Project groups
In the "project group" course, a group of usually 8-16 students work on a topic specified by the organiser over the course of a year (two semesters). Here, teamwork and the organisation of a project are tested and learned in practice in order to prepare students for their future careers. In terms of content, project groups are intended to introduce students to current research topics. For students, this means that graduates of a project group are generally also predestined to subsequently take on Master's theses in the relevant field. Details can be found in the framework guidelines for project groups.
Prerequisites
- The project group can only be started once the Bachelor's programme has been successfully completed. The Bachelor's degree is successfully completed when all examinations have been passed and the 4.0 confirmation has been submitted to the Examinations Office by 31 March for the summer semester and by 30 September for the winter semester.
- The project group can only be started once enrolment in the Master's degree programme has been completed. Students in the Bachelor's programme who do not achieve the 4.0 confirmation or complete examinations until 31 March and 30 September must therefore apply for the Master's programme by the respective deadline for the change of degree programme.
How do I get a project group?
Procedure for assigning students to project groups
Phase 1: PAUL registration
August 15 – August 21 (early registration)
August 22 – September 22 (late registration)
Phase 2: Assignments & preferences
August 23 - September 15
Phase 3: Stable Marriage
September 23
Phase 4: Notification & decision
September 29
Details of the individual phases can be found here.
New project groups in the Master of Computer Science and Master of Computer Engineering
The project groups listed are intended for the Master's degree programme in Computer Science and/or Computer Engineering. There are three types of project groups: Only Computer Science students participate in CS project groups. These groups offer the required 2x10 ECTS credits. Only Computer Engineering students take part in CE project groups, which offer the required 2x9 ECTS credits. Students from both degree programmes take part in mixed project groups. These groups offer the required scope of 2x10 ECTS and 2x9 ECTS.
Winter Semester 2025/26
CS + CE project groups:
Title of the PG: Machine Unlearning for Face Recognition (ULF)
Contact person: Rouqaiah Al-Refai, Philipp Terhörst
Specialist group: Responsible AI for Biometrics
Title of the PG: Hardware/Software Co-Design of Distributed Robotics Systems (ROS.HScode)
Contact person: Alexander Philipp Nowosad
Specialist group: Computer Engineering Group
Title of the PG: Knowledge Graph Summarization (KGSUMM)
Contact person: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Asep Fajar Firmansyah
Specialist group: Data Science
Title of the PG: Supplychain attack and defense platform (SADEP)
Contact person: Yasemin Acar
Specialist group: Empirical Software Engineering
Title of the PG: Seated Locomotion for VR Serious Games (VR-Serious)
Contact person: Enes Yigitbas, Sebastian Krois
Specialist group: Software Innovation Lab + GamesLab
Title of the PG: Adaptive Authentication in Virtual Reality (ADA-VR)
Contact person: Emiram Kablo, Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Juraj Somorovsky
Specialist group: IT Security
CS project groups:
Title of the PG: Analysing Graph Orbits under r-Local Complementation (r-LOC)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi, Hrachya Zakaryan
Specialist group: Quantum Information
Title of the PG: Framework for Offensive eXercises (FOX)
Contact person: Juraj Somorovsky, Jost Rossel
Specialist group: System Security
CE Project Groups:
Title of the PG: Simulating Robots with Differentiable Simulation (DiffSimRobot)
Contact person: Dinh, Quang Dung,
Specialist group: Automatic Control Group
Title of the PG: Fusing EEG and wearable data (EEGWear)
Contact person: Maurice Kuschel, Mohammad Soleymani
Specialist group: Signal and System Theory
Title of the PG: Design and development of aerial soft robots in Isaac sim (ASR)
Contact person: Vikas Chidananda, Erdal Kayacan
Specialist group: Automatic Control Group
Ongoing project groups in IT
Summer semester 2025
CS + CE project groups:
Title of the PG: AI Agents for Systems Engineering (Agent-SE)
Contact person: Ruslan Bernijazov
Specialist group: Advanced Systems Engineering
Title of the PG: How to Train Your Large Language Model (HTYLLM)
Contact person: Nikit Srivastava
Specialist group: Data Science
Title of the PG: Graph-Theoretic Approaches to Quantum States (GTA-GS)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi, Konstantinos Rafail Revis
Specialist group: Qauntum Information
Title of the PG: Classifying Graph Orbits under r-Local Complementation (CGS)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi, Hrachya Zakaryan
Specialist group: Qauntum Information
Title of the PG: Towards more intelligent client-server architecture for SPARQL query processing (HybridAgent)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem, Axel Cyrille Ngonga
Specialist group: Data Science Research Group
Title of the PG: Explainable Graph Query Answering (xGQA)
Contact person: Parsa Abbasi, Stefan Heindorf
Specialist group: Data Science Junior Research Group
Title of the PG: Intelligent AI Assistants for adessoGPT based on OpenAI on Azure (adessoGPT)
Contact person: Moritz Seiler, Heike Trautmann
Specialist group: Machine Learning and Optimisation
Title of the PG: Adaptive Virtual Tutor for Chemistry Study Preparation 2 (VirtuTutor2)
Contact person: Matthias Fischer, Jan-Luca Hansel, André Graute
Specialist group: Theory of Distributed Systems
Title of the PG: Representing Contrastive Explanations for Knowledge Graphs (ReCon)
Contact person: Arnab Sharma
Specialist group: Data Science
Title of the PG: Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation (ARAG)
Contact person: Axel Ngonga, Yasir Mahmood, Mohamed Sherif
Specialist group: Data Science
Title of the PG: Planungs-Unterstützung für Schul-Stundenpläne (PUSS)
Contakt person: Stefan Böttcher
Specialist group: Databases and Electronic Commerce
CE Project Groups:
Title of the PG: Machine Learning and Signal Processing Using EEG and Smartwatch Data (MLSP-EEG)
Contact person: Tanuj Hasija, Maurice Kuschel, Mohammad Soleymani
Specialist group: Signal and System Theory
Winter semester 2024/25
CS + CE project groups:
Title of the PG: Building a Face Recognition Demonstrator (FaceDemo)
Contact person: Philipp Terhörst, Rouqaiah Al-Refai
Specialist group: Responsible AI for Biometrics
Title of the PG: Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation
Contact person: Axel Ngonga,
Specialist Group: Data Science
Title of the PG: Quantum Networks Transformation (QNT)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi
Expert Group: Quantum Information
Title of the PG: Sustainable Internet-of-Things (SloT)
Contact person: Lin Wang
Research Group: Computer Networks
PG title: Programmable Matter 4 (ProgMat 4)
Contact person: Matthias Artmann, Andreas Padalkin, Daniel Warner
Division: Theory of Distributed Systems
PG title: Usable Security and Privacy Lab (USaP-Lab)
Contact person: Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Emiram Kablo, Yorick Last
Specialist group: IT Security
PG title: Immersive Digital Twin-Driven Systems and Software Engineering (IDT-SSE)
Contact person: Enes Yigitbas, Stefan Sauer
Specialist group: Software Innovation Lab
Title of the PG: AI-supported Security Testing (SecAI)
Contact person:Michael Schlichtig, Markus Schmidt
Expert Group: Secure Software Engineering
CS project groups:
Title of the PG: Contrastive Explanations for Knowledge Graphs (conExKG)
Contact person:Yasir Mahmood
Expert group: DICE
Title of the PG: Explaining Graph Neural Networks (XGNN)
Contact person:Stefan Heindorf,
Division: Data Science Junior Research Group
CE Project Groups:
PG title: Machine Learning and Signal Processing Using EEG and Smartwatch Data (MLSP-SST)
Contact person:Isabell Lehmann, Tanuj
Specialist group: Signal and System Theory Group
