Congratulations to assistant professors Sophia Yakoubov and Magnus Madsen who have been selected as two of 41 new Sapere Aude Research Leaders by Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond). The Sapere Aude grant is awarded to young, excellent researchers with ambitious goals across all research fields. Both Yakoubov and Madsen are tenue track assistant professors hired by Department of Computer Science under the Aarhus University’s digitalisation initiative, which aims to ensure that Denmark remains at the forefront of IT by making substantial investments in IT research and education.

Congratulations to PhD Student Adam Blatchey Hansen, alumni Morten Eskildsen and their three team members Kristoffer, Alexander and Jens who won the Cyber Demon Hackathon hosted by Danish Defense Intelligence Service, this weekend. 400 teams have competed to beat the cyber demon, but the team ‘Too young to win defcon, too old to win ecsc’ came out on top of the competition.

A collaboration between the research groups "Logic and Semantics" and "Collaboration and Human-Computer Interaction" has resulted in Carla Griggio, Boel Nelson, Aslan Askarov and Susanne Bødker receiving an unrestricted research gift from Meta of $100,000.00 USD for their project "Misinformed Messaging App Choices Based on Privacy Misconceptions".…