Hall of Fame – Pro²Future

2025 Awards & Honors

Abdul Hadi, M. and Trabesinger, S.: Innovationspreis Steiermark 2025, Kategorie Digitalisierung: F&E-Institutionen. 2025. https://www.pro2future.at/ausgezeichnet-mit-dem-innovationspreis-steiermark-2025/

Abdul Hadi, M. and Trabesinger, S.: Innovationspreis Steiermark 2025, Kategorie Digitalisierung: F&E-Institutionen. 2025.

Brillinger, M., et al.: Best Paper Award: Prospects of Use of Hydrocarbon Waste as a Feedstock for the Production of Plastic Lubricants. Springer. 2025.

Mutlu, B.: Best Paper Award: Honorable Mentions in the Category “Impact on Business” for the Paper “Visual Exploration and Analysis of Simulation and Testing Data in Motor Engineering”. 2025.

Jelidi, A., Kajmakovic, A., Palmisiano, A., Sentobe, F., and Römer, K.: Best Paper Award: V-Models: LLMs for the Development Lifecycle of Safety-critical Systems. IEEE. 2025.

2024 Awards & Honors

Ember, Elisei: Best Paper Award: Improving the Correction of NLoS-Induced Ranging Errors in UWB Systems through Enhanced Labeling. IFIP 2024, 15th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). 2024

Jelidi, Amel: Best Poster Award: Transformer Analog Meter Reading through Classical and Altered Iterative Closest Points. COCONUT 2024 – International Conference on Comptungn, Communication Networks, and Ubiquitous Technologies (TUG Award). 2024.

Azadi, B., Haslgrübler, M., Anzengruber-Tanase, B., Sopidis, G., and Ferscha, A.: Editor’s Choice Dinstinction: Robust Feature Representation Using Multi-Task Learning for Human Activity Recognition. Journal Sensors, Volume 24, Issue 2, ArticleNo. 681. MDPI. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24020681

2023 Awards & Honors

Vukovic, M. and Thalmann, S.: Nominated for Best Paper Award “Causal Discovery in Manufacturing: A Structured Literature Review” (Decision 02/2024). Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing – Special issue: “Industry 4.0: Manufacturing and Materials Processing”. 2023.

Abdul Hadi, M.: ÖWGP Dissertationspreis “Data-driven and energy-efficient production optimization for manufacturing and assembly“. 2023.

2022 Awards & Honors

Anzengruber-Tanase, B., Sopidis, G., Haslgrübler, M., and Ferscha, A.: Best Technical Paper Award “Determining Best Hardware, Software and Data Structures for Worker Guidance during a Complex Assembly Task“. PETRA 2022.

Gashi, M., Mutlu, B., Lindstaedt, S., and Thalman, S.: Best Paper Award “No time to crash: Visualizing Interdependencies for optimal maintenance scheduling“. COGNITIVE 2022.

Ratiu, C.C., Assuncao, W.K.G., Haas, R., and Egyed, A.: Best Paper Award “Reactive links across multi-domain engineering models“. MODELS 2022.

Suschnigg, J., Mutlu, B., Koutroulis, G., Thalmann, S., Sabol, V., and Schreck, T.: Fraunhofer IDG and Visual Computing Groups of TU Darmstadt Honorable Mentions of BigDataResearch JOURNAL 2021 “Visual Exploration of Anomalies in Cyclic Time Series Data with Matrix and Glyph Representations“. 2022.

2021 Awards & Honors

Kajmakovic, A.: Best Poster Award “IOT as enabler of workers’ stress detection in manufacturing systems of the future“. IoT 2021.

Roland, W.: Best Paper Award “Modeling Fully Intermeshing Co-Rotating Twin Screw Extruder Kneading Blocks: Part B. Power Consumption and Viscous Dissipation“. SPE ANTEC 2021.

Salomon, E.: Best Poster Award “Comparison of Channel State Information driven and RSSI-based WiFi Distance Estimation“. EWSN 2021.

Sopidis, G.: Best Poster Award “Micro-Activities Recognition and Macro Worksteps Classification for Industrial IoT Processes“. IoT 2021.

2020 Awards & Honors

Brillinger, M.: Best Presentation Award “Additive manufacturing of salt hydrates: Primary process parameters and case study”. ICMEP 2020.

Brillinger, M.: Best Paper Award “Non Newtonian material behaviour in extrusion based 3D printing: Investigation of critical process parameters”. MCM 2020.

Ferscha, A.: Presidency of the ÖWGP. Austria. 2020.

2019 Awards & Honors

Abdul Hadi, M.: Best Paper Award “Adaptive Assembly Approach for E-Axles”. MMS2019 & MobilityIoT 2019.

Brillinger, M. and Bloder, M.: Best Poster Award “Axialflussmaschine – Neuartiges Motorkonzept verbessert Umweltbilanz von Elektroantrieben”. IONICA 2019.

Kraus, D.: Forschungspreis 2018 “Informationstechnologie” für die Masterarbeit “Approach for a novel optical network design for future automotive applications”. Österreichische Bundeskammer der ZiviltechnikerInnen. 2019.

Kraus, D.: Best Paper Award “Achieving Robust and Reliable Wireless Communications in Hostile In-Car Environments”. IoT 2019.

Trendafilov, D.: Best Paper Award “Importance of Coordination and Cultural Diversity for an Efficient and Flexible Manufacturing System”. COGNITIVE 2019.