Andreas Nautsch who is a member of the da/sec group since June 2014 won the FBTI Award of Excellence 2014 for his Master thesis „Speaker Verification using i-Vectors“. During his Master thesis Andreas Nautsch was student of the cooperative study program KoSI at Hochschule Darmstadt, where he worked at atip GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, during his Bachelor and Master programs. The Award was granted by the German-wide board of computer science faculties of universities of applied science (Fachbereichstag Informatik, FBTI).