2025
| Award/Recognition | Award Winner | Awarded by | Project name / Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERC Starting Grant | Prof. Grace Li Zhang | European Research Council (ERC) | LogiNet – Logic-Driven Efficient Computing and Analysis of Deep Neural Networks on Hardware |
| President | Prof. Andrea Rapp | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz | - |
| ATHENE Distinguished Professorship | Prof. Iryna Gurevych | Nationales Forschungszentrum für angewandte Cybersicherheit ATHENE | - |
| Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis | Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki | Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung | - |
| LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur | Prof. Heinz Koeppl | Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE | - |
| Elected Member | Prof. Mira Mezini | German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina | - |
| ACM Fellow | Prof. Mira Mezini | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | For her major contributions to Computer Science. |
2024
| Award/Recognition | Award Winner | Awarded by | Project name / Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERC Starting Grant | Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki | European Research Council (ERC) | SIREN – Structured Interactive Perception and Learning for Holistic Robotic Embodied Intelligence |
| ERC Starting Grant | Prof. Justus Thies | European Research Council (ERC) | LeMo – Learning Digital Humans in Motion |
| ERC Proof of Concept Grant | Prof. Leopold Molina-Luna | European Research Council (ERC) | BED-TEM – Bayesian Experimental Design for in situ (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| Milner Award | Prof. Iryna Gurevych | The Royal Society | For her major contributions to NLP and AI that combine deep understanding of human language and cognitive faculty with the latest paradigms in machine learning. |
| LOEWE Top Professorship | Prof. Carsten Binnig | Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE | - |
| Election to the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment | Prof. Carsten Binnig | VLDB Endowment | Particular commitment to the Foundation's objectives through their previous work. |
| Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2024 | Prof. Justus Thies | European Association for Computer Graphics | Honoured in particular for his contributions to computer graphics in the field of markerless motion capture and synthesis. |
| AAIA Fellow | Prof. Kristian Kersting | Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) | Recognition as a top scientist with outstanding achievements in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. |
| Member of Leopoldina | Prof. Iryna Gurevych | Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Leopoldina) | - |
| AAAI Fellow | Prof. Kristian Kersting | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) | For significant contributions to the foundations and applications of statistical relational AI and neurosymbolic learning. |
2023
| Award/Recognition | Award Winner | Awarded by | Project name / Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Fellow | Prof. Max Mühlhäuser | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) | Recognition for his contributions to Distributed Software Engineering |
| ERC Consolidator Grant | Prof. Thomas Schneider | European Research Council (ERC) | PRIVTOOLS – Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy |
| Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) | Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi | acatech | - |
| Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) | Prof. Abdelhak M. Zoubir | acatech | - |
| Amazon University Collaboration Award | Prof. Iryna Gurevych | Amazon | Machine Learning |
| Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz | Prof. Kristian Kersting | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz | - |
| EURASIP Fellow | Prof. Abdelhak M. Zoubir | European Association For Signal Processing | - |
| LOEWE Top Professorship | Prof. Mira Mezini | Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE | - |
| ERC Consolidator Grant | Prof. Eva Kaßens-Noor | European Research Council (ERC) | scAInce – Urban scAInce: why and how cities transform through artificial intelligence and their associated technologies |
| ERC Consolidator Grant | Prof. Leopoldo Molina-Luna | European Research Council (ERC) | |
| ERC Consolidator Grant | Prof. Thomas Wallis | European Research Council (ERC) | SEGMENT – 3D scene understanding in two glances |
2022
| Award/Recognition | Award Winner | Awarded by | Project name / Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERC Consolidator Grant | Prof. Sebastian Faust | European Research Council (ERC) | CRYPTOLAYER – Cryptography for Second Layer Blockchain Protocols |
| ERC Advanced Grant | Prof. Iryna Gurevych | European Research Council (ERC) | InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in Cross-Document Context |
| ERC Advanced Grant | Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi | European Research Council (ERC) | HYDRANOS – Hardware-assisted Adaptive Cross-Layer Security for Computing Systems |
| ERC Consolidator Grant | Prof. Constantin A. Rothkopf | European Research Council (ERC) | ACTOR – Towards a computational account of natural sequential behavior |
| EIC Transition Grant | Prof. Jan Peters | European Innovation Council (EIC) | Visual Robot Programming |
| Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) | Prof. Iryna Gurevych | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) | Association of outstanding scientists |
2021
| Award/Recognition | Award Winner | Awarded by | Project name / Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd place at the 8th German IT Security Awards | Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider, Daniel Kales, Prof. Christian Rechberger, Matthias Senker and Christian Weinert | Horst Görtz Foundation | Project “ContactGuard”: Mobile privacy-preserving contact discovery |
| ERC Proof of Concept Grant | Prof. Jan Peters | European Research Council (ERC) | Project „AssemblySkills“ |
| LOEWE Top Professorship | Prof. Iryna Gurevych | Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE | - |
| ACM Distinguished Member | Prof. Max Mühlhäuser | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing |
