Major WWTF funding for TU Wien projects
Funding for CAIML members from the 2025 call for proposals on “Information and Communication Technologies
At this year’s WWTF ICT Call, 12 projects with a total funding volume of over €9 million were selected: TU Wien is involved in all 12 projects: TU Wien Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window is leading seven projects, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is leading two. Although the University of Vienna, opens an external URL in a new window and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, opens an external URL in a new window are leading the remaining three projects, support from co-principle investigators (CO-PIs) for these projects also comes from TU Wien Informatics. This means that none of the 12 projects are without the involvement of TU Wien!
Through its Information and Communication Technology (ICT) calls, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) supports research that advances our understanding of fundamental questions in computer science and related disciplines. The program welcomes a broad range of projects—from theoretical computer science to interdisciplinary research with real-world applications. While its core focus is on pushing the frontiers of ICT, applicants are also encouraged to consider the medium-term social and economic impacts of their work. The WWTF supports outstanding research projects selected through rigorous criteria and highly competitive review processes. With substantial financial backing, researchers are empowered to pursue bold, innovative ideas at the forefront of their fields. By aligning funding priorities with pressing societal challenges and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration across institutions, the WWTF aims to strengthen the societal relevance and impact of scientific research.
Congratulations to everyone involved in the project on this truly outstanding achievement.
The projects of the Faculty of Informatics
- Advancing learning paradigms for photonic quantum processors
Ivona Brandić and Vincenzo De Maio, Research Unit Computational Sustainability als Co-PIs - Cross-Domain Privacy-Preserving Protocols and Symmetric Cryptography
Elena Andreeva and Georg Fuchsbauer, Research Unit Security and Privacy - Foundations and Applications of Resource-Restricted Cryptography
Dominique Schröder, Research Unit Privacy Enhancing Technologies als Co-PI - From Structures to Vectors: Decoding How Knowledge Graph Characteristics Shape Embedding Strategies
Emanuel Sallinger and Katja Hose, Research Unit Databases and Artificial Intelligence als Co-PIs - Haptic 4D Printing for Enhanced Sensemaking
Daniel Pahr and Renata Raidou, Research Unit Computer Graphics - Instant Visualization and Editing of Arbitrarily Large 3D Data Sets
Bernhard Kerbl and Markus Schütz, Research Unit Computer Graphics - Learning Abstractions for Generalized Reasoning in AI
Zeynep G. Saribatur and Nysret Musliu, Research Unit Databases and Artificial Intelligence, und Thomas Eiter Research Unit Knowledge-Based Systems - Optimal Cross-Chain and Cross-Layer Protocols (CROSS)
Zeta (Georgia) Avarikioti and Matteo Maffei, Research Unit Security and Privacy - Promt: Probably the Best Moment to Terminate
Laura Kovács, Research Unit Formal Methods in Systems Engineering, and Ezio Bartocci, Research Unit Cyber-Physical Systems - Verifying Without Loss of Generality
Adrian Rebola Pardo and Georg Weissenbacher, Research Unit Formal Methods in Systems Engineering
The projects of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
- Efficient Self-Supervised Machine Learning for Adaptive Wireless Communication Systems
Stefan Schwarz, Research Unit Wireless Communications - Diffusion-Based Robot Control Policy with Safety Awareness and Generalization
Dongheui Lee, Research Unit Autonomous Systems
The projects with TU Wien participation
- Advancing learning paradigms for photonic quantum processors
Philip Walther (University of Vienna) - Foundations and Applications of Resource-Restricted Cryptography
Karen Azari (Formerly Klein) (University of Vienna) - From Structures to Vectors: Decoding How Knowledge Graph Characteristics Shape Embedding Strategies
Reka Marta Sabou (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
The jury
Anne-Marie Kermarrec (Chair, EPFL), Alexander Maedche (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Fosca Gianotti (Scuola Normale Superiore), Mennatallah El-Assady (ETH), Petar Popovski (Aalborg University), Alfons Kemper (TU München), Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool), and Tamara Rezk (INRIA).