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Dear students, The VSR group is looking for motivated student assistants to support our teaching. You should have an interest in educational work, and programming skills are strongly desired.To apply, you must have passed at least one of the following courses: DDS/IWE or SSE. If you are interested, please send your CV to vsr-edu@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de by […]

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 […]

The exam review for exams written in the summer semester 2026 will take place in presence on October 19th, 2026 from 13:00 to 16:00. Please note that sample solutions will not be provided during the review. You may choose any time within this time window to attend, but each student may participate only once per […]

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 […]

This year, our team member Verena Traubinger represented VSR at the ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’26) in Bremen. She presented papers for the workshops ADAPTIC – Adapting Dialog and Pragmatic Traits in Context and Workshop on Conversational Interfaces for Agentic Web browsing and took part in a workshop on Emerging Risks of […]

Our team member Sandra Schaftner successfully presented two research papers at the SemTech Workshop during The ACM Web Conference 2026. As one of the world’s premier forums for Web research – regularly attracting over 1,000 international participants – the conference provided an excellent platform to share VSR’s latest findings in LLM-driven knowledge graph construction and […]

Our team was organizing and attending the ENFIELD Summer School on Cybersecurity and AI (AICYBERSEC) in Mitilini, Greece. The comprehensive program comprised brought together attendees from various countries such as Norway, Australia, Germany, Spain and Greece to deepen their knowledge and competencies in Trustworthy AI and the intersection of AI and Information and Cybersecurity. The […]

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 […]