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Matthias Scheffler and Alexandre Tkatchenko join BIFOLD
BIFOLD welcomes two theoretical physicists as new Fellows: Matthias Scheffler and Alexandre Tkatchenko. Both combine quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence to understand and predict the properties of materials and molecules.
Ellis Unit Berlin appoints Co-Directors
Begüm Demir and Wojciech Samek join Klaus-Robert Müller as co-directors of the ELLIS Unit Berlin.
MSWiM 2026 Conference Contributions
BIFOLD researchers from the MLSec group will present a paper examining how much smartphone motion sensors reveal about public transport journeys.
Google’s “AI Backstage Stories” Visits Klaus-Robert Müller
Atoms and molecules are invisible to the human eye. With AI, researchers can now watch them move. That idea opens episode 8 of AI Backstage Stories, the video series from Google Germany, released on 20 October 2026.
Photo-Recap: BEADS Kick-Off
BEADS launched its Tech Meetup Series with a kick-off event at BIFOLD, drawing around 60 participants from Berlin's data community for three talks from Snowflake, Databricks, and BIFOLD, followed by a lively Q&A and networking.
BIFOLD Contributes to MICCAI 2026
At MICCAI 2026, which takes place from September 27 to October 1 in Strasbourg, France, BIFOLD researchers will present two posters and two workshop papers. Their work covers medical image segmentation, model adaptation, and surgical vision analysis.
Photo Recap: Berlin Summer School on AI and Society
Four days focused on the responsible design of AI-driven autonomous systems, robotics, and physical AI. BIFOLD Co-Director Klaus-Robert Müller opened the summer school with his reflections on safety, which should be built in from the outset, a principle that applies as much to everyday practice as to every AI model.
Beyond the Snapshot: New AI takes a dynamic view of Cancer Diagnosis
A consortium led by Dr. Mina Jamshidi Idaji (BIFOLD/TU Berlin), with LMU Munich and UKE Hamburg, is uniting oncologists, pathologists and ML researchers to build AI that combines tissue images with molecular and clinical data. Funded with €1.5M over 3 years, starting Oct 1, 2026.
What does it take to design Generative AI responsibly?
Ahead of the 2026 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society, keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Iyad Rahwan (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) discusses the risk of "moral distancing" in AI delegation and what happens when thousands of agents interact, negotiate, and copy each other's mistakes.
ECCV 2026 Conference Contributions
At ECCV 2026, held September 8 to 12, 2026, in Malmö, Sweden, BIFOLD researchers will present two research papers, with one selected for an oral presentation (spotlight).