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All Hands Meeting

At the annual All Hands Meeting (AHM2023) of the German AI centers BIFOLD welcomed a series of distinguished guests in Berlin.

8 RESEARCHERS REPRESENTED BIFOLD AT SIGMOD 2023

Review SIGMOD 2023: Eight members of the BIFOLD team took the chance to showcase their recent work at SIGMOD 2023 in Seattle through a diverse array of presentations, including research papers, workshop papers, and a demo paper – all of them underscoring the institute's commitment to cutting-edge research in the field of data management.

Adversarial Papers: New attack fools AI-supported text analysis

Security researchers have found significant vulnerabilities in learning algorithms used for text analysis: With the help of a novel attack, they were able to show that topic recognition algorithms can be fooled by even small changes in words, sentences and references.

Simplifying satellite data archives

ESA's Precursor Digital Assistant simplifies the usage of satellite data archives. BIFOLD research group led by Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir develops three of four search engines in the assistant. The new assistant supports the Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative of the European Union.

Do computers and humans "see" alike?

The field of computer vision has long since left the realm of research and is now used in countless daily applications, such as object recognition and measuring geometric structures of objects. One question that is not or only rarely asked is: To what extent do computer vision systems see the world in the same way that humans do?

From science to business

The Transfer Week 2023 facilitates the exchange of knowledge between science, companies, and innovators. In his opening remark at the kick-off conference BIFOLD co-director Volker Markl emphasized the significance of Berlin as the startup capital.

NEWS

October 25, 2023

Email security under scrutiny: Examining SPF weaknesses

Cyber security researchers at BIFOLD found weaknesses in Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records, which protect email users from forged senders. The paper “Lazy Gatekeepers: A Large-Scale Study on SPF Configuration in the Wild” includes an analysis of 12 million domains’ SPF records and was now presented at the 2023 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.

October 18, 2023

Research from the very top

BIFOLD scientist Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir explains the benefits of using Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to enhance earth observation satellite data analysis in the Tagesspiegel TU Berlin supplement.

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EVENTS

December 08, 2023 | Room EN 719, TU Berlin, Einsteinufer 17, 10587 Berlin

BIFOLD Colloquium - Hybrid query processing in MotherDuck

Prof. Dr. Peter Boncz is a tenured researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and a professor at VU University Amsterdam, with a profound expertise in database systems. In his talk he will unravel the intricacies of "Hybrid Query Processing in MotherDuck," a cutting-edge service seamlessly connecting DuckDB to the cloud.

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BIFOLD conducts groundbreaking foundational research in Big Data Management (DM) and Machine Learning (ML), as well as their intersection, to educate the talents of the future and to create high-impact knowledge.

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PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Marina Marie-Claire Höhne (Née Vidovic), Dr. Shinichi Nakajima, Kirill Bykov, Dennis Grinwald

Visualizing the Diversity of Representations Learned by Bayesian Neural Networks

November 10 , 2023

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=ZSxvyWrX6k

Dr. Lauritz Thamsen, Prof. Dr. Odej Kao, Dennis Grinwald

FedZero: Leveraging Renewable Excess Energy in Federated Learning

November 05 , 2023

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15092.pdf

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, Lukas Muttenthaler

Getting aligned on representational alignment

November 02 , 2023

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018

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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.