Computer scientist and CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The grant, totaling €150,000, enables him to transfer the results of his ERC Advanced Grant project “S3 – Semantics of Software Systems” into practical application. In…
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster, long-standing Scientific Director and current Chief Executive Advisor (CEA) of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), has been honored with the prestigious Rudolf Diesel Medal 2025 in the “Best Innovation Promotion” category. This award is considered the oldest innovation prize in…
Tomohiro Nagashima, Junior Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, has been appointed a Henriette Herz Scout by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This distinction enables him to nominate three promising international researchers. Following a formal review, these candidates will be awarded a research fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation, allowing…
Computer science professor and CISPA researcher Andreas Zeller has now become the first German to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. Zeller receives the award for "significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education." Andreas Zeller's research on software security topics is highly influential internationally. Andreas Zeller's…
Arata Jingu, a PhD student in Professor Jürgen Steimle's Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Saarland University, has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship. These prestigious fellowships are awarded annually to researchers worldwide who are making outstanding and innovative contributions to computer science and related disciplines. Arata Jingu is a researcher in…
