NEWS
Researcher Spotlight: Dr.-Ing. Rudi Poepsel Lemaitre
Seeing enough without seeing everything: BIFOLD researcher Dr.-Ing. Rudi Poepsel Lemaitre on building privacy-aware databases that stay fast while revealing only what they must. A Researcher Spotlight on his summa cum laude PhD at TU Berlin.
Photo Recap: Cedalion Workshop at BIFOLD
In the context of the MoBI conference, about 140 researchers, engineers, and physicians joined BIFOLD on-site and online for a 1.5-day workshop on Cedalion, the new Python-based toolbox for multimodal fNIRS and DOT analysis.
EVENTS
Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry and Team: Inventing ELIZA. How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI
Book Talk and Panel Discussion as part of the anniversary “60 years of ELIZA, 50 years of computer criticism”
This year, we have reached the 60th anniversary of the public debut of ELIZA, one of the first chatbots in history and the program that made Joseph Weizenbaum famous.
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
Binger Chen, Tacettin Emre Bök, Behnood Rasti, Volker Markl, Begüm Demir
Foundation Model Selection for Remote Sensing via a Constraint-Aware Agent
Lennart Behme, Emil Badura, Leonard Geißler, Matthias Böhm, Ziawasch Abedjan, Volker Markl
FedAugment: Table Augmentation Search over Decentralized Data Repositories
Roshan Prakash Rane, Marco Simnacher, Manuel Pfeuffer, Marc-Andre Schulz, Nys Tjade Siegel, Maximilian Dreyer, Frederik Pahde, Wojciech Samek, Sonja Greven, Kerstin Ritter et al.
ICON Decomposition: Auditing Deep Neural Networks with Multivariate Variance-based Concept-level Explanations
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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