NEWS
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.
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.
EVENTS
BIFOLD Talk: Portable Query Compilation in SYCLDB and Autonomous Accelerator Specialization
Modern analytical and data-intensive engines need portable query execution frameworks that target heterogeneous hardware while maintaining high compute and memory efficiency. We introduce SYCLDB, a portable database engine that uses Apache Calcite for query parsing and optimization
BLISS AI Series: "Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training"
Pavel Izmailov, who is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and will discuss "Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training", 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
Elena Golimblevskaia, Ammar Ibrahim, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
Uncovering Hidden Objectives via Transcoder Circuits
Lennart von Stülpnagel, Felix Weissberg, Jonas Möller, Benjamin Greb, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Konrad Rieck
Data Augmentation in Learning-Based Binary Code Analysis
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
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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