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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.

May 12, 2026

Klaus-Robert Müller Among Top 20 Computer Scientists Worldwide

Research.com's 2026 ranking places BIFOLD Co-Director Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller at 3 in Germany. He also received the Computer Science in Germany Leader Award for the fourth time, following 2022, 2023, and 2025.

May 08, 2026

Reviewing Girls' Day 2026 at BIFOLD

At Girls' Day 2026, BIFOLD welcomed eleven young women for a hands-on introduction to computer science and IT security. Across three stations, they explored digital forensics, cryptography, and programming, guided by researchers from BIFOLD's MLSec Research Group.

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EVENTS

May 19, 2026 | C130, Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin Chemiegebäude, Str. des 17. Juni 115, 10623 Berlin

BLISS AI Speaker Series #33: "AI and Human Agency"

As AI systems become integrated into every aspect of our lives, a key challenge is to ensure that they are built to empower, rather than to disempower humans.

May 20, 2026 | BIFOLD, Room: FR 701, 7th floor, Franklinstr. 28/29 10587 Berlin

Making Compliance a First-Class Systems Problem in Data Management

As data management moves from isolated databases to geo-distributed and federated ecosystems, compliance has become a central systems challenge. Modern regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and governance requirements do not simply determine whether data access is allowed; they constrain how data is moved, disclosed, discovered, shared, and integrated across parties.

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OPPORTUNITIES

BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.

Research Associate (E14, RSiM, IV-171/26)

Research Associate (E13, RSiM, IV-166/26)

Research Associate (E13, D2IP, IV-81/26)

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PUBLICATIONS

Jakob Paul Zimmermann, Jim Berend, Georg Loho, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek

Playing the network backward: A Game Theoretic Attribution Framework

May 07, 2026

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.06212

Philip Naumann, Jacob Kauffmann, Klaus-Robert Müller, Grégoire Montavon

Reliable Modeling of Distribution Shifts via Displacement-Reshaped Optimal Transport

May 06, 2026

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.04965

Nikolai Merkel, Ruben Mayer, Volker Markl, Hans-Arno Jacobsen

EmbedPart: Embedding-Driven Graph Partitioning for Scalable Graph Neural Network Training

April 01, 2026

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.01000

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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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