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BIFOLD participated in SIGIR 2026
Researchers from BIFOLD and the University of Amsterdam presented ERASE, a new real-world-aligned benchmark for machine unlearning in recommender systems, at the 49th ACM SIGIR Conference in Melbourne, Australia, in 2026.
New Venture Capital for Ascléa
Berlin-based x-cardiac has a new name and a bigger mission. The company, co-founded by BIFOLD Deputy Director Alexander Meyer and known for AI tools that predict complications after heart surgery, is now called Ascléa.
AI for the Sciences
The greatest potential of artificial intelligence may lie not only in solving existing tasks more efficiently, but in fundamentally transforming science itself. The Hector Fellow Academy’s new video profile, “AI in Science: How AI Is Changing the Questions We Ask – Klaus-Robert Müller,” explores how artificial intelligence is enabling new discoveries and why it is poised to shape the future of research for years to come.
ai.berlin interviews Begüm Demir
BIFOLD Deputy Director Begüm Demir spoke with ai.berlin about Agent-BigEarth, her ERC-funded project to make Europe's 20-terabyte-a-day Copernicus satellite archive accessible to anyone via natural language, turning complex Earth observation data into answers for journalists, policymakers, and citizens alike.
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."
BIFOLD participates in the Web Conference´26
Researchers from Aalborg University and a BIFOLD researcher recently presented their paper on “Evolving Proxy Kills Drift: Data Efficient Streaming Time Series Anomaly Detection,” at the ACM Web Conference 2026 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The paper introduces DESS, a data-efficient framework for anomaly detection in streaming time series, co-authored by BIFOLD Co-director Volker Markl.
BIFOLD Contributes to ICML 2026
Twelve papers co-authored by BIFOLD researchers at the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), held in Seoul, Korea, from July 6 to 11. Among them, one paper on Hamiltonian flow maps received a Spotlight award.
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Barış Büyüktaş
Petabytes of satellite data circle the Earth, locked in silos by legal and technical walls. Dr. Barış Büyüktaş is using federated learning to break them down, turning a scattered mountain of Earth observation data into a treasure trove for understanding our changing planet.