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A worldwide enumeration of accounts was possible due to a now closed privacy weakness in WhatsApp's contact discovery mechanism.

The Faculty of Computer Science congratulates former Professor of Bioinformatics and faculty member Arndt von Haeseler!

Seven doctoral positions are now open, assigned to different subunits of our faculty. The application deadline is November 21, 2025.

Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral students are invited to apply for the 24-hour weekend hackathon by November 21, 2025. The top-ranked teams will present their solutions to a jury of experts and have the chance to participate in the Grand Finale in St. Ingbert, Germany.

The workshop challenge at the IEEE VIS 2025 tasked participants with creating fully autonomous AI systems that automatically analyze data and generate insightful, interactive reports.

David Schmidt, Sebastian Schrittwieser, and Edgar Weippl received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work "Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps". Further information...

The Faculty of Computer Science and the subunit Cooperative Systems cordially invite you to the CS-Colloqium with Prof. Frank Leymann on the topic "Post-Quantum Security - Verschlüsseln im Zeitalter des Quantencomputers".

The subunit Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) warmly invites you to the lecture in SR 6 at the faculty building on Währinger Straße 29.

On October 2 new students of Bioinformatics will be welcomed to the faculty by the students' representatives! Besides tipps and networking opportunities through other students there will be insights into the programme's early phases by Dr. Heiko Schmidt and Vize-SPL Prof. Ivo Hofacker.

All new master’s students at the Faculty of Computer Science, as well as those who already started in the summer semester of 2025, are warmly invited to join the ENTER_DAY for Master's Students at 2:00 PM!

The subunits Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) and Workflow Systems and Technology (WST) cordially invite you to the lecture on August 13 at 11:00 AM in SR 10 (Währinger Straße 29).

Karen Azari has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna and a member of the subunit Theory and Applications of Algorithms (TAA) at the Faculty of Computer Science since February 1, 2025, where she conducts research in the field of cryptography. To mark the start of her position at...

The new postgraduate programme Deep Learning for Industrial AI will start in the coming winter semester under the direction of Associate Professor Dr. Nils Kriege. Registration is open until 31 July 2025! All information...

The paper "Fully Dynamic Euclidean Bi-Chromatic Matching in Sublinear Update Time" has been selected for an oral presentation at the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025 from over 12,000 submissions. Congratulations to the authors!

The Subunit Cooperative Systems (COSY) and the Faculty of Computer Science warmly invite you to the CS Colloquium on May 21, 2025, at 10:00 AM.

With his project "Understanding Language in Context", Sebastian Schuster was successful in the WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Call 2023 in the field of Information and Communication Technology and has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna since April 2025. To...

Atakan Aral has been a Tenure-Track Professor at the University of Vienna in the field of Information Systems Engineering within the subunit of Scientific Computing, since September 2024. Previously (2021–2024), he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and project leader for the international research...

Peter Kiss joined the Theory and Applications of Algorithms research group (TAA) at our faculty as a postdoctoral researcher in February 2025. To fund his position, Peter Kiss has successfully secured a 3-year project from the FWF under the ESPRIT program.

The Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology invites you to the lecture on April 22 at 3:00 PM at the Ernst-Mach Lecture Hall, Boltzmanngasse 5 (Faculty of Physics)

The subunit Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) cordially invites you to the lecture on March 12 at 11:00 AM in SR 6 (Währinger Straße 29).