This year, Wismar University of Applied Scienes was represented by a seven-member delegation at the IIPhDW, which took place from 11 to 13 September 2025 at WSEI University. The international conference is aimed at doctoral students and researchers from various disciplines and promotes exchange between related fields of research. The workshop focuses on topics such as artificial intelligence, automation and control, communication and signal processing, robotics and mechatronics.
Professors Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Ahrens, Dr.-Ing. Matthias Schuster, Dr. Olaf Hagendorf and Dr.-Ing. Christian Steinbrecher from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wismar University of Applied Sciences took part. They were accompanied by doctoral students Yadu Krishnan Krishnakumar, Andreas Wenzel and Jan Bartelt. The young researchers presented their current scientific work to a broad audience. Particularly successful were the contributions by Yadu Krishnan Krishnakumar, ‘Measuring Burstiness in Randomised Bit Sequences’, and Jan Bartelt, ’Study of anomaly detection methods in unobtrusively acquired data in the context of AAL’, which were awarded in the Best Presentation category. This once again demonstrated the quality and international visibility of Wismar University's research.
Another highlight: the upcoming IIPhDW will take place from 5 to 7 May 2027 at Wismar University. Professor Ahrens, who will serve as conference chair, emphasises: ‘It is a great pleasure for us to bring the conference back to Wismar after 2019 and 2023, thereby further promoting scientific exchange across disciplinary boundaries’.