Welcome to the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics
The Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI) is a research institute of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the Helmholtz Association (HGF). It conducts research and development in the field of innovative, application-oriented information, automation, and systems technology for sustainable energy systems and complex industrial and laboratory processes. Interdisciplinary working groups are working on integrated systems solutions, whereby all development phases being covered from conceptual design to modeling and simulation, prototyping and practical testing, also under industrial conditions. Novel, reusable methods and tools, which are developed and applied in the context of system design, are further results.
The work of IAI is embedded in the program Energy System Design (ESD) within the HGF's research field Energy and in the programs “Engineering Digital Futures: Supercomputing, Data Management and Information Security for Knowledge and Action”, Natural, Artificial and Cognitive Information Processing (NACIP) and Material Systems Engineering (MSE) within the HGF's research field Information of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres.
The projects at the institute are carried out in cooperation with partners from industry, administration and other research institutions in Germany and abroad. Among others, the institute is involved in projects of the EU, various federal and state ministries, the DFG (German Research Foundation), AiF (German Federation of Industrial Research Associations), and German industry. The institute's staff members are active in a wide range of standardization committees, expert and review committees and programme committees.
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Am 18.03.2025 veranstaltete die TransnetBW an der Uni Stuttgart das erste Inno-Forum unter dem Motto „Digitale Energiewende – Wissenschaft trifft Industrie und Netze“. Themen waren u. a. Digitale Energiewendelösungen aus BW, Sektorkopplung, Mobility und Lastseitige Flexibilität.
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Pages 76 to 79 of the 2024 issue of NEULAND magazine on innovation at KIT contain a detailed report on the “Diversity Scanner” and how automation is revolutionizing our knowledge of biodiversity. This biodiversity research project uses artificial intelligence to identify insects.
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From March 10 to 13, 2025, the scientific evaulation of Helmholtz Energy, the Helmholtz Research Field Energy, took place. The Helmholtz Program Energy System Design (ESD) was also assessed. Innovative approaches for the sustainable transformation of the energy system were presented, including by researchers of the IAI.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Xinliang Dai on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Distributed Optimization Algorithms for Nonlinear Programming in Power Systems”. The exam date was on February 28th.2025.
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Prof. Veit Hagenmeyer, Director of the IAI, and Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer, University of Münster, receive funding from the DFG's Reinhart Koselleck Program for the critical analysis of energy transition models and their impact.
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PhD student Luca Deininger had the opportunity to work as a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2024. This collaboration resulted in a publication in Nature Communications.
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As part of the MINToring program, an inspiring workshop on work-life balance took place on Friday, January 17, 2025. Mentors and mentees actively shared their own experiences and gathered new ideas for better work-life balance.
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The IAI congratulates Mr. Qi Liu on passing his doctoral examination. The title of his doctoral thesis is “Cross-Machine Multi-Phase Advanced Persistent Threat Detection and Investigation via Provenance Analytics”. The exam date was on February 7th, 2025.
moreTo the list of all student theses (Bachelor and Master theses as well as HIWI-Student projects)
To the list of all student theses (Bachelor and Master theses as well as HIWI-Student projects)