VSR News

Prof. Martin Gaedke was one of the keynote speakers at the 1st International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Infrastructure in Nanjing, China, held together with the 4th China–Austria S&T Innovation Cooperation Exchange on September 19–20, 2026. The symposium was organized by the Sino-Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Nanjing) and Coovally Computing (Barcelona), together with […]

Prof. Martin Gaedke gave a talk on “Rules Are Infrastructure” at the School of Automation of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China on September 18, 2026. In 45 minutes he shared what a year of living and working with AI agents taught him about trust. The talk argued that every rule he had written […]

Our team member Dr. Sheeba Samuel presented the paper “ReproScore: Separating Readiness from Outcome in Research Software Reproducibility Assessment” at the 30th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2026) in Faro, Portugal. We are delighted to share that the paper received the Best Paper Award at the conference. TPDL 2026 took […]

Our team member Sebastian Heil was co-organizing the 2nd International Workshop on Secure, Trustworthy, and Robust AI (STRAI 2026) at the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2026 in Linköping, Sweden. In his keynote talk, he presented VSR’s latest work on AI Bias Management. The Trustworthiness and Security of AI Systems bring various […]

The VSR team made a strong impression at this year’s International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) in Lyon, France. A large delegation consisting of Dr. Sebastian Heil, Christoph Göpfert, Jan Haas, Maheshika Hansamalee Walpola, Lucas Schröder, and Sandra Schaftner traveled to the conference. This significant representation drew a lot of positive attention, ensuring the “Chemnitz […]

Our team was organizing and attending the Final Conference of the ENFIELD – AI Network of Excellence. In this event, the consortium presented the results of 3 years of research and presented a rich program with expert presentations and engaging panel discussions representing four very timely and active fields of research in Applied AI – […]

Our team member Sebastian Heil presented ongoing work on the public perception, trust, and acceptance of artificial intelligence in healthcare at the 2nd Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Workshop in Athens, organized within the ENFIELD – AI Network of Excellence. In the presentation, Ana Solange Leal and Sebastian summarized findings from previous studies and introduced the […]

Our team member Jan Haas presented the poster “From Paper to ELN: Adoption of Digital Workflows in a TRR” during the poster session at the NFDI4Chem 7.0 Consortium Meeting. The event brought together infrastructure experts, researchers, and research data management specialists from the field of chemistry to discuss digital infrastructures, FAIR data practices, and sustainable […]

Our team member Sebastian Heil presented our ongoing work on AI Bias Management at the ENFIELD Trustworthy AI Workshop in Paphos, Cyprus. In his talk, he addressed bias as a risk in AI-infused web systems and introduced an infrastructure to help software architects identify and manage such risks. The approach is based on automatically checking […]

Our team member Sebastian Heil gave a talk at the joint ELIAS ELLIOT and ENFIELD Theme Development Workshop on Trustworthy AI in which he presented ongoing work on the human perception of AI trust. The workshop brought together European AI experts to discuss ongoing research activities in the areas of frugality, fairness and trust.