Getting a close-up look at modern technologies—a strong motivation for students at the Richard-von-Weizsäcker Vocational College to visit Prof. Iris Gräßler’s “Product Creation” workgroup. Through various examples, the participants gained insights into current applications in engineering professions. Annika Reich, for example, demonstrated Augmented Reality for the maintenance of a spray painting machine: Digital overlays support the service…
Our colleague Kadiray Karakaya, who successfully completed his PhD in the “Secure Software Engineering” workgroup, is now joining Amazon Web Services in London.
There, he will be conducting research and development into innovative tools for the automated analysis of source code, thereby continuing his academic work. Kadiray Karakaya successfully completed his doctoral dissertation in November 2025 at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn…
ChatGPT, Claude and others: Paderborn University, with the support of the Westfalen Foundation, has investigated how generative artificial intelligence (AI) influences human creativity and learning processes as part of the “GenAI4PC”1 research project. To this end, researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute have, amongst other things, developed new demonstrators capable of generating computer games, for example, with minimal human intervention.…
Yasir Mahmood, a postdoctoral researcher in our “Data Science” workgroup, will be attending the Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence in Fortaleza, Brazil, from 1 to 3 July.
There he will give a talk on this paper:
Rethinking Explanations: Formalizing Contrast in Description Logics - Yasir Mahmood, Arnab Sharma, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Balram Tiwari.
The World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is an…
On June 25, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute welcomed numerous new research staff members as part of its annual “Get to Know HNI” event. The event offers newcomers the opportunity to get to know the institute, its workgroups, and their research focuses, as well as to establish early connections that foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
The day began with an official welcome by the Chairman of the Board, Prof. René Fahr. Following this, professors…
From 22 to 25 June, Niklas Fittkau, a doctoral candidate in our "Control Engineering and Mechatronics" workgroup, will be a participant at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium in Detroit.
During a poster session on 24 June, he will present the paper “Intelligent Headlights Boost Energy Efficiency and Drive Decarbonisation”. Contributors include our research assistant Leon Bußemas, postdoctoral researcher Kevin Malena, senior engineer Sandra…
Simulations for digital validation of system properties are widely used. Niklas Döhner, a research associate in our ‘Product Creation’ workgroup, led by Iris Gräßler, presented an approach at the DESIGN Conference to make simulations, such as the Gazebo robotics simulation, accessible to users without in-depth expertise during product planning. The approach involves automating simulations, including data pre- and post-processing, through…
Research asspciates from our “Data Science” workgroup, led by Prof. Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, attended the FOODSIM 2026 conference in Ghent (Belgium) from 15 to 17 April.
There they presented the paper “PBFF-KG: A FAIR Knowledge Graph towards Sustainable Design of Plant-Based Fermented Foods”, authored by Amgad Abdulmaqsod, Reda Ihtassine, Caroline Pénicaud, Anne Saint-Eve, Lucia Brisset, Axel Ngonga and Mohamed Ahmed Sherif.
FOODSIM'2026…
Our “Data Science” workgroup was representative at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2026 in Palma, Mallorca, from 13 to 15 May.
Among other things, the following paper was presented:
The Amharic DBpedia Chapter: A Knowledge Graph for a Low-Resource Language, presented by Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu
LREC 2026 is an international conference on natural language processing, computational linguistics and AI-based language systems. It…
The International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems will take place from 17 to 19 June in Trondheim, Norway, and our research associates Daniel Vollmers and Arnab Sharma, as well as Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, head of our “Data Science” workgroup, will be actively participating.
There, they will present the following paper as part of a session talk:
Evaluating Noisy Optimization in Fine-Tuning LMs for Neural Ranking by Daniel…
The sixth consortium meeting of the BMWE-funded Decide4ECO research project, held at Contact Software’s headquarters in Bremen, was entirely in the spirit of Hannover Messe 2026:
All partners presented implementations for sustainability assessment as a decision-making tool for product development—operating within the Manufacturing-X data ecosystem. Sustainability analyses are now integrated into PLM systems such as CONTACT Elements and…
A visit that highlighted the role played by so-called ‘hidden players’: although often little known, they make a crucial contribution to the creation of many everyday products. Students from the class “Sustainable Product Development” run by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Iris Gräßler in our “Product Development” workgroup visited the special-purpose machine manufacturer KOCH Technology in Leopoldshöhe. Through the development of woodworking machines, the…
Our “Product Development” research group has completed three years of intensive research and practical application, during which it has investigated how extreme data and artificial intelligence can support decision-makers in extreme weather situations. With the successful evaluation by the European Commission, the Horizon Europe research project CREXDATA has now officially come to an end. The team from Paderborn University led by Prof. Dr.-Ing.…
How are the data generated in capability-oriented product engineering linked together? Three papers from the DFG SPP2443 project “Design for Capability” addressed this question at HIPPE 2026 in Paderborn. Thomas Hesse, Tim Meinecke and Felix Vollenkemper presented Meta Data Models for process, resource, and product data. Linking these models creates an integrated overall model that establishes a structured database for capability-oriented product…
Making it tangible for small and medium-sized enterprises to apply key technologies in digital business models:
During the consortium meeting marking the second milestone of the KLUG project, the project partners presented and demonstrated the results achieved so far, bringing them to life. Among other things, participants tested the benefits of a tool developed for selecting digitalization concepts, a robotic arm as an experimental object, and…
