Würzburg Software Engineering Awards 2025 sponsored by F.S. Fehrer Automotive and the PASS Consulting Group

The Best Bachelor and Best Master Theses students of 2025 at the Chair of Computer Science II (Software Engeering) have been honored with the Würzburg Software Engineering Awards sponsored by F.S. Fehrer Automotive and the PASS Consulting Group. Starting from 2017, the Würzburg Software Engineering Awards are presented on an yearly basis at the Chair's WinterDay event.

Best Bachelor's Thesis and Runner-Up (sponsored by F.S. Fehrer Automotive)

• Best Thesis: B.Sc. Jonathan Hager: Towards Special-Purpose Hardware for the CKKS Cryptosystem. Bachelor Thesis, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, December 2024.
• Runner-Up: B.Sc. Edda Kulle: Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures: A Literature Review. Bachelor Thesis, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, April 2025.

Best Master's Thesis and Runner-Up (sponsored by the PASS Consulting Group)

• Best Thesis: M.Sc. Lukas Horn: Laying the Foundation for Homomorphic Training of Neural Networks: An Analysis of the Required Computational Accuracy. Master Thesis, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, March 2025.
• Runner-Up: M.Sc. Tobias Schneider: Teaching Homomorphic Encryption Using Design Based Iterations for Higher Education. Master Thesis, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, August 2025.