Annika, a former member of the “Control Engineering and Mechatronics” workgroup, successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of “Data-driven modeling for non-linear mechatronic systems in a form that can be used for control engineering” under Dr.-Ing. Julia Timmermann.Since January, she has been working as a postdoc in the form of a tandem position in the “Career@BI” project. This means that she works half time at Lenze SE in the…

Since October 2024, Lara Theresa Vitale has been supporting Prof. Alpsancar's Associated workgroup on technology ethics receives support. She is currently researching how small and medium-sized enterprises in the OWL region are reacting to the EU AI Act in a cooperation project with the VDI. Her research interests lie in the ethics of technology, political philosophy and theory as well as social philosophy and in particular in the interfaces…

How can companies use Gaia-X to confidently organise data spaces and drive digital transformation? The COSMIC-X, DIONE-X, Fed-X-Pro, GRIPPS-X and URANOS-X research projects have been working intensively on this question. The key findings have now been summarised in a publication: ‘Gaia-X in industrial value networks - findings from the InGAIA-X funding line’ The publication is aimed at industrial companies and researchers interested in…

The press release on the DFG project "Automatic Transcription of Conversational Situations" has aroused the interest of Deutschlandfunk radio. The broadcaster conducted an interview with Prof. Häb-Umbach, which was aired on Saturday 8 March at 4.30 pm in the programme "Computer und Kommunikation". The programme presented the research project and discussed its significance for the automatic processing of spoken language. You can find the full…

We are pleased to welcome Thomas Hesse as a new research associate in our Product Development Group. Thomas' research focuses on the project "Design for Capabilities" (DeCap) as part of the DFG Priority Programme, which deals with the development of recyclable and thus sustainable products taking into account human capabilities. In his free time, he enjoys spending time in nature, which includes hiking with friends as well as hobby DIY…

Rushing waves and fresh sea air - perfect conditions for creative ideas and this year's closed meeting of the Chair of Product Creation. On the beautiful North Sea island of Sylt, the chair team led by Prof Dr Iris Gräßler laid the foundations for future success. In addition to intensive workshops, experiences and leisure activities brought the five new members of the team closer together.

In collaboration with Fraunhofer IEM and the five user companies Diebold Nixdorf, Isringhausen, WAGO, DMG MORI and Schmitz Cargobull, the product.intelligence research project is dedicated to the question: How can product management be improved on the basis of data? The white paper sheds light on the transformative role of data-driven approaches in product management. It provides an overview of key product management topics and insights into how…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the flagship conference ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering) held in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to the anniversary of the conference, there is also other exciting news. The paper IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android Apps, which was already presented at ICSE in 2015, will receive the Most Influential Paper Award this year. This award is always given to the paper that…

Philipp, a former member of our Secure Software Engineering work group, successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Scaling static whole-program analysis to modern C and C++ software development" with Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden. During his doctorate, he researched the topic of static programme analysis for the programming languages C and C++. The aim of such program analyses is the automated detection of vulnerabilities and security gaps in…

The team of our Data Science group continues to grow as we welcome Amgad Abdulmaqsod as a new member. Amgad's field of research covers the range of artificial intelligence in strategic planning and science, in particular deep reinforcement learning and graph neural networks. In his spare time, Amgad enjoys going to the gym, playing chess, reading books and watching films. Welcome to the team, Amgad!

Melina Panzner successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of "Systematics for the design of ambidextrous innovation management" under Prof Dr. Roman Dumitrescu. Summary of the doctoral dissertation: The latest technical developments make it possible to collect and analyse large amounts of data from cyber-physical systems (CPS) during operation. These analyses provide manufacturers with deeper insights into product usage and…

Prof. Eric Bodden, head of our Secure Software Engineering group and project leader of the ERC project "Self-Optimising Static Program Analysis" was a guest on Paderborn University's computer science podcast "All Day Research". In the 44th episode, Eric Bodden talks to Dr Harald Selke about the ERC grant for the project, the funding landscape and his research plans. The All Day Research Podcast gives an insight into science and tries to bring…

We are pleased to welcome Adel Memariani as a new doctoral candidate in our Data Science group. Adel's research focuses on the robustness of knowledge graph embedding methods and investigates how these models deal with noise and uncertainty in real-world data. His work contributes to improving the reliability of knowledge graph embedding - a crucial step in advancing AI-driven reasoning. Besides his work at the institute, Adel is passionate…

Last week was all about sustainability optimisation, as the project meeting for the NALYSES project of our Control Engineering and Mechatronics specialist group took place from 11-12 February. Over the course of two days, various presentations and meetings were held to discuss the results of the project to date, as well as the upcoming goals in dialogue with the participants and project partners. The overall aim of the NALYSES project is to take…

Researchers at Paderborn University and RWTH Aachen University develop method for signal enhancement and labelling who spoke when Conversations in social gatherings or important meetings in the office: automatic transcription, i.e. the transcription of conversations, is a challenge that has so far been inadequately solved. Although modern systems make it possible to transcribe spoken language, their recognition performance is still significantly…