NEWS
Memphis paper receives 2026 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
The SIGMOD community honors the research of BIFOLD researchers Arnab Phani and Matthias Böhm. Their work on eliminating the inefficient reuse of intermediate computations across multi-backend machine learning systems addresses a key challenge at the intersection of data engineering and ML.
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Haralampos Gavriilidis
From fixing a broken childhood computer to reshaping how the world shares information: Dr. Harry Gavriilidis is on a mission to make querying across disconnected databases faster, cheaper, and simpler, because in a data-driven world, fragmentation is a fundamental problem.
EVENTS
kennedy+swan: The Red Queen Effect
Starting January 26, 2026, the foyer of the Rahel Hirsch Center will host a new exhibition dedicated to a topic central to research at BIH and Charité: Artificial Intelligence.
04/2026 BIFOLD Colloquium
Nesime Tatbul is a senior research scientist at Intel's Parallel Computing Lab (PCL) and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). In this colloquium she will present examples from her recent research in data management for modern observability in response to challenges and opportunities that arise due to advances in AI.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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PUBLICATIONS
Nikolai Merkel, Ruben Mayer, Volker Markl, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
EmbedPart: Embedding-Driven Graph Partitioning for Scalable Graph Neural Network Training
Johann-Ludwig Herzog, Mathis Jürgen Adler, Leonard Hackel, Yan Shu, Angelos Zavras, Ioannis Papoutsis, Paolo Rota, Begüm Demir
BigEarthNet.txt: A Large-Scale Multi-Sensor Image-Text Dataset and Benchmark for Earth Observation
Leonardo Medrano Sandonas, David Balcells, Anton Bochkarev, Jacqueline M. Cole, Volker L. Deringer, Werner Dobrautz, Adrian Ehrenhofer, Thorben Frank, Pascal Friederich, Rico Friedrich et al.
Perspective: Towards sustainable exploration of chemical spaces with machine learning
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Based on a highly competitive application process, the BIFOLD Graduate School offers an innovative fast-track PhD Program for students holding a bachelor’s degree, as well as a PhD Program for students with a master’s degree.
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