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Women* remain underrepresented in STEM disciplines. The International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11 draws attention to this. On the “Women* in Science” page, women* researchers from our faculty introduce themselves and their work.

With the "Green Inventors of the Year" Award, the University of Vienna recognizes individuals or teams who have developed innovative intellectual property with potential relevance to the green EU Missions (Water, Soil, Climate, Cities).

The Vienna Circuits Series continues with a talk by Joe Stacey (University of Sheffield) on February 20, 2026. The NLP Group of the subunit Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM) warmly invites all interested participants.

Job posting: Head of StudiesServiceCentre

The Faculty of Computer Science is looking for a committed individual to head the StudiesServiceCentre Computer Science, central information and communication hub for students and teaching staff.

Welcome to the Faculty, Bernhard Lutz!

Since the beginning of the year, Bernhard Lutz has been a Tenure-Track Professor in the subunit Workflow Systems and Technology (WST). His research focuses on how digital technologies can provide meaningful support to people and organisations in their everyday lives.

The NLP Group of the subunit Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM) warmly invites you to a talk by Leonie Weissweiler (Uppsala University) on January 16 at 11:00 AM. The talk is part of the Vienna Circuits series, a forum for research at the intersection of NLP, Computational Linguistics, and...

The aim of the E‑STEEM programme is the long-term advancement of female scientists in fields where they are underrepresented and the strengthening of the University of Vienna's international profile.

Congratulations to Franka Bause on her excellent dissertation "Efficient and Expressive Graph Learning" and for receiving the award.

IT-Security Researchers from the University of Vienna and SBA Research discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

A worldwide enumeration of accounts was possible due to a now closed privacy weakness in WhatsApp's contact discovery mechanism.

The NLP Group of the subunit Data Mining and Machine Learning (DM) warmly invites you to a talk by Yupei Du (Saarland University) on November 21 at 1:00 PM. The talk is part of the new Vienna Circuits series, a forum for research at the intersection of NLP, Computational Linguistics, and Cognitive...

Arndt von Haeseler among the most cited researchers worldwide in 2025

The Faculty of Computer Science congratulates former Professor of Bioinformatics and faculty member Arndt von Haeseler!

CISPA European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship

Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral students are invited to apply for the 24-hour weekend hackathon by November 21, 2025. The top-ranked teams will present their solutions to a jury of experts and have the chance to participate in the Grand Finale in St. Ingbert, Germany.

The workshop challenge at the IEEE VIS 2025 tasked participants with creating fully autonomous AI systems that automatically analyze data and generate insightful, interactive reports.

David Schmidt, Sebastian Schrittwieser, and Edgar Weippl received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work "Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps". Further information...

CS-Colloquium with Prof. Frank Leymann: "Post-Quantum Security - Verschlüsseln im Zeitalter des Quantencomputers"

The Faculty of Computer Science and the subunit Cooperative Systems cordially invite you to the CS-Colloqium with Prof. Frank Leymann on the topic "Post-Quantum Security - Verschlüsseln im Zeitalter des Quantencomputers".

Guest Lecture by Sara Di Bartolomeo: "Information Visualization Perspectives on Network Visualization"

The subunit Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) warmly invites you to the lecture in SR 6 at the faculty building on Währinger Straße 29.

ENTER_DAY for students of Bioinformatics

On October 2 new students of Bioinformatics will be welcomed to the faculty by the students' representatives! Besides tipps and networking opportunities through other students there will be insights into the programme's early phases by Dr. Heiko Schmidt and Vize-SPL Prof. Ivo Hofacker.

All new master’s students at the Faculty of Computer Science, as well as those who already started in the summer semester of 2025, are warmly invited to join the ENTER_DAY for Master's Students at 2:00 PM!

Guest Lecture by Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez (University of Seville): "Taming Process Complexity: Visual and Configurable Approaches"

The subunits Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) and Workflow Systems and Technology (WST) cordially invite you to the lecture on August 13 at 11:00 AM in SR 10 (Währinger Straße 29).

Karen Azari has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna and a member of the subunit Theory and Applications of Algorithms (TAA) at the Faculty of Computer Science since February 1, 2025, where she conducts research in the field of cryptography. To mark the start of her position at...

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