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At the IEEE IV 2025 in Romania, our research group was represented with 13 accepted papers. In addition, Ahmed Abouelazm won the Best Paper Award with his contribution "TPK: Trustworthy Trajectory Prediction Integrating Prior Knowledge For Interpretability and Kinematic Feasibility".

On March 1, 2024, the KIT Center for Mobility Systems and the Energy Lab at Campus North received an official visit from Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, and Members of the Bundestag Michael Theurer and Parsa Marvi.

A robot that helps children cross the street safely? What sounds like science fiction has become reality in Bratislava – with significant involvement from KIT. 

On September 22, 2024, the workshop takes place in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces. This workshop deals with the rise of micromobility services and Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) as a potential solution to problems like regulations, standardization and road safety.

The ISE group is one of the organizers of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) 2024.

On January 20, 2026, Prof. Melanie Volkamer will speak at the symposium "Update für Personalrätinnen und Personalräte" (Update for Staff Council Members), organized by the Bavarian Academy for Administrative Management, about security requirements for digital tools for Internet elections and voting. This topic is particularly relevant for staff representatives, who need to have an informed opinion on the subject of Internet elections and voting and to better understand which issues should be clarified with manufacturers of Internet voting systems before they are used.

The SECUSO research group is participating in the Trialogue on the topic “Between data protection and data rush. Why does our society need cybersecurity?” with the citizens' panel “Wir forschen digital.” “Wir forschen digital” offers citizens the opportunity to participate in studies on digital technologies. At the Trialogue on November 6, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Triangel, anyone interested can learn more in conversation and participate in a mini-experiment on the topic of phishing. Markus Beckedahl – founder of netzpolitik.org and co-founder of re:publica – will open the evening with a keynote speech. This will be followed by a discussion with other experts, during which questions from the audience will also be addressed. 

[October 21st, 2025] - We are delighted to announce that our Affiliated PhD student Ruhollah Jamali, supervised by Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, successfully defended his PhD thesis on October 21st, 2025 at the Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark. His thesis, titled "Advancing Data-driven Agent-based Modeling and its Applications in Supporting Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade Market," addresses challenges in combining data-driven approaches with agent-based modeling for complex real-world systems.

The defense was examined by an assessment committee consisting of Prof. Franziska Klügl (Örebro University), Prof. Iris Lorscheid (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences), and Prof. Jan Sørensen (University of Southern Denmark). Ruhollah's research resulted in 9 peer-reviewed publications at international conferences, contributing to advancing the integration of data-driven approaches and agent-based modeling for decision support in complex markets.

We congratulate Dr. Jamali on this remarkable achievement and look forward to his continued contributions to the research community. 🎉

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[August 27-29, 2025] - We’re pleased to share that our SYDSEN-affiliated Ph.D. student at SDU, Ashkan Zare, presented his research "System Variations and Their Impact on the Validation of Digital Twin Models in Dynamic Manufacturing Environments" at the 30th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2025) in Loughborough, UK, on 27-29 Aug 2025.

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