For their paper “Privacy Preserving HMM Forward Computation”, Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf, Jan Metzke, Jan Rüth, Martin Henze and Klaus Wehrle were granted an Outstanding Paper Award at ACM SIGSAC CODASPY 2017 in Scottsdale, AZ, USA. Congratulations!
The company located in Bremen annually awards theses that promise an immediate practical impact on the application of open source software in professional environments. In the 2016 edition of the award, two COMSYS students were awarded for their theses: Benedikt Wolters took 2nd place and Roman Matzutt took 3rd place.
On January 20th 2017, Jó Ágila Bitsch successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
The COMSYS team developed a solution for searching an encrypted database for other patients with matching disease markers. The implemented solution is efficient and can be fully outsourced to the cloud. With this approach, our team finished runner-up to Microsoft Research in the iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition 2016.
The Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems will be hosting a one-day workshop with selected representatives from research and industry. The goal of this workshop is the establishment of new and the strengthening of existing research collaborations.
For his Bachelor’s thesis “Making Individual Cloud Usage of Smartphone Users Transparent”, COMSYS student David Hellmanns was awarded the young consumer researcher award 2016 (Nachwuchsförderpreis Verbraucherforschung 2016).
For their paper: “Automated Memoization for Parameter Studies Implemented in Impure Languages” Mirko Stoffers, Daniel Schemmel, Oscar Soria Dustmann, and Klaus Wehrle were granted the Best Paper Award at ACM SIGSIM PADS 2016 in Banff, AB, Canada. Congratulations!
The COMSYS team offers multiple researcher positions at the PhD and Post-Doc level.