Congratulations to Kelsey Melissaris, who joins the Crypto and Security group as a postdoc from October 1 with Claudio Orlandi as her supervisor.…

Congratulations to the entire team and their hard-working coaches Jens Myrup Pedersen, Michael Dyrmose and Adam Blatchley Hansen for demonstrating great team work, keeping a cool head, and some amazing skills! Assistant coach Adam Blatchley Hansen, PhD student in the Crypto and Security group, says "Going into the event with a summer of hard training behind us, we knew the team was strong, and we were optimistic about our chances. The teams performance on day one made it clear that we had a real shot of being in top three! Repeating their success on day two is just amazing, and I am so proud of what they have achieved."

Also a big thank you to Mathias Hall-Andersen, Lennart Braun, Claudio Orlandi and Diego Aranha, from the Crypto and Security group, who have designed the crypto challenges used in the regional and national qualifiers to select the final ten, who make up the Danish national cyber team.

The Villum Synergy grant aims to strengthen interdisciplinary research in Denmark by supporting new collaborations that combine expertise within computer science with other research areas. Congratulations to professor Ira Assent and associate professor Panagiotis Karras, who both have been awarded a Synergy grant. Karras will be working to make manufacturing greener and smarter by estimating the lifetime of tools and continuously tuning parameters to extend it. Assent aims to improve the value of data collected in Greenland - over the past 25 years - by improving data processing and analysis to better quantify the rate of climate changes and impacts on ecosystems.

Congratulations to Professor Gerth Stølting Brodal, who was awarded the Teaching Prize at Aarhus University's annual celebration on September 9. The teaching prize recognises outstanding and ground-breaking teaching at Aarhus University. Gerth does research in algorithms and data structures and is the person who has been named ‘teacher of the year’ most times by the students at the Department of Computer Science (2012, 2017 and 2019). In addition, he has won the student association TÅGEKAMMERET's event "World's most Boringest Lecture" three times. Congratulations on the well-deserved appointment!

Stort tillykke til kandidatstuderende Sebastian Loeschcke, som er et af 5 stærke talenter fra Aarhus Universitet, der modtager Dronning Margrethe II’s rejselegat på 25.000 kr. Legatet giver de studerende mulighed for at rejse ud i verden og få nye indsigter til deres studie. Legaterne overrækkes i forbindelse med universitetets årsfest i Aulaen fredag d. 9. september.

A new paper by associate professor Panagiotis Karras, and co-authors from University of Liverpool and National Technical University of Athens and PhD…

Congratulations to postdoc Boel Nelson, from the Logic and Semantics research group, who has been awarded the highly prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. This, generous two-year funding, is an investment in Nelson’s research aimed at designing solutions to protect metadata in online communication, with a focus on solutions suitable for instant messaging. Nelson will return to the department to start her Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship in August 2023.

Congratulations to assistant professor Chris Schwiegelshohn and PhD student Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar for winning a Best Paper Award at ALGO 2022 for An Empirical Evaluation of k-Means Coresets.

Coresets are among the cornerstones in Big Data algorithms. As usual, there is a gap between our theoretical understanding of coresets and their practical performance. But worse still, there is even a gap between practise and practise: we hardly know which algorithms do better empirically. The reason is that comparing and measuring the performance of these algorithms beyond the worst case has been a notoriously difficult task. In their work, Chris and Omar managed to do so, conducting the first systematic evaluation of k-means coresets and raising a number of new questions along the way.

Adam Blatchley Hansen læser en PhD i kryptografi og er assisterende landstræner for det danske cyberlandshold. I sin rolle som landsholdstræner trækker Adam på sin uddannelse i datalogi og sine mange erfaringer som deltager og organisator i både nationale og internationale cyber security konkurrencer.

Congratulations to Kelsey Melissaris, who joins the Crypto and Security group as a postdoc from October 1 with Claudio Orlandi as her supervisor.…

Congratulations to the entire team and their hard-working coaches Jens Myrup Pedersen, Michael Dyrmose and Adam Blatchley Hansen for demonstrating great team work, keeping a cool head, and some amazing skills! Assistant coach Adam Blatchley Hansen, PhD student in the Crypto and Security group, says "Going into the event with a summer of hard training behind us, we knew the team was strong, and we were optimistic about our chances. The teams performance on day one made it clear that we had a real shot of being in top three! Repeating their success on day two is just amazing, and I am so proud of what they have achieved."

Also a big thank you to Mathias Hall-Andersen, Lennart Braun, Claudio Orlandi and Diego Aranha, from the Crypto and Security group, who have designed the crypto challenges used in the regional and national qualifiers to select the final ten, who make up the Danish national cyber team.

The Villum Synergy grant aims to strengthen interdisciplinary research in Denmark by supporting new collaborations that combine expertise within computer science with other research areas. Congratulations to professor Ira Assent and associate professor Panagiotis Karras, who both have been awarded a Synergy grant. Karras will be working to make manufacturing greener and smarter by estimating the lifetime of tools and continuously tuning parameters to extend it. Assent aims to improve the value of data collected in Greenland - over the past 25 years - by improving data processing and analysis to better quantify the rate of climate changes and impacts on ecosystems.

Congratulations to Professor Gerth Stølting Brodal, who was awarded the Teaching Prize at Aarhus University's annual celebration on September 9. The teaching prize recognises outstanding and ground-breaking teaching at Aarhus University. Gerth does research in algorithms and data structures and is the person who has been named ‘teacher of the year’ most times by the students at the Department of Computer Science (2012, 2017 and 2019). In addition, he has won the student association TÅGEKAMMERET's event "World's most Boringest Lecture" three times. Congratulations on the well-deserved appointment!

Stort tillykke til kandidatstuderende Sebastian Loeschcke, som er et af 5 stærke talenter fra Aarhus Universitet, der modtager Dronning Margrethe II’s rejselegat på 25.000 kr. Legatet giver de studerende mulighed for at rejse ud i verden og få nye indsigter til deres studie. Legaterne overrækkes i forbindelse med universitetets årsfest i Aulaen fredag d. 9. september.

A new paper by associate professor Panagiotis Karras, and co-authors from University of Liverpool and National Technical University of Athens and PhD…

Congratulations to postdoc Boel Nelson, from the Logic and Semantics research group, who has been awarded the highly prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. This, generous two-year funding, is an investment in Nelson’s research aimed at designing solutions to protect metadata in online communication, with a focus on solutions suitable for instant messaging. Nelson will return to the department to start her Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship in August 2023.

Congratulations to assistant professor Chris Schwiegelshohn and PhD student Omar Ali Sheikh-Omar for winning a Best Paper Award at ALGO 2022 for An Empirical Evaluation of k-Means Coresets.

Coresets are among the cornerstones in Big Data algorithms. As usual, there is a gap between our theoretical understanding of coresets and their practical performance. But worse still, there is even a gap between practise and practise: we hardly know which algorithms do better empirically. The reason is that comparing and measuring the performance of these algorithms beyond the worst case has been a notoriously difficult task. In their work, Chris and Omar managed to do so, conducting the first systematic evaluation of k-means coresets and raising a number of new questions along the way.

Adam Blatchley Hansen læser en PhD i kryptografi og er assisterende landstræner for det danske cyberlandshold. I sin rolle som landsholdstræner trækker Adam på sin uddannelse i datalogi og sine mange erfaringer som deltager og organisator i både nationale og internationale cyber security konkurrencer.