We are happy to share that Filip Simonovski received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 17th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2025), held from September 30 to October 3, 2025, in Madrid, Spain.

At the 17th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2025), held from September 30 to October 3 in Madrid, we were represented with two papers, both collaborations between our chair and colleagues from the University of Würzburg.

On Thursday, September 25, we went on our joint Oktoberfest trip with the Chair of Quantum Algorithms, led by Prof. Dr. Jakob Kottmann.

For the fifth consecutive year, Prof. Dr. Michael Seufert has been included in the prestigious Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists list. Prof. Seufert's repeated listing underscores the outstanding research conducted in his field and impressively demonstrates the international recognition and relevance of his scientific work.

The Third International Workshop on Machine Learning in Networking was a successful half day event held at Technical University of Ilmenau on September 1, 2025, where it was co-located with the Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2025). We would like to thank all the authors, reviewers, and attendants for their precious contributions towards the successful organization of the workshop!

On Tuesday, September 02, 2025, Prof. Dr. Michael Seufert had the honor presenting his paper, “Marina: Realizing ML-Driven Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring at Terabit Scale“, during the Hot Topic Talks for excellent journal publications at NetSys 2025 in Illmenau, Germany.

Today, our paper titled “I Choose You: Evaluating the Impact of Feature Selection on XAI Consensus for ML-NIDS” has been presented at the 3rd MaLeNe Workshop. In this work, we examine the hypotheses that feature selection methods can influence the level of consensus among different XAI methods.

In research, it is important for us to know which factors have the greatest impact on user satisfaction and what fundamental relationships are hidden within the data. This is where methods from explainable machine learning (XAI) can help, and we have written a tutorial paper on how such methods can be applied to QoE modeling.

On Friday, July 4, it was time again for our second NETCOM summer party! The focus was on fun and getting together. We started at the Wittelsbacher Park with games outside in the beautiful weather, before ending the day with a nice meal and relaxed chats at the Old University.

From June 25 to 27, 2025, Filip participated on the SLICES-RI / CONVERGE PhD Summer School in Porto, Portugal. The event was hosted by the research institute INESC TEC, located on the campus of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto.

 

On May 26 and 27, we were in Frankfurt with the chair! The aim of the excursion was to visit Deutsche Bahn Fernverkehr AG, where we were given an exciting insight into the topic of “WLAN in the ICE”. We also had the opportunity to explore the city of Frankfurt.  It were two great days with interesting impressions and a great atmosphere!