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Iryna Gurevych elected to the Academia Europaea
ATHENE Principal Investigator Prof Iryna Gurevych has been elected to the Academia Europaea. This honours her many years of academic excellence and international visibility in the fields of Artificial Intelligence AI and Natural Language Processing. At ATHENE, Iryna Gurevych conducts research in the field of security and privacy in AI and the technical discovery of manipulated media content.
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Successful submission to the S&P
A paper co-authored by ATHENE scientists Dr. Nina Gerber and Dr. Alina Stoever, along with researchers from ETH Zurich, has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P). S&P is the foremost forum in which leading international experts from academia and industry can discuss the latest developments in computer security and electronic data protection.
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Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize for ATHENE researcher
Prof. Mira Mezini, representative of TU Darmstadt on the ATHENE Board, has been awarded the prestigious Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize 2025 for her pioneering contributions to software engineering. The Dahl-Nygaard Prize has been awarded by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) since 2004 and is one of the most important awards in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The award ceremony will take place during the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP), European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP), which will take place from 30 June to 4 July 2025.
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UNIDIR report on submarine cables is published: Co-Authored by ATHENE researcher
Subsea fiber-optic cables form the backbone of global digital infrastructure, carrying over 99% of intercontinental data traffic, yet despite their critical importance, they have received limited attention in national and international policy frameworks. A new report by the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) addresses this gap through a detailed analysis of various approaches to designating and protecting undersea cables as critical infrastructures. The recently published report "Achieving Depth: Submarine Telecommunications Cables as Critical Infrastructure" was written by ATHENE researcher Jonas Franken (PEASEC/TU Darmstadt) in collaboration with Dr. Camino Kavanagh (King's College London) and Wenting He (UNIDIR).
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Accepted papers at Eurocrypt 2025
At this year's Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Eurocrypt for short - an important conference in the field of cryptography - two papers were accepted with the participation of ATHENE researchers.
The first paper presents new methods for improving authenticated encryption schemes. These methods protect both the confidentiality and the authenticity of data. The second paper introduces a new security model. This can process input from multiple sources simultaneously - an important capability that is lacking in the current Key Derivation Functions (KDFs). KDFs are currently considered the standard for secure Internet communications.
ATHENE researchers analyse Apple's Emergency SOS
ATHENE researchers, in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute, have conducted the first comprehensive security analysis of Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite service. Despite the multi-layered encryption architecture, the analysis revealed significant security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to circumvent geographical restrictions and send unauthorised messages.
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