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Heinz Billing Prize for Dr. Eberle
The Heinz Billing Foundation of the Max-Planck-Society has awarded the 2025 Heinz Billing Prize for the Advancement of Scientific Computing to Dr. Oliver Eberle, senior postdoctoral researcher at BIFOLD and Technische Universität Berlin.
ACM CCS 2025: Distinguished Paper Award
Congratulations to BIFOLD researchers Erik Imgrund, Thorsten Eisenhofer and Konrad Rieck from the ML Sec group, whose paper “Exposing Security Risks in AI Weather Forecasting” received a Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025.
Pioneer Award for Klaus-Robert Müller
BIFOLD co-director Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, has been honored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) with the Neural Network Pioneer Award 2026. The award recognizes his “contributions to the theory and practice of kernel-based learning.”
Chmiela named among Berlin’s Top 100 Scientists 2025
BIFOLD research group lead Dr. Stefan Chmiela has been named one of the “100 Most Important Minds in Berlin Science 2025” by Tagesspiegel. His research uses explainable AI to model molecular processes, contributing to sustainable chemistry and climate protection.
The 2025 Leopoldina Annual Assembly focuses on Artificial Intelligence
The Leopoldina hosts its Annual Assembly on 25–26 September 2025, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. The event is co-coordinated by BIFOLD Co-Director Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller. In an interview together with Prof. Thomas Lengauer, Klaus-Robert Müller discusses the opportunities and risks associated with AI.
IBS Lab Contribution to fNIRS UK 2025
At fNIRS UK 2025 in Cambridge, IBS Lab will showcase ERC-funded research on multimodal neuroimaging, including a Cedalion toolbox workshop, advances in fNIRS-EEG fusion, and deep learning transfer from fMRI to fNIRS/DOT.
Attacking privacy leaks in virtual backgrounds
Peeking through the virtual curtain: A new study by the BIFOLD MLSEC group reveals that current virtual backgrounds in video calls can leak enough pixels from the environment to reconstruct objects in the background.
DEEM Lab Contributes to RecSys 2025
At RecSys 2025 in Prague, DEEM Lab will present a spotlight oral paper at the main conference on scalable data debugging using Data Shapley Values, as well as a workshop paper on realistic benchmarks for unlearning in recommender systems.
Dr. Angela Holzer on Open Science and AI
In our interview, DFG’s Dr. Angela Holzer explains why openness and transparency are key to making AI research trustworthy — and how Open Science principles can guide responsible innovation.
Adrian Michalke Receives Software Campus Grant
BIFOLD’s / TU Berlin doctoral researcher Adrian Michalke received a prestigious Software Campus Grant to develop “REPLAY,” a system for the realistic replay of data extraction processes. In collaboration with Celonis, the project aims to enhance data reliability and debugging.