SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
DECSYS, SBA’s Decentralized Systems Group, and their BRIDGE project SESC – Secure Execution of Smart Contracts have recently been featured as an FFG Success Story. DECSYS conducts research beyond hype topics like cryptocurrencies in order to achieve a better understanding of DLT requirements, identify… Read More
Starting today, the 26th conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA’2021) takes place in a virtual setting until next Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Dimitris Simos, the leader of SBA Research’s MATRIS research group, serves as the program chair. The conference is organized… Read More
Stephanie Jakoubi, SBA’s Head of Strategic Partner Management, has collected 200 inspiring stories from women in IT. We are also proud to welcome our 56th FEMtech intern and are piloting a new initiative for female STEM students. Read more here (in German). Read More
The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION15), hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. Panos Pardalos (General Chair), Dimitris E. Simos (TPC Chair) and Ilias Kotsireas (Local Organizing Chair) are welcoming contributors from 29 countries and are happy… Read More
In the pioneering days of information technology, women played an essential role – well-known examples are Ada Lovelace, who developed an algorithm and is considered the first female programmer ever, or Dorothy Vaughan, whose work contributed significantly to… Read More
Energy providers, banks or even healthcare organizations, if identified as operators of essential services, must ensure that their network and information systems are as resilient as possible in crisis situations. They are therefore required by the EU Directive on security of network and information systems (the NIS Directive), implemented… Read More
SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line. The first four years of our current COMET period (2017 – 2021) have been tremendously successful. We were able to… Read More
Meet three of SBA Research’s inspiring female colleagues! Although still a minority, women have tenaciously worked their way back to the center of ICT. SBA Research is proud to be the professional home to distinguished female experts and promising young talent alike, while also partaking in a wider network of women… Read More
The third edition of the sec4dev conference & bootcamp was a big success! 300 attendees from 16 countries grabbed the opportunity to boost their security skills. The packed 4 day program included 3 bootcamps, 2 special sessions free… Read More
Congratulations to Dimitris E. Simos (Key Researcher at SBA Research) for completing his Habilitation at Graz University of Technology. As of Jan.1st 2021, Dimitris is now Associate Professor (non-tenured track, venia docendi for Applied Computer Science) with… Read More
Professor Violet Syrotiuk from Arizona State University visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days of intensive research discussions and exchange from October 24-25, 2024. Prof. Syrotiuk is a distinguished researcher in mathematical system dynamics modeling, wireless networks, and algorithm development. ... ∞