NEWS
BIFOLD Researcher Wins Hellenic ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award
Congratulations to BIFOLD postdoc Thanasis Georgiadis, who received the Hellenic ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026 in Athens for his dissertation "Scalable management of complex spatial data types."
DEBS 2026 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to the BIFOLD researchers Ariane Ziehn, Finn Glück, Philipp Emanuel Meran, Steffen Zeuch, and Volker Markl, who have been awarded the DEBS 2026 Best Paper Award for their research paper "KRAKEN: Joint Optimization of Operator Placement and Communication for Distributed Stream Processing."
EVENTS
Cedalion Workshop
This scientific workshop introduces researchers to Cedalion, a Python-based toolbox for advanced fNIRS and DOT analysis in naturalistic settings. Built on HOMER3 and AtlasViewer, it integrates machine learning and multimodal data processing for cutting-edge neuroimaging research.
BIFOLD Summer School 2026
The 2026 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society invites researchers and practitioners to explore the parameters which have to be considered when AI systems are designed to act autonomously. The programme will focus on fundamental questions at the interface between autonomous systems, trustworthy machine learning, and robotics, as well as deployment in critical areas such as healthcare and scientific infrastructures.
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.
PUBLICATIONS
Gereon Dusella, Haralampos Gavriilidis, Volker Markl, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou
Benchmarking Spatial Operations over Heterogeneous Data: The Case of Zonal Statistics
Yanqing Luo, Julius Hense, Niklas Prenißl, Andreas Mock, Klaus-Robert Müller, Thomas Schnake, Mina Jamshidi Idaji
Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology
Marco Morik, Xiao Ruiting, Shinichi Nakajima, Stefan Haufe, Ismail Huseynov
Structure-Preserving Correction Learning for Sparse Bayesian Inference in Brain Source Imaging
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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