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With the start of lectures in the winter semester, chatbot Iris is also back in action. She offers computer science students personalized assistance with programming exercises. Several lecturers are currently using Iris in their courses. She thus supports several thousand students. [read more]

How can a connection be created between the human brain and a computer? This is the question studied by the neuroTUM student club, founded at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The aim is to make neurotechnology more accessible to students and to help people with physical disabilities. [read more]

Whether preparing application documents or tips on career planning: the TUM Alumni & Career Service offers more than 100 career events and numerous services in German and English for students, doctoral candidates and alumni in the winter semester. Brand new: the “Engineers for Germany” program. [read more]

Are you studying mathematics, and would you like to help our new international students get started at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and their studies in Germany? Become a Buddy! [read more]

The student councils honor outstanding lecturers in the subject areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Informatics, and Mathematics from the past two semesters. The special feature of these prizes is that they are awarded by the students themselves. [read more]

Computer scientist Professor Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025 for his research on AI-assisted medical imaging. The most important German research prize is endowed with 2.5 million euros by the German Research Foundation (DFG). [read more]

The TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) supports Bachelor, Master and PhD students of the CIT with the Women in CIT Travel Awards. In the second year of this project, the Talent Management & Diversity department is focusing on three areas. Find out more now! [read more]

The European Research Council (ERC) will be funding five researchers at the Technical University of Munich with a Consolidator Grant. Among them is Professor Matthias Nießner from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology with the project Gen3D: Learning to Create Virtual Worlds. [read more]

Professor Luise Pufahl is honored twice for the good supervision of her doctoral candidates in 2024: with the Supervisory Award of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Supervisory Award of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology. [read more]

Every year, the Bavarian Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) honors outstanding theses. Two of the awards went to members of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT). [read more]

The enormous computing resources needed to train neural networks for artificial intelligence (AI) result in massive power consumption. Felix Dietrich, a professor of Physics-enhanced Machine Learning, and his team developed a method that is 100 times faster and therefore much more energy efficient. [read more]

Sarah Rachut was honored by academics and ZEIT Verlag for her outstanding achievements. Together with CIT Adjunct Professor Dirk Heckmann, Professorship for Law and Security in Digital Transformation, the young doctoral researcher demonstrated how law can be used to shape the digital transformation. [read more]

Machine learning methods can be used to draw conclusions about the function and health of cells. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich have now tested self-supervised learning on 20 million cells or more. A promising approach. [read more]