News + Events:

Regular Women in Vision Lunch: The Women in Vision Group Siegen is organizing a monthly lunch inviting female computer scientists across all stages of their academic carreer - Bachelor and Master Students, PhDs, PostDocs, and Professors! The goal of the event is an informal exchange. In particular, it can be used for younger students/academics to ask any kind of questions about study programs, becoming a PhD, spending time abroad, or carreer-related questions in industry or academia! Please contact Jovita Lukasik (Jovita.Lukasik@uni-siegen.de) and Natacha Kuete Meli (Natacha.KueteMeli@uni-siegen.de) if you are interested in joining!

January 15th, 2026 is the registration deadline for the sixth “Women in Optimization” workshop. It takes place at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal from March 25th -

27th, 2026. The workshop is aimed at female young scientists, female doctoral

students and female mathematics students with a focus on optimization. The goal of the workshop combines professional training and networking within the optimization community. The workshop language is German! The Women in Vision Group Siegen can support female students to attend. Please contact michael.moeller@uni-siegen.de (with a short motivation letter and your transcript) in case you are interested in attending!

Past News + Events

December 16, 2025: The Research Unit Learning to Sense welcomes Manuela Möller and Hanna Völkel from EAF Berlin for a day long workshop, training our diversity awareness. The sessions focus on the dynamics of power, unconscious biases, and communication in the work environment. Email Jan.Soehlke@uni-siegen.de if you are interested in joining in!

October 01, 2025: We are excited to have a second female professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Siegen! The Women in Vision Siegen congratulates and welcomes Jasmin Grosinger as a new professor for Visual Computing!

September 01, 2025: We are excited to have a female professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Siegen again! The Women in Vision Siegen congratulates and welcomes Jovita Lukasik as a new professor for Visual Computing!

August 26, 2025: We are excited to have Dr. Joana Grah from RKI visiting the Women in Vision Group! She is not only an academic role-model conducting excellent research, but also a co-founder of the platform Her Maths Story, raising awareness and giving visibility to important aspects of women in math, computer science and natural sciences!

June 12, 2025: The Women in Computer Vision Workshop In conjunction with the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) on June 12th , 2025, see https://sites.google.com/view/wicv-cvpr-2025 for details!

April 3, 2025 We are thrilled to announce our participation in this year's Girl's Day, on April 3rd 2025, at the University of Siegen, where we’ll introduce the exciting world of artificial intelligence and robotics with the topic: DIY-KI: Dein eigener Roboter mit Künstlicher Intelligenz! Register here: https://www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/universitaet-siegen.2/siegen/diy-ki-dein-eigener-roboter-mit-kuenstlicher-intelligenz

October 14, 2024, The Optica Women Scholars Programme call opens: This US$10,000 scholarship is available to women who are pursuing undergraduate and master's degrees in STEM fields like physics, chemistry, engineering, and others, focusing on optics and photonics. In addition to the financial support, recipients will be paired with a mentor, will gain access to Optica's global network of individuals and companies, including the generous donors listed below, and will have the opportunity to attend the Optica Women Scholars Conference. Find out more here

September 29, 2024 at 4:45 pm CET:  Natacha Kuete Meli, PostDoc researcher at the University of Siegen in the Computer Vision Group, will give an invited talk on "Quantum Binary Optimization" at the 2nd Workshop on Quantum Computer Vision and Machine Learning in conjunction with ECCV 2024. Find more information at https://qcvml.github.io.

The third Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference at TU Chemnitz, Germany. The event will take place on June 6 – 7, 2024.

More details as well as the registration form can be found on the website. Participation is free of charge. Registration deadline is May 30, 2024.

March 21, 2024 at 2:00 pm CET:  Simone Schaub-Meyer, visiting researcher from the TU Darmstadt will give a talk about "Efficient and Understandable Neural Networks for Image and Video Analysis". Please contact us if you are interested  in attending the seminar. 

March 14, 2024 at 2:00 pm CET:  Anna Kukleva, who is also a member of the "Women in Computer Vision Board",  will give a talk about "Advancing Image and Video Recognition with Less Supervision".  Please contact us if you are interested  in attending the seminar. 

March 5, 2024 at 2:00 pm CET: Natacha Kuete Meli will give a talk about "Quantum Computing for Binary Optimization and Beyond: Bridging Classical and Quantum Landscapes". 

May 19, 2022: The first Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference in Chemnitz will take place. It is a hybrid online and in-person conference, and the first 5000 students can register for free! For more information follow this link: www.widsconference.org/ 

January 25 2021, at 2:00 pm EST (11:00 am PST / 20:00 CET): Andrea Bertozzi will give a talk on "Pseudo-Spectral Methods for High Dimensional Data Analysis on Graphs" at the Faraway Fourier Talks. For more information follow this link: https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/FFT/2020/index.html

December  15, 2020: Dr. Friederike Laus, from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) will talk about "Side Channel Analysis with Deep Learning" in a live zoom session, which lies in exciting intersection of machine learning and information security.  Please contact us if you are interested  in attending the seminar.

November 23, 2020: Expedition Workshop Women. On Monday, November 23, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Capgemini's employees will show what their everyday project work looks like as a software engineer, IT architect, AI, UX or cybersecurity expert, business analyst, project manager or SAP consultant at Capgemini. The students can register directly via this link (Registration deadline is 02.November 2020):  https://capgemini-events.de/expedition_ws_women/

October 25-28, 2020:  27th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2020 is going to  be held virtually  during 25-28 Oct 2020.  https://2020.ieeeicip.org/

This year,  it is possible to attend this conference for free, as there is no registration fee.  If you are interested, you can register at the following this  link: https://cmsworkshops.com/ICIP2020/Registration.asp

October 9, 2020: Zorah Lähner (https://vision.in.tum.de/members/laehner) will give the first talk within the Women in Computer Vision Siegen initiative.  Please contact us if you are interested  in attending the seminar.

One World MINDS Seminar:

April 23, 2020: Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA) gave a talk to the topic "Epidemic modeling – basics and challenges"

June 4, 2020:  Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University) will give a talk on "The troublesome kernel: instabilities in deep learning for inverse problems"

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the One World MINDS Seminar.

June, 2020: The Women in Computer Vision workshop will take place in conjunction with CVPR in Seattle, USA.  For further information please follow this link: https://sites.google.com/view/wicvworkshop-cvpr2020/