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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The IAI welcomes Mr. Christian Beck from the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) as International Excellence Fellow of KIT at the institute. He will be conducting research in the period from May 2024 to July 2024 within the Data-Driven Analysis of Complex Systems (DRACOS) research area, which is lead by TT-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schäfer. This is his first stay at the IAI.
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On April 22, 2024, the inaugural lectures of TT-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schäfer and TT-Prof. Dr. Peer Nowack took place. Mr. Schäfer spoke about “Artificial Intelligence for Energy Systems” and Mr. Nowack about “Artificial Intelligence for Climate Science”. Prof. Schäfer has headed the research area of the same name “Data-Driven Analysis of Complex Systems (DRACOS)” since January 2024.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Luigi Spatafora on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Entwicklung eines Metall-Keramik-Verbundes für thermo-mechanisch hochbelastbare Sichtfenster”. The exam date was on April 19th, 2024. Within the group of the Research Platform Energy (RPE), Mr. Spatafora is the head of the Living Lab Energy Campus experimental buildings (LLEC).
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The fifth call for applications for the mentoring programme for female master's students in STEM fields (Computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, bio engineering, mathematics, physics) at the IAI has started. Registrations are possible until 2024-05-15!
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Jan Schützke on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Spectra-based Neural Networks for Uncovering Novel Substances in Material Discovery Experiments”. The exam date was on April 17th, 2024.
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Seit Anfang April 2024 ist das Landesumweltportal Sachsen-Anhalt in neuem Look und mit zusätzlichen Serviceangeboten online. Bei der Konzipierung und Entwicklung ist die Arbeitsgruppe Web-basierte Informationssysteme (WebIS) innerhalb des Fachgebiets IT-Methoden und -Komponenten für smarte Infrastrukturen (IT4SI) seit Jahren maßgeblich als Forschungspartner beteiligt.
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As part of the MINToring mentorship program, IAI hosted a workshop titled ”Successful in the Job Interview” on March 7, 2024, aimed at preparing participants for successful interviews with companies. Ms. Sabine Reiser, an experienced speaker from the KIT Career Service Consulting, led the workshop.
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Tessina Scholl was awarded the Best Presentation Award out of a total of 30 presentations at the 58th Control Engineering Colloquium. The colloquium took place from February 21 - 23, 2024 in Boppard. The work is titled “Methodik zur Stabilitätsanalyse in totzeitbehafteten Systemen”.
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)