On 18 January, the Executive Board of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute invited its employees to this year's New Year's dinner and looked back on the past year. With eight doctorates, 137 publications and 241 Bachelor's, Master's and student research projects, Professor Eric Bodden, Chairman of the Institute's Executive Board and Head of the "Secure Software Engineering" department, drew a positive balance from 2023. The estimated third-party funding…

Faiza Tahir is a new research associate in our Secure Software Engineering group. Her research here focuses on a secure software development life cycle (SDLC) and resilient artificial intelligence systems. In her free time, she likes to go hiking and enjoys the beauty of nature. She is also interested in art and culture.

Julia Vehmeyer is a new member of our Advanced Systems Engineering department. She is currently working on the "ZirkuPro" project, which focuses on the development of sustainable methods for circular product creation, particularly in electronics production. Julia's focus is on the design of circular value creation and the sustainability assessment of value creation systems. She enjoys spending her free time hiking, climbing and skiing in nature…

Felix Bruchhage is a new research associate in our Advanced Systems Engineering department. In the Inno.Venture project, he is primarily concerned with the integration of start-ups into innovation management. In his free time, he enjoys outdoor sports and playing the guitar. He is always open to new challenges and would like to put his and would like to put his skills to the test on a mountain bike during this year's Alpencross. Welcome Felix!

Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) have succeeded in realizing a lidar measurement system that can mathematically prove that it can resolve distances down to quantum noise. By using a so-called quantum pulse gate, the researchers succeeded in developing a system that could undercut the classical limits, such as the Rayleigh distance resolution limit and the Cramér Rao limit. Further…

The IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) Workshop took place in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 16-20, 2023, see http://www.asru2023.org/. The biennial workshop is organized by the Speech and Language Technical Committee of the IEEE. The local organizers this time were the Academia Sinica, the National Tsing-Hua University and the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. Prof. Häb-Umbach…

The BMBF-funded research project ImPaKT, which was launched in 2021, is coming to an end after 3 years. The jointly developed software prototypes enable end-to-end model-based mapping of systems and model-based impact analysis for the evaluation of technical changes. Industrial case studies showed the great relevance for future product development: a tracked undercarriage from CLAAS Industrietechnik GmbH, a balancing machine from Hofmann Mess-…

In our Annual Report 2023, we also show our scientists from their private side. For example, Niklas Fittkau from Control Engineering. He has had his pilot's license for over 2 years ...

Prof Eric Bodden has been elected to the review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the period 2024 to 2028. Eric Bodden is Head of our Secure Software Engineering Division, Chairman of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Director of Software Engineering and IT Security at Fraunhofer IEM. More than 54,000 scientists cast their votes in this year's review board election, enabling 49 review boards to be filled. Eric Bodden has been…

Researchers from the Advanced Systems Engineering department present the "AI Marketplace" research project at the Market of Digital Possibilities in Jena. The Market of Digital Opportunities is a trade fair that showcases a wide range of areas in which digital technology is already present and will be used in the near future. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu will be presenting the potential of (generative) AI for German industry in a keynote…

Saed Abughannam (Department "Circuit Technology") successfully completed his doctorate on the topic "Low-power Direct-detection Wake-up Receiver at 2.44 GHz for Wireless Sensor Networks" under Prof. Christoph Scheytt. Congratulations on this achievement! Summary: This thesis investigates the design, implementation and metrological characterization of a special radio receiver, the so-called wake-up receiver (WuRx), at 2.44 GHz. The WuRx can be…

Paderborn's scientific expertise is in demand: Prof. Dr Eric Bodden, Head of the Institute of Computer Science, and Prof. Dr Christine Silberhorn, physicist and holder of the Chair of Integrated Quantum Optics, have been accepted as new members of the German Academy of Science and Engineering - acatech for short. The academy, which is funded by the federal and state governments, is the voice of the technological sciences in Germany and abroad.…

Precise signals play an important role in various applications - from measurement and radar systems to telecommunications. In telecommunications in particular, ever larger amounts of data have to be transmitted in ever shorter periods of time. If the signals used for data transmission are not highly precise, this can lead to errors in communication. A research group at Paderborn University is therefore working on a so-called signal generator in…

Abdelmawla Saeed Rizk is a new research assistant in the Control Engineering and Mechatronics department. In his department, Abdelmawla Saeed Rizk is particularly responsible for the optimization of driving simulation and is supported by AI, among other things. In his free time, he is particularly enthusiastic about manual activities such as cooking, baking and programming. Welcome to the team!

Our Product Creation specialist group will be represented at this year's “Systems Engineering Day” in Würzburg from November 15-17. The conference is designed to promote the exchange between industry, consultants, tool manufacturers and research institutions. Our specialist group will have a presentation stand here, where they will present their research project “ImPaKT”. The aim of the project is to use model-based impact analyses in change…