2020.10.21 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Congratulations to Ivan Damgård and Carsten Baum who, in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Tsinghua University, Northeastern University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, will be working on DNA Synthesis Screening Methods.
2020.10.14 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
In the InfinIT project, researchers from Aarhus University and the IT University of Copenhagen have in collaboration with the Alexandra Institute worked on combining secure multiparty computing with blockchain to make, for example, digital auctions and money transfers more secure.The solution can help fight fraud for USD 5 billion annually in the…
2020.10.13 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Ada Lovelace Day is the international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Ada Lovelace was one of the first to write an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine. She is therefor, by some, seen as the first computer programmer. Also, her vision of what the machine (called the…
2020.10.12 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Last week, Bjarne Stroustrup visited the department and gave an exciting talk about the aims and status of C++. Did you miss it? Or want to review some of his points? View our recording of the talk.
2020.10.09 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
The new COronaVIDen app is a research app that collects activity data from smartphones, smartwatches and fitnessbands. Researchers from Department of Computer Science participate in the research project that analyse the collected activity and questionnaire data from citizens.
2020.09.29 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
In the 10/2020 edition of the magazine Communications of the ACM, associate professor Kasper Green Larsens’ paper Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding is featured as a research highlight.
2020.09.28 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Congratulations to Assistant professors Carsten Baum and Peter Scholl, who have received DKK 4.5 million for their part of the project “Fromager”, in which they will collaborate with researchers from Galois, Qed.IT, Columbia University, and KU Leuven. The aim of the project is to develop highly efficient zero-knowledge proofs for realistic…
2020.09.25 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
On October 7, alumnus and honorary professor Bjarne Stroustrup will visit the department to give a talk about the aims and status of modern C++.
2020.09.23 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Chris Schwiegelshohn did his PhD in Germany and subsequently went to the University of Sapienza in Rome; first as a postdoc and later as a faculty member. He recently joined Aarhus as a tenure track assistant professor in the Algorithms and Data Structure group. Chris' research interests mainly cover algorithms and machine learning. He is…
2020.09.17 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Cigdem Aslay started as an Assistant Professor in the Data Intensive Systems group on September 1, 2020. She received her PhD from the University of Pompeu Fabra in December 2016 under the supervision of Francesco Bonchi and Ricardo Baeza Yates. During her PhD, she was hosted by Yahoo Research Barcelona Lab as a PhD student in the Web Mining…
2020.09.17 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Ioannis Caragiannis joined the department as a professor in August 2020. Before coming to Aarhus, he was a faculty member at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Patras (since 2006). His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms (in particular, approximation and online algorithms),…
2020.09.08 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Over the summer, 13 new PhD students have joined the department. Yesterday, head of the PhD programme Anders Møller invited them all to a welcome meeting. Welcome, we look forward to working with all of you, and learning more about your exciting research!
2020.09.07 | CPV
On Sept. 1, Sergei joined CVP as a PhD student. Sergei finished his bachelor degree at the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. During his final year, Sergei worked as a Haskell programmer. For his thesis, Sergei worked on the formalization of term-rewriting systems in Arend.
2020.09.02 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Congratulations to Professor Jaco van der Pol for winning the FORMATS2020 best paper award at QONFEST2020, for the paper “Certifying Emptiness of Timed Büchi Automata", which is co-written with Simon Wimmer and Frédéric Herbreteau!
2020.08.25 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Former Operations Manager at CS and Alumni Peder Chr. Nørgaard has passed away on August 18th, 2020 in the age of 65.
2020.08.24 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Can discrimination in algorithms be eliminated? PhD student Simon Enni took part in the discussion in Deadline on 22 August. The topic was raised in the wake of major protests against an algorithm that was used to provide characters in England but proved to discriminate against students from vulnerable groups. Click on the link to see the full…
2020.08.21 | COBRA
On August 1st, 2020, Nicolaj Sidorenco joined COBRA at Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University. Nicolaj Sidorenco will be working on basic research in high assurance cryptography including high assurance cryptographic protocols and implementations.
2020.08.21 | COBRA
Welcome to Philipp G. Haselwarter who joined the Department of Computer Science in June 2020 as a Postdoc. Philipp G. Haselwarter has PhD degree from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) . His research is about the interplay of type theory, proof assistants, and programming languages, and more recently about proofs in…
2020.08.13 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Professor Susanne Bødker is one of 24 new council members at Independent Research Fund Denmark. Susanne is part of the academic council for Technology and Production. She joins Lars Birkedal who already is a member of the council for Nature & Universe. Congratulations!
2020.08.11 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
With the corona pandemic, many customers demand touch-free check-in at hotels. This has increased the interest in Aeroguest’s (started by CS alumni Martin Sponholtz) touch-free services for hotels. Read more about Aeroguest’s growth-adventure [article in Danish]
