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…
From 9-12 June, research associate Sarah Pinno from our “Behavioural Economic Engineering and Responsible Management” workgroup attended the Economy for the Common Good International Conference (ECGIC 2026) in Amberg.
The conference was held under the motto "Transforming towards a fair and sustainable economy" and promotes interdisciplinary exchange on an economy that is oriented towards the common good. The focus was on issues relating to a…
Analyzing AAS lifecycle data, making it usable in the #data room, and combining it with AI-based optical inspections—to this end, students in the “Digital Factory” project lab, led by Dr.-Ing. Jens Pottebaum, Thomas Hesse, and Carmen De Groote, have developed an assistance system for inspection in the disassembly process. Using computer vision approaches, large language models, and data from a data room such as ManufacturingX, they analyze the…
From 10 to 12 June, Professor Dr. Sina Saravi, head of our "Modelling and Design of Photonic Quantum Systems" workgroup, attended the workshop "Frontiers of Neuromorphic Computing II" at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.
The workshop focussed on current developments in the field of neuromorphic computing and innovative hardware concepts for energy-efficient artificial intelligence applications. The focus was on novel…
From left to right: Prof. Dr. Iryna Mozgova, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu, Dr.-Ing.
Gausemeier, Dr.-Ing. Farisoroosh Abrishamchian and Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ansgar
Trächtler
10.06.2026
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Heinz Nixdorf Institute,
Regelungstechnik und Mechatronik / Heinz Nixdorf Institut
Farisoroosh Abrishamchian successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Variability Management in Design of Mechatronic Systems" under Professor Ansgar Trächtler. Congratulations to her!
Summary of the thesis:
In this thesis an approach for the integrated model-based design of intelligent dynamic systems is presented. A concept for the establishing a cross-domain solution is the basic target of this system design. To reduce the design…
We congratulate our research associate Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kruse, who has been awarded project funding for the next two years by the Walter Benjamin Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
The Walter Benjamin Programme enables researchers to independently implement their own research project at a location of their choice, following on from their doctorate. This research project can be carried out within or outside Germany. The aim of the…
