the street safely? What sounds like science fiction has become reality in Bratislava – with significant involvement from KIT. More in KIT-News... |
 SIMON kickoffThe SIMON project has now been officially launched to revolutionize multimodal mobility. It builds on the RELAI project to improve safety and efficiency in road traffic. Particular attention is to be paid to vulnerable road users, such as cyclists. Our “trafficpilot” app will provide them with environmentally friendly driving recommendations in real time. Read more |
| Workshop on Connected Micromobility for Safe and Sustainable Communities (22.09.2024) On September 22, 2024, the workshop takes place in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces. This workshop deals with the rise of micromobility services and Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) as a potential solution to problems like regulations, standardization and road safety. Read more |
 ISWS 2024The ISE group is one of the organizers of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) 2024. ISWS Website |
 Semantic Digital Humanities Workshop (26.05.2024)Sasha Bruns, Tabea Tietz and Harald Sack, together with external partners from the University of Bologna and Vrije University Amsterdam, are organizing a workshop on "Semantic Digital Humanities", which will be held as part of ESWC 2024. The main goal is to build a bridge between technical semantic web-based solutions and the research questions of the humanities community. Workshop Website |
| Congratulations Florian Moser (25-08-2026) We congratulate Florian Moser on his appointment as a GI Junior Fellow for 2026! We are pleased that the German Informatics Society (GI) accepted our recommendation and appointed Florian Moser as one of five Junior Fellows. Florian’s research focuses on the security of online elections. He has collaborated with SECUSO on several joint projects and publications, including the paper "Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video concerning Verifiable Internet Voting" by Tobias Hilt, Florian Moser, Philipp Matheis, and Melanie Volkamer, which won the Distinguished Paper Award at last year's International Conference for Electronic Voting (EVote ID 2025). Read the press release |
| Melanie Volkamer and Yorick Last on possibilities for Age Verification (25-09-2026) In a statement released by the Science Media Center Germany (SMC), Melanie Volkamer commented on the settlement reached in the lawsuit filed by several U.S. states against Meta. Among other things, the settlement includes that an age verification system must be implemented. Since the specific measures for age verification have not yet been clearly defined in the settlement, it is not possible to assess them in terms of effectiveness and data protection. However, according to Melanie Volkamer, a review of potential verification systems in the European context reveals that no satisfactory solution has yet emerged. She cites zero-knowledge proofs as a potential technical solution for age verification that complies with data protection regulations. The statement was prepared in collaboration with Yorick Last. Among others, the comments were featured in “Der Standard,” which reported on the case. Read the article |
| Paper accepted at DuD (23-09-2026) The paper "Stand der DMARC Umsetzung in deutschen Unternehmen" by Tobias Länge, Fabian Lucas Ballreich, Anne Hennig, Peter Mayer, and Melanie Volkamer has been accepted for publication in the journal "Datenschutz und Datensicherheit" (DuD) and will be published in issue 10. The paper examined the current status of DMARC implementation in Germany over a twelve-month period. The results show a remarkable increase in new DMARC records between May and June 2025, which may be caused by communications from the BSI as part of the "E-Mail Sicherheitsjahr". Since the proportion of domains that have not implemented DMARC or have implemented it inadequately remains very high, a notification campaign was launched targeting German companies and organizations without a DMARC record. A further increase was observed even after the campaign, indicating that the notification was effective. About DuD |
 Dušan Šturek Presents Recent Research at SIMULTECH26[July 18th – 20th, 2026] - Our Ph.D. student Dušan Šturek participated in the 16th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2026) in Porto, 🇵🇹, where he presented our latest research paper: “Navigating the Use of Generative AI in Modeling and Simulation: A Case-Study-Driven Methodology for Agentic Workflows in Synthetic Data Generation for Surrogate Modeling”. The work contributes to our ongoing research on automation of surrogate modeling workflows for acceleration of high-fidelity simulations in the industry.
The full paper is available on ResearchGate.
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 Ashkan Presents Recent Research at SIGSIM PADS[June 24th-26th, 2026] - We’re pleased to share that our SYDSEN - Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy Research Group @ KIT-affiliated Ph.D. student at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Ashkan Zare and Prof. Sanja Lzarova-Molnar, attended the 40th ACM SIGSIM International Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS ‘26) in Vienna, Austria, where Ashkan presented their research "Frequency-Based Partitioning for Modular Validation of Stochastic Petri Net Digital Twin Models".
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 Michelle Jungmann Presents Recent Research at ECMS[June 23rd-26th, 2026] - We are glad to share that our Ph.D. student Michelle Jungmann presented one of our latest research contributions "Automated Formalization of Expert Knowledge for Data- Knowledge-Fused Digital Twin Model Extraction Using Pre-Trained Language Models" at the 40th ECMS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2026) in Grimstad, Norway. The work contributes to our ongoing research on automated expert knowledge integration into data-driven Digital Twin model extraction. The full paper is available on ResearchGate.
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