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1000 researchers, 2800 students, 5 renowned institutes & 24 academic programs - computer science at Saarland University
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Saarbrücken is an international research-oriented center for computer science. Researchers at Saarland University cooperate closely with the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Center for Bioinformatics and the Visual Computing Institute. These internationally renowned research insti

tutes are co-located on the Saarbrücken University Campus, neighbours to the Computer Science Department with its 19 chairs. All in all, more than 300 researchers in Computer Science have made their academic home in Saarbrücken. Many work on common projects funded by the German Government, the European Union or industrial partners. In October 2007, Saarbrücken Computer Science was awarded two major grants in the framework of the Initiative for Excellence of the German federal and state governments: the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction and funding for the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science, which will help us continue to build and secure our international scientific and academic standing.

11/06/2026

Can we see how factors like age, s*x, and environment affect Parkinson’s disease progression through programming?

🧑‍🔬 The answer: Yes! Saarland University professor Andreas Keller and his team were selected to join the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) to do exactly that. With nine million dollars in funding, the team will receive data directly from patients. From this data, they will uncover age, s*x, and environment related patterns that affect disease progression and treatment response.

How, you ask? Through microRNAs, which determine which genes are on or off. Using artificial intelligence, the team will determine RNA patterns that frequently occur in different patient groups. 🧬

“Based on our analyses, we will propose RNA candidates suitable for therapy,” explains Professor Keller. “We assume that, within a large knowledge database, we will identify patterns that allow us to develop better drugs and therapies tailored to individual patients.”

With this funding, bioinformaticians will advance personalized therapy options for Parkinson’s one byte at a time.

🔗 Read more: sic.link/aiparkinson

Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland University Fachschaft Informatikstudiengänge / CS Students' Representative Council UdS The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz

09/06/2026

Wie verändert KI unseren Alltag – und was bedeutet das für unsere Zukunft? 🤖

🎤 Erlebe am Freitag beim Offenen Campus eine spannende Live-Debatte, in der unsere Profs Chancen und Herausforderungen kontrovers diskutieren, aktuelle Entwicklungen einordnen und Perspektiven für morgen entwerfen. Bring deine Fragen mit und misch dich ein!

Auf der Bühne stehen:
➡️ Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek, Geschäftsführender Direktor DFKI Saarbrücken
➡️ Prof. Dr. Peter Fettke, Stellvertretender Leiter des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik am DFKI
➡️ Dr. Vera Demberg, Professorin für Informatik und Computerlinguistik
➡️ Dr. Alexander Koller, Professor für Computerlinguistik
➡️ Dr. Christian Theres, Geschäftsführer des Saarland Informatics Campus

Du interessierst dich für ein KI-Studium? Dann schau gerne um 15:30 Uhr bei der Vorstellung unseres Studiengangs Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) in Gebäude B4 1, HS 0.06 vorbei oder besuche unseren SIC-Stand (Infomeile vor Gebäude A5 4), um spannendes rund um die Informatik zu entdecken.

Für unser vollständiges Programm einfach nach links swipen. Wir freuen uns auf euch!

Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland University Fachschaft Informatikstudiengänge / CS Students' Representative Council UdS The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz

29/05/2026

💬 How often do you hear, 'Because I asked AI'? How many people know that AI can hallucinate? Will this issue be solved anytime soon?

At , it’s certainly a work in progress. Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Höller for receiving a €1.8 Million Emmy Noether funding from the German Research Foundation ( ) for his research project, 'Neuro-Symbolic Methods in Sequential Decision Making'! 👏

His work was among the 15 projects (out of 178) that were selected. In his research, Höller combines two approaches in automated planning: symbolic and neural.

Symbolic approaches operate on logic, are more rigid, and have explainable action processes. While this leads to more reliable results, they fail in larger systems. Meanwhile, neural approaches require less data and recognize patterns in large systems, making them useful for real world applications. However, they’re unexplainable and can hallucinate. 🤖

Höller aims to achieve an equilibrium. His Emmy Noether group, 'Neuro-Symbolic Methods in Sequential Decision Making', will work on systems that can provide guarantees despite integrating machine learning.

In today's world where LLM outputs are taken as fact, continues to prioritize reliable and secure AI with achievements like these.

🔗 Read more: sic.link/neurosymbolic

Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland University The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Fachschaft Informatikstudiengänge / CS Students' Representative Council UdS Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz

22/05/2026

We’re pleased to announce that the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF) and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) have partnered with the new Max Planck School for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence! 🤝

The Max Planck Schools' goal is to train talented PhD candidates from all around the world, offering early access to field advancing research. The newest Max Planck School plans to do this in the field of Biomedical AI, aiming to train a new generation of scientists who can develop algorithms to analyze living systems and apply their results in molecular design.

👏 Out of 32 fellows from 24 institutions, three are from Saarbrücken:

➡️ Bernt Schiele (MPI-INF, Computer Vision and Machine Learning Department)

➡️ Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS, Head of the Networked Systems Research Group)

➡️ Christian Theobalt (MPI-INF, Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department)

Through this partnership, Saarbrücken will be connected to a global biomedical AI network. 🌍

Considering becoming a PhD candidate in the upcoming semesters? Got interest in the field?

🔗 Read more: sic.link/bioai

Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland University The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland University Fachschaft Informatikstudiengänge / CS Students' Representative Council UdS

11/05/2026

🤖 Your program went rogue, nothing makes sense, and you're suddenly feeling unsure about the future of humanity?

We’ve all been there. That’s why we have the experts on board: for instance, Saarland University Professor and MPI-SWS Scientific Director Joël Ouaknine, who was named a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)! 🏆

The fellowship acknowledges outstanding scientific achievements in theoretical computer science, honoring individuals with a track record of leadership in the field.

🔢 Named a Fellow for “Fundamental contributions to the algorithmic analysis of dynamical systems and related formalisms”, Joël Ouaknine leads the Foundations of Algorithmic Verification group at MPI-SWS. In his research, he sheds light on how complex systems behave using mathematical methods.

Everything stems from theory, and computer science is no exception. To predict or control system behavior, we need to understand it first. That’s why theory and practice are inseparable for us at Saarbrücken, both in research and the lecture halls. With professors like Prof. Ouaknine with us, we’re certain that we won’t stray from this path.

🔗 Read more: sic.link/eatcs

Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland University The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Fachschaft Informatikstudiengänge / CS Students' Representative Council UdS Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz

17/04/2026

🗺️ From Saarbrücken to Barcelona — Saarland Informatics Campus is a leading contributor at CHI 2026!

Sponsored by companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Meta, the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference is the world’s largest conference in Human-Computer Interaction. 🧑‍💻

Every year, researchers from around the world gather at the conference to present and discuss the latest findings on how humans interact with technology.

We’re proud to announce that SIC went to CHI with 22 contributions from 24 researchers, becoming the second largest contributor among German universities!

Our researchers brought the following awards home:

🏆 BEST PAPER: How are Vibrotactile Experiences Visually Represented? A Taxonomy of Illustration Characteristics — Bruno Fruchard, Dennis Wittchen, Nihar Sabnis, Paul Strohmeier, Donald Degraen

🏆 BEST PAPER: Scene2Hap: Generating Scene-Wide Haptics for VR from Scene Context with Multimodal LLMs — Arata Jingu, Easa AliAbbasi, Sara Safaee, Paul Strohmeier, Jürgen Steimle

🏆 BEST PAPER: AI Sensing and Intervention in Higher Education: Student Perceptions of Learning Impacts, Affective Responses, and Ethical Priorities —Bingyi Han, Ying Ma, Simon Coghlan, Dana McKay, George Buchanan, Wally Smith

🏆 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award: Dr. Martin Feick — becoming the fourth SIC researcher to receive this honor! 🥳

We congratulate all the award winners and contributors!

🔗 Read more: sic.link/2026

Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland UniversityDeutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche IntelligenzFachschaft Informatikstudiengänge / CS Students' Representative Council UdSThe Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

10/04/2026

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Unis*x, cotton, six sizes, two color options — SIC blue and white.

Pre-order for €20 until April 17. Pickup starts May 25.

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🔗 More info & pre-order from link in bio!

02/04/2026

It’s official — Saarland University has launched Center for Quantum Technologies (QuTe)! 🥳

In collaboration with the Forschungszentrum Jülich, QuTe aims to create a platform where science, industry and politics work together to bring quantum technologies from research into real-world applications.

⚛️Quantum technology solves problems that are impossible to tackle with classical methods, increasing efficiency in handling complex systems. From theory to application, the center focuses on: quantum engineering, quantum optics and quantum computing.

💶With €53 million in state funding, the center follows an interdisciplinary approach, joining expertise across disciplines: physics, mathematics, engineering, and computer science.

Once fully developed, QuTe will cover the entire value chain — from fundamental research to real world applications — making Saarbrücken one of the few locations where quantum physics and engineering are united under one roof. 🏫

Researchers and institutes from Saarland Informatics Campus will be directly involved in the process — with Prof. Dr. Moritz Weber (mathematics) and Prof. Dr. Markus Bläser (computer science) in the leadership team!

We’re proud to be part of this multidisciplinary initiative and wish the team the best of luck going forward! 👏

📸: © Künzer Kommunikation

30/03/2026

🧳 What’s the best way to deal with a traveling salesman? Slam the door on their face? Well, computer scientists have a kinder method.

In computer science, the traveling salesman problem refers to the problem of finding the shortest route that visits multiple locations once and returns to the start.

💶 For optimization problems like these, and many others, Saarland University physicist Prof. Dr. Peter P. Orth and computer scientist Prof. Dr. Markus Bläser collaborate on — a project funded with €2.3 million by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.

🚗 Working with industry partners BMW, Infineon and the quantum computing start-up planqc, their aim is to combine quantum and classical computing. With the quantum computer used to simplify complex optimization problems, classical computers can then solve them more efficiently and accurately. As the solution quality and efficiency improve, industries will be able to save tremendous costs.

🏭 At , our research isn’t just based on theory, but also on the value we can bring to industry. With our industry connections in Germany, France, and Luxembourg, our campus catalyzes real change through computer science every day.

We’re proud to have professors here who share this vision. Lead the way, Prof. Bläser — we’ll be following! 🏃‍➡️

🔗 Read more: sic.link/quantum

Universität des Saarlandes - Saarland University Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz Fachschaft Informatikstudiengänge / CS Students' Representative Council UdS The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

27/03/2026

🥳Good news from SIC: Michael Hahn has been awarded the 2026 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize as one of only ten researchers in Germany to receive the award this year!

Michael Hahn is a tenure-track professor in the Departments of Language Science and Technology and Computer Science at Saarland University, based at the Saarland Informatics Campus.
The prize recognises his research on the Transformer architecture of large language models. Using mathematical methods, his work helps explain where these systems are strong, where they reach their limits, and which questions remain open for future AI research.
For us, this award highlights both Michael Hahn’s contribution to the field and the value of an interdisciplinary research environment in which computational linguistics, machine learning and computer science come together.
Congratulations to Michael Hahn and his team on this important recognition.

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