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Strengthening data science: 40 researchers publish position paper
Research involving large amounts of data is becoming increasingly relevant in more and more scientific disciplines. In a position paper, 40 researchers from Germany and Austria—including Justus Piater from the University of Innsbruck—are therefore calling for greater political and scientific commitment to digital and data science.
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Events
02.12.2025 Defensio: Jonathan Micha Schmoll, BSc
Jonathan Micha Schmoll will present his thesis "Automated Analysis of Sustainability Reports: Using Large Language Models for the Extraction and Prediction of EU Taxonomy-Compliant KPIs" in room SR2/ICT starting at 15:30. Interested colleagues are welcome!
04.12.2025 Defensio: Joey Hiernonimy, BSc
Joey Hiernonimy will present his thesis "OmniGSSLAM: Omnidirectional Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Comprehensive Scene Understanding" in room SR 12 starting at 16:00. Interested colleagues are welcome!
11.12.2025 Defensio: Moritz Sebastian Eduard W. Broft, BSc
Moritz Sebastian Eduard W. Broft will present his thesis "Design, development and evaluation of a low computational power bioinformatics workflow automation and visualization framework" in room SR 13 starting at 10:15. Interested colleagues are welcome!
The "Advancing Software Resilience in the Age of LLM - Testing, Quality Assurance, and Metrics for Robust Engineering Minitrack" which is co-organized by Philipp Zech is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of research and practice in software testing, QA, and metrics, particularly in the context of resilience engineering.
25.02.2026 The 4th Day of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (MIP day) will take place on our campus in February 2026. Pupils have the opportunity to find out more about studying maths, computer science and/or physics.
25.03.2026 Radu Prodan, head of AIM AT Endowed professorship for Edge AI, will give the keynote at the 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing which will take place in Romania.
09.04.2026 –10.04.2026 RoboCupJunior is an internationally organized educational initiative. The aim is to introduce young people to robots in a playful way, to awaken their interest in science and technology, and to enable exciting knowledge acquisition in the classroom.








