Welcome to the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics
The Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI) is a research institute of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the Helmholtz Association (HGF). It conducts research and development in the field of innovative, application-oriented information, automation, and systems technology for sustainable energy systems and complex industrial and laboratory processes. Interdisciplinary working groups are working on integrated systems solutions, whereby all development phases being covered from conceptual design to modeling and simulation, prototyping and practical testing, also under industrial conditions. Novel, reusable methods and tools, which are developed and applied in the context of system design, are further results.
The work of IAI is embedded in the program Energy System Design (ESD) within the HGF's research field Energy and in the programs “Engineering Digital Futures: Supercomputing, Data Management and Information Security for Knowledge and Action”, Natural, Artificial and Cognitive Information Processing (NACIP) and Material Systems Engineering (MSE) within the HGF's research field Information of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres.
The projects at the institute are carried out in cooperation with partners from industry, administration and other research institutions in Germany and abroad. Among others, the institute is involved in projects of the EU, various federal and state ministries, the DFG (German Research Foundation), AiF (German Federation of Industrial Research Associations), and German industry. The institute's staff members are active in a wide range of standardization committees, expert and review committees and programme committees.
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Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist mittlerweile allgegenwärtig in der Text-, Bild- oder Videoverarbeitung. Doch so richtig nachvollziehen, wie die KI zu ihren Ergebnissen kommt, können wir oft nicht. Genau das ist aber entscheidend, wenn wir sie zuverlässig in kritischen Bereichen wie der Energieversorgung nutzen wollen. An einem besseren Verständnis für KI arbeitet Tenure-Track-Professor Benjamin Schäfer am KIT.
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The title of his doctoral thesis is “The Influence of Model Complexity on Demand Side Management with Distributed Energy Resources“. The exam date was on January 15th, 2026.
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In der 218. Folge des Podcasts „Geladen – der Batteriepodcast zur Energiewende“ mit dem Titel „Energiewende: Was, wenn Sektorenkopplung nicht klappt?“ ist Herr Prof. Dr. Veit Hagenmeyer, der Institutsleiter des Instituts für Automation und angewandte Informatik (IAI), im Interview mit Gastgeber Patrick Rosen.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Simon Grafenhorst on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Grid-Aware Sizing and Operation of Distributed Energy Resources“. The exam date was on December 15th, 2025.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Ömer Ekin on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “State-of-Grid-Based Control of Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids“. The exam date was on November 10th, 2025.
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The IAI congratulates TT-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schäfer on the successful evaluation of his Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Data-driven analysis of complex systems (DRACOS)” by the Executive Board of KIT.
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Mahmoud Salem was awarded the Best Poster Award at the “4th Regional Conference on Materials Science and Manufacturing Technology”, which took place from November 25-27 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Under the leadership of the IAI, KIT will host the 4th International Workshop on “Open Source Modeling and Simulation of Energy Systems” (OSMSES 2026) in March 2026. The event offers a central exchange platform for experts from science and industry.
moreTo the list of all student theses (Bachelor and Master theses as well as HIWI-Student projects)
To the list of all student theses (Bachelor and Master theses as well as HIWI-Student projects)