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2026 Leibniz Prize

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

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.

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February 20, 2026

Symbolic XAI

Researchers at BIFOLD have been exploring how to make AI explain itself in the same way, people explain themselves. The team’s work focuses on making AI predictions as clear and intuitive as a human explanation.

February 18, 2026

Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler

What if AI could learn to see the world the way we do? BIFOLD PhD graduate Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler is pushing AI beyond raw performance, exploring representational alignment, where cognitive science meets computer vision to build machines that perceive more like humans.

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EVENTS

January 26 - April 26, 2026 | Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine Foyer Luisenstr. 65 10117 Berlin

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.

February 26, 2026 | BIFOLD 7.OG, Raum 701, Franklinstr. 28-29, 10587 Berlin

Lunch Talk: Leonard Hackel "Towards Efficient Foundation Models in Remote Sensing"

Leonard Hackel from the Big Data for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Image Analysis group will talk about "Towards Efficient Foundation Models in Remote Sensing". In this talk Leonard Hackel will propose a soft mixture-of-experts masked autoencoder for remote sensing foundation models that more than doubles computational efficiency while maintaining competitive performance across downstream tasks and enabling scalable, cross-modal learning.

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OPPORTUNITIES

BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.

Research Assistant (E13, Machine Learning and Security Group, IV-47/26)

Working Student (IBS-Lab, IV-SB-0004-2026)

Research Associate (E13, DIMA, IV-76/26)

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PUBLICATIONS

Carlos Enrique Muñiz-Cuza, Matthias Böhm, Torben Bach Pedersen

CAMEO: Autocorrelation-Preserving Line Simplification for Lossy Time Series Compression

March 24, 2026

https://mboehm7.github.io/resources/edbt2026.pdf

Olga Ovcharenko, Matthias Boehm, Sebastian Schelter

SemPipes -- Optimizable Semantic Data Operators for Tabular Machine Learning Pipelines

February 04, 2026

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.05134

Jonas Möller, Erik Imgrund, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Konrad Rieck

Hardware-Triggered Backdoors

January 31, 2026

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.21902

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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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