A Critical Pathway to Safe-by-Design AI

Join the live stream. Public lecture by Yoshua Bengio at TU Berlin. Nov 06, 2026, 5 pm, CET.

Agentic AI for Earth Observation

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BEADS Summit

Accelerating technology transfer

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.

CEDALION Workshop

Discover a novel, open-source fNIRS Toolbox in Berlin, August 24–25, 2026.

Art of Entanglement

BIFOLD's artist-in-residence program

November 09, 2026

Photo Recap: Yoshua Bengio visits BIFOLD

Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio visited BIFOLD for an informal meeting with Co-Directors Klaus-Robert Müller and Volker Markl and several researchers. Later that day, he gave a public lecture on safe-by-design AI at TU Berlin, co-hosted by BIFOLD.

November 05, 2026

Photo Recap: Agentic AI for Earth Observation

From October 19 to 21, 2026, BIFOLD and ESA Φ-lab brought researchers and practitioners together in Berlin to discuss how AI agents can reason, plan, and act on satellite data. A one-day hackathon followed on October 22.

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EVENTS

November 25, 2026 | BIFOLD, Franklinstr 28/29, 10587 Berlin, 7th floor, Room 701

Lunch Talk: Yubao Tang "Generative Retrieval: Foundations, Tensions, and Opportunities"

Join us for the next Lunch Talk on November 25. Yubao Tang will talk about her work on "Generative Retrieval: Foundations, Tensions, and Opportunities". In her talk Yubao Tang explores generative retrieval, an emerging approach for building more effective, efficient, and trustworthy information access systems.

November 26, 2026 | Forum Digitale Technologien, Salzufer 15/16, 10587 Berlin

AICon 2026

Reserve your spot early at AICon, the conference dedicated to secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence. Come and engage in conversation with experts from the worlds of politics, academia, and business. Discuss current developments and specific areas of application—from generative AI to industrial applications and safety-critical systems.

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OPPORTUNITIES

BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.

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PUBLICATIONS

Elena Golimblevskaia, Ammar Ibrahim, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin

Uncovering Hidden Objectives via Transcoder Circuits

December 07, 2026

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=UGXjdtMQKB

Lennart von Stülpnagel, Felix Weissberg, Jonas Möller, Benjamin Greb, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Konrad Rieck

Data Augmentation in Learning-Based Binary Code Analysis

November 19, 2026

https://www.mlsec.org/docs/2026c-aisec.pdf

Sudan Duwadi, De’Ja Rogers, Alex D. Boyd, Laura B. Carlton, Yiwen Zhang, Anna Kawai Gaona, Aneesa Diya Pathiyaparambath, Ravin Chaudhury, Grace Magee, Bernhard B Zimmermann et al.

Decoding spatial attention in the cocktail party problem using whole-head high-density fNIRS

November 15, 2026

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.122292

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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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