On 3 and 4 April, the first annual review of the MID4Automotive research project of our Circuit Technology department took place at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute. All project partners from all participating partner countries, who jointly assessed the work in the project as positive, attended the annual review. The MID4Automotive project is about structurally integrated electronics using an injection moulding process for improved radar systems in…

The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) has named Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, retired Professor of Computer Science at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the Department of Computer Science at Paderborn University, as a 2024 EATCS Fellow. Meyer auf der Heide is being honoured for "influential contributions to algorithmic and complexity theory problems in parallel computing, communication and data management in…

The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024 will take place in Lisbon from April 14-20. Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden, head of our research group "Secure Software Engineering" and scientists of the research group will visit this year's ICSE and will give lectures there. Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh will give three talks on "The Emergence of Large Language Models in Static Analysis: A First Look through Micro-Benchmarks" (April…

The scientists from our "Control Engineering and Mechatronics" workgroup Dr Julia Timmermann, Ricarda-Samantha Götte, Annika Junker and Michael Hesse attended the 94th "GAMM Annual Meeting 2024" in Magdeburg from 18 to 22 March 2024. Ricarda-Samantha Götte gave a presentation on "Online learning with joint state and model estimation", Annika Junker on "Adaptive Data-Driven Models in Port-Hamiltonian Form for Control Design" and Michael Hesse…

Stephan Kruse, research associate in our Circuit Technology Group, is attending the International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM) in Boppard on April 16 and 17. At the conference he will give a presentation on "Phase Noise Analysis of Photonic Radar Systems With Optical LO Distribution", which was developed in cooperation with VW. You can find out more about the ICMIM here.

Andreas Dann successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Secure Use of Open-Source Software - A Systematic Study and Techniques for Java" under Prof Dr Eric Bodden. Congratulations on this achievement! Summary of the thesis: The code of modern software often consists of up to 75% open source software. While the integration of open source software allows new systems to be programmed quickly, it also harbours the risk of integrating…

Ab sofort läuft der Call for Papers für das 18. Symposium für Vorausschau und Technologieplanung am 5. und 6. Dezember 2024 in Berlin! Die Einreichungsfrist für Abstracts endet am 17. Mai 2024. Gemeinsam mit acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften und dem Fraunhofer-Verbund Innovationsforschung freuen wir uns auf spannende Beiträge. Alle Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie auf unserer neuen Webseite: https://www.svt-tagung.c…

Was ist Technikethik? Auf diese Frage geht Juniorprofessorin für Angewandte Ethik Dr. Suzana Alpsancar der Universität Paderborn im Interview mit dem VDI und im VDI-Podcast genauer ein. Um mehr über Technikethik und seine Aufgaben zu erfahren, könnt ihr in die Folge des VDI-Podcasts mit Dr. Suzana Alpsancar reinhören: Zum Podcast: VDI-Podcast: Technikethik für kluge Entscheidungen | VDI Zum Interview: Was ist Aufgabe von Technikethik und wo…

Carsten Wiecher (externer Doktorand in der Fachgruppe Advanced Systems Engineering) promovierte erfolgreich zum Thema „Systematik zur integrativen Anforderungsanalyse und Testspezifikation für die Entwicklung von Systemen im Automobilbereich“ bei Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu. Dazu gratulieren wir herzlich! Zusammenfassung der Arbeit: Systeme im Automobilbereich realisieren komplexe Funktionalitäten durch das Zusammenspiel in dynamisch…

The new annual report is now available online. Among other things, it informs you about the activities of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the projects of all research groups in the past year. You can access the online version of the Annual Report 2023 here. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The competence network for technology, product development, quality, organization and management - consisting of DGQ OWL, GFO OWL and VDI OWL - jointly invites you to the Regionalmeeting-OWL on March 7, 2024. Jens Pottebaum from our Product Creation Group will give an impulse at the regional meeting at the University of Paderborn (in SP2, workshop UPBracing Team) at 6:45 pm on the topic “Tools of model-based product creation for the predictive…

Kai-Arne Hannemann verstärkt unsere Fachgruppe Schaltungstechnik. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind RISC-V Mikroprozessoren, Chipentwicklung und FPGA Synthese. In seiner Freizeit spielt er gerne Karten und Wasserball. Herzlich Willkommen!  

Eine Doktoranden-Winterschule vom 20.02 - 22.02.2024 mit den Schwerpunkten "PIC-Technologieplattformen" und "Frequenzerzeugung und -stabilität" wurde durchgeführt. Als Austragungsort konnten wir das Forschungsinstitut CEA-LETI in Grenoble (Frankreich) gewinnen. Wissenschaftlicher Austausch, netzwerken und Horizonterweiterung sind die drei Hauptziele der Winterschule. Praktisch wurden diese Ziele umgesetzt durch relevante Vorträge von…

Jörg Heihoff-Schwede received his doctorate for the topic "Specification technique for the analysis, design and evaluation of engineering IT architectures" under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu. Congratulations! Summary: Technical systems and their environment are changing fundamentally and their complexity is increasing. This makes it necessary to adapt the engineering of these systems to this situation. In many enterprises, approaches such as…

Harshan Gowda is a new research associate in our Circuit Technology department. His main focus is on broadband EPICs (electronically and photonically integrated circuits). In his spare time he likes to play football. Welcome to the team!