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2026 Leibniz Prize

BIFOLD co-director Klaus-Robert Müller honored with Germany’s most prestigious research award

Elected to Leopoldina

BIFOLD Co-director Volker Markl has been elected as a member of Leopoldina.

AI "thinks" like us

Computer vision models learn the hierarchical structure of human conceptual knowledge. This not only makes the representations of these models more human-like, and therefore more interpretable, but also improves their predictive power and robustness.

Berlin AI Square

Creating one of Europe’s most dynamic AI clusters

SIGMOD 2025 review

Berlin hosted this year’s SIGMOD/PODS conference, one of the leading conferences in data management.

BIFOLD DAY 2025

On April 30, 2025, BIFOLD celebrated BIFOLD Day 2025 - welcoming researchers, policymakers, and industry representatives at the Forum Digitale Technologien in Berlin.

The Age of AI

Video: Panel Discussion featuring Sam Altman (OpenAI), Nicole Büttner (Merantix Momentum), Fatma Deniz (TU Berlin) and Volker Markl (BIFOLD).

ERC Starting Grant

Alexander v. Lühmann has been awarded an ERC Grant for his project to combine wearable neurotechnology and multimodal ML.

June 02, 2026

BIFOLD Research Reveals a Blind Spot in Software Security

Malicious code need not be concealed within software itself. It can be embedded in seemingly harmless documentation. BIFOLD researchers demonstrate how large language models can hide executable functionality in natural-looking files, enabling difficult-to-detect attacks during the software build process. Presented at ACM AsiaCCS 2026.

June 02, 2026

Berlin Summer School of AI and Society

How do you design AI systems that act autonomously while remaining safe, transparent, trustworthy, and accountable? Join the 2026 Berlin Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society in Berlin to explore this question. Places are limited to 50. Applications close June 30, 2026.

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EVENTS

June 06, 2026 | Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Anna-von-Helmholtz-Bau, Marchstraße 25, 10587 Berlin, 1. OG, Raum 104

Wie „denken“ ChatGPT & Co.? Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen. (LNDW 2026)

How do ChatGPT & Co. actually "think"? Join us as we pull back the curtain on large language models. No prior knowledge needed. Discover how AI juggles probabilities, makes things up, and how smart prompting steers it. Held in German.

June 06, 2026 | Campus PTB Berlin, Anna-von-Helmholtz-Bau; Marchstraße 25, 10587 Berlin 1. OG, Raum 105/106

Science Slam "Garbage in - Garbage out" (LNDW 2026)

At LNDW 2026, BIFOLD teams up with some of its Berlin AI Square partners (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB) for a Science Slam all about Artificial Intelligence. The slam will be held in German.

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OPPORTUNITIES

BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.

Research Associate (PostDoc, DIMA, E14, IV-181/26)

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PUBLICATIONS

Mohammad Ebrahimi Fard, Felix Weissberg, Erik Imgrund, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Konrad Rieck

Shape-Shifting Malicious Code in Software Backdoors via Language Models

June 03, 2026

https://mlsec.tu-berlin.de/docs/2026-asiaccs.pdf

Philipp Anders, Marvin Sextro, Katja Lingelbach, Kai Standvoss, Suhas Pandhe, Sandip Ghosh, Cornelius Böhm, Stephan Tietz, Rosemarie Krupar, Lars Tharun et al.

ADC target profiling in NSCLC: Generalizable AI separates TROP-2 and cMET phenotypes

May 26, 2026

https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-4513

Tobias Labarta, Maximilian Dreyer, Katharina Weitz, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin

From Attribution to Action: A Human-Centered Application of Activation Steering