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Many more can be found on the websites of the research groups:
- Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems
- Business Information Systems
- Cooperative Autonomous Systems
- Critical Information Infrastructures
- Information Service Engineering
- Security • Usability • Society
- Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy
- Web Science
Please also take a look at our AIFB Thematic Issue 2024 “Security and Privacy made in Karlsruhe” (in German), which contains, among other things, the invitation to the 39th AIK Symposium and current facts and figures about the institute. The AIK Symposium will take place on 08.11.2024 and will be organized by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer and her research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society).
 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 |
 CoCar NextGen at IEEE ITSC 2023 (05/10/2023)The Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems research group headed by Prof. J. Marius Zöllner presented its latest autonomous vehicle at ITSC 2023. This research vehicle enables autonomous and networked operation in real road traffic situations. 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 |
| Welcome Juraj Sikra (27-06-2025) We welcome Dr. Juraj Sikra, PhD as a new PostDoc in the SECUSO Team! Juraj received his doctorate in June 2025 at the University of Strathclyde StrathCyber Group (in assoc. with GCHQ’s NCSC) from improving cybercrime reporting in Scotland. Juraj’s original background is in clinical and criminal psychology as well as Human Resource Management (Learning and Development). During his PhD, Juraj employed a multidisciplinary approach to make viable recommendations for policy makers on how to influence the general population to report cybercrime. As a result, his research was covered by both national and international media. Within SECUSO, Juraj will be working on the protection of sport science data as well as with industry. Whilst he currently speaks only English and Slovakian, he looks forward to learning German and would be delighted to hear back from anyone interested in reaching out. More about Juraj |
| Successful evaluation for ESS (26-06-2025) From May 26 to 28, 2025, a group of international scientists visited Karlsruhe to evaluate, among other things, the Topic Engineering Secure Systems (ESS). The guests came from ETH Zurich, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Leuven, among others. ESS is one of three (sub)topics in the Program Engineering Digital Futures (EDF) in the Helmholtz Research Field “Information.” We at SECUSO are involved in ESS as part of the Human and Societal Factors (HSF) research group. HSF presented the work of the research group in four demonstrators from the areas of security awareness, user authentication, legal design patterns, and securing democracies. Further information can be found in the special issue on Topic Engineering Secure Systems. Read the Special Issue |
| Benjamin Berens participates in seminar at Schloss Dagstuhl (25-06-2025) From June 22 to 27, Benjamin Berens will participate as an expert in the discussions at the Dagstuhl Seminar “Future of Human-Centered Privacy.” The seminar is dedicated to the interdisciplinary research field of human-centered privacy—at the intersection of data protection and human-computer interaction (HCI). Among other things, it will discuss how different user groups, including vulnerable individuals, perceive privacy, what concerns and expectations they have, and how they deal with data protection technologies. The discussion includes both emerging challenges – such as those posed by AI – and longstanding questions that need to be rethought in new contexts. The goal of the seminar is to develop a shared understanding of these topics, create a roadmap for future research in human-centered privacy, and foster new multidisciplinary collaborations. The seminar is organized by Zinaida Benenson, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Heather Richter Lipford, and William Seymour. More |
 SYDSEN at DMaaST and ONE4ALL Joint Consortium Meetings[May 28th, 2025] - From May 20–23, 2025, SYDSEN attended DMaaST and ONE4ALL conjoined project meetings and workshops. - DMaaST 3rd Consortium Meeting (May 20–21): During the consortium meeting Prof. Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and PhD Student Michelle Jungmann presented the developments in Work Package 3, which is lead by the KIT. The Work Package aims to develop a cognitive Manufacturing Ecosystem Digital Twin encompassing both manufacturing services and value chains to enhance resiliency through innovative modeling and assessment capabilities. - Joint Workshop (May 21–22): Projects’ participants from SYDSEN at KIT and MSDA at SDU delivered a collaborative workshop on the development and implementation of Digital Twins in smart manufacturing systems. Their workshop contained the model development, validation, and security of Digital Twins in smart manufacturing systems. - ONE4ALL 5th Consortium Meeting (May 22–23): Prof. Dr. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and SYDSEN Ph.D. students Atieh Khodadadi and Manuel Götz, SDU postdoctoral researcher Sani Abdullahi, and SYDSEN-affiliated Ph.D. student at SDU, Ashkan Zare, presented their recent developments in Work Packages 2, 3, and 4. These developments covered development of Multidimensional Digital Twins, labor-intensive model extraction, Digital Twins model validation and Digital Twins’ cybersecurity.
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 SYDSEN’s Talk on Digital Twins at the KIT's 200th Anniversary Event (Open House Day)[May 21st, 2025] – As part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s 200th anniversary celebrations, we, the SYDSEN group, presented our ongoing research on May 17, 2025. In the Open House Day, Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar delivered a talk titled “What are Digital Twins? Critical Aspects and Puzzle Pieces from Our Research”. Her presentation highlighted key challenges and emerging perspectives in Digital Twins. Following, PhD students Atieh Khodadadi, Manuel Götz, Michelle Jungmann, and Omar Mustafa showcased their research topics as puzzle pieces of the group’s overall research.
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 Welcome Johannes Deufel and Ohad Daniel to SYDSEN![May 5th, 2025] - We're happy to welcome Johannes Deufel and Ohad Daniel as Ph.D. candidates at SYDSEN - Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy Research Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Johannes and Ohad joined our research group on May 1st, 2025. |