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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Tuesday, 27 Jun 2023
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Zum 31. Deutschen Ingenieurtag 2023 am 25. Mai in Berlin wurde Professor Dr.-Ing Georg Bretthauer die Grashof-Denkmünze des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) für sein berufliches Lebenswerk verliehen. Diese wurde 1894 zum Andenken an VDI-Mitbegründer Franz Grashof gestiftet und ist die höchste Auszeichnung des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure. Als Zeichen der Anerkennung und des Dankes für hervorragende wissenschaftliche oder berufliche Leistungen auf technischem Gebiet wird die Gedenkmünze an Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieure verliehen.
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We are deeply saddened by the death of our former colleague Mr. Andreas Bartschat, who passed away unexpectedly on April 30, 2023 at the age of 33. With Mr. Bartschat we lose an extremely competent, dedicated and helpful colleague and friend. He was highly appreciated and respected by all. Our deepest sympathy goes to his life partner and his family.
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Miguel Molina-Moreno (University Carlos III of Madrid) and Marcel Schilling (IAI) were awarded the ”Best Paper Award” at the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2023 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, as part of their collaborative project. Their paper ”Automated Style-aware Selection of Annotated Pre-training Databases in Biomedical Imaging” presents a new methodology for comparing datasets to make sense of knowledge from existing annotated datasets for new problems.
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We congratulate Dr. Benjamin Schäfer on his appointment as tenure-track professor as of May 1st, 2023 for the W1 professorship ”KI for the Energy System” at the KIT Department of Informatics. Mr. Schäfer moved to IAI in January 2022 and is head of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group Data-driven analysis of complex systems (DRACOS). We congratulate Mr. Schäfer and are happy with him.
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As part of the mentoring program MINToring, the IAI organised a retrospective event for mentors and mentees on March 31st 2023. A total of five mentors and three mentees met to review the last round of MINToring and to exchange ideas.
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In der Sendung vom 12.04.2023 (SWR2 Forum) diskutiert Werner Eckert mit Prof. Veit Hagenmeyer und den weiteren Studiogästen Dr. Björn Peters sowie Christoph Rat-Fischer zum Thema „Das Kraftwerk geht, Atomstrom bleibt – Deutschland beendet eine Ära“.
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The third 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 2023-06-05!
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Auch am IAI findet der bundesweite „Girls’Day – Mädchen-Zukunftstag“ erstmals seit 2019 wieder in Präsenz statt. Am Donnerstag, den 27. April 2023, sind Schülerinnen ab der fünften Klasse aller Schularten eingeladen an interessanten Workshops am Institut teilzunehmen. Es stehen verschiedene Angebote vom 3D-Drucken über Eindrücke durch VR oder KI bis hin zu Stromnetzen zur Verfügung. Wir geben euch Einblicke in unsere Forschungsthemen. Kommt gerne vorbei. Meldet euch an. Wir freuen uns auf euch.
more (German only)To 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)