NEWS

New BIFOLD professorship at Charité
Welcome to Grégoire Montavon, who is taking up a BIFOLD-Charité professorship on April 1, 2025. The professorship is one of the several planned BIFOLD professorships at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the institutional partner of BIFOLD.

Interpreting Earth with GAIA
Angelos Zavras, PhD candidate at the Harokopio University of Athens, used his short-term research grant from the DAAD to spend time in Berlin as part of the Remote Sensing research group at BIFOLD. Together with Prof. Begüm Demir and her team he developed GAIA.
EVENTS
Einstein in the dome: On the trail of the brain
Our brain is fascinating, complex - and always surprising: ‘What did I want to say? It was just on the tip of my tongue!’ We all know from our own experience that our brains can get confused. But what exactly happens in the brain?
BIFOLD Colloquium 02/2025
Prof. Vasiliki Kalavri, Boston University, will discuss how multi-party computation (MPC) has evolved from an impractical concept to a scalable solution for secure collaborative analytics in the cloud. She will present the BU Secure Data Analytics Stack and share performance results on complex queries at large scales.
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.

PUBLICATIONS
Josef Schmeißer, Clemens Lutz, Volker Markl
Efficiently Indexing Large Data on GPUs with Fast Interconnects
Haralampos Gavriilidis, Lennart Behme, Christian Munz, Varun Pandey, Volker Markl
CompoDB:ADemonstration of Modular Data Systems in Practice
Marco Morik, Klaus-Robert Müller
Deep Learning Meets Source Reconstruction

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.