Germany Section Computer Society Chapter

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Chapter Overview

The IEEE German Section – Computer Society Chapter (C16) aims to strengthen the connection between science and business by fostering activities that enhance collaboration and inclusivity. Initiatives to increase the participation of students and researchers are pivotal, including webinars and virtual labs for continuous learning, such as programming language tutorials. Recognizing academic excellence through best thesis awards for bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. projects encourages engagement and growth within the community. Additionally, supporting student branches and organizing conferences provides a platform for like-minded individuals to share their research and address mutual concerns, creating a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Executive Committee 2024/25

Chair, Kawa Nazemi is a full professor of Human-Computer-Interaction and Visual Analytics in the Department of Computer Science of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

- - Director of HCI & Visual Analytics
  - Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence
  - Deputy Director of the Research Center for Applied Computer Science
  - Reviewer: European Commission, BMBF, BMWK, DAAD, Humboldt Stiftung,…

Vice Chair, Ayesha Afzal is a researcher at the professorship for High Performance Computing at Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU), Germany.

Bachelor in Electrical Engineering
Master in Computational Engineering
Top 100 Future Leaders Role Model List in 2022 and 2023 supported by Yahoo Finance and YouTube
WearetheCity’s Global Award for Achievement 2023

Vice Chair, Andreas Reinhardt is a full professor and head of the Energy Informatics group at TU Clausthal, Germany. Prior to joining TU Clausthal, he was a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his doctoral degree with distinction from TU Darmstadt, Germany, in 2011, and his diploma degree (equivalent to M.Sc.) from the same university in 2007.

He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the Extended Steering Board of KuVS, the GI/ITG special interest group on “Communication and Distributed Systems”, and Vice-President Technical & Conference Activities at the IEEE Computer Society.

Secretary, Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2012, the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in 2014, the M.Sc. degree in innovation in information and communication technology from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 2014, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in computer science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2022. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher with the Chair of Computer Engineering, University of Passau.

Additionally, he is the Chair of the German Chapter of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society, and the Vice Chair of the German Chapter of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the German Chapter of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, the German Chapter of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and the German Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, as well as the Secretary of the German Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. Moreover, he is also a member of ACM, IACR, GI, KIVI, VDE, VDI, and AMS. For more information, see https://www.anagnostopoulos.academy/.

Treasurer, Alex Böhm