VSR News 2025
Congratulations to our VSR member Maik Benndorf for his successful PhD defense
We are happy to announce that our colleague Maik Benndorf successfully defended his PhD thesis "Towards Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring using Mobile Android Devices" on 15 April 2025.
We congratulate Maik to his achievement and wish him the best for his future career.
Congratulations to our VSR member Mahda Noura for her successful PhD defense
We are happy to announce that our colleague Mahda Noura successfully defended her PhD thesis "Goal-Oriented End User Development of Web of Things Compositions" on 16 January 2025.
We congratulate Mahda to her achievement and wish her the best for her future career.
ACROSS European Cross-border University
We are happy to announce that we will help building the eCampus of ACROSS, the European Cross-border University, an alliance of TUC with 9 other European universities.
TUC as lead, represented by Prof. Martin Gaedke, and UNIUD as co-lead, represented by Prof. Christian Micheloni, will lead Task 2.1. This task focuses on building and integrating the digital infrastructure of ACROSS. The activities are supported by Dr. Daniel Pietschmann and Dr. Stefano Bonomi..
ENFIELD - Human Perception of Trustworthy AI Study
Our team member Dr. Sebastian Heil visited the centre of interdisciplinary cyber security research and education (CybSec) at University of Nottingham and worked on a study about human perception of trustworthy AI. He was invited by Prof. Steven Furnell as part of VSR's research in the European Network of Excellence (NoE) ENFIELD.
WiProFlex - Data Infrastructure Workshop
Our team member Maheshika Hansamalee Walpola conducted a Data Infrastructure Workshop as part of the WiProFlex project. The workshop brought together participants from multiple work packages to discuss key aspects of designing a scalable and efficient data infrastructure.
The discussions covered topics such as data sources, storage systems, and the integration of Knowledge Graphs to contextualize and link diverse datasets. Participants also explored practical tools and workflows for improving data management and sharing across teams.
Through interactive activities, attendees shared insights and identified key requirements, which will guide the development of a collaborative and robust data infrastructure for the project.
Guest Lecture on Quantum Web Services
Prof. Jose Garcia-Alonso from Universidad de Extremadura followed the invitation by our team member Dr. Sebastian Heil to teach as a guest lecturer in our Current Trends in Web Engineering module. Prof. Garcia-Alonso is an expert in the area of Quantum WebServices and shared his ideas and ongoing research on how to make Quantum Computing easier to integrate into modern Web Applications and maintaining important non-functional properties such as platform and location independence, decoupling, reliability, scalability, resilience and composability.