AFCEA Study Award 2025 for two students enrolled in the MAS program

The non-profit association AFCEA Bonn e.V. has once again awarded its prestigious study prize in 2025. The prize was awarded for outstanding bachelor's and master's theses in computer science, communications and radar technology, automation technology, and robotics. A jury of experts evaluated the submissions from the Aachen–Bonn–Koblenz area and from the German Armed Forces universities in Hamburg and Munich in a demanding peer review process.

The topics ranged from cybersecurity in networked systems to the analysis of unusual radar wave propagation and agent-based control methods. A total of 16 papers were entered into the competition.

The award ceremony took place on October 1, 2025, at the Bonn IT Dialogue. Seven young scientists received a certificate and prize money, presented by Dr. Michael Gerz. The AFCEA Study Prize was endowed with a total of 21,000 euros.

The Department of Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences is particularly pleased about the award given to two students from the Master's program in Autonomous Systems (MAS):

• Allen Isaac Jose, 2nd place
  Supervisors: Prof. Sebastian Houben (H-BRS) and Prof. Maren Bennewitz (University of Bonn)
  Title of master's thesis: Graph Optimization for View Motion Planner - Prize money: €4,000
• Kishan Ravindra Sawant, 3rd place
  Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Houben (H-BRS) and Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender (University of Bremen)
  Title of master's thesis: Knowledge-Based Adaptation of Robotic Control and Estimation Architectures in the Presence of Uncertainty - Prize money: €1,000

The Department of Computer Science congratulates both award winners on their outstanding achievements and would like to thank their supervising professors for their dedicated support.