We are excited to announce the Workshop on AI-Supported Research Software Engineering, an interactive event for research software engineers and scientists engaged in developing and maintaining research software in the era of AI. When: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 - Wednesday, 23 September 2026 Where: Göttingen The workshop addresses the challenges and opportunities research software engineers face in AI-supported research software [...]
How can AI help reliably identify falsified and manipulated digital content such as deepfakes, synthetic voices, and multimodal misinformation? This question is at the center of the Korean National Police Academy’s fake news project, a joint initiative involving the State Criminal Police Office, University of Göttingen, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Soongsil University, Sungkyunkwan University, Yonsei University, and Hancom. AI-generated media has significantly expanded the scope of digital crime. Highly realistic [...]
Our team, together with collaborators from Mercedes-Benz, eschbach, the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police Office, and JUST ADD AI, presents the following five papers at the EMNLP conference 2025—one of the flagship conferences in NLP (CORE rank A*)—taking place in Suzhou, China, from November 4-9. (1) SPaRC: A Spatial Pathfinding Reasoning Challenge by Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry [...]
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo is Japan’s premier computer‑science research institute across different research areas. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Göttingen, master’s students and PhD candidates can conduct paid research internships or master’s thesis projects in Tokyo. The GippLab cooperates with NII to offer research stays lasting two to six months, funded [...]
We are excited to announce that our group member, Dr. Terry Ruas, has successfully passed his habilitation exam by demonstrating excellence in research and teaching. This great achievement has rightfully earned him the venia legendi (permission to lecture) in computer science and the Privatdozent (PD) title. Having obtained the highest university degree achievable in Germany allows him to independently teach [...]
We are excited to announce that a result of our longstanding research collaboration with eschbach GmbH has been awarded the Best of Industry Award in the category of Artificial Intelligence for the second time in a row. The award recognizes the NLP-powered application Smart Solutions, a project driven by Anastasia Zhukova and Dr. Christian Matt with financial support from the [...]
On Oct. 23 2024, Bela Gipp will take part in the “Bursfelde Talks” series at the Bursfelde Monastery. The panelists will discuss the theological and ethical challenges of artificial intelligence. Will AI replace us? Will AI fundamentally improve and make our lives easier? What are the limits of its use, and can there even be any? These and other questions [...]
We are thrilled to announce that the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has approved funding for a 30-month collaborative research project with our longstanding industry partner, eschbach, under the Central Innovation Program for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (ZIM). The newly funded project aims to develop advanced AI-driven multilingual search and recommendation algorithms tailored to handle the process [...]
Our group showcased its research on automated fawn rescue using self-designed, built, and programmed FPV quadcopters at the IdeenExpo fair in Hanover from June 8 to 16. The State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Prof. Dr. Joachim Schachtner, was among the many interested visitors we welcomed at the University of Göttingen booth. Those who could [...]
The State and University Library Göttingen (SUB) will receive new leadership. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann and Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp will take over as the Director and Scientific Director, respectively. The Head of Library Operations, Kathrin Brannemann, and a soon-to-be-appointed deputy will continue to oversee the library-related and administrative tasks at SUB. For details, please check this link. Bela Gipp [...]
