Junior Professorship for Tactile Computing

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Verena Klös headed the professorship from February 2023 onwards. Since May 2024 she has been affiliated to University Oldenburg.
https://uol.de/en/computingscience/groups/eingebettete-hardware-/software-systeme/prof-dr-verena-kloes

Intelligent cyber-physical systems such as autonomous vehicles, smart homes or e-health systems are becoming increasingly present in our everyday and working lives. In medical technology, service and nursing robots, surgical assistance robots and intelligent diagnostic systems are gaining more significance, and in industry, intelligent production lines and co-working robots are increasingly being set up. In the future, systems and robots will increasingly take over tasks that were previously performed by specially trained humans and do so in direct interaction with humans. Therefore, it is particularly important to guarantee the safety of people on the one hand and to strengthen their trust in these systems and their willingness to cooperate with them on the other. An important requirement for this is that the people who interact with the systems understand what behaviour they can expect in each situation.

Our research is dedicated to the development of new methods for the design and analysis of safe, intelligent and self-explanatory cyber-physical systems.

The junior professorship is a joint professorship with the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI) and is dedicated to the three research areas:

- Self-adaptive systems

- (Self-)explainability of cyber-physical systems

- formal methods for ensuring the security of software systems