Institutes and Chairs
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Institute of Applied Computer Science
Institute Director: Wollschlaeger, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Martin
Institute of Applied Computer Science
- Chair of Human-Computer Interaction
Weber, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Gerhard· User-centred development of multimodal and haptic user interfaces
· Navigation and new services to improve mobility of people with special needs
· Adaptation and adaptivity in time-dependent media for blind, low vision, deaf and
dyslexic people - Chair of Industrial Communications
Wollschlaeger, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Martin· Real-time communication in industrial applications (wired and wireless)
· Digital Twins for production systems
· Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
· Data Spaces in Smart Manufacturing Systems – information modeling
· Retrofit of industrial applications as enabler for sustainable production
· Software Defined Production - Chair of Networked Systems Modeling
Sommer, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph
· Simulation and modeling of networked machines· Protocol and system design of mobile, cooperative, wirelessly networked systems
· System designs of cooperative autonomous vehicles, drones, and satellites
· Reproducible research - Senior Professorship of Technical Information Systems
Kabitzsch, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Klaus
· Distributed, networked automation systems (EN 17609)· knowledge based design (www.AUTERAS.de)
· component based design (re-use, interoperability)
· digital twins in building automation (ECLASS, ISO 16757)
Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Institute Director: Rudolph, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian
Institute of Artificial Intelligence
- Chair of Computational Logic
Rudolph, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian· Decidability and complexity analysis of logic formalisms
· Semantic Technologies, Logic-based Knowledge Representation
· Ontological Modeling
· Formal Concept Analysis
· Database Theory
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Chair of Computational Systems Science
Kühne, Prof. Dr. sc. Thomas D.· Data-driven machine learning approaches and methods
· AI-based scalable big data analytics
· Massively parallel high-performance computing
· Quantum mechanical descriptions via novel numerical techniques and algorithms
· Multiscale modeling of energy materials -
Chair Professor of Data Science (ScaDS.AI)
Runge, Prof. Dr. Jakob
· Causal inference
· Machine learning / deep learning
· Time series analysis
· Climate research and other application areas -
Chair of Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Calandra, Prof. Dr. Roberto
· Machine learning
· Reinforcement Learning
· Robotic and tactile sense -
Chair of Machine Learning for Computer Vision
Andres, Prof. Dr. Björn
· Machine Learning (Clustering, Graphical Models)
· Computer Vision (Multiple Object Tracking, Deformable Object Recognition,
Image Segmentation, Biomedical Image Analysis)
· Applied Mathematics (Combinatorial Optimization) -
Chair of Machine Learning for Spatial Understanding (ScaDS.AI)
Weigert, Prof. Dr. Martin
· Machine learning for spatial analysis of microscopy images
· Cell segmentation, tracking, and detection
· Representation learning for biological data - Chair of Software Methods for Product Virtualization
Roller, Prof. Dr. Sabine
· Programming and data models for the efficient use of current and future hardware in
High Performance Computing (HPC), HPC competence center of DLR
· Software frameworks for large-scale multiphysics analyses and optimizations based
on high-fidelity simulations and first-principles.
· Software methods and technologies for the description and use of the Virtual Product
(data analytics, surrogate models, integration platform, software security, simulation-
based certification) - Chair of Knowledge-Aware Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI)
Razniewski, Prof. Dr. Simon· Language models
· Knowledge bases
· Information extraction
· Commonsense knowledge
- Chair of Scientific Computing for Systems Biology
Sbalzarini, Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Ivo F.· Computer simulation of living systems
· Particle methods for numerically solving partial differntial equations
· Data-driven modeling and model inference from data
· Machine Learning in biology and medicine
· Bio-image informatics and 3D image data science
· Parallel high-performance computing for numerical simulations
· Systems biology and computational biology
- Young Investigator Group of Logic Programming and Argumentation
Gaggl, Dr. techn. Sarah A.· Logic Programming in particular Answer Set Programming
· Exploration of large solution spaces· Argumentation Theory
Institute of Software- and Multimedia-Technology
Institute Director: Dachselt, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund
Institute of Software- and Multimedia-Technology
- Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization
Gumhold, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Stefan· Scientific Visualization
· Immersive Analytics· Virtual Reality
· Real-time rendering
· 3D Scanning· Geometry Processing
· Explainable Machine Learning
· Pose Estimation - Chair of Media Design
Groh, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rainer· Concept and design of interactive systems
· 3D-Projection principles according to human perception
· Design methods of Human-Computer Interaction
- Chair of Multimedia Technology
Dachselt, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund· Natural, multimodal human-computer interaction
· Interaction in advanced multi-device environments and Mixed Reality settings
· Interactive physical computing and tangible user interfaces
· Collaborative interaction and visualization
· Interactive data visualization beyond the desktop· Mobile data visualization
· Immersive Analytics, Augmented Reality visualization - Chair of Software Technology
Aßmann, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Uwe· Model-driven software development (MDSD)
· Component-based software engineering (CBSE)
· Software product-line engineering (SPLE)
· Ontologie-driven software engineering (ODSD)· Software architecture for self-adaptive systems, cyber-physical systems and
collaborative robots (cobots)· Agent-based modeling with attributed grammars and bigraph-systems
· View-based software engineering (VOSE), also for equational languages (VOSIE)
· Green Software Engineering - Chair of Didactics of Informatics
Damnik, Dr. rer. nat. Gregor· Education and training of (prospective) computer science teachers
· Learning of computer science competences in and out of school
· Educational technologies
- Junior Professorship in the Design of Immersive Media (TT)
McGinity, Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthew· Virtual and augmented reality
· Immersive applications in psychotherapy, museums, education, art and architecture
· Perceptual presence and multisensory perception
· Creative computing
Institute of Systems Architecture
Institute Director: Lehner, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang
Institute of Systems Architecture
- Chair of Operating Systems
Schirmeier, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst· Dependable system software
· Fault injection and fault-tolerance mechanisms
· Efficient OS interfaces
· Abstractions for heterogeneous architectures
- Chair of Databases
Lehner, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang· Design and implementation of scalable, robust, and energy-efficient database
systems to analyze very large databases (Big Data Platforms)· Algorithm and data structure engineering for exploiting modern hardware
infrastructures (e.g. in-memory computing, dis-aggregated and hyper-converged
infrastructures, non-standard computing devices...)· Design of principles for querying and analyzing (semi-) structured, high-volume
document copora (generally web content) - Chair of Privacy and Security
Tschorsch, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Florian· Privacy Enhancing Technologies,
· anonymous and unobservable communication
· data security and privacy in and by distributed systems
· Trustworthiness for the Internet of Things -
Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems
Wählisch, Prof. Dr. Matthias· Design and analysis of communication systems
· Scalable und secure communication networks
· Network architectures, algorithms, protocols
· Internet infrastructure, distributed services and applications
· Internet of Things, sensor networks, cloud, Internet measurements
- Chair of Systems Engineering
Fetzer, Prof. Dr. Christof· Confidential Cloud Computing
· Application Security
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Senior Professorship of Operation Systems
Härtig, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hermann· Microkernel-based Operating Systems
· Systems für High Performance Computing
· Real-Time Systems, Embedded Systems
· Secure System Architectures
· Virtual-Machine Technology
· Interaction of HW/SW Architectures
Institute of Computer Engineering
Institute Director: Nagel, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.Wolfgang E.
Institute of Computer Engineering
- Chair of Compiler Construction
Castrillón, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jerónimo· Programming methods for heterogeneous computing systems
· Domain specific languages and high-level compilers
· Code optimization (performance, energy efficiency, sustainability)
· Optimizations for emerging computing systems - Chair of Adaptive Dynamic Systems
Göhringer, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Diana· Runtime-adaptive and domain-specific computer architectures
· Communication infrastructures (Network-on-Chip)
· Design tools and System simulators / virtual platforms
· Hardware-software-codesign and runtime systems
- Chair of Processor Design
N.N.· Reconfigurable approximate computing systems
· Electronic design automation for future nano-technologies· Designing secure circuits using reconfigurable transistors
· Low-power design for embedded machine learning systems
- Chair of Computer Architecture
Nagel, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang E.· Software tools for the support of programming and optimization
· Programming methods and technologies for high-performance computers
· Grid-computing
· Architecture and performance analysis of high-performance computers
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Chair of Scalable Software Architectures for Data Analytics (ScaDS.AI)
Färber, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael
· Natural language processing
· Machine learning
· Knowledge representation
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Institute Director: Baader, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
- Chair of Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Computer Science
Baier, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christel· Formal Methods, Verification, Model Checking
· Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic Systems
· Temporal Logic and Automata Theory
· Concurrency Theory and Coordination Languages
· Causality and Responsibility in Operational Models
- Chair of Automata Theory
Baader, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz· Logic in Computer Science and in Artificial Intelligence
· Explainable symbolic Artificial Intelligence
· Knowledge Representation (Description Logics, Modal and Temporal Logics)· Automated Reasoning (Term Rewriting, Unification, Constraint Solving)
· Automata Theory and its Application in Logic
- Chair for Foundations of Programming
Professorship representation: Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Pahlke· Theory of Automata
· Formal models for natural languages
- Chair of Knowledge-Based Systems
Krötzsch, Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Markus· Artificial Intelligence, especially symbolic and composite approaches
· Knowledge representation and reasoning
· Intelligent systems
· Knowledge management and knowledge modeling