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Awards

Members from our research field are regularly recognized for their research. Here you will find a selection of the awards and honors.

2025

Award Award Winner Awarded by Project name / Topic
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 Award Winner Awarded by Project name / Topic
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 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 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 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