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André Greiner-Petter receives his PhD

We are delighted to announce that André Greiner-Petter has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Making Presentation Math Computable’’ this January, 2022. Congratulations, André! In his thesis, André researched and developed a context-sensitive approach for translating mathematical expressions from LATEX to the syntax of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS). In doing so, he made three primary contributions to the Math Information [...]

2023-07-22T02:08:05+02:00January 21st, 2022|

Dennis Trautwein receives prestigious PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs Research

Our PhD candidate, Dennis Trautwein, has been awarded a two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs featuring an $80,000 stipend and an annual travel allowance of $3,000. Designed to support early-stage researchers, the fellowship aligns with Protocol Labs' research interests. Dennis Trautwein’s proposed research specifically aims to enhance content discovery and retrieval within the IPFS network.

2023-11-01T18:50:49+01:00December 21st, 2021|

Panel Discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises

Bela Gipp participated in the panel discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises as an expert on New Technologies. Other participants were Marc Wagner (on the subject of New Work) and Simon Schnetzer (on the subject New Generations). The event was hosted by the community platform Daiment. https://vimeo.com/780491376

2024-01-13T14:27:05+01:00December 3rd, 2021|

Research & Knowledge Transfer Office reports on our group’s research and its impact on society

Scientific research does not occur in a vacuum. Instead, scientists and society both benefit from continuous and close collaboration. In this manner, new insights and solutions from academia can be directly applied to real-world problems, allowing innovation to be incrementally tested and to positively shape the society in which we live. This is why the Research & Knowledge Transfer Office at the [...]

2024-01-13T17:16:50+01:00June 3rd, 2021|

Newspaper FAZ reports on our research to detect and deter academic plagiarism

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) describes how our research on novel plagiarism detection methods and blockchain-backed decentralized trusted timestamping facilitates combating plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. Read the article on the FAZ website or here (click on the article to enlarge):

2024-01-16T04:31:06+01:00October 18th, 2020|

Editorial for the KlarText Award reports on our research on plagiarism detection and trusted timestamping

The KlarText Award recognizes excellent achievements in understandably communicating scientific findings to a general audience. The editorial for the KlarText Award 2020 discusses the longstanding problem of plagiarism and fraud in academia and presents our research on plagiarism detection and decentralized trusted timestamping as promising steps towards a solution.   Read the article (in German): Online  |  as a PDF

2022-06-20T10:21:59+02:00October 13th, 2020|

Funding approved for 3-year research project by the DFG (German Research Foundation)

We are happy to announce that the DFG (German Research Foundation), has awarded our group a research grant for our project: “Analyzing Mathematics to Detect Disguised Academic Plagiarism”. The total funding sum of 633,000 Euro will be made available over a 3-year period to both Bela Gipp’s DKE Group at the University of Wuppertal and to Dr. Moritz Schubotz, a former DKE group member, now working [...]

2024-01-13T14:27:15+01:00July 11th, 2020|

DFG approves funding for Research Training Group: ‘Document – Text – Edition’

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the continuation application of the University of Wuppertal to fund a Research Training Group (DFG Graduiertenschule) centered around the topic of: "Document - Text – Edition. Conditions and Forms of Transformation and Modeling: a Transdisciplinary Perspective". Bela Gipp is among the scientific directors of this Research Training Group at the University of Wuppertal. The Research Training Group additionally collaborates with the Theological College Wuppertal/Bethel, which possesses a strong research focus in the area of [...]

2024-01-13T23:43:00+01:00July 10th, 2020|
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