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 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 |
| Paper accepted at EVote ID (27-07-2026) The paper "Perceptions of Coercion and Vote Buying in Remote Voting Across Four Countries" by Christina Nissen, Oksana Kulyk, Jurlind Budurushi, and Melanie Volkamer was accepted for presentation at the International Conference for Electronic Voting (EVote ID 2026). The paper reports on a study with 178 participants to evaluate how voters from four countries perceive the threat of voter coercion and vote buying through different scenarios. It was found that participants from Kenya and Mexico perceive the threat of vote buying as more effective in altering election outcomes than those from Finland and Sweden. EVote ID takes place October 6 to 9, 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia. Read the paper |
| Researcher visit SECUSO (24-07-2026) SECUSO is welcoming two visiting researchers this month: Judith Kankam Boateng, PhD student at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), is visiting us as part of a three-week guest stay. Judith is conducting research on mental models, misalignments, and implementation gaps in the context of cybersecurity measures in Danish SMEs. Furthermore, Yorick Last from the University of Paderborn visited our group and presented his research on digital identity wallets. Both also gave a presentation at the SECUSO Research Seminar. More information |
| Paper accepted at SCP 2026 (22-07-2026) The paper "The (Un)suitability of Passwords and Password Managers in Virtual Reality" by Emiram Kablo, Yorick Last, Patricia Arias Cabarcos, and Melanie Volkamer was accepted for presentation at the Conference on Sociotechnical Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP 2026). The paper first examines the experiences, preferences, and expectations of 126 VR users regarding authentication in virtual reality through a user study. The study revealed a clear preference for simple passwords, as well as interest in biometric methods and password managers. The paper then conducts the first comprehensive evaluation of existing password managers in VR based on 91 cognitive walkthroughs and expert reviews. The results show that while password managers improve usability, important features such as cross-app autofill are still missing. Building on this, the paper formulates recommendations for more secure and user-friendly VR authentication. In a Google search for “Password Managers in VR,” the preprint currently ranks first. SCP will take place September 2nd and 3rd, 2026 in Belval, Luxembourg. Read the pre-print |
 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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