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Volker Markl elected to Leopoldina
Prof. Dr. Volker Markl, Co-Director of BIFOLD, Chair of Database Systems and Information Management group at TU Berlin and Head of the Research Department Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data at DFKI, has been elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. With this election, the academy recognizes his outstanding scientific achievements in computer science as well as his contributions to the advancement of his field.
BIFOLD at WACV 2026
BIFOLD researchers of the Big Data Analytics for Earth Observation group will present GeoRank: a novel method that embeds geographical relationships into self-supervised learning for multispectral satellite imagery, consistently improving state-of-the-art algorithms.
Wasserstein distances made explainable
BIFOLD scientists developed a novel framework to make a widely used foundational statistical tool, the Wasserstein distance, interpretable in machine learning and data analysis contexts.
Symbolic XAI
Researchers at BIFOLD have been exploring how to make AI explain itself in the same way, people explain themselves. The team’s work focuses on making AI predictions as clear and intuitive as a human explanation.
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler
What if AI could learn to see the world the way we do? BIFOLD PhD graduate Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler is pushing AI beyond raw performance, exploring representational alignment, where cognitive science meets computer vision to build machines that perceive more like humans.
Open-Source Award for DifferentiationInterface.jl
DifferentiationInterface.jl, co-developed by BIFOLD researcher Adrian Hill, wins one of France’s Open Science Awards for making cutting-edge modeling and optimization more flexible, efficient, and open.
BIFOLD supports diversity in science
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, BIFOLD celebrates its diverse research community.
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.