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Looking Back at SIGMOD/PODS 2025 in Berlin
Between June 22nd and June 27th, Berlin hosted members of the international data management community at this year’s SIGMOD/PODS conference, one of the leading conferences in data management. With inspiring keynotes, vibrant exchange, and a record turnout, it was a fantastic week of science and collaboration. We are proud to have co-organized this landmark event!
New Whitepaper on XAI
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Samek is co-author of the new white paper “Explainable AI”, published today by the Plattform Lernende Systeme. Together with colleagues from the “Technological Enablers and Data Science” working group of the Platform Lernende Systeme, they explored different application areas, guided by the question: Who should be told what, how and for what purpose?
SIGMOD 2025 Conference Contributions
BIFOLD researchers will present multiple contributions at the SIGMOD/PODS 2025 conference, scheduled for June 22–27, 2025, in Berlin.
Now Open: The Neverending Cure
Mai 28th, 2025, we opened the new exhibition THE NEVERENDING CURE by kennedy+swan - the BIFOLD artists in residence 2024/2025 - at TU Berlin's main building. Roughly 80 guests enjoyed the inspiring artwork and exchange between artists and scienctists.
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Simon Krug
Dr. Simon Krug is a former researcher in the Machine Learning Group at BIFOLD with a focus on computational alchemy and theoretical chemistry. He earned his PhD summa cum laude in 2024 for his work on mathematical methods to model atomic substitutions in molecules.
ICDE 2025 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to the BIFOLD researchers Ankit Chaudhary, Kaustubh Beedkar, Jeyhun Karimov, Felix Lang, Steffen Zeuch, and Volker Markl, who have been awarded the ICDE 2025 Best Paper Award for their research paper “Incremental Stream Query Placement in Massively Distributed and Volatile Infrastructures.”
BIFOLD co-director among top 20 computer scientists worldwide
Klaus-Robert Müller, Co-Director of BIFOLD, has been ranked #20 globally and #3 in Germany in Research.com's 2025 list of the Best Scientists in Computer Science.
ICDE 2025 Conference Contributions
BIFOLD researchers will participate in ICDE 2025, contributing three research papers. One of these papers will receive the Best Paper Award. The conference will be held May 19–23, 2025, in Hong Kong.
Best Paper Award for groundbreaking work on image quality assessment
Researchers from Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and BIFOLD have received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for their groundbreaking work on image quality assessment using deep neural networks.
News from the BigEarth Group at BIFOLD
BIFOLD’s BigEarth group shares key updates: EGU panel on digital tech, keynote at BEODay, contributions to ESA–NASA AI workshop, and a new ESA feature on the digital assistant for Earth observation data.