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Fraunhofer HHI wins prestigious Best Paper Award for XAI research
The AI Department at Fraunhofer HHI has received the 2025 Information Fusion Best Paper Award for its roadmap-defining paper on Explainable AI. Co-authored by department head and BIFOLD Fellow Wojciech Samek, the work outlines key challenges and directions for future XAI research.
Ask Agent-BigEarth
Begüm Demir, Professor of Remote Sensing Image Analysis at TU Berlin and research group lead at BIFOLD (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data), has secured one of the coveted Proof of Concept grants from the European Research Council (ERC). These grants aim to bridge the gap between fundamental research and practical applications, helping to transform pioneering research results into tangible societal or commercial benefits.
How the Brain Organizes Memories
A new study, published in Nature, reveals, for the first time, how the brain stores memory content and its context in two largely separate groups of nerve cells. Among those involved in the international research led by the University of Bonn was Dr. Johannes Niediek, a researcher at BIFOLD / TU Berlin, ML Group.
Test-of-Time Award for Konrad Rieck
Congratulations to BIFOLD Research Group Lead Konrad Rieck and his former colleagues. The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) awarded the scientists the Test-of-Time Award for their publication "CUJO: Efficient Detection and Prevention of Drive by Download Attacks" (2010).
Quantum Physicist Jens Eisert Joins BIFOLD as Fellow
Theoretical physicist Jens Eisert brings expertise in quantum computing and AI to BIFOLD’s Fellowship Program. His appointment advances Berlin’s efforts to link quantum research with machine learning.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded to Klaus-Robert Müller
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, co-director of BIFOLD and head of the Machine Learning Group at TU Berlin is honored with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2026, considered the highest honor for researchers in Germany. He is regarded as a pioneer of machine learning and has been driving this important area of artificial intelligence (AI) since 1989. His work combines excellence in formal mathematical reasoning with a strongly application-oriented approach.
Reflections from the workshop “AI-based Methods for the Humanities”
From September 23 to 24, 2025, the workshop "AI-based Methods for the Humanities" explored how AI-based methods can advance research into history, culture, and language. The event was organized by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and BIFOLD.
Rethinking how models "see"
Congratulations to BIFOLD researchers Tom Burgert, Oliver Stoll, and Begüm Demir from TU Berlin, and Paolo Rota from the University of Trento. They published a new study, that revisits a central claim in computer vision: so-called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) primarily rely on texture, rather than object shape, to recognize images. The publication was accepted as an oral presentation at NeurIPS 2025.
Photo recap: AI in Medicine Workshop
Charité and BIFOLD hosted the “AI in Medicine” workshop in Berlin (Nov 24 - 25, 2025), bringing together leading experts on clinical AI, gene regulation modelling, medical LLMs and explainable AI to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between research and clinical practice.
NeurIPS 2025 Conference Contributions
NeurIPS 2025 will be held in Mexico City and San Diego from November 30 to December 7, uniting leading experts in machine learning and computational neuroscience. BIFOLD is represented with 18 contributions, and one researcher has been recognized as a Top Reviewer.