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Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Niklas Gebauer
Dr. Niklas Gebauer is a former BIFOLD machine learning group researcher specializing in machine learning for quantum chemistry. He received his PhD summa cum laude on the development of models to design new molecules in 2024. At the end of April, he announced his return to BIFOLD to continue his work on AI-driven molecular discovery.
ICLR 2025 Conference Contributions
The BIFOLD research groups Machine Learning and Explainable Machine Learning in Medicine will participate in ICLR 2025, contributing eight papers, one blog article, and one talk. The conference is set for April 24-28, 2025, in Singapore.
IEEE SaTML 2025 Conference Contribution
Dr. Thorsten Eisenhofer will present the paper “Verifiable and Provably Secure Machine Unlearning,” at SaTML 2025. Eisenhofer is Postdoc in the research group “Machine Learning and Security”. His paper introduces a new framework designed to verify that user data has been correctly deleted from machine learning models, supported by cryptographic proofs.
Researcher Spotlight: Lorenz Vaitl
Dr. Lorenz Vaitl defended his PhD in the field of Machine Learning, focusing on optimizing the simulation of quantum fields. His doctoral thesis, "Path Gradient Estimators for Normalizing Flows," explores how machine learning techniques can accelerate data-intensive simulations, which are crucial for understanding fundamental physical phenomena.
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.
Mascara: Protecting sensitive Data
Researchers from Volker Markl’s team Database Systems and Information Management introduce “Mascara”, a novel access control middleware designed to manage partial data access while protecting privacy through anonymization. The corresponding paper “Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering” was accepted for SIGMOD 2025.
EDBT/ICDT 2025 Conference Contributions
Four BIFOLD research groups will take part in the EDBT/ICDT 2025 data management conference. They will present seven publications, including one that received the EDBT 2025 Best Paper Award. The conference is scheduled for 25–28 March 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.
The Hidden Domino Effect
A team of BIFOLD researchers discovered that foundation models such as GPT, Llama, CLIP etc., trained by unsupervised learning methods, often produce compromised representations from which instances can be correctly predicted, although only supported by data artefacts. In a Nature Machine Intelligence publication the researchers propose an explainable AI technique that is able to detect the false prediction strategies.
Data Systems Retreat
For the first time, researchers from four data systems groups at BIFOLD and TU Berlin came together for a joint offsite retreat in Wandlitz. This unique gathering fostered collaboration, networking, and idea exchange among experts, marking a milestone in interdisciplinary research.