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Success for computer science doctoral student Vanessa Borst: she was selected as one of the IT Women of the Year 2025 in the "Young Leader" category in the field of eHealth.

The amount of data sent and received via the 5G mobile network is constantly increasing. Now, an international team involving the University of Würzburg is working on a globally standardized 6G concept.

In a joint research project, researchers in Würzburg have developed a system capable of repelling and capturing unauthorised drones. The interceptor drones operate entirely autonomously.

The Data Science Chair and the Chair of Computer Philology and Modern German Literary History at CAIDAS, are part of the new large-scale project „Sovereign Open Source Foundational Models for European Intelligence“ (SOOFI)

Whether online, on television, on the radio or in print - researchers at the University of Würzburg are well represented in the media. Here are some current examples from the Institute of Computer Science.

An AI from the University of Würzburg autonomously controlled a satellite in orbit for the first time, demonstrating the potential of intelligent, self-learning space systems.

The paper “Irreconcilable Differences? Investigating Consensus of Post-hoc XAI for ML-NIDS via Decomposition” by Katharina Dietz, Stefan Geissler, and Tobias Hoßfeld from the Chair of Communication Networks at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, together with Johannes Schleicher and Michael Seufert from the University of Augsburg, was honored with the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2025).

Würzburg computer scientist Vanessa Borst received an award at an international conference - for co-developing a dermatological app for the University Hospital of Würzburg.

Computer science student Marawan Khalil from the University of Würzburg received an award for the best presentation at an international conference. He presented a spherical mapping robot.

The paper "Theory Meets Practice: Assessment of Decomposition-Based Approximation in 2D Markov Models for Server Cluster Resilience" by Carina Baur, Frank Loh, and Tobias Hoßfeld from the Chair of Communication Networks received the Best Paper Award at the 15th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling.

On January 27, 2025, new waste stations were installed in the Computer Science building, among other places

On March 3, 2023, IBM and the Chair of Software Engineering of the University of Würzburg celebrated the kick-off of their one-and-a-half-year research project on the topic of energy efficiency.