Archive of past computer science seminars
Summer Semester 2026
- Seminar title: Selected Topics in Human Factors in Security and Privacy
Contact person: Yasemin Acar, Anna Lena Rotthaler
Name of the research group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Automated Algorithm Configuration
Contact person: Dr. Jeroen Rook, Prof. Dr Heike Trautmann
Name of the research group: Machine Learning and Optimisation - Seminar title: Quantum Information (QI)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi
Name of the research group: Quantum Information - Seminar title: Recent Geometry Processing Trends (RGPT)
Contact person: Marcel Campen
Name of the research group: Computer Graphics & Visualisation - Seminar title: Robust Foundational Models (ROFUM)
Contact person: Arnab Sharma
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Internet Censorship ()
Contact persons: Juraj Somorovsky, Felix Lange, Niklas Niere, Nico Heitmann
Name of the working group: System Security - Seminar title: Systems Support for LLM Inference (SysLLM)
Contact person: Lin Wang
Name of the working group: Computer Networks - Seminar title: Fake News Detection using Knowledge Graphs (FAN-KG)
Contact person: Umair Qudus
Name of the working group: Data Science Research Group (DICE) - Seminar title: AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE)
Contact person: Dr. Enes Yigitbas
Name of the research group: Software Innovation Lab - Seminar title: Knowledge, Reasoning, and Decision-Making in
Multi-Agent Systems (KR-DeMAS)
Contact person: Yasir Mahmood
Name of the research group: DICE - Seminar title: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graphs (RAKG)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Knowledge Construction from Wiki Data (WikiKG)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Storing and Querying Knowledge Graphs (SQKG)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Advanced Distributed Algorithms (ADA)
Contact person: Christian Scheideler
Name of the research group: Theory of Distributed Systems - Seminar title: Advanced Topics in Evolutionary Computation
Contact person: Prof. Dr Heike Trautmann, Dr. Jakob Bossek
Name of the research group: Machine Learning and Optimisation
Winter semester 2025/26
- Seminar title: Advanced topic on Description Logics (ATDL)
Contact person: Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Atefe Khodadaditaghanaki
Name of the working group: Knowledge Representation - Seminar title: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graphs (RAKG)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Knowledge Graphs Relation Extraction (KGRE)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Data Storage and Querying Knowledge Graphs (DSQKG)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Robustness of Language Models (RoLM)
Contact person: Arnab Sharma
Name of the working group: Data Science - Seminar title: Generative AI Incubator for Social Impact (GAISI)
Contact person: Christian Koldewey,Roman Dumitrescu
Name of the working group: Advanced Systems Engineering - Seminar title: Logic-Based Explainability in AI (LogiXAI)
Contact person: Yasir Mahmood
Name of the working group: DICE - Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact person: Juraj Somorovsky, Jost Rossel
Name of the working group: System Security - Seminar title: Recent Geometry Processing Trends (RGPT)
Contact person: Marcel Campen
Name of the working group: Computer Graphics & Visualisation - Seminar title: Social Media Analytics (SMA)
Contact persons: Britta Grimme, Heike Trautmann, Lea-Marie Sussek
Name of the working group: Machine Learning and Optimisation (MALEO) - Seminar title: Automated Algorithm Selection for Optimisation (AASO)
Contact: Urban Skvorc, Heike Trautmann
Name of the research group: Machine Learning and Optimisation (MALEO) - Seminar title: Secure Systems Engineering (SSE)
Contact person: Vaibhav Chaudhari, Eric Bodden
Name of the research group: Secure Software Engineering - Seminar title: Classical error-correcting codes (ECC)
Contact person: Sevag Gharibian
Name of the research group: Quantum Computing - Seminar title: Advanced Human Factors in Security and Privacy Research (AHFSPR)
Contact person: Yasemin Acar
Name of the research group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Topics in Reconfigurable Computing (TRC)
Contact person: Marco Platzner
Name of the research group: Computer Engineering Group
Summer Semester 2025
- Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact persons: Juraj Somorovsky, Jost Rossel
Name of the working group: System Security - Seminar title: Networking for Large Language Models (NetLLM)
Contact person: Lin Wang
Name of the working group: Computer Networks - Seminar title: Argumentation for Explainable AI (ArgXAI)
Contact person: Yasir Mahmood
Name of the working group: Data Science Research Group - Seminar title: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graphs (RAKG)
Contact person: Muhammad Saleem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
Name of the working group: Machine Learning for Query Processing - Seminar title: Current Topics in Knowledge Base Engineering (CTKBE)
Contact person: Anselm Haak
Name of the research group: Knowledge Representation - Seminar title: Machine Learning-Assisted Evolutionary Multi- and Many-Objective Optimisation (ML4MOO)
Contact person: Heike Trautmann, Jeroen Rook
Name of the working group: Machine Learning and Optimisation - Seminar title: Recent Advances in Mixed Reality Software and Technology (XRST)
Contact person: Dr. Enes Yigitbas
Name of the research group: SI-Lab (SICP) - Seminar title: Recent Advances in Software Architecture and Maintenance (RASAM)
Contact persons:Mohamed Soliman, Elia Ashraf
Name of the research group: Software resilience - Seminar title: Quantum Information (QI)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi
Name of the working group: Quantum Information - Seminar title: Quantum Networks (QN)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi
Name of the working group: Quantum Information - Seminar title: Advanced Algorithms (AA)
Contact person: Christian Scheideler
Name of the research group: Theory of Distributed Systems - Seminar title: Current Topics in Cryptography (ATK)
Contact persons: Johannes Blömer, Laurens Porzenheim, Henrik Bröcher
Name of the working group: Codes and Cryptography - Seminar title: Advances in Human Factors in Security and Privacy Research (AHFSPR)
Contact person: Yasemin Acar
Name of the research group: Empirical Software Engineering
Winter semester 2024/2025
- Seminar title: Trends in Usable Security and Privacy (TUSP)
Contact persons: Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Yorick Last, Emiram Kablo
Name of the working group: IT Security - Seminar title: Programmable Networks (ProgNet)
Contact person: Lin Wang
Name of the working group: Computer Networks - Seminar title: Secure Software Engineering (SSE)
Contact person: Faiza Tahir, Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh
Name of the working group: Secure Software Engineering - Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact person: Jost Rossel, Juraj Somorovsky
Name of the working group: System Security - Seminar title: Advanced Human Factors in Security and Privacy Research (HFSPR)
Contact person: Yasemin Acar
Name of the working group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Privacy as Luxury (PAL)
Contact person: Anastassija Kostan
Name of the working group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: The Poverty of Privacy (POP)
Contact person: Anastassija Kostan
Name of the working group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Quantum Information (QI)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi
Name of the working group: Quantum Information - Seminar title: Quantum Networks (QN)
Contact person: Zahra Raissi
Name of the working group: Quantum Information - Seminar title: Advanced topics in Description Logics (ATDL)
Contact person: Anni-Yasmin Turhan
Name of the working group: Knowledge representation - Seminar title: Probabilistically checkable proofs (PCP)
Contact person: Sevag Gharibian
Name of the research group: Quantum computing
- Seminar title: In-Network Computing (INC)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Lin Wang
Research group name: Computer Networks - Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact: Juraj Somorovsky, Jost Rossel
Name of the research group: Systemsecurity/System Security - Seminar title: Secure Systems Engineering (SSE)
Contact person: Eric Bodden, Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh
Name of the research group: Secure Software Engineering - Seminar title: Explainable Machine Learning (ExML)
Contact person: Yasir Mahmood, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
Name of the research group: Data Science Research (DICE) - Seminar title: Machine Learning Assisted Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimisation (ML-MOO)
Contact person: Heike Trautmann
Name of the research group: Machine Learning and Optimisation - Seminar title: Data Stream Mining (DSTM)
Contact person: Heike Trautmann
Name of the research group: Machine Learning and Optimisation - Seminar title: Topics in Quantum Computing (TIQC)
Contact person: Carsten Hecht, Georgios Karaiskos
Research group name: Quantum Computing - Seminar title: Foundations of Knowledge Representation (FoKR)
Contact person: Anni-Yasmin Turhan
Name of the research group: Knowledge Representation - Seminar title: Advanced Algorithms (ADA)
Contact person: Christian Scheideler
Name of the research group: Theory of Distributed Systems - Seminar title: Current Topics in Cryptography (CTC)
Contact persons: Henrik Bröcher, Johannes Blömer, Laurens Porzenheim
Name of the research group: Codes and Cryptography - Seminar title: Privacy as Luxury (PAL)
Contact persons: Anastassija Kostan, Yasemin Acar
Name of the working group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: The Poverty of Privacy (POP)
Contact persons: Anastassija Kostan, Yasemin Acar
Name of the working group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Human Factors in Security and Privacy Research (HFSP)
Contact persons: Yasemin Acar, Anna Lena Rotthaler, Harshini Sri Ramulu
Working group name: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Contemporary Large Language Models (SeLLM)
Contact person: Ivan Habernal
Working group name: Natural Language Processing - Seminar title: Legal Natural Language Processing (SemLegNLP)
Contact person: Ivan Habernal
Name of the working group: Natural Language Processing - Seminar title: Energy Consumption and Optimisation of Extended Reality Applications (GreenXR)
Contact person: Enes Yigitbas
Name of the working group: SI-Lab (SICP) - Seminar title: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graphs (RAKG)
Contact person: Mohamed Sherif
Name of the research group: Data Science Research (DICE) - Seminar title: Large Language Models (LLM)
Contact person: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
Name of the research group: Data Science Research (DICE)
Summer Semester 2023
- Seminar title: Milestones of Digital Media (MoDM)
Contact person: Felix Winkelnkemper
Department: Computer Science Education Research - Seminar title: Trends on Usable Authentication (TUSA)
Contact: Patricia Arias Cabarcos, Emiram Kablo
Research group: IT Security - Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact person: Jost Rossel
Research group: System Security - Seminar title: Reinforcement Learning (RL)
Contact person: Sebastian Peitz
Specialist group: Data Science for Engineering - Seminar title: Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (AMBSE)
Contact person: Bernd Stöhr
Research group: Advanced Systems Engineering - Seminar title: Advanced Software Engineering Concepts (ASEC)
Contact person: Gregor Engels
Research group: Database and Information Systems - Seminar title: Advanced Algorithms (AA)
Contact person: Christian Scheideler, Thorsten Götte
Research group: Theory of Distributed Systems - Seminar title: Secure Systems Engineering (SSE)
Contact person: Mugdha Khedkar
Research group: Secure Software Engineering - Seminar title: Quantum Error Correction (QEC)
Contact persons: Carsten Hecht, Georgios Karaiskos, Sevag Gharibian
Research group: Quantum Computation - Seminar title: Inclusive Human Factors in Security and Privacy (USED-Humans)
Contact persons: Yasemin Acar, Harshini Sri Ramulu, Anna Lena Rotthaler, Mindy Tran, Anastassija Kostan
Research group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Human Factors in Secure Software Engineering (USED-DEV)
Contact: Yasemin Acar, Harshini Sri Ramulu, Anna Lena Rotthaler, Mindy Tran, Anastassija Kostan
Research group: Empirical Software Engineering
- Seminar title: Gems of Theoretical Computer Science (Gems)
Contact persons: Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Matthias Fischer
Research group: Algorithms and Complexity - Seminar title: Secure Systems Engineering (SSE)
Contact person: Kadiray Karakaya
Research group: Secure Software Engineering - Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact person: Juraj Somorovsky, Sven Hebrok
Research group: System Security - Seminar title: Advanced Algorithms (AA)
Contact person: Thorsten Götte, Christian Scheideler
Research group: Theory of Distributed Systems - Seminar title: Current Trends in Mixed Reality Software and Technology (XRST)
Contact person: Dr. Enes Yigitbas
Specialisation group: Database and Information Systems - Seminar title: Selected Topics from Distributed Computing (DISC)
Contact: Andreas Padalkin, Daniel Warner, Christian Scheideler
Research group: Theory of Distributed Systems - Seminar title: Advanced Software Engineering Concepts (ASEC)
Contact person: Gregor Engels
Research group: Database and Information Systems
- Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact: Juraj Somorovsky, Sven Hebrok
Working group: System Security - Seminar title: Trends on Usable Security and Privacy (TUSP)
Contact person: Patricia Arias Cabarcos
Specialist group: IT Security - Seminar title: Challenges on Identity and Authentication (CIA)
Contact person: Patricia Arias Cabarcos
Specialist group: IT Security - Seminar title: Learning, Optimisation, and Assurances for Self-Adaptive Systems (LOA)
Contact person: Thomas Vogel
Specialist group: Empirical Software Engineering - Seminar title: Current Trends in Cryptography (CTC)
Contact persons: Johannes Blömer, Laurens Porzenheim, Henrik Bröcher
Research group: Codes and Cryptography - Seminar title: Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (AMBSE)
Contact: Michael Hillebrand, Bernd Stoehr
Specialised group: Advanced Systems Engineering - Seminar title: High-Performance Computing (HPC)
Contact person: Christian Plessl
Research group: High-Performance IT Systems - Seminar title: Local Algorithms (LocalAlgo)
Contact persons: Christian Soltenborn, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide
Research group: Algorithms and Complexity
- Seminar title: Modern approaches to Network Flow problems (in English) (ModNetFlow)
Contact: Sevag Gharibian
Research group: Quantum Computation - Seminar title: Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Contact: Johannes Blömer, Jan Bobolz
Research group: Codes and Cryptography - Seminar title: Advanced Algorithms (ADA)
Contact: Christian Scheideler, Thorsten Götte
Research group: Theory of Distributed Systems - Seminar title: Gems of Theoretical Computer Science (GEMS)
Contact: Christian Soltenborn, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide
Research group: Algorithms and Complexity - Seminar title: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graphs (in English) (RAKG)
Contact: Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Michael Röder
Research group: Data Science - Seminar title: System Security (SysSec)
Contact: Juraj Somorovsky, Sven Hebrok
Research group: System Security - Seminar title: Monte Carlo methods in learning and decision making (MC4LDM)
Contact person: Arun Ramaswamy
Research group: Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning - Seminar title: Advances in Reinforcement Learning (AdvRL)
Contact person: Arun Ramaswamy
Research group: Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning - Seminar title: Machine Learning for security and predictive maintenance (ML4SPM)
Contact person: Arun Ramaswamy
Research group: Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning - Seminar title: Quantum Computing (in English) (QC)
Contact person: Sevag Gharibian
Research group: Codes and Cryptography - Seminar title: Secure Systems Engineering (SSE)
Contact person: Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh
Research group: Secure Software Engineering