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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.

From February 17 to 19, 2026, the VSR Professorship welcomed around 40 international AI experts for the General Assembly of the European research project ENFIELD. As part of this prestigious network – one of only nine AI Networks of Excellence funded by the European Commission – the VSR team played a central role in coordinating […]

At this year’s SaxFDM Tagung, our team members Jan Haas and Christoph Göpfert held a workshop titled “Natürlichsprachliche Abfrage forschungsdatenorientierter institutioneller Wissensgraphen mittels großer Sprachmodelle” in context of the HYP*MOL project. In the workshop, they showcased how large language models can translate natural-language queries into SPARQL requests, enabling an intuitive exploration of complex knowledge graphs. […]

We are very happy to welcome Bai Li to the VSR group as a researcher contributing to the Across project. We look forward to the valuable contributions he will make and will fully support his research as he embarks on this new chapter./p>

Our team member Verena Traubinger presented our work on user preferences regarding different variations of chatbot interface patterns at the 9th International Symposium on Chatbots and Human-centred AI. She is also part of the program committee for this year’s symposium. CONVERSATIONS is a yearly symposium where researchers from the fields of chatbots and human-centred AI […]

Our team members Lucas Schröder and Christoph Göpfert represented the data competence center Come2Data at this year’s Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs at TU Chemnitz. Their participation helped raise awareness of data literacy in general and promoted Come2Data’s training and support services in the areas of data integration, data management, data analysis and data publication.

[EXPIRED] We are looking for motivated student assistants with strong programming skills in front-end and back-end related technologies. If you are interested, send us your CV at vsr-edu.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

Last week, our team member Sebastian Heil attended the ENFIELD Workshop on Human-centric AI and the ENFIELD General Assembly in Bucharest. In his talk, he presented joint research with Prof. Steven Furnell and Dr. Xavier Carpent from the University of Nottingham on the human perception of trust in AI. The presentation shared early findings from […]

This year’s MuC Conference was a very special event for the VSR team and the other professorships involved from our university, as it was held right here at TU Chemnitz. When we say “special,” we mean both a wonderful and an incredibly demanding experience. While regular attendees enjoyed a 3.5-day conference, our dedicated volunteers worked […]

Our team member Maheshika Hansamalee Walpola participated in the 2nd Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI 2025) at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen. Organized by the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), CoRDI is Germany’s flagship forum for research data infrastructures. Under the theme “RDM in Action”, the event brought together many participants from NFDI consortia, […]