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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).
BIFOLD Contributes to COMBINE 2026
The COMBINE 2026 Workshop is a two-day event in Berlin where neuroimaging experts meet to discuss functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs). The IBS Lab at BIFOLD contributes two talks to the event.
Researcher Spotlight: Dr.-Ing. Rudi Poepsel Lemaitre
Seeing enough without seeing everything: BIFOLD researcher Dr.-Ing. Rudi Poepsel Lemaitre on building privacy-aware databases that stay fast while revealing only what they must. A Researcher Spotlight on his summa cum laude PhD at TU Berlin.
Photo Recap: Cedalion Workshop at BIFOLD
In the context of the MoBI conference, about 140 researchers, engineers, and physicians joined BIFOLD on-site and online for a 1.5-day workshop on Cedalion, the new Python-based toolbox for multimodal fNIRS and DOT analysis.
VLDB 2026 Conference Contributions
At VLDB 2026, taking place in Boston, USA, from August 31 to September 4, 2026, BIFOLD researchers will present ten research papers, three workshop papers, two demonstrations, a workshop keynote, and a panel contribution.