Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security

🫀 Our hearts might echo each other more than we think.

@roydongoldsack.bsky.social from @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social is visiting the Causality Group at RC Trust, invited by Alexander Marx (@a-marx.bsky.social), Chair of Causality group and Professor of Statistics.

🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

Call for Abstracts open!🎉

The 2nd AI Workshop: Research - Practice - Working World will take place on 17 March 2026 at the DASA Arbeitswelt exhibition in Dortmund.

We are inviting to an interdisciplinary exchange - and look forward to abstracts until 1 October! More details on our website👀

We're hiring! I'm looking to fill a PhD position in Human-AI Interaction in the @rctrust.bsky.social at the @tu-dortmund.bsky.social – exploring how humans and AI interact, adapt, & collaborate. see sven-mayer.com/2025/06/30/h...
#hiring #job #joboffer #phd #research #hci #humanAiIInteracion #AI

We would like to draw your attention to next Thursday's hybrid AI Colloquium "Recent advances in Concept Learning" with Prof. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo! 🥳

It takes place on 10 July, 2025, 10:15am to 11:45am in Dortmund, Joseph-von-Fraunhoferstrasse 25, 3. Floor, Room 303.

We are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Martin Zimmermann! 🎉

🗓️ The talk titled "Game-based Model-Checking of HyperLTL" will take place on Tuesday, 8 July, at 3:00 p.m. at JvF 25, Room 303 in Dortmund.

More details on our website: rc-trust.ai

📸 by Aalborg University

🚀 The EuADS Summer School 2025 is all about Automated Data Science!

🗓️ July 8 to 11 2025

Register until 20 May, 2025!

All details on the EuADS website: www.euads.org/fjkdlasjdigl...
and our website: rc-trust.ai/news

Welcome, Rebekah Overdorf!🥳

We are very happy that you will enrich our team! More details can be found here: news.rub.de/english/2025...

📸 © RUB, Marquard

RC Trust in CHI conference program 2025!🎉

The CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems takes place from Apr 26 to May 1, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan. 

Our researchers can be found in many sessions and paper workshops.🙌 More details on our website and the CHI's ones.

CHI 2025: A sixth RC Trust paper has been accepted! 🥳

Six of our researchers' papers have been accepted for the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025.

More details on our website: rc-trust.ai/news

🚀 From 25 to 27 June, the Summer School - organised jointly by CASA and RC Trust - will take place at Ruhr-Universität Bochum!
It will focus on current topics relating to cyber and social security in the age of AI.

Registration on the website until the end of April: casa.rub.de/veranstaltun...

CHI 2025: Five RC Trust papers accepted!🎉

The CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems takes place from Apr 26 to May 1 in Yokohama. We are delighted to announce that five of our researchers' papers were accepted!

More details can be found on our website: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

It was a great week in Berlin at DAGStat2025 from 24 to 28 March for our RC Trust scientists!🎉

Markus Pauly was co-organiser of seven sessions. Alexander Marx was chair of one of them. Daniel Klippert received the Bernd-Streitberg-Preis and Marlies Hafer presented a poster...👏

📸 by Markus Pauly

Congratulations, Daniel Klippert!👏

PhD student Daniel Klippert was honored with the Bernd Streitberg Award 2025 for his master thesis "An Analysis of Causal Inference Methods for Competing Risks".🎉

The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly and Prof. Dr. Sarah Friedrich-Welz.

📸 by Pauly

⏩The Joint Statistical Meeting of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik will take place for the 7th time in Berlin. High-calibre guests from all over the world will meet under the theme ‘Statistics in times of AI’. Including, of course, our RC Trust researchers.

🔗 All details on the website!

The ‘Emerging Technologies in Medicine’ conference will take place from 24 to 25 March. AI experts and healthcare visionaries will meet here.

📍 Lehr- und Lernzentrum, Virchowstraße 163a, Essen

🖊️ Registration is still open!

All information here: lnkd.in/ekn-xnri and our website: rc-trust.ai/news

Prof. Lee talking to the audience

As part of the “UA Ruhr Distinguished Lecture Series Trustworthy AI", Edward A. Lee spoke to around 250 guests and around 130 listeners on Zoom.🎉

Detailed information on the lecture can be found on our website: rc-trust.ai

📸 by Hesham Elsherif/TU Dortmund

The third Hardware Reverse Engineering Workshop (HARRIS) will take place from March 17 to 18, 2025 at the RUB.
It's co-organised by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, the CASA Excellence Cluster and us, the RC Trust.

Registration is still open - details on the CASA and our website 🚀

➡️ AI at Work: A Science Practice Network
Network meeting on 11 March, organised by Dr. Greta Ontrup from our RC Trust team.

🕞 4:30 - 5:30 pm
🗣 Networking and impulse talk by Sophie Berretta
🚀 Topic: Human factors and needs in the design of human–AI work

Details: www.linkedin.com/events/aiatw...

From February 6 to 7, Prof. Alexander Marx visited the LMU in Munich for an invited talk on “Causal Discovery: What can we learn from heterogeneous noise?”.
Thank you to the welcoming host Prof. Stefan Feuerriegel, the Director of the Institute for AI in Management!

📸photo by Alexander Marx

Vor der Bundestagswahl 2025: Team der TU Dortmund ermittelt Fehleranfälligkeit von KI-Wahlhilfen
Wahlhilfe-Tools, die auf Künstlicher Intelligenz basieren, bieten neue Möglichkeiten, sich interaktiv über die Wahlprogramme der Parteien zu inf...
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❗Room change❗The lecture and the following discussion will take place in HG1/HS6 at the South Campus of TU Dortmund University!
All current information can be found on our website: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...
We look forward to seeing you 🎉

On February 20, Prof. Edward Lee, UC Berkeley, will talk about "Will Embodied AI Become Sentient?" as part of our new Lecture Series.

🗓️ February 20th, 2:15 pm
🏠 Otto-Hahn-Strasse 14, Lecture Hall E23

The program starts at 10am & you can register online!

Details: rc-trust.ai

The Dagstuhl Seminar on “Logic and Neural Networks” took place from February 2-7! The RC Trust was also represented: Prof. Dr. Daniel Neider, head of our group Verification and Formal Guarantees of Machine Learning, co-organized the event! 📑🚀

Details: rc-trust.ai

📷 ©SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL - LZI GMBH

From July 9 to 11, 2025, the 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference is multi- and interdisciplinary.
📰 Papers can still be submitted!

All information on our website: rc-trust.ai/news

📅 Event tip:

Talk on ethical AI by Dr. Sherri Rose (Stanford University) on January 30 - as part of the IBS distinuished lecture series!

➡️ More details: www.biometricsociety.org/education/dls

Explore the University Alliance Ruhr with a #research visits (June 22nd - July 5th ) for #PhD & #PostDoc candidates. Apply until Feb 16th:👉 research-academy-ruhr.de/programm/res...

We will host multiple candidates and offer additional 2-year-PostDoc opportunities!🎉

📸 by TU Dortmund

Great news by political decision makers:

RC-Trust funding is now a permanent part of University Alliance Ruhr leading to three new hires of professors in 2025 and four more in 2026!🎉 More young investigator groups and extending our graduate school in #trustworthy #AI!👏

Christmas #celebrations at RC Trust: Here are a few impressions of our celebrations some days ago.🎄

We would like to take this as an opportunity to wish you a relaxing festive season and a happy #newyear 2025!🎉

📸 by Nicole Krämer

Postdoc Jonas Rieger

RC Trust Seed Funding boosted the acquisition of a third-party #Funding!🥳

Jonas Rieger, Postdoc @TU_Dortmund receives funding for the joint #project “Social (in)justice in the energy transition - from the digital debate to the living world”.

📸by Felix Schmale/TU Dortmund

Excited about AI and interdisciplinary research? Join the fully funded RC-Trust Internship Program!

📍 Ruhr Area
💼 Open to Bachelor, Master, PhD & industry professionals
📅 Summer deadline: Dec 31, 2024

All information on our website: rc-trust.ai/career/inter...