News

Here you can see a selection of news from our research groups.

Many more can be found on the websites of the research groups:

Please also take a look at our AIFB Thematic Issue 2025 “KI und Angewandte Informatik” (in German),  which contains, among other things, information about the 40th AIK Symposium and current facts and figures about the institute. The AIK Symposium took place on 24.10.2025, and its content was organized by the Applied Technical Cognitive Systems (Prof. Dr. J. Marius Zöllner) and Business Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis) research groups.

Applied Technical-Cognitive Systems
IEEE IV 202513 Papers and Best Paper Award at the IEEE IV 2025 (02.07.2025)

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".

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Girls‘ Day 2024Girls´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.

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Autonomous Driving on Campus NorthAutonomous 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.

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Cooperative Autonomous Systems
Robots Control Traffic – KIT Tests Future Technology for Safe School Routes (07.07.2025)

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

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-SIMON kickoff

The SIMON project has now been officially launched to revolutionize multimodal mobility. It builds on the RELAI project to improve safety and efficiency in road traffic. Particular attention is to be paid to vulnerable road users, such as cyclists. Our “trafficpilot” app will provide them with environmentally friendly driving recommendations in real time.

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Workshop on Connected Micromobility for Safe and Sustainable Communities (22.09.2024)

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.

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Information Service Engineering
logo ISWSISWS 2024

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

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Logo SemDHSemantic 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.

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Security • Usability • Society
BSI refers to SECUSO paper when examining e-mail programs (16-12-2025)

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has examined e-mail programs for their security. The focus was on investigations into transport and content encryption, SPAM and tracking protection, as well as protection against phishing. To this end, phishing scenarios identified by Maxime Veit, Oliver Wiese, Fabian Ballreich, Melanie Volkamer, Douglas Engels and Peter Mayer as part of a literature search were recreated (“SoK: The past decade of user deception in emails and today's email clients' susceptibility to phishing techniques”). The BSI press release and the report can be found here.

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Demonstrator for authentication in virtual reality integrated into the SECUSO showroom (15-12-2025)

There is a new demonstrator in the SECUSO showroom. It shows how multi-factor authentication in VR (virtual reality) works using EEG (electroencephalography) and a graphical password. The demonstrator was originally presented by Matin Fallahi as part of the ESS evaluation in May 2025. It was developed as a collaboration between SECUSO and the Chair of Privacy and Security, headed by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Strufe.

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Dr. Berens starts research visit at ETH Zürich (11-12-2025)

Dr. Benjamin Berens has begun his visit at ETH Zürich. He will be working with the “Security, Privacy & Society” research group led by Prof. Verena Zimmermann. Between 3 November and 19 December, in addition to Prof. Zimmermann and her team, he will also meet other researchers at ETH Zürich who focus on security and privacy or human behavior research in general. During the research visit Dr. Berens, Prof. Zimmermann and Lorin Schöni want to work on their latest project on synthesizing findings across the field of phishing research. Their work focuses on aggregating results from a diverse range of studies. 

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Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy
ICSRS2025Omar Mostafa Presents Recent Research at ICSRS 2025

[Nov 26-2025] - We’re glad to share that our PhD student Omar Mostafa presented advances on his research, titled “Reliability-Oriented Digital Twins for Identifying Critical Components in Energy Systems via Fault Tree Analysis” at the 9th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS 2025) on November 26-28, 2025 in Turin, Italy,

The conference was co-sponsored by Politecnico di Milano and the IEEE Reliability Society.

 

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DMaaST 4th CMSYDSEN at the fourth Consortium Meeting of the DMaaST Project

[November 25th-26th, 2025] - We are happy to share that we participated in the 4th consortium meeting of the DMaaST project in Kaunas. During the consortium meeting from 25th –26th of November Prof. Sanja Lazarova-Molnar and Ph.D students Michelle Jungmann, Ohad Daniel and Johannes Deufel presented the advancements in Work Package 3 Task 3.2. As leader of Work Package 3, we aim to develop a cognitive Manufacturing Ecosystem Digital Twin that includes both levels of manufacturing services and value chains. At the consortium meeting we had great discussions with our partners towards the advancements of the project. 

 

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AAC2025Dr. Mustafa Demetgül's talk at AAC 2025

[Nov 24-26, 2025] - We are pleased to share that our postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Mustafa Demetgül, delivered a talk titled “Multi-Scale Sensor Fusion for Tire-Road Noise Prediction” at the Aachen Acoustics Colloquium (AAC 2025), held between 24–26 November. The Aachen Acoustics Colloquium is one of the leading international events in the field of acoustics, bringing together experts from both industry and academia.

In addition, Dr. Demetgül attended the 5th Milestone Meeting of our ongoing Tyre Road Noise project on 27 November.

Overall, both events were highly productive for our group and contributed positively to our ongoing research activities in tire-road noise prediction, sensor fusion, and advanced acoustic modeling.

 

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