NEWS
Volker Markl elected to Leopoldina
Prof. Dr. Volker Markl, Co-Director of BIFOLD, Chair of Database Systems and Information Management group at TU Berlin and Head of the Research Department Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data at DFKI, has been elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. With this election, the academy recognizes his outstanding scientific achievements in computer science as well as his contributions to the advancement of his field.
BIFOLD at WACV 2026
BIFOLD researchers of the Big Data Analytics for Earth Observation group will present GeoRank: a novel method that embeds geographical relationships into self-supervised learning for multispectral satellite imagery, consistently improving state-of-the-art algorithms.
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.
AI Research vs AI Industry
Join Women in AI and ML6 on March 12th, 2026 for an interactive evening exploring “AI Research vs. AI in Industry: Similarities, Differences, and Everything In Between.” where cutting-edge research meets real-world impact.
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.
PUBLICATIONS
Carlos Enrique Muñiz-Cuza, Matthias Böhm, Torben Bach Pedersen
CAMEO: Autocorrelation-Preserving Line Simplification for Lossy Time Series Compression
Mariana M. Garcez Duarte, Dwi P. A. Nugroho, Georges Tod, Evert Bevernage, Pieter Moelans, Elias Saerens, Esteban Zimányi, Mahmoud Sakr, Steffen Zeuch
Mobility Trajectory Data Stream Processing Beyond the Cloud
Xenofon Chatziliadis, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Samira Akili, Alphan Eracar, Volker Markl
Nova: Scalable Streaming Join Placement and Parallelization in Resource-Constrained Geo-Distributed Environments
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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