Cornelius Ihle receives two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs
Our PhD candidate, Cornelius Ihle, has been awarded a two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs. Cornelius investigates approaches to increase user privacy in the IPFS network.
Stern magazine reports on Bela Gipp’s inventions with ”Jugend Forscht”
The German magazine, Stern, just published an article about Bela’s research projects and his inventions while participating in the ‘Jugend Forscht’ competitions as a student. The article also describes one of Bela’s earliest inventions, the “GSM Schutzengel”, with which Bela was successful at Jugend Forscht. Here is a copy of the print article and here is an English version: The [...]
Norman Meuschke receives the Airbus Research Award Claude Dornier
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Norman Meuschke was awarded this year’s Airbus Research Award ‘Claude Dornier’ for his outstanding research achievements during his Ph.D. research. The award ceremony took place on July 14th, 2022, at the University of Konstanz. Norman defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Analyzing Non-Textual Content Elements to Detect Academic Plagiarism” summa cum laude on March [...]
Our research group moves to the University of Göttingen
Bela Gipp has recently accepted a new full professorship at the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Website, Wikipedia page). The new position will be at the intersection of the Department of Computer Science and the research department of the State and University Library (Website, Wikipedia page). The starting date of the new position is April 1, 2022. However, Bela Gipp and his team will still [...]
Felix Hamborg defends his PhD Thesis with ‘summa cum laude’
We are delighted to announce that Felix Hamborg has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Towards Automated Frame Analysis: Natural Language Processing Techniques to Reveal Media Bias in News Articles” on January 31st. The research objective of this thesis was to identify perspectives (also called frames) in the news coverage of political events. Additionally, the approach developed in the thesis [...]
André Greiner-Petter receives his PhD
We are delighted to announce that André Greiner-Petter has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Making Presentation Math Computable’’ this January, 2022. Congratulations, André! In his thesis, André researched and developed a context-sensitive approach for translating mathematical expressions from LATEX to the syntax of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS). In doing so, he made three primary contributions to the Math Information [...]
Dennis Trautwein receives prestigious PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs Research
Our PhD candidate, Dennis Trautwein, has been awarded a two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs featuring an $80,000 stipend and an annual travel allowance of $3,000. Designed to support early-stage researchers, the fellowship aligns with Protocol Labs' research interests. Dennis Trautwein’s proposed research specifically aims to enhance content discovery and retrieval within the IPFS network.
Panel Discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises
Bela Gipp participated in the panel discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises as an expert on New Technologies. Other participants were Marc Wagner (on the subject of New Work) and Simon Schnetzer (on the subject New Generations). The event was hosted by the community platform Daiment. https://vimeo.com/780491376
TV report on our plagiarism detection research
The regional TV station WDR reports on our plagiarism detection research and our system HyPlag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Xx5ZWDkbM
Research & Knowledge Transfer Office reports on our group’s research and its impact on society
Scientific research does not occur in a vacuum. Instead, scientists and society both benefit from continuous and close collaboration. In this manner, new insights and solutions from academia can be directly applied to real-world problems, allowing innovation to be incrementally tested and to positively shape the society in which we live. This is why the Research & Knowledge Transfer Office at the [...]
