Welcome to the Computer Networks Research Group

The Computer Networks group conducts research and teaching activities focusing on networked systems of all kinds, ranging from cloud data centers to mobile devices. In the era of AI proliferation, networked systems have become critical infrastructures for supporting both the training and inference of large machine learning models. Our research explores how to make such networked systems more efficient and sustainable.

News

Best Pa­per Award @ WiOpt 2026

Our paper titled "Cells on Autopilot: Adaptive Cell (Re)Selection via Reinforcement Learning" won the Best Paper Award at the 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) held in Columbus, OH, USA.

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Pa­per Ac­cep­ted to Eur­oMLSys 2026

Our paper titled "Before the First Token: Benchmarking Data Preprocessing in Vision-Language Models" has been accepted to the 6th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys), to be held in Edinburgh, UK, on April 27, 2026.

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Pa­per Ac­cep­ted to WiOpt 2026

Our paper titled "Cells on Autopilot: Adaptive Cell (Re)Selection via Reinforcement Learning" has been accepted to the 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), to be held in Columbus, OH during June 3-6, 2026.

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Re­search

Detailaufnahme des Großcomputers Noctua an der Universität Paderborn.

We focus our research on networked systems and we strive to create concepts and methods to make networked systems, ranging from data centers to mobile/IoT devices, more efficient and sustainable for modern machine learning applications. Our goal is to create better programming tools, systems, and protocols, leveraging the capabilities offered by emerging hardware. Main research topics include: data center computing for machine learning and time-sensitive machine learning on mobile and IoT devices.  

Current Research Areas Publications

Teach­ing

Our teaching is focused on networked systems. Our recent, current, and upcoming course offerings are listed below. Note that the upcoming ones are projections based on offerings in last year and may be subject to changes. 

 

The following modules will be offered regularly in the coming years. 

  • Lecture: Computer Networks (BSc) - Winter Semsters
  • Lecture: Distributed Systems (BSc) - Winter Semesters
  • Lecture: Advanced Networked Systems (MSc) - Summer Semsters

Stu­dent Thes­is

We offer thesis projects at both bachelor and master levels continuously. 

Thesis Workflow Available Thesis Projects

Team

We are a dynamic, international team with members coming from different countries and with different backgrounds. 

Current Members Alumni