We are delighted to welcome Tom Ohlmer as the latest addition to our “Secure Software Engineering” workgroup. Tom’s research focuses on the explainability-oriented improvement of AI systems in the field of code security. In particular, he investigates hybrid approaches that combine neural graph models with formal and knowledge-based methods to analyse and improve graph neural networks for classification tasks in static code analysis.
Outside of…
No fewer than two papers from our “Data Science” workgroup have been accepted for the 35th “ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management” (CIKM 2026).
Our research assistants Lia Shahnazaryan and Adel Memariani will be in Rome from 7 to 11 November to represent their respective papers. The accepted papers are entitled “PT2PR: A Benchmark for Multimodal Patent-to-Product Retrieval” by Lia Shahnazaryan and Stefan Heindorf,…
The paper “ATLAS: Adaptive Attribute-Aware Post-Hoc Alignment of Knowledge Graph Embeddings” by our “Data Science” workgroup has been accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in Shenyang, China. Our research assistant, Duygu Ekinci, will be in Shenyang from 12 to 15 November to represent the paper, authored by Duygu Ekinci, N’Dah Jean Kouagou, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif and Prof. Dr. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo.
ICDM has…
No fewer than three papers from our “Data Science” workgroup were presented at the “Semantics 2026” conference in Ghent, Belgium. Ali Manzoor, Arnab Sharma and Italo Lopes Oliveira, research assistants in our specialist group, were in Belgium from 15 to 17 September to present their papers.
Italo Lopes Oliveira kicked things off on 16 September by presenting the paper “Ontology-Aware Prompting for Knowledge Graph Construction from Text” by…
Our “Data Science” workgroup was represented at the “European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2026)” in Naples, Italy, with two papers. Two of our research assistants were in attendance from 7 to 11 September and presented the following papers.
On 9 September, Parsa Abbasi presented the paper entitled “CQD-SHAP: Explainable Complex Query Answering via Shapley Values”,…
The automotive sector accounts for around 14 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and requires large quantities of raw materials. Consequently, the circular economy is becoming increasingly important in reducing resource consumption, waste and scrap. Aluminium is particularly relevant: the European automotive industry uses around two million tonnes annually – three times more than any other sector. Owing to its strategic importance,…
Research assistants from our “Data Science” workgroup will be attending the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW 2026) in Turin, Italy, from 29 September to 1 October. Our workgroup will be represented there with three different papers.
Adel Memariani will present the paper “When Confidence Turns Against You: Exploiting Link Prediction Scores for Data Poisoning” by Adel Memariani, Arnab Sharma, Michael Röder and Prof. Dr. Axel-Cyrille…
Photo (Paderborn University): The new DFG Research Unit is focusing on the security of cyber-physical systems. Prof. Dr Eric Bodden (front row, second from right) and Prof. Dr Iris Gräßler (front row, right) are leading the project.
Attacks on substations, cyber-attacks on public authorities, drones flying over airports: critical infrastructure is increasingly becoming a target for criminals. So-called cyber-physical systems – technical devices in which software and machines communicate with one another in real time via the internet – are particularly at risk. Examples include modern industrial plants, cars and smart power stations. As digitalisation advances, so does the…
Last week, our research assistant from the “Control Engineering and Mechatronics” workgroup attended the “SIA VISION 2026” conference in Le Port-Marly, France. There, on 24 September, he presented the paper “Towards energy-efficient low beam control leveraging ADAS data and luminance feedback”, which was co-authored with Leon Bußemas, Kevin Malena, Sandra Gausemeier and Prof. Dr.-Ing.-Habil. Ansgar Trächtler.
SIA VISION is the international…
Science and industry are working on a new AI solution for product development
The transition to a sustainable economic system represents a key challenge for Germany’s future as an industrial hub – both economically and environmentally. Engineering plays a pivotal role in this process, as crucial decisions regarding repairability, reusability and recyclability are made as early as the product development stage. This means that a viable circular…
Prof. Suzana Alpsancar, head of our workgroup “Philosophy and ethics of techno-scientific cultures”, is a co-author of the anthology “The 20th Century in Key Concepts: An Encyclopaedia of Historical Semantics in Germany”.
In her article “Computers, Digitalisation”, Alpsancar traces the history of the German terms “computer” and “digitalisation” across ten chapters. Her contribution has been published by Schwabe Verlag and is now available as…
From left to right: Prof. Dr Carsten Schulte, Dr. Harald Selke, Michael Schlichtig, Prof. Dr Eric
Bodden, Jun.-Prof. Dr Mohamed Soliman / Not pictured is the
commission member: Prof. Dr Rodrigo Bonifacio de Almeida
Michael Schlichtig successfully completed his PhD on the topic ‘Helping Java Developers Reduce Cryptographic API Misuses’ under the supervision of Prof. Dr Eric Bodden. We offer our warmest congratulations!
Summary of the thesis:
Software is now present in almost every area of life, for example in payment processes at the till or in patients’ medical records. It is even used when chatting with friends. To ensure security, developers use…
Photo (Paderborn University): Research into an intelligent, robot-based headlamp dismantling process that enables a circular value chain (from left): Dr Sandra Gausemeier, Niklas Fittkau, Prof. Dr Ansgar Trächtler, Marco De Santis, Prof. Dr Alexander Schlüter.
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Heinz Nixdorf Institute,
Regelungstechnik und Mechatronik / Heinz Nixdorf Institut
From car headlights to tomorrow’s resources: How can vehicle components and other industrial goods be designed to be recyclable? Paderborn University is investigating this question in the new KOLLEKT[1] research project, in collaboration with the consortium coordinator FORVIA HELLA and other partners from academia and industry. The three-year research project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) under the…
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kevin Malena, a postdoc and project leader in our “Control Engineering and Mechatronics” workgroup, took up the Chair in Micromobility at the Private University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Technology (PHWT) in Diepholz on 1 September 2026.
In recent years, Kevin has been working with us at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, particularly in the field of transport research. His work has encompassed the research and development…
Keno Pape, a research assistant in our “Control Engineering and Mechatronics” workgroup, will be attending the 25th Driving Simulation eXtenden Reality Conference & Exhibition (DSC 2026 Europe XR) in Antibes, France, from 16th to the 18th of September. There, on Thursday September 17th, he will present the paper “Learning-Based Acceleration Prediction for Real-Time Model Predictive Motion Cueing” by Dr.-Ing. Kevin Malena, Dr.-Ing. Julia…
