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Professor Iryna Gurevych will be bringing her expertise to the new Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence
Professor Iryna Gurevych, ATHENE Distinguished Professor and Director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Laboratory at TU Darmstadt, has been appointed a Fellow of the newly established Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. Her internationally recognised expertise in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence will strengthen an interdisciplinary research network investigating fundamental scientific questions at the intersection of biomedicine and AI.
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ATHENE project on AI to combat online hate speech: Dr Thea Riebe introduces herself
Hate speech on the internet is on the rise – and AI is set to help identify and combat it more effectively. The CYNTRA project will launch in July 2026 within the ATHENE research area Reliable and Verifiable Information through Secure Media (REVISE). It will be coordinated by Dr. rer nat. Thea Riebe and her colleague Dr. rer. nat. Marc-André Kaufhold, two researchers at TU Darmstadt's group PEASEC – Science and Technology for Peace and Security. In this interview, Thea Riebe introduces herself and her research, and provides insights into the project’s research approach and practical relevance.
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New ATHENE project: Greater security for embedded systems in practice and research
Since the start of the year, ATHENE has been running a new research project entitled ‘Advanced Reverse Engineering Techniques for Embedded and Wireless Systems’ – ARTEWS for short. Until the end of 2029, ATHENE researchers will be working to make the security of embedded systems systematically verifiable – and will be developing complementary tools for this purpose, which will be integrated into a practical toolbox by the end of the project. The target audience comprises small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as academic research groups. The toolbox is designed to help them carry out security analyses in a structured and independent manner.
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Humans and AI in dialogue: Prof. Dr. Florian Müller's research focuses on ensuring safer collaboration in the context of cybersecurity
Although better results should be achieved when humans and AI work together, research shows that this is by no means guaranteed. In the newly launched ATHENE project, "Human-AI Collaboration for Cybersecurity", HAICC for short, Prof. Dr. Florian Müller is investigating why this is the case and how it can be changed.
In this interview, he explains exactly what he is researching in the project and beyond.
ATHENE is expanding its expertise at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence
Prof.Adi Akavia took up an ATHENE professorship in the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, also becoming head of department at the Fraunhofer SIT. This appointment strengthens ATHENE's position as a leading research centre for applied cybersecurity in Germany.
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Marc-André Kaufhold is coordinating ATHENE project on AI against hate speech on the internet
Dr. Marc-André Kaufhold is a researcher in the PEASEC (Science and Technology for Peace and Security) research group. Later this year, he will be launching a new project in the ATHENE research area, "Reliable and Verifiable Information through Secure Media (REVISE)". In this interview, he introduces himself and discusses his work on the ATHENE project, "Towards an Effective Multi-Label Classification and Model Auditing Ecosystem for Combatting Textual Online Hate Speech - CYNTRA".
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