Saarland Informatics Campus

As the AI Action Summit unfolds in Paris, our expert Antonio Krüger, CEO Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) und Professor der Universität des Saarlandes shares his insights on the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe on ARD’s Tagesthemen:

⭐️Derek Dreyer, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Professor at Saarland University has been named an ACM Fellow — one of the highest honors in computer science. With the Fellow status, the Association for Computing Machinery recognizes the top 1% of #ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Derek received this honor for his contributions to the logical and semantic foundations of programming languages. In addition to this honor, Derek received the Most Influential #POPL Paper Award at the 2025 Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages for his groundbreaking 2015 paper on Iris, a framework that has become a key tool in program verification within the programming languages community. These achievements highlight not only Derek’s impact but also the research environment at Saarland Informatics Campus—where close collaboration between Saarland University, MPI-SWS, and our other partner-institutes creates a dynamic ecosystem for pioneering discoveries in computer science research. 👏 More: https://lnkd.in/e79NDYN4 #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #MPI #SaarlandUniversity #ACMFellow #POPL #ComputerScience #ProgrammingLanguages #ResearchExcellence

🚀 Today we celebrate the success of "Team UDS" from SIC, who won Challenge 1 at the Mittelstand Hackathon in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, an event designed to connect young talent with real-world challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The challenge: Develop a website/application for Klebl, a company specializing in construction solutions, to extract important data from 2D construction drawings. The result: A website called “Klebl AI”, that significantly reduce the time required for employees to extract such data—from 10 minutes to less than 1 minute. Our “Team UDS” got 5/5 in all technical points. The team members, all in their first semester of studies, are: Usman Khan (B.Sc. Computer Science) Usman Khan Jevalagaan Tamil Alagan (B.Sc. Data Science and AI) Jevalaggaan Tamil Alagan Mohammed Esam Saleh Halboup (B.Sc. Computer Science) Mohammed Halboup We are very happy that our students bring so much motivation and skill to their studies at Saarland University. With a strong focus on practical learning and early opportunities to apply knowledge, SIC provides an environment where students can explore and grow from the very start of their academic journey. 👉 Learn more about the hackathon: Mittelstand Hackathon - https://lnkd.in/eAebjK9N 👉 Powered by: Dreamdriven 👉 More about the sponsors: Rödl energie & KLEBL GmbH Interested in studying with us? Find out more about the opportunities at: https://lnkd.in/eauxu7JK Universität des Saarlandes #Hackathon

We are pleased to share that Universität des Saarlandes Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security has been inducted into the Academia Europaea! This honor highlights Prof. Zeller’s influential research in software testing and analysis. 🌍📚 The Academia Europaea, based in London, is a Pan-European academy that unites over 5,500 members across 23 scientific disciplines. Membership is by invitation only and recognizes exceptional academic contributions with global impact. The Academia Europaea currently counts 374 computer scientists among its members, 46 of whom are from Germany and 🌟13 from Saarland University🌟. More: https://bit.ly/3OAFUev Foto: CISPA/Ebelshäuser

🎉 December is here, and so is our festive Campuslibrary Advent Calendar! Every day, we’ll reveal a new book you wished for—ready to join our collection. 📚 Swipe through to see the first book added to our shelves! 🎁 We’ll be sharing daily updates in our Story—so follow along and discover which books have made it into the collection. The first book is now available in the library—stay tuned for 23 more surprises to come!" Let’s celebrate the season of knowledge together! IG: https://lnkd.in/ejirHk_n Universität des Saarlandes Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) Max Planck Institute for Informatics @cbi-unisaarland Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)

📢 Heutiger Medienspiegel: 📣 Presse: Tagesschau: Erneut MINT-freundliche und digitale Schulen im Saarland ausgezeichnet: https://lnkd.in/di59f7ru 🔎 Schulwebseite: Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium: Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium erneut als „Digitale Schule“ und „MINT-freundliche Schule“ geehrt: https://lnkd.in/dWyvKg7B

This December, we’re introducing a very special Advent Calendar at the ‘Campus-Bibliothek für Informatik und Mathematik’! 📚 Each day, a new computer science or math book will join our collection—based on your suggestions. For those unfamiliar, an Advent Calendar is a holiday tradition where each day in December reveals a little surprise, leading up to Christmas. This year, we’re filling ours with knowledge! 🎁 📩 Send us your book suggestions now—until November 30! Your favourite book could be the star of the day! 📩 library@infomath-bib.de📩 Universität des Saarlandes Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Max Planck Institute for Informatics Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) Center for Bioinformatics - Saarland University

We’re proud to celebrate Arata Jingu, a PhD student at HCI Lab, Saarland University , for receiving a prestigious Google PhD Fellowship. 🌍 Only around 70 doctoral students worldwide were selected this year—three of them from Germany—and Arata stands out in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization. “I want to develop devices that enable expressive haptic experiences while restricting the user’s freedom of movement as little as possible,” Arata explains. His work focuses on ultra-thin membranes that directly stimulate sensory nerves, opening new possibilities for combining real objects with artificial touch sensations. 👉 Learn more about his innovative research: https://bit.ly/3AzlsaE #SaarlandUniversity #HumanComputerInteraction #MixedReality #GooglePhDFellowship #SaarlandInformaticsCampus

🚀 Hiring for a PhD position! 🚀 We at Saarland Informatics Campus are looking for a new PhD student (3 years) to join the lab to conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the Learning Sciences and Human-Computer Interaction. Please see the job ad here: https://lnkd.in/e4AbPTPi You can pursue independent, original research within the lab, working with community members, and also through close collaborations with other research labs in Europe and in the US. **Deadline December 13th, 2024** Our lab conducts several different types of research on supporting students' metacognitive/self-regulated learning using AI-based adaptive systems, facilitating students' domain-level cognitive learning and engagement, and participatory design research on AI-based learning technology in school classrooms. See more about our work and current members here: https://tomonag.org/ If you have background in CS, Learning Sciences, HCI, Educational Psychology, Cognitive Science, Design, and are interested in doing a PhD on human-centered learning science research, please apply! Feel free to get in touch with me for any questions about the job and the lab.

The SIC celebrates another prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant 🏆, awarded to Universität des Saarlandes’s Prof. Joel Ouaknine, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS); Prof. Florian Luca (MPI-SWS, Stellenbosch University); and Prof. @Valérie Berthé (IRIF, CNRS). The €7.5 million ERC Synergy Grant 💶 supports their ambitious project, 'Dynamical and Arithmetical Model Checking (DynAMiCs)', which explores important approaches to understanding discrete dynamical systems and tackles longstanding mathematical challenges like the #Skolem Problem. This interdisciplinary team is set to redefine how we predict and verify complex system behaviors across fields—from #AI 🤖 to theoretical #biology 🧬.   ERC #Synergy Grants are among the most prestigious awards worldwide—only 57 out of 548 proposals were funded in this round, highlighting the project’s global significance 🌍. This is the second ERC Synergy Grant awarded at SIC, bringing the total number of ERC awards at the campus to 42. Read more: https://sic.link/q