Since its founding at the end of 2004, MPI-SWS has been fortunate to have been the academic home of many amazing doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. With the ten-year anniversary of the graduation of our first students coming up soon, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some…
Georg Zetzsche has joined the institute as a tenure-track faculty member, effective November 1, 2018. He is joining us from the Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF) at Université Paris-Diderot, where he has been a postdoctoral researcher. Georg's goal is to understand which questions about program behaviors and other…
MPI-SWS faculty member Krishna Gummadi and MPI-SWS alumnus Alan Mislove have been awarded a "Secure the Internet" grant by Facebook. Their proposal, “Towards privacy-protecting aggregate statistics in PII-based targeted advertising,” has been awarded $60,000 to develop techniques for revealing advertising statistics that provide hard guarantees of user privacy, based on a (principles-first)…
MPI-SWS faculty member Jonathan Mace has received an honorable mention for the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award. Launched in 2013, the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award was created by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (ACM SIGOPS) to recognize research in software systems and…
Applications are invited for tenure-track faculty in all areas of computer science. Pending final approval, we expect to fill one position. A doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and an outstanding research record are required. Successful candidates are expected to build a team and pursue a highly…
