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Many more can be found on the websites of the research groups:
- Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems
- Business Information Systems
- Cooperative Autonomous Systems
- Critical Information Infrastructures
- Information Service Engineering
- Security • Usability • Society
- Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy
- Web Science
Please also take a look at our AIFB Thematic Issue 2024 “Security and Privacy made in Karlsruhe” (in German), which contains, among other things, the invitation to the 39th AIK Symposium and current facts and figures about the institute. The AIK Symposium will take place on 08.11.2024 and will be organized by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer and her research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society).
 Girls´Day 2024 (25/04/2024)On Girls' Day 2024, 5 schoolgirls came to our research group "Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems" to get an insight into how we came to our profession, where you are allowed to "play" with robots. More |
 Autonomous driving with Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Volker Wissing on Campus North (01/03/2024)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. More |
 CoCar NextGen at IEEE ITSC 2023 (05/10/2023)The Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems research group headed by Prof. J. Marius Zöllner presented its latest autonomous vehicle at ITSC 2023. This research vehicle enables autonomous and networked operation in real road traffic situations. More |
 ISWS 2024The ISE group is one of the organizers of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) 2024. ISWS Website |
 Semantic Digital Humanities Workshop (26.05.2024)Sasha Bruns, Tabea Tietz and Harald Sack, together with external partners from the University of Bologna and Vrije University Amsterdam, are organizing a workshop on "Semantic Digital Humanities", which will be held as part of ESWC 2024. The main goal is to build a bridge between technical semantic web-based solutions and the research questions of the humanities community. Workshop Website |
| Paper accepted at CHI 2025 (14-03-2025) Three papers with SECUSO participation have been accepted for presentation at this year's Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI 2025). The journal article "Encouraging Users to Change Breached Passwords Using the Protection Motivation Theory" by Yixin Zou, Khue Le, Peter Mayer, Alessandro Acquisti, Adam J. Aviv, and Florian Schaub deals with design interventions to encourage users to change breached passwords. Furthermore, the paper “It's a Match - Enhancing the Fit between Users and Phishing Training through Personalisation” by Lorin Schöni, Neele Roch, Hannah Sievers, Martin Strohmeier, Peter Mayer, and Verena Zimmermann, as well as the Late Breaking Work “It's like an explosion”: Cyberwarfare harms for civilian population in Ukraine during the Russian invasion” by Oksana Kulyk, Jari Kickbusch, and Peter Mayer were accepted. CHI 2025 will take place in Yokohama, Japan, from April 26 to May 1st, 2025. See all papers |
| Deutschlandfunk Kultur program on digital elections with Melanie Volkamer (11-03-2025) Prof. Melanie Volkamer was featured in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur program "Breitband". The program on digital elections was broadcast on March 1. The feasibility of electronic elections was discussed in light of the many late postal ballots for voters abroad in the Bundestag elections. Prof. Volkamer describes how end-to-end verifiable voting systems allow voters to track their own votes until they are counted. For voters, however, such procedures are complex and involve many steps. One question for research is how to motivate people to do this. Listen |
| Heise interview with Melanie Volkamer on Phishing in companies (04-03-2025) In the issue of February 26, 2025, Heise published an interview with Prof. Melanie Volkamer on phishing trends and protection measures in the corporate context. In the interview, Prof. Volkamer explains why classic phishing detection tips are reaching their limits and what users should look for instead. In addition to the growing role of AI, she discusses attack methods such as fraudulent messages via WhatsApp and CEO fraud. She also argues for a better security culture in companies - with meaningful training instead of questionable phishing tests. Read the article |
 SYDSEN Digital Twins Lab[February 24th, 2025] - We are pleased to share that for some months now, we have been operating the SYDSEN Digital Twins Lab, a specialized facility dedicated to advancing research and education in Digital Twins and Data-Driven Simulation and Modeling. The lab is envisioned as a platform for students and researchers to explore near-real-time, data-driven modeling and simulation of systems using small-scale physical models. For more information, visit the SYDSEN Digital Twins Lab webpage.
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 Welcome Meryem Mahmoud to SYDSEN!Welcome Meryem Mahmoud to SYDSEN! [February 1st, 2025] - We're happy to welcome Meryem Mahmoud as a Ph.D. candidate at SYDSEN - Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy Research Group in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Meryem joined our research group on February 1st, 2025. |
 Welcome Mohamed Ramadane to SYDSEN![January 24th, 2025] - We're happy to welcome Mohamed Ramadane as an external Ph.D. candidate at SYDSEN, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Mohamed Ramadane is employed at the Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, and co-supervised by Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Prof. Doris Bohnet.
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