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Congratulations to Franka Bause on her excellent dissertation "Efficient and Expressive Graph Learning" and for receiving the award.

The aim of the E‑STEEM programme is the long-term advancement of female scientists in fields where they are underrepresented and the strengthening of the University of Vienna's international profile.

POSTPONED: The talk by Joe Stacey (University of Sheffield) will take place in February 2026.

The second talk in the Vienna Circuits series has been postponed to 2026 due to illness. The new date will be announced as soon as possible.

IT-Security Researchers from the University of Vienna and SBA Research discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

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

The NLP Group of the subunit Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM) warmly invites you to a talk by Yupei Du (Saarland University) on November 21 at 1:00 PM. The talk is part of the new Vienna Circuits series, a forum for research at the intersection of NLP, Computational Linguistics, and Cognitive...

Arndt von Haeseler among the most cited researchers worldwide in 2025

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

CISPA European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship

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...

CS-Colloquium with Prof. Frank Leymann: "Post-Quantum Security - Verschlüsseln im Zeitalter des Quantencomputers"

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".

Guest Lecture by Sara Di Bartolomeo: "Information Visualization Perspectives on Network Visualization"

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

ENTER_DAY for students of Bioinformatics

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!

Guest Lecture by Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez (University of Seville): "Taming Process Complexity: Visual and Configurable Approaches"

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...

Deep Learning for Industrial AI

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...

Top 1%: Oral Presentation at ICML 2025

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!

CS Colloquium with Prof. Hassan Ugail "Recent Developments and Opportunities for Using AI in Art Authentication"

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...

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The NLP Group of the subunit Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM) warmly invites you to a talk by Leonie Weissweiler (Uppsala University) on January...