The research project "Assessor View" by our research associate Mugdha Khedkar from the "Secure Software Engineering" workgroup has led to two scientific publications. The journal Automated Software Engineering accepted the study, which will also be presented at IEEE SANER 2026.The project investigates why data protection checks according to the GDPR are often difficult in practice. Dr Eric Bodden and his team therefore developed a tool that…

Paderborn University participates in the new "KONVOY" research project Whether energy, mobility, production or municipal services: More and more industries are relying on functioning systems to exchange data in a secure and standardised way. Until now, however, there has been a lack of methods for designing complex cooperation structures or planning their development in advance. In the new research project "Configuration and co-evolution of data…

Stephan Kruse successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Photonic Radar Circuits and Systems for Coherent mm-Wave Large Aperture Phased Array MIMO Systems" under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Scheytt. Congratulations to him! Abstract: The angular resolution of a phased array antenna is inversely proportional to it’s aperture size. The high electrical losses limit the aperture size of modern all-electric radar systems to…

Julian Weller successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Specification technology for prescriptive analytics solutions in production" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Roman Dumitrescu. Summary of the doctoral dissertation: Manufacturing companies are undergoing a transformation towards becoming data-driven enterprises due to an increasing level of digitalisation. The inherent complexity of production is placing increasingly high…

After more than three years of work, the project partners of NALYSES ("Sustainability-optimised life cycle assessment of technologically highly complex mechatronic products") have presented their results. The project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), developed methods and technologies to significantly reduce the ecological footprint of complex mechatronic products and make them fit for the circular…

Matthias Günther successfully completed his doctorate on the topic "Framework for the pattern-based design of System of Systems" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Roman Dumitrescu. Summary of the doctoral dissertation: Connectivity and collaboration of systems is considered as a success factor for current and, especially, future solutions. Through the interaction of different systems goals are achieved that cannot be realized by the individual…

Our researchers are unique. Here they introduce themselves and show their very personal side behind the scientific work. Julia Marie Vehmeyer: "I completed my bachelor's degree in industrial engineering at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. I particularly appreciated the strong practical relevance there. I moved to Paderborn University for my Master's degree. Alongside my studies, I worked as a student trainee in product management at…

What skills are needed in dismantling and subsequent reassembly to give products a new life? Engineers shape the circular economy - because they have the expertise to develop products in such a way that all components can be reused as easily as possible. Does reuse then only mean that companies reuse individual components as unchanged as possible? In the DeCap project, this goal is significantly expanded to include capabilities for flexible disa…

On 27 February, the IEEE Signal Processing Society is pleased to welcome Distinguished IEEE Speaker Dr. Tomohiro Nakatani for a guest lecture at Paderborn University. He will present a talk entitled "Enhancing Distant Automatic Speech Recognition via Model-Based Multi-Microphone Front-Ends". The presentation will take place in room L3.204 at 11 am at Paderborn University. Tomohiro Nakatani is a Senior Distinguished Researcher at the Communication…

We are pleased to welcome Dr Italo Lopes Oliveira to our "Data Science" workgroup. He researches the extraction of ontologies in descriptive logic from natural language texts. Italo is very busy in his free time. He enjoys discovering new cafés with his wife, taking care of his cats, playing video games or reading science fiction books. Welcome, Italo!

From 24 to 26 March 2026, our "Product Creation" workgroup is organising the symposium on hybrid intelligence in product and production development for the first time in Paderborn. During the three-day symposium, the scientific discourse will be guided by the question of how not only hybrid decision support, but hybrid intelligence in general can be used to increase performance in product creation. Both, approaches from the engineering sciences…

Around three years ago, researchers at Paderborn University succeeded in developing "SootUp", a groundbreaking innovation to "Soot", the world's leading framework for analysing and transforming Java and Android applications. Now they are taking the next big step: The researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University are realising the "CoSA"[1] project under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden's "Secure Software Engineering"…

You can now find the new annual report online. It provides you with information about the statistical data of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the other activities of all specialist groups in the past year.Here you can access the Heinz Nixdorf Institute's Annual Report 2025 online. Have fun reading!

On Thursday, 5 February 2026, the HNI-Forum 2026 took place under the topic "Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence". More than 80 people attended the lecture series and listened to two exciting presentations. In his lecture "Representation Learning to Act and Plan", guest speaker Prof Hector Geffner (RWTH Aachen University) spoke about the limits of modern AI approaches such as deep learning, deep reinforcement learning and large language…

The Symposium for Foresight and Technology Planning (SVT), organised by our “Advanced Systems Engineering” workgroup, will take place in Berlin from 7-8 October 2026. For the 20th time, the SVT will bring together experts in the field of strategic product and technology planning from research and industry. The theme of this year's SVT is "Strategic Foresight in Times of Radical Uncertainty". The Symposium for Foresight and Technology Planning…