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Epidemics have immediate and long-term effects on people worldwide. In March 2023, young researchers from Africa and Europe will deepen their understanding of the mathematical fundamentals of infectious disease modeling. [read more]

In the future, master's students from both universities will be able to obtain a master's degree in Data Science at the University of Queensland in addition to their degree in Informatics at TUM. The aim of the double degree programs is to incorporate the strengths of the study programs of the… [read more]

The chair for Human-Centered Technologies for Learning (Prof. Enkelejda Kasneci) offers a course on "AI-assisted writing: the new way to get ahead" as part of the TUM Project Weeks. [read more]

Franconians together with Upper Bavarians, political scientists working with mathematicians, completely different socialization and professional cultures. Is that possible? Can it be fruitful? Students started the experiment. [read more]

Tech Challenge, lectures by founders or Businessplan Basics - Europe's biggest center for entrepreneurship, UnternehmerTUM, offers programs for students in the winter semester. Register now! [read more]

Professor Javier Esparza from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology has been appointed Fellow 2025 by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – one of the highest honors in computer science. [read more]

The United Nations has appointed Johanna Pirker to the new Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This high-level panel will assess the global opportunities and risks of AI from a scientific perspective. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich ranks among the world’s best universities according to the latest subject rankings by Times Higher Education: in computer science, natural sciences and engineering, it achieves top-20 positions worldwide and repeatedly ranks No. 1 in Germany. [read more]

Dr. Konstantin Riedl, a former mathematics doctoral student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), receives the Doctoral Award of the Friends of TUM e.V. This prize is given for outstanding doctoral theses at TUM and recognizes Riedl’s dissertation as one of the best across the entire campus. [read more]

Ludwig-Prandtl-Straße on the Garching research campus is now called Anna-Boyksen-Straße. The renaming was decided by the Garching City Council and implemented with the timetable change of the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV). It stands for historical responsibility and diversity in science. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TU Darmstadt have investigated how text-to-image generators handle gender stereotypes in various languages. The results show that the models not only reflect but also amplify gender biases. The direction and strength of the distortion depend on the language in question. [read more]

As quantum computers grow from theory into reality, so does the risk of software bugs. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has won a Best Paper Award for developing an innovative method to automatically find and fix these bugs. [read more]

Researchers from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) received three awards at the VLDB (Very Large Data Bases) 2025 conference in London. [read more]

Marine litter is a major environmental problem around the world. As part of the EU project SEACLEAR, a research team at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology has now developed an autonomous diving robot that can detect and retrieve litter. [read more]

Do large language models like ChatGPT threaten the diversity of languages? Alexander Fraser, Professor of Data Analytics & Statistics at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, believes the contrary: He utilizes machine translation to help preserve endangered languages. [read more]