Faculty of Computer Science

Research

With more than 300 scientific and administrative staff members, our Faculty participates in many national and international cooperation projects, working with economic and scientific partners.

In addition to addressing current issues, these collaborations facilitate research-oriented teaching and enable advanced students to become involved in an attractive, international research environment.

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Our key research areas

In accordance with the development plan of the University of Vienna, our Faculty’s academic focus is centred on the four key research areas Algorithms, Data Science, Systems, and Human-Centered Computing.

Research around the globe

The researchers in our Faculty are globally connected and collaborate regularly with colleagues from all over the world. A visual representation of our collaborations at international and regional level is available in the u:cris research database.

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Academic work

Firmly established as key components of academic work, the projects and publications of our researchers promote an exchange of knowledge, document research findings and enhance our Faculty’s international profile.

  • Projects

Symbolic Timing Analysis of Asynchronous Circuits

Ferdowsi, Arman (Project Lead), Aral, Atakan (Mentor), Ennsberger, Sylvia (Admin)
01/08/2026 31/07/2029
Active

Dynamic Weighted Nearest Neighbor Search

Seybold, Martin (Project Lead)
01/07/2026 30/06/2030
Active

Bridging SW Engineering, MLOps, and Operational Agents: Foundations for Agentic AI in Cyber-Physical Systems

Zdun, Uwe (Project Lead), Warnett, Stephen John (Scientific Project Staff), Ennsberger, Sylvia (Admin)
01/04/2026 31/03/2029
Active

  • Publications

Local drivers of anthropogenic forest fire ignition vulnerability in Austria. / Wimmer, Elisabeth (Corresponding author); Mallinger, Kevin (Corresponding author); Corpaci, Luiza et al.
In: Fire Ecology, Vol. 22, No. 1, 59, 12.2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1186/s42408-026-00496-2

Long-term Effects of Promoting Communication and Soft Skills in Higher Computing Education. / Motschnig, Renate; Dolezal, Dominik; Švábenský, Valdemar et al.
In: ACM Transactions on Computing Education, Vol. 26, No. 3, 53, 09.2026, p. 1-30.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1145/3800569

Tuned your MPI library? Now check the performance guidelines. / Hunold, Sascha (Corresponding author); Träff, Jesper Larsson; Laso, Ruben.
In: Parallel Computing, Vol. 129, 103205, 09.2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2026.103205

Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats. / Gegenhuber, Gabriel Karl; Grefner, Moritz; Günther, Maximilian et al.
USENIX Security Symposium 2026. 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

http://eprints.cs.univie.ac.at/8791/

A Comparative Analysis of GDPR, Thailand's PDPA, and Indonesia's UU-PDP. / Herwanto, Guntur Budi; Nurwidyantoro, Arif; Ningtyas, Annisa Maulida et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (IC2IT 2026). Bangkok, Thailand, 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed