Prof. Björn Krüger was invited to deliver a keynote at the Symposium on AI in Medicine & Food Science in Bonn (https://albarqouni.github.io/funded/symposium/).His talk, titled “Seeing, Sensing, Securing: AI in Modern Medicine,” explored current and emerging applications of AI in clinical […]
The VIRTOSHA Project at MEDICA 2025
Yesterday, Anna Jansen and Kristian Welle presented our VIRTOSHA project in the Innovation#Area at the NRW state booth at MEDICA. In a short talk, Kristian outlined the project’s goals and technical approach. A particular highlight was the drilling simulation demo […]
Panel “AI for Health and Health for AI”
Prof. Björn Krüger was invited to participate in the panel “AI for Health and Health for AI” at the University of Saskatchewan. In his talk, “AI for Health: From Targeted Algorithms to Real-Life Impact,” he presented current research from the […]
University of Bonn’s “F*ckUp Night”
Prof. Björn Krüger recently spoke at the F*ckUp Night hosted at the International Club of the University of Bonn, sharing personal experiences of failures, unexpected career turns, and rejected papers—topics that rarely appear in academic presentations but resonate strongly with […]
🎉 Exciting News to Close the Year! 🎉
As the year comes to an end, we’re thrilled to share some updates from our research group: several of our submissions have been accepted for conferences in 2025! Accepted Contributions – Dreiländertagung Epilepsie 2025 in Salzburg:✅ Digital Transformation of Blood […]
Eye-Tracking Workshop at the UKB
On November 22 we held an interdisciplinary eye-tracking workshop at the UKB to share experience with eye-tracking technology from Pupil Labs, Tobii, and Eyelink. We had talks from Philip Büchel, Tim Guth and Laura Nett (AG Kunz, UKB), Zuzanna Laudańska […]
VIRTOSHA in the General-Anzeiger
“Damit die Fehler nur in der Simulation passieren” (“So that mistakes only happen in the simulation”; German, paywall) was the headline of the General-Anzeiger in its recent weekend edition, providing insight into our VIRTOSHA project. Based on an interview with […]
🌟 The team is growing! 🌟
I’m very excited that I’ve been able to strengthen my team with many talented and motivated new faces over the past few weeks. Today, we had our first internal workshop, where we not only worked on our upcoming exciting projects […]
Kickoff Meeting for VIRTOSHA Project
We are excited to announce that our groundbreaking research project, VIRTOSHA (an authoring tool for Virtual Reality training simulations of osteosynthesis with haptic feedback and tissue simulation), has officially started! 🎉 On July 5th, 2024, we held the kickoff meeting, […]
Visit from the Junior Engineering Academy
Last Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting students from the 10th grade of the Junior Engineering Academy at LFS Bonn. The day began with an introduction to the topic, “What is Epilepsy?” This was followed by hands-on experiments at […]