Year: 2025

Pierre-Louis Sixdenier, Mark Deutel, and ESI spokesperson Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Teich received the Best Paper Award at this year's 18th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-Core Systems-On-Chip (MCSOC 2025). The award was given for their paper “Early-Exit Neural Architecture Sear...

The aim of the newly established DFG research group FOR 5880 “Holistic Energy and Performance Modeling for Sustainable Computing (Mod4Comp)” of the German Research Foundation is to take a holistic view of the energy and performance aspects of the interaction between hardware and software. The resea...

Marius Schmidt, doctoral candidate at the Chair of High Frequency Technology headed by ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek, took third place in the “Best Student Paper” category at the IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) in Singapore. In his paper entitled “Coherent Optical Sensor for Contactless ...

Sven Gebhard received the 1st Prize in the CAST IT Security Competition for his bachelor’s thesis, “Covert Exfiltration of Cryptographic Keys from Android Devices”, supervised by Christian Lindenmeier, Jonas Röckl, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felix Freiling. In his thesis, he demonstrated how covert communic...

The Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), which is the premier conference in the field of real-time systems, took place in Boston, MA, from December 2 to 5. The Embedded Systems Software Group has contributed to this venue with two publications: First, the collaborative work between TU Dortmund and F...

With their event focusing on Domestic and Civil Security, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and forum organizer Prof. Norman Franchi, Chair of Smart Electronics and Systems (LITES), sent a strong message about the critical importance of interdisciplinary research in an inc...

Whether in the automotive and aviation industries or in telecommunications and information technology, many successful sectors in Germany are facing the challenge that conventional assembly and connection technology for high-frequency assemblies has already reached its technological limits. Therefo...

On Wednesday, November 5, 2025, the HENSOLDT Professor’s Day took place, during which this year’s ARGUS Awards for outstanding bachelor’s and master’s theses were presented. The LITES department was proudly represented at this event with a total of five impressive projects. Students Katharina Fi...

At the 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025), Jonas Röckl, Julian Funk, Matti Schulze, and Tilo Müller, researchers at the Chair of Computer Science 1 (IT Security Infrastructure) of ESI-Member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felix Freiling, received the Distinguis...

Dr.-Ing. Lars Ullrich, researcher at the Chair of Automated Control, attended the 2025 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Region 8 Chapter Meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, where he received the Best Poster Award for Researchers and Practitioners. The award recognized h...