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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🤖 AI-as-a-Service can make work more efficient – but what happens to sensitive company data? DAISY combines cybersecurity, psychology, practice & regulation to develop safer AI use. RC Trust researchers Steffen Becker, Magdalena Wischnewski & Greta Ontrup are involved. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌳 Linus Hany from the University of Basel is visiting Marjolein Fokkema’s group at RC Trust. On Sept. 30, he will present research on split-selection bias in multilevel decision trees at TU Dortmund University. 🕑 2:15 p.m. | Mathetower + Zoom 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How can machine-learning explanations become useful for scientific inference? At #ECDA2026, Marjolein Fokkema presented RuleSHAP: a new approach for computing Shapley values efficiently while also quantifying their uncertainty. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: ©Claudia Rahn/Hochschule Stralsund

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

⚖️ Welcome, Niklas Traser! His PhD project TruQALIA, a collaboration with the University of Trier, explores how trustworthy AI can help non-experts access and understand legal information. 🔍🤝 He joins Ivan Habernal’s TrustHLT group at RC Trust/RUB. 👉 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🎓 Dr. Linara Adilova is taking the next step: On October 1, she will join the University of Cologne as Professor of Machine Learning and build a new chair. Her research on foundational & trustworthy ML will continue – now with an additional focus on AI for Science. 🧠🔬 Congratulations, Linara! 🎉

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🏆 Philip Buczak received the DStatG prize for the best scientific publication produced as part of a doctoral thesis. fabOF predicts ordered outcomes. Its heuristic is faster than Ordinal Forest and showed promising predictive performance. 🌳📊 #Statistics #MachineLearning Photo: © Enjeda Cekaj

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🤖 AI doesn’t just answer. It can agree, challenge, and advise. Tuğrulcan Elmas joined the RC Trust to ask: Who should know, decide, and act in human-AI interaction? From disagreement to relationship advice to AI doing students’ work: when should AI help – and when should humans stay in control?

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From conference organization to research on human-AI interaction: RC Trust researchers took on different roles at #MuC26 in Duisburg. Giulia Barbareschi and Jonathan Liebers helped organize the conference, while RC Trust teams contributed across the program. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📊 Markus Pauly will be one of nine scientific experts advising Germany’s Federal Statistical Office on #Census2031. The group will contribute to the methodological development of the census, including data quality, record linkage, imputation and the use of existing register data. Photo: Julian Welz

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🌍 What can past climates tell us about future projections? At #StatistischeWoche2026, RC Trust’s Nils Weitzel showed how statistics can test climate simulations against observations and reconstructions – and reveal where regional uncertainties remain. 📊🌡️ 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🎓 Nico Föge has successfully defended his doctorate at TU Dortmund. “Branching into Uncertainty” asks how reliably we can explain which variables drive Random Forest predictions – especially when data are incomplete. 🌳📊 Congratulations, Nico Föge! 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #Statistics #PhD

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Welcome to RC Trust, Agathe Balayn! In Jat Singh’s Compliant and Accountable Systems group, she studies how AI systems are built, evaluated, and governed in practice – from AI supply chains to evaluation practices and trustworthy AI. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🔐 Digital sovereignty is also a question of trust. At the first Ruhr Innovation Lab Future Dialogue, RC Trust Scientific Director Nicole Krämer joined the debate on how people understand, assess, and use digital technologies. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #DigitalSovereignty Photo: Simon Bierwald

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🧪📊 Enes Ün from Sabancı University is spending an Erasmus+ internship in Markus Pauly’s group at TU Dortmund. Working with Marléne Baumeister, he explores MANOVA and simulation studies, testing statistical methods across different data scenarios. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #ErasmusPlus

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How can Bayesian methods help identify cause and effect? 🔎📊 Joe Suzuki, Professor Emeritus at Osaka University, visits Alexander Marx’s Chair of Causality for a talk on Bayesian ICA. 📅 Aug 10 | 11:00 📍 JvF 25, Room 303 + Zoom tu-dortmund.zoom.us/j/9918511901... #Causality #BayesianStatistics

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Marjolein Fokkema! The new professor at TU Dortmund University develops interpretable machine learning methods and improves uncertainty quantification in behavioral research. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #MachineLearning #Statistics #Psychology Photo: Julian Welz

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🤖 Can delegating decisions to AI make us more cooperative? At #ICSD2026 in Japan, Inês Terrucha presented RC Trust research with Nils Köbis on AI delegation, prosocial choices and self-interest. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #RCTRust #HumanAI

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Chris Köcher! Chris joins Daniel Neider’s group as a Postdoc, bringing expertise in automata, formal language theory & verification – including work on LLM expressivity. 🤖🔍 #TrustworthyAI #FormalMethods

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Paul Fink! Paul joins Daniel Neider’s group as a PhD student, bringing a background in philosophy, logic, multi-agent systems & formal methods. 🔍📐 #FormalMethods #TrustworthyAI

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Causal discovery under skewed noise. 📊🔎 Daniel Klippert from @a-marx.bsky.social’s Causality group presents an ICML 2026 poster on SkewD – a method for causal discovery when real-world data is skewed. 🎓 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #ICML2026 #Causality #MachineLearning #CausalSky

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🤖🔍 Ruhr Fellow David Broczkowski is studying transformer verification in Daniel Neider’s group at RC Trust. The internship combines AI research, formal methods, German practice and a first close look at academic life. 🇺🇸🇩🇪 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #TrustworthyAI #Verification

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🌍 International exchange also happens behind the scenes. Ulrike Guba from Markus Pauly’s chair at TU Dortmund University used Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for job shadowing at Leiden University – gaining insights into administration, academic rituals, and everyday university work. #ErasmusPlus

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🧪🤖 Can AI make chemical processes safer – and who checks the AI? Daniel Neider contributes to the 2nd DFG funding phase of FOR 5359, focusing on formal verification of neural networks for anomaly detection in sparse chemical process data. Photo©Schloss Dagstuhl – LZI GmbH, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Learning from cause and consequence 🤖🔎 Gabin Agbalé from @a-marx.bsky.social’s Causality group attended the Reinforcement Learning Summer School 2026 in Milan – connecting his PhD work on causal representation learning with international exchange. 🇮🇹🎓 #AI #Causality Photo: RLSS 2026/ELLIS Unit Milan

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Uncertainty is not a flaw in data science. It is part of making data science trustworthy. At RC Trust, Dr. Julian Rodemann discussed uncertainty quantification, statistical inference, and feedback loops in modern machine learning. Read more: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #TrustworthyAI #DataScience

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Research Explorer Ruhr 2026 brought three international early career researchers to RC Trust. Their visits connected mobility research, safe learning systems and statistics with possible future collaborations. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: Marquard/RUB

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

At #ACL2026 in San Diego, RC Trust researchers contributed three papers and one workshop on privacy in NLP, generative web search, and multimodal industry classification. With contributions by Ivan Habernal, Bilal Zafar, and Elisabeth Kirsten. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: Elisabeth Kirsten

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🐛 A centipede walks effortlessly – until the frog asks how. In a science communication essay written as a submission to the KlarText Prize, Dr. Linara Adilova explains why trustworthy deep learning needs more than impressive performance.🧠📐 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Illustration: AI-generated

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

💙 What makes a chatbot feel like a romantic partner? In her first publication, Paula Ebner explores romantic human-chatbot relationships together with Dr. Jessica Szczuka. Published in Technology, Mind, and Behavior. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #DigitalIntimacy #AICompanions

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Start with abilities, not assumptions. Laurianne Sitbon visited the Graduate School and Giulia Barbareschi’s chair to discuss inclusive co-design with people with intellectual disability. Message: smart technologies become more trustworthy when people can help shape them. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🎉 Jessica Szczuka has been appointed as one of ten new members of Die Junge Akademie. At RC Trust, she leads the Young Investigator Group INTITEC – Intimacy with and through Technology. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #DieJungeAkademie #RCTRUST Photo: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

AI can make science faster – but speed is not a quality check. 🚀 @johannesbreuer.com visited the RC Trust Graduate School to discuss AI, trust and research practice in the social and behavioral sciences. Transparency, quality, reproducibility:all are being reshaped by AI. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

AI in justice is no longer just theory ⚖️🤖 Ivan Habernal joined AI & JUSTICE in Prague and warned: if LLMs enter legal practice, rigorous evaluation, transparency & accountability must come first. 👉 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: Tomas Koref

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

At #ICA2026 in Cape Town, RC Trust researchers presented work on human–AI interaction, science communication, AI literacy, privacy, misinformation, and digital intimacy. A strong fit for a center asking how trustworthy technology is understood, communicated, and lived. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🧭 Corruption research meets digital responsibility. RC Trust and the University of Cologne co-host the 10th ICRN Forum in Duisburg. The organizing team includes members of Nils Köbis’ HUAM group, together with Anna Schwickerath from the University of Cologne. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #ICRN2026

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📚 Learning data can help identify students who need support early. But can a model trained in one course be trusted in another? A new paper led by Jakob Schwerter explores trustworthy learning analytics from an RC Trust-funded project. 🎓📊 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Credit: Rebecca Beiter

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🏆🌍 AI instead of waste! EDIH-DO has won the EDIH Network Award for Excellence 2026 for a transfer project with Stattküche GmbH and Markus Pauly’s group at TU Dortmund University.🍽️📊🌱 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photocredit: European Digital Innovation Hubs Network #TrustworthyAI #Sustainability

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📊🧬 Save the date! The 73rd Biometrical Colloquium will take place from 28 Feb–3 Mar 2027 at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Motto: Biostatistics in the era of AI: Kraftwerk or Tote Hose?🤖🎶 Markus Pauly is part of the Scientific Programme Committee. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #Biostatistics

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🧠 How do neural networks actually learn? At the BIFOLD & ELLIS workshop AI to Accelerate Scientific Understanding in Berlin, Dr. Linara Adilova presented RC Trust research on information theory, geometry, latent representations & generalization in deep learning. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🏆 Great news from #DIS2026 🇸🇬 Three international research collaborations involving Giulia Barbareschi will be featured – including a Best Paper Award and an Honorable Mention🌍 Topics ranged from 🤖 soft robots to 🎨 disability-led digital art rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo ©University of Singapore

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚀A great responsibility – and an incredible honor. Sven Mayer from RC Trust & TU Dortmund University will serve as Technical Program Chair for #CHI2027 together with Rosta Farzan (University of Pittsburgh). A major role in one of the world’s leading HCI conferences 🌉📄 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🤖❤️ When AI systems become emotionally persuasive, governance questions become personal. At #FAccT2026, J. Szczuka presents research on “relational accountability” and the regulation of AI companions together with H. Fraser and R. Ciriello. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Graphic: © AMC FAccT 2026

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📊 Reliable evidence needs reliable methods. Co-initiated by RC Trust PI Markus Pauly, a symposium in Göttingen explored new statistical methods for meta-analyses with few studies and small sample sizes. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #Statistics #RCTrust #MetaAnalysis

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📊🌍 TU Dortmund University welcomes Thomas Gerds from the University of Copenhagen for a guest lecture on causal inference and trustworthy health data research 🔬 The lecture was initiated by doctoral researcher Maria Thurow✨ 🗓 June 10, 2026 📍 IBZ, TU Dortmund University 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🎓🤖 Can we trust AI in education? At HAYEF AI4EDU 2026 in Istanbul, Dr. Meltem Aksoy discussed “calibrated trust” in AI: neither blind reliance nor rejection, but understanding what AI can do, where it fails & when humans must decide. 🧠🤝 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #TrustworthyAI #AIinEducation

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📊🎓 Paula Lorenz presented research based on her Bachelor’s thesis at CEN 🌍 Supervised by RC Trust PI Markus Pauly.🔬✨ 🔗https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/from-student-research-to-international-scientific-dialogue Photo: Jan-Bernd Igelmann

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🤖💕 When AI becomes emotionally close, new questions emerge. At #CPDP2026 in Brussels, Dr. Jessica Szczuka discussed intimacy, trust, privacy, and governance in human-AI relationships together with partners from Ruhr University Bochum, University of Kassel. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🤖💻 Can AI support industrial code review? At #ICST2026 🇰🇷, Meltem Aksoy presented RC Trust research co-authored with Igli Begolli & Daniel Neider on fine-tuned language models for C# code review. Key takeaway: AI can assist – but human expertise remains essential. 🧠🤝 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

How do you make complex AI understandable? 🤖📚 Congratulations to Ivan Habernal on being nominated for the Excellent Teaching Award 2026 at RUB 🎉 The nomination recognizes his course: 🧠 “Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning” 👉 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

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Research Center of Trustworthy Data Science and Security @rctrust.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Congratulations to Sabine Wehnert on successfully defending her PhD dissertation at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg 🎓⚖️ Her research explores how legal knowledge from textbooks can be structured and made searchable to support more transparent and trustworthy legal AI.

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