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Ash­win Prasad for re­search in­tern­ship in New York

Ashwin Prasad, research assistant in our Secure Software Engineering workgroup, is spending the next three months on a research internship at Amazon in New York City. We wish Ashwin an exciting and educdational time in the Big Apple!

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Set­ting the course for the CREXDATA re­search pro­ject

At the invitation of the coordinator at the Technical University of Crete: On 9 and 10 April 2025, the 16 international partners of the EU project CREXDATA presented their interim results at the consortium meeting in Crete. Jens Pottebaum, Marcel Ebel, Deniz Özcan and Niklas Döhner from our Product Creation workgroup presented the current status of the integration of the overall CREXDATA system for extreme weather events. One focus is on…

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Per­man­ent pro­fess­or­ship for Su­z­ana Alpsan­car

We would like to congratulate Prof Dr Suzana Alpsancar on the conversion from a junior professorship to a tenured position. The name of her workgroup will also change with the permanent appointment. The workgroup, which was previously known as "Applied ethics with a focus on technology ethics in the digital world", is now called "Philosophy and Ethics of techno-scientific Cultures". Congratulations!

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Sys­tem and Cir­cuit Tech­no­logy work­group presents at PIERS 2025 in Abu Dh­abi

Martin Mihaylov, research associate in our System and Circuit Technology workgroup, is presenting a paper on "Broadband Nyquist Pulse Generation on TFLN Platform for Integrated Quantum Source" at the PIERS 2025 (PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium) in Abu Dhabi. Martin Mihaylov himself, Christian Kress, Tobias Schwbe, Christine Silberhorn and Christoph Scheytt were involved in the paper. The 46th PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics…

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Our Sys­tem and Cir­cuit Tech­no­logy work­group presents at the CLEO in Long Beach

Our System and Circuit Technology workgroup will be attending the CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) from 4 to 9 May and will be giving a presentation there. Christian Kress will present the paper entitled "High-Speed Mach-Zehnder Modulator with Linear Segmented On-Chip Drivers in Photonic 45nm SOI-CMOS Technology", which was written by Christian Kress, Tobias Schwabe, Martin Mihaylov and Christoph Scheytt. All participants are also…

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Digital Factory

Di­git­al Fact­ory: Stu­dents De­vel­op a Tool for Pro­cess Eval­u­ation re­gard­ing the Car­bon Foot­print

Identifying, collecting and using sustainability data – in the project lab “Digital Factory” led by Dr.-Ing. Jens Pottebaum, Felix Vollenkemper and Carmen De Groote, students developed a tool to evaluate the sustainability of a production process. Using software tools for simulation and real-time data and sustainability metrics, they analyzed the production of a remote-controlled car in the workgroup's Smart Automation Laboratory. After a…

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Team at the project meeting at Sennheiser
Team at the project meeting at Sennheiser

First res­ults of De­cide4ECO: joint meet­ing paves the way for the next steps

After a successful first project year, the Decide4ECO research project consortium met at the associated partner Sonova –known for its brand Sennheiser. to present initial project results and set the course for the second project cycle. First demonstrators make the exchange of sustainability data via existing data rooms tangible. Initial functionalities to support engineers in the decision-making process for sustainable and recyclable products…

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QuSine re­ceives SPRIN-D val­id­a­tion con­tract for re­volu­tion­ary HF tech­no­logy

QuSine (a spin-off from our “System and Circuit Technology” workgroup) has been selected for a validation contract by the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIN-D) - a significant milestone and a strong endorsement of its technological vision. With the funding, SPRIN-D is supporting novel RF signalling technology that has the potential to fundamentally change radio frequency technology. The aim of the validation contract is to turn…

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In­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion with the Uni­ver­sid­ade de Brasília

Since the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) in April, Michael Schlichtig, research associate in our Secure Software Engineering workgroup, has been intensifying his collaboration with Rodrigo Bonifacio from the Universidade de Brasília. The cooperation builds on previous contacts: Prof Eric Bodden had already worked with Bonifacio on an earlier project. Now a new research collaboration is emerging from this, in which…

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We are tak­ing off - and cel­eb­rat­ing the fu­ture of product cre­ation in Pader­born!

Professor Graessler continues her professorship at the Chair of Product Creation at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Under the motto “We're taking off!”, the team celebrated her decision with around 100 guests at the AStA Stadtcampus. Prof. Graessler rounded off the convivial evening with colleagues, students, and companions: “The research results of recent years demonstrate what we can achieve at the Chair of Product Creation.” The Heinz…

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“Res­cue Ro­bot­ics in Dia­logue": The fu­ture of pro­cessing ex­treme data in flood situ­ations

Collecting data with drones, processing it with AI workflows and visualizing the results in Augmented Reality – at the online event ‘Rescue Robotics in Dialogue’ hosted by the German Rescue Robotics Center (DRZ), Dr.-Ing. Jens Pottebaum presented groundbreaking technologies from the EU project CREXDATA. He focused on innovative solutions that make it possible to use “extreme” data effectively in heavy rainfall and flood scenarios. “With our…

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100 years Heinz Nix­dorf

Today would be Heinz Nixdorf's 100th birthday. On this day, we cannot simply work ‘normally’ in the office and laboratory: We are taking the day as an opportunity to pause for a moment and look back on his impressive life's work and honour how he shaped the research landscape in Paderborn. Together with Fraunhofer IEM, we will listen to keynote speeches by Prof. Dr Nikolaus Risch from the Executive Board of the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation and Dr…

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Our Com­mu­nic­a­tions En­gin­eer­ing Group rep­res­en­ted at 2025 ICAS­SP Con­fer­ence in In­dia

Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Christoph Böddeker and Frederik Rautenberg, research associates of our Communications Engineering Group, are in Hyderabad, India, from 6-11 April. There they will present two papers and a journal publication at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). ICASSP is a flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and is being held in India for the first time on its…

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New re­search as­so­ci­ate in our Se­cure Soft­ware En­gin­eer­ing work­group

We welcome Aashish Prajapati to our Secure Software Engineering workgroup! Aashish is working on the ERC research project SOSA (Self Optimising Static Program Analysis). The aim of the project is to develop a self-optimising static analysis program. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, especially up high mountains. A warm welcome!

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New re­search as­so­ci­ate in our Se­cure Soft­ware En­gin­eer­ing work­group

We welcome Vaibhav Chaudhari to our Secure Software Engineering workgroup. His research focuses on the field of AI Robustness. As part of his research, he will design, develop and evaluate methods and tools to make AI systems more secure or to secure software systems using AI. In his free time, he is particularly interested in football, astronomy and music. A warm welcome!

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