NEWS
Fraunhofer HHI wins prestigious Best Paper Award for XAI research
The AI Department at Fraunhofer HHI has received the 2025 Information Fusion Best Paper Award for its roadmap-defining paper on Explainable AI. Co-authored by department head and BIFOLD Fellow Wojciech Samek, the work outlines key challenges and directions for future XAI research.
Ask Agent-BigEarth
Begüm Demir, Professor of Remote Sensing Image Analysis at TU Berlin and research group lead at BIFOLD (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data), has secured one of the coveted Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC). These grants aim to bridge the gap between fundamental research and practical applications, helping to transform pioneering research results into tangible societal or commercial benefits.
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.
BLISS Speaker Series #30 - "The Price of Intelligence: Three Risks Inherent in LLMs"
In the BLISS AI Speaker Series Ahmed Salem who is currently a Researcher at Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) and will discuss "The Price of Intelligence: Three Risks Inherent in LLMs", lasting approximately 45 minutes.
After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks and pizza.
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.
PUBLICATIONS
Jonas Möller, Erik Imgrund, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Konrad Rieck
Hardware-Triggered Backdoors
Winfried Ripken, Michael Plainer, Gregor Lied, Thorben Frank, Oliver T. Unke, Stefan Chmiela, Frank Noé, Klaus-Robert Müller
Learning Hamiltonian Flow Maps: Mean Flow Consistency for Large-Timestep Molecular Dynamics
Angelos Zavras, Dimitrios Michail, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Begüm Demir, Ioannis Papoutsis
GAIA: A global, multimodal, multiscale vision–language dataset for remote sensing image analysis
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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