News about Persons and Awards

Award for Paul-Andrei Dragan

People and Awards

Innovative Software Systems

The young researcher from Prof. Pohl's research group was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at ACSOS for his paper "Towards the decentralised coordination of multiple self-adaptive systems".

Great Success: Lucas Davi receives ERC Starting Grant

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Information and System Security

For his research in the field of software security, Dr. Lucas Davi, assistant professor at paluno, the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, has been awarded one of the most endowed prizes for young scientists: an ERC Starting Grant. This provides the computer scientist with 1.5 million euros to develop a solution that holistically protects smart contracts from hacker attacks.

New at paluno: Amr Rizk researches on the Network of the Future

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Digital Key Technologies

He wants to make digital infrastructures fit for the future: Prof. Dr. Amr Rizk investigates how networks for data exchange and communication can respond quickly to sudden changing demands while remaining efficient and secure. The new professor at the software technology institute paluno at the University of Duisburg-Essen will focus on industrial automation and streaming for immersive technologies.

German IT Security Award: Great Success for paluno Researchers

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Information and System Security

Every two years, the Horst Görtz Foundation awards a total of 200,000 euros to the best future-relevant innovations in IT security. Tobias Cloosters, Michael Rodler, and Prof. Lucas Davi won the 3rd place (40,000 euros) for their innovative tool TeeRex. It facilitates the vulnerability analysis of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). The German IT Security Award is the most prestigious and highest endowed award of its kind in Germany.

Visualization of Intelligent Train Scheduling

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Development Methods and Tools

Shivam Agarwal developed a visualization tool to analyze train schedules in the Flatland competition, organized as part of the NeurIPS 2020 conference, held virtually in December. The developed visualization received the first prize in the community category for tools to support the participants of the competition.

Best Paper Award at ICSOC

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Development Methods and Tools

Researchers from the SSE group (Prof. Pohl), together with research partners from the University of Lille and the Politecnico di Milano, have presented an approach to make knowledge about software evolution accessible to machine learning.

Best Paper Award for Research Work on Data Visualization

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Shivam Agarwal and his research partners propose a novel and general approach to visualize dynamically changing categories of data elements. Their work won the Best Paper Award at the Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2020 conference.

Cancelled: Colloquium for Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl

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Unfortunately, we have to cancel the festive colloquium in honour of Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl on March 19, 2020 because of the uncertain situation due to the spreading Corona virus. We did not take the decision lightly but we hope that you can appreciate the situation and apologize for any inconvenience.