Following the example of the well-known Forbes Under 30 campaign, TU Wien turns the spotlight on young people from TU Wien who have achieved great things in their careers. With “TUW Under 30”, we present 30 people under 30 years of age who have proven their potential in various areas and have distinguished themselves through extraordinary achievements. In the course of the campaign, TU students, alumni, and employees were able to apply or nominate others. The top-class jury with Klaus Fiala, chief editor of Forbes DA, founder of Legitary and Forbes “30 Under 30” Nermina Mumic, and head of the Innovation Incubation Center (i2c) at TU Wien Birgit Hofreiter has carefully selected the winners, nine of which from TU Wien Informatics.

Lukas Aumayr

Lukas Aumayr is a PreDoc researcher at the Research Unit for Security and Privacy. His research interests are mainly in cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the scalability of systems and off-chain protocols. Since fraud and data theft repeatedly occur in cryptocurrency transactions, Aumayr developed an improved transaction protocol in collaboration with the IMDEA Software Institute and Purdue University (USA). The team around Aumayr was able to present their findings last year at the Usenix Security Symposium, one of the “Big Four” IT security conferences worldwide.

Zahra Babaiee

Out of more than 200,000 participants in the National University, Entrance Examination in Iran, Zahra Babaiee placed a respectable 89th. She graduated with honors from Sharif UT (SUT) with a bachelor’s degree. She was then accepted to the Doctoral College for Resilient Embedded Systems at TU Wien Informatics. With her GPA of 1.0, the student is conducting research on bio-inspired, small and robust deep neural networks (cyber-physical systems). She has published her work at prestigious machine learning conferences such as the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). She was offered a research fellowship as part of her collaboration with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Luigi Berducci

Luigi Berducci is a PreDoc Researcher at the Research Unit for Cyber-Physical Systems. In the first year of his Ph.D., Berducci conducted research in the area of machine learning and safety in autonomous driving. He has published his results at ICRA, a leading conference on robotics, and other top-level conferences. He is also a member of the F1TENTH team “Scuderia Segfault,” winning first prize at the 9th F1/10 Autonomous Grand Prix 2021 and 3rd prize at the 10th Grand Prix 2022 at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Berducci is actively involved in activities with industry partners in the automotive sector.

Patrick Enzenberger

Patrick Enzenberger is president of the Space Team at TU Wien, an association with more than 100 members with technically and organizationally challenging projects and record attempts. The Space Team implements several projects in the field of aerospace; a special focus is on the experimental construction of rockets. Here, the TUW Space Team has already designed several solid and liquid rockets in the course of its work. Enzenberger studies computer engineering.

Andreas Ernhofer

Andreas Ernhofer studies medical informatics in our bachelor’s program at TU Wien Informatics. A few years back, he broke three cervical vertebrae in a severe accident and has been paraplegic ever since. Parallel to his studies, he worked with various therapists and thus found his way into professional sports as a swimmer. His highlights were two medals at European Championships and participating in the Paralympics in Tokyo 2020. Ernhofer has been undefeated at Austrian national championships since 2017 and holds 19 Austrian records in para-swimming. In the meantime, he is about to complete his bachelor’s degree and strives for an academic career in spinal cord research.