Über 60 Teilnehmende beim thws HR Hackathon: Rund 30 Hackerinnen und Hacker stellten sich den HR-Challenges von BMW, Jopp, THWS und dem Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, während ebenso viele Gäste spannende Keynote-Sessions...
Our research team – Prof Dr Magda Gregorová, Philipp Väth, and Dibyanshu Kumar – had an amazing week at ECML PKDD 2025, the top European conference on Machine Learning. With more than 1,300 participants, it was the perfect place...
We’re proud to share that Prof. Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov’s research group has made it into SPIEGEL magazine! The paper co-authored by Aleksandra Sorokovikova from Constructor University Bremen, Pavel Chizhov from THWS, and Julia...
Würzburg, 15.07.2025 – Das dritte AI Barcamp am 4. Juli am Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAIRO.thws) der THWS hat erneut gezeigt: Der Wunsch nach KI-Wissen ist ungebrochen. 127 Teilnehmende aus ganz Deutschland – von...
Würzburg, Germany The Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAIRO.thws) at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) is pleased to share the publication of a new study in the Sensors Journal (CiteScore...
Say hi to our newest research team member — Dibyanshu Kumar!We're super happy to welcome Dibyanshu to the Deep Unsupervised Learning group at CAIRO.thws, led by Prof. Dr. Magda Gregorova. His research will focus on...
Innovative AI Chatbot for Würzburg’s Multi-Purpose Arena: Joint Project by CAIRO.thws and Main-Post Media GroupAs part of this year’s AI Week Mainfranken, the research center CAIRO.thws at the Technical University...
Artificial Intelligence Gives Women Lower Salary Advice – New Study from THWS Uncovers Bias A recent study from the research group of Prof. Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov at the Technical University of Applied Sciences...
Yesterday was an absolute blast at our annual CAIRO.thws Summer Garden Party! The weather was just perfect, and we enjoyed amazing food, drinks, and lots of laughter together.It’s amazing to see our CAIRO.thws team...
We're incredibly proud to share that CAIRO.thws research professor, Dr. Pascal Meißner, is co-chairing an insightful session today at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025! ICRA brings...
Yesterday, cairo.thws proudly hosted a donors' meeting (Stifter-Treffen) for the Technologietransferzentrum Kitzingen (TTZ-KT), marking an afternoon full of insightful exchanges and valuable discussions.The agenda featured: An...
We are super happy to share that both paper submissions of our research group have been accepted for presentation at ESANN 2025 conference: Our first paper, "Resource-Aware Cooperation in Federated Learning", authored...
We’re starting 2025 with great news at THWS and cairo.thws: We are super happy to share our involvement in the AIOLIA project, focused on enhancing our understanding of AI ethics in relation to human cognition and behavior. This...
We are very happy to announce the success of the first "AI Innovators Student-Company Collaboration Day," hosted by Technische Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) in cooperation with the Innovations- und...
Yesterday, Prof. Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov, Head of CAIRO, and Leon Heller, CAIRO IT Specialist, attended the opening ceremony of Julia 2, a high-performance computing cluster that marks a significant step forward for AI...
Last week, CAIRO proudly hosted the second AI Camp, and what a day it was! With an impressive turnout of participants from academia and industry, ranging from AI enthusiasts, developers, start-ups, creatives to students, the...
CAIRO research professor Pascal Meißner is currently attending the IROS 2024 conference in Abu Dhabi! The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is one of the largest global events in the field of...
We are super happy to look back at last week when we, as a close partner of the KI-Regionalzentrum Würzburg (KIRZ), were part of the official KIRZ opening ceremony held at CAIRO! The KI-Regionalzentrum Würzburg supports...
Thanks, Dominik Belter, for visiting CAIRO last Friday after your great session at CERI! We really enjoyed hearing more about the work your team is doing at the Mobile Robotics Lab. Some great ideas came up during the...
Here’s a quick look back at this year’s Innovation Day Mainfranken, where CAIRO had the opportunity to showcase our work!In a talk with the befitting title "CAIRO & MAI – Your Local Source of AI Expertise" Prof. Dr....
We’re pleased to share that from today, Prof. Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov is taking over as the new head of CAIRO.After 2.5 great years, Prof. Dr. Magda Gregorova is handing over the role. A big thank you to Magda for the...
We are happy to share that the HuMaIn Workshop on Human-Machine Interaction, organized by Prof. Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov and Prof. Dr. Pascal Meißner, was a great success at KI 2024 – 47th German Conference on Artificial...
The Master's programme in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) not only trains AI experts of tomorrow but also boosts the regional economy. Graduates of the programme...
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAIRO) at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) was delighted to receive a visit from two members of the German Bundestag, Stephan Thomae and Ulrich Lechte....
This week, some CAIRO team members and MAI students are at WSOM+ 2024 conference!A special shoutout to Bangguo Xu, who has presented both a poster and a paper, in collaboration with Simei Yan, Liang Liu, and Prof. Dr....
As the summer holiday approaches, we wrapped up the semester with a fantastic garden party!This event provided a wonderful opportunity for all CAIRO team members, including friends and family, to reconnect, reflect on the...
We are pleased to announce that the first AI Camp Würzburg was a fantastic success! The event brought together AI enthusiasts and professionals.A special thanks to Ute Mündlein and Franziska Raupach from Wuerzburg Web Week for...
On Saturday, the CAIRO team participated in the Schweinfurt City Run.While we didn’t take home any prizes, we had an incredible time together.The highlight? Crossing the finish line with our spot robot! Although it only joined us...
Join us for a Hackathon with Deutsche Bank in Würzburg!
Take the opportunity to network with companies from the region!
We are happy to announce a new publication!Toni Fetzer, Markus Bullmann, Steffen Kastner, Frank Deinzer, Marcin Grzegorzek. "Advancing Smartphone-based Indoor Positioning through Particle Distribution...
Happy to announce a new paper "Discrete Graph Auto-Encoder" published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research. The paper introduces a novel generative model for graphs, leveraging a graph-to-set...
Exploring Synergies in AI and Robotics Research
Manuel Röder, a PhD student of Prof Dr Frank-Michael Schleif, presented his paper "Crossing Domain Borders With Federated Few-Shot Adaptation" at the ICPRAM 2024. The outstanding contributions of the paper to the...
THWS and JMU have signed a cooperation agreement for the new High-Performance Computing cluster "Julia-2" (link to the official press release). We in CAIRO are double happy: It has been over a year since we have first...
CAIRO is pleased to announce its participation in the AI Transfer Plus programme aimed at building internal AI competences within SMEs leading to successful and long-term AI applications. Together with the Faculty of Computer...
Dear CAIRO friends,Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! As 2023 draws to a close, we wish to give you a little insight into our journey through the year and share with you a couple of achievements that make us proud and happy:...
Gustavo Lopez, Market Access Manager at Septentrio (Belgium) delights all participants with insights into the role of AI in the evolution of positioning techniques and GNSS security.
CAIRO research professor, Prof Dr Pascal Meißner, alongside collaborators, has published a new paper introducing the "One-Shot Task-Oriented Grasping (OS-TOG)" framework. Addressing the limited generalization...
The CAIRO Invited Speakers Series is back, and its second edition is better than ever! The series, featuring a lineup of international AI experts from acadmia and industry, opened with a fantastic talk by Prof Dr Alessandro Di...
In a recent interview with the Mainpost, our research professor Dr Pascal Meißner, shed light on the untapped potential of small robots known as cobots in the world of crafts. Contrary to the common belief that robots are...
We are very happy and proud to announce that our Indoor Localization team* won both Track 1 and Track 3 of the competition at the International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Navigation (IPIN). *The Indoor Localization...
Our robotics expert Prof. Dr. Pascal Meißner is participating in this week's IROS 2023 conference in Detroit, USA. The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is a prominent gathering of global robotics...
After the long Corona break, the conferences are back in full swing, along with the much needed networking meetings. Here at IPIN 2023 conference, Markus Ebner, Steffen Kastner, and our colleague and friend Anagnostopoulos...
Join us at ECML-PKDD 2023 and meet CAIRO team members to discuss advancements in the fields of Data Science, Representation Learning, Explainable AI, and Federated Learning. Don't miss this chance to network and explore...
In the field of cryptocurrency analysis, CAIRO Research Professor Prof Dr Ivan Yamshchikov has published a new paper together with Vladyslav Koltun from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, University of Lisbon, showing...
W2-Professorships in the field of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Reinforcement Learning.
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIRO) team swapped their tech gear for an afternoon at Kiliani Volksfest (a large and well-known fair) in Würzburg. The festival's mix of good food, refreshing beer, and thrilling...
CAIRO research professor Prof Dr Ivan Yamshchikov, has published a position paper on narrative understanding and generation in the field of NLP. The paper, titled "What is Wrong with Language Models that Can...
CAIRO research professor, Prof Dr Ivan Yamshchikov, together with Anna Bykova and Nikolay Filippov, published a pioneering paper at this year's AAAI conference* that sheds new light on the rehabilitation of homeless people. The...
The Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST) organized a high-level delegation trip to the vibrant city of Poznan, Poland. This visit brought together Bavarian university presidents...
Esther Ademola, Fatima Mohamed, and Hanan Al-Hujaily, three students of the international master’s programme Artificial Intelligence (MAI), won the KickStart event held on June 15 in Schweinfurt. Their project,...
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics warmly welcomes our new colleague Prof. Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov. He officially started his research professorship in Natural Language Processing at the THWS last...
Prof Dr Pascal Meissner and Valerija Holomjova presented their latest work.
Visit focused on fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration between THWS centers and international degree programmes
We are delighted to welcome two new PhD students to the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIRO): David Benavente Ríos from Santiago de Chile, Chile and Lukas Veverka from Prague, Czech Republic, bringing a diverse...
A Successful Business Trip to Auburn University (Alabama, USA) and ITAM University (Mexico)
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Fokus auf Zukunft der KI und Forum für bayerische KI-Community und internationale KI-Expertinnen und -Experten
If you would like to learn more about CAIRO and our research activities, our Master's programme in AI or about studying at THWS in general, visit us at AI.BAY 2023!
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CAIRO is looking for PhD candidates working on Natural Language Processing
In the latest talk of the CAIRO Invited Speaker series on Nov. 24, Lukasz Kubicki, the head of SupTech at the European Central Bank, gave us great insights about AI in banking supervision. He pointed out the main challenges and...
Die internationalen Gastvorträge behandeln Themen im Bereich der KI in Forschung und Industrie
Raffaelo Camoriano opened this year's Invited Speakers Series with his talk on „Scaling Up Robot Learning from Structured Data and Interaction“
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Faculty of Computer Science and Business Information Systems (FIW) warmly welcome our new colleague Prof. Dr. Pascal Meißner. He will start his research professorship in Robotics...
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Für viele Menschen gleicht KI und deren grundlegende Funktionsweise noch immer einer Blackbox. Das CAIRO will Licht ins Dunkel bringen – Die Institutsleiterin Prof. Dr. Magda Gregorová im Interview mit Sebastian Human,...
Simon Heilig presented the research paper on Revisiting Memory Efficient Kernel Approximation: An Indefinite Learning Perspective
Das Center CAIRO an der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS) ist Teil des KI-Netzwerks Bayern
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In seiner Abschlussarbeit beschäftigt sich Heilig mit einem Lösungsansatz, um das Memory Efficient Kernel Approximation-Verfahren zu verbessern.
Der Promovend Christoph Raab verteidigte seine Doktorarbeit am 9. März 2022
Die bayerischen Hochschulen und das bayerische Wissenschaftsministerium zeigen Solidarität mit ukrainischen Studierenden und Forschenden: Bayern stellt einen Notfonds in Höhe von einer halben Million Euro für Betroffene zur...
