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The WIBA group remained highly active during the lecture-free period and made intensive use of September for international conference participation.

The WIBA Group is excited: our paper “PARCO: Learning parallel autoregressive policies for efficient multi-agent combinatorial optimization” has been accepted at NeurIPS 2025!

Even without permanent facilities, RoboX Lab was active during the summer holidays: At the Open Day of the German Federal Government in Berlin, we presented humanoid robots together with the DLR School Lab. In addition, Prof. Xie gave an inspirational lecture for 10th grade students, followed by hands-on sessions with humanoid robots and robot dogs.

A new publication by the WiBA group was presented at the top AI conference KDD 2025 in Toronto.

At the Study Information Day on July 8, 2025, Prof. Dr. Lin Xie and Ami provided exciting insights into the Business Informatics program—from the structure of the program and semesters abroad to robotics and career opportunities.

We welcome Dr. Mohsen Nafar, who will be joining our team as a PostDoc on July 1, 2025. Welcome!

How can vehicle, crew, and charging infrastructure planning be efficiently integrated in public transport, especially with the introduction of electric buses? Our recently completed and positively evaluated DFG project delivers innovative answers and practical solutions.

Award-Winning Research: Our first contribution to the LION Conference received the Runner-Up Best Paper Award — a fantastic achievement and a strong start within the LION community.