Our department is involved with research in many areas. We have individual groups focused on various topics ranging from biometrics, robotics, and embedded systems all the way to the theoretical fundamentals of computer science.

Even as a bachelor student, you will already have the opportunity to actively work on current research projects.

The following is a list of the research groups in our department:

Supervisor: Hon.-Prof. Dr. Carl-Herbert Rokitansky
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The Aerospace Group works on the continuing development of modern flight traffic systems with the help of flight simulators.

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Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Elsässer
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The Efficient Algorithms Group investigates various algorithms with an special focus on parallel and distributed systems.

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Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Tscheligi
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HCI is an interdisciplinary group investigating the interplay between computers and people. 

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Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marian Vajteršic
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The Scientific Computer Group works on various areas of theoretical and applied computer science. They focus mainly on logic, simulation, and computational intelligence.

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Head: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Nikolaus Augsten, PhD
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The Database group researches databases- and information systems with a focus on similarity searches in larger data amounts.

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Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Kirsch
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The Computational Systems Research Group investigates and works on areas such as: concurrency, memory management, logic, modelling, and formal languages.

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Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pree
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The Software Engineering Group works on software development. The current focus lies on cyber-physical systems and especially on autonomous vehicles and energy.

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Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Uhl
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The Visual Computing and Multimedia Research Group occupies itself with multimedia, security, image- and video compression, medical image classification and biometry.

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