On October 20th, 2026, Sotaro Takeshita successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Scholarly Document Summarization: from Foundation to Application” at the University of Mannheim, with the highest distinction: summa cum laude. Congratulations, Sotaro!
More Info
The streaming platform Twitch has become an important social environment where players and viewers interact in real time, form communities, and develop shared norms. At the same time, these communities can be affected by harmful behavior, including harassment, abusive language, and discrimination.
The summer semester 2026 edition of our Game Engineering course (GAE) has come to an end, and once again the students were in it with a lot of fun and motivation. The result: 14 playable games, all built in Godot and all playable directly in the browser.
Mental health matters just as much as physical health — and academia is no exception. Kai Eckert has completed the MHFA Ersthelfer course and is now certified as a Mental Health First Aider.
In the upcoming winter term, we offer three elective courses: Advanced Natural Language Processing (ANLP, Master), the Virtual Reality Projekt (VRP, …
This year marks ten years since our research group began collaborating with Deutsche Welle (DW). Yesterday, Kai Eckert visited DW in person to mark …
On June 15, 2026, Kai Eckert returns to the Zentrum für Lehre und Lernen (ZLL) at Mannheim Technical University with a follow-up talk in the lecture …
On June 10, 2026, Kai Eckert will give a talk at the Liselotte-Gymnasium Mannheim as part of their Medienabend (Media Evening) — an event organized …
On April 2nd, 2026, Florian Rupp gave an invited guest lecture at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In his talk, “Procedural Content …
The course “Immersive Worlds — VR and Stage” (Virtual Reality Project, VRP, Winter Term 2025/26), co-created by JAVASCRIPT …
