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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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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider is joining ATHENE's CRYPTO research area
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider, of the ENCRYPTO department at TU Darmstadt, researches cryptographic protocols for protecting sensitive data. His main areas of focus are Multi-Party Computation, Private Set Intersection sowie Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning und Federated Learning. He has been involved in ATHENE again since the beginning of 2026. In this interview, he discusses his ATHENE research and what he particularly appreciates about his work.
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