Research
Research Groups and Topics for Students
Profiles of the research groups, topic areas for students and additional information on other professors at the institute.
Analysis of Scientific Information Resources
Analysis of Scientific Information Resources
- Data Science
- Natural language processing
- Information retrieval and information visualisation
- Digital libraries and web engineering
- Machine learning
- Blockchain technology
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Computational Cell Analytics
Computational Cell Analytics
- Machine learning and deep learning
- Image processing
- Image analysis for biology and medicine
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Computational Neurosciences
Computational Neurosciences
- Semantic machine image processing (object understanding, action understanding)
- Robotics (motion planning, human-machine interaction)
- Neural networks and learning (both biophysically realistic and abstract modelling)
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Computer Graphics and Ecological Informatics
Computer Graphics and Ecological Informatics
- Simulation models of plants
- Artificial life
- Computer graphics
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Computer Networks
Computer Networks
- Internet Technologies and Applications
- Internet of Things and Smart Cities
- Big Data Analysis, especially in socio-economic contexts
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Computer Security and Privacy
Computer Security and Privacy
- Investigation of threats to privacy
- Development of countermeasures to protect users' privacy
- Empowering users to protect their privacy by providing innovative and practical methods
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Data Fusion
Data Fusion
- Sensor data processing and fusion
- Environment perception for autonomous systems
- State estimation and machine learning
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Databases and Information Systems
Databases and Information Systems
- Semi-structured data
- Semantic Web
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Data Science Infrastructures
Data Science Infrastructures
- Infrastructure for Data Science
- Research data management
- Data analysis pipelines
- Graph databases
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Computer Science Education
Computer Science Education
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Strecker
- Computer Science in Context
- Data Science in Schools
- Computer Science and Ethics
- Physical Computing
- Digital Competencies and School
Prof. Dr. Eckart Modrow
- Computer Science and General Education
- Extensions of Visual Programming Languages
- Machine Learning
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Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities
- Natural Language Processing & Computational Linguistics
- Text Mining for Data from the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Multimodal Analysis
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High-Performance Computing
High-Performance Computing
- High-Performance I/O
- Data-centric Workflows
- Data Center Management
- Use of Machine Learning in Scientific Computing
- Scientific Software Engineering
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Human-Centered Data Science
Human-Centered Data Science
- Natural Language Processing & Computational Linguistics
- Representation Learning (Language Models)
- Modelling Cognitive Data
- Interpretability of Neural Networks
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Machine Learning
Machine Learning
- Machine Learning (Probabilistic Models, Deep Learning, Meta-Learning, Inductive Bias Transfer, Multi-Task Learning)
- Computational Neuroscience (System Identification, Visual Cortex, Close-Loop Experiments, Explainable Models, Visualization)
- Computer Vision (Inductive Biases in Image Classification, Tracking)
- Machine Learning and Medicine (neurodegenerative diseases, medical image analysis, ML in intensive care)
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Neural Data Science
Neural Data Science
- Computational Neuroscience
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
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Optimal Transport
Optimal Transport
- Optimal Transport
- Image Processing and Inverse Problems
- Efficient optimization algorithms
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Practical Computer Science
Practical Computer Science
- Practical Computer Science
- Programming Languages and Software Systems
- Compilers, Runtime Systems and Efficient Program Execution
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Practical Computer Science
Practical Computer Science
- Optimisation in Parallel Computing / High-Performance Computing
- Data Management / Data Analysis
- Cloud Infrastructures
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Software Engineering for Distributed Systems
Software Engineering for Distributed Systems
- Software Quality Engineering and Testing
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Cloud Computing
- Usability Engineering
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Theoretical Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science
- String Solving
- Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures
- Text Search with Applications in Information Retrieval
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More informationProfessors with Secondary Affiliation
Honorary Professors
Emeritus Professors
- Prof. Dr. Carsten Damm
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Waack