The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

BIFOLD researcher Jonas Dippel and David Jacob Drexlin will present a paper during the Friday morning poster session at MICCAI2025. 📄 Paper: MeDi: Metadata-Guided Diffusion Models for Mitigating Biases in Tumor Classification #ML #MLSky @tuberlin.bsky.social

At the @bifold.berlin conference "AI-based methods in the humanities", I have just attended a great talk by Seid Muhie Yimam of Hamburg University who confirmed my impression that there is a kind of momentum in this area at the moment. He mentioned many datasets, publications and shared tasks on […]

On Sep 25, 2025 Prof. Begüm Demir will deliver a keynote lecture at the GAIA 2025 Symposium: "From Efficient Foundation Models to AI Agents for Foundation Model Recommendations to Advance Earth Observation" gaia.insait.ai #earthobservation(s) #earthobs #remotesensing #AI4EO #GISchat

We’ve just kicked off our workshop “AI-based Methods for the Humanities”. Judging by the happy faces in the group photo below 👇, this is going to be a fascinating exchange of ideas! www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... #DH @mpiwg.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @ecdigitalfuture.bsky.social

Attending a conference organised by @bifold.berlin on „AI based methods for the humanities“ I learn how computer scientists explore the way AI operates in order to improve their results. Like Nils Feldhus on the topic of explanation.

Only 3 days to go! 🚀 Join the BIFOLD Colloquium in Berlin on Sept 25, 4pm. Ingo Scholtes will speak on: Machine Learning for Complex Networks: From GNNs to Causal Graph Learning. 📍TU Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... #DH #DigitalHumanities #Digi-Hum

Happy to share that our PRISM paper has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025 🎉 In this work, we introduce a multi-concept feature description framework that can identify and score polysemantic features. 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15538 #NeurIPS #MechInterp #XAI

Got some hot research cooking? 🔥 The @satml.org paper deadline is just 9 days away. We are looking forward to your work on security, privacy, and fairness in machine learning. 👉 satml.org/call-for-pap... ⏰ Sep 24

The “digital curtain” in video calls has holes – with the right techniques, people can see through. New MLSec study (BIFOLD) reveals that virtual backgrounds in video conferencing tools are not a reliable privacy shield. t1p.de/ndqxt #ML #Security #Cybersecurity #IT #Study @rieck.mlsec.org

Event Tipp. 22.09.25 Berlin "Effizient aber korrupt? KI nutzen um historische Organisationsstrukturen zu analysieren. 📅22.09.2025 🕰️16:45 🧭ECDF Berlin www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... #DH2025 #DH #DigitalHumanities #Digitalculture #digi-hum #Politik #corruption #korruption #politik

☀️ Just in time between showers, a rare moment of sun gave us the chance to take a group photo to kick off the 2025 Berlin Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society! 🎓 Theme: Open Science and AI – Shaping the Future of Responsible Research www.bifold.berlin/education/su...

Talk mit C. Sander und J. Mendling: Effizient aber korrupt? KI nutzen um historische Organisationsstrukturen zu analysieren. 📅22.09.2025 🕰️16:45 🧭ECDF Berlin Talk auf Deutsch. t1p.de/beq99 @mpiwg.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ecdigitalfuture.bsky.social

We sat down for an interview with Prof. Dr. Matteo Valleriani and Dr. Oliver Eberle to reflect on the central debates shaping AI in the humanities. www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @tuberlin.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @mpiwg.bsky.social #DH #AI

Interview with Dr. Angela Holzer, Programme Director at the German Research Foundation (DFG) on Open Science and AI. www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @tuberlin.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @dfg.de

#BerlinAISquare - Creating one of Europe’s most dynamic AI clusters Learn more about: www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @tuberlin.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social @fraunhofer.bsky.social @regberlin.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @databricksinc.bsky.social 📸 Photos: Kevin Fuchs

Adrian Michalke (BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social ) recieves a @softwarecampus.bsky.social grant for REPLAY, a project on realistic replay of data extraction workflows. Partner: Celonis. Funding: BMFTR/BMBF More Details www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

SO3LR combines #MachineLearning with physics to model proteins, sugars or even cell membranes at the atomic scale. Trained on 4M+ molecular structures, it removes the bottleneck of slow or limited simulations. @tuberlin.bsky.social @bifold.berlin | Published @jacs.acspublications.org | @fnr.lu

VLDB 2025 kicks off soon. Meet BIFOLD researchers presenting: 🔹 3 research papers 🔹 5 demos 🔹 1 tutorial 🔹 5 workshops papers 🔹 1 workshop keynote www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... #VLDB2025 #BIFOLD #DataScience #DatabaseSystems #ML #AI

From Pixels to Insights 🌍✨On September 3, 2025, Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir, Research Group Lead at BIFOLD, will deliver a keynote titled “Recent Trends in AI for Earth Observation and Pathways Forward.” www.grss-ieee.org/resources/ne...

I am thrilled to be recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence for my work with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social. >> #TIME100AI time.com/time100ai I want to take this opportunity to share a few reflections on this work 👇🧵

HIIG is seeking collaboration with European platform professionals! As part of the EU-funded INCA project we want your insights: Could alternative practices work in your organisation? What challenges might arise in putting them into practice? Please share! 👉INCA project: www.hiig.de/en/project/i...

🚀What do data transfer and space missions have in common? A lot of parameters you need to tune in complex environments! 👉At #VLDB2025 we will showcase Enter the Warp, an interactive game that turns data transfer into a space mission using XDBC, our work presented at #SIGMOD2025

Congratulations to Dr. Ankit Chaudhary on defending his PhD “Optimizing Continuous Queries in the Edge-Cloud Continuum” The thesis was graded with Summa cum laude. #PhDDefense #DatabaseSystems #EdgeComputing

go.bsky.app/47nWM3C Are there BIFOLD researchers missing in the actual Bsky Starter Package. Please let us know.

Our paper "Towards a Real-World Aligned Benchmark for Unlearning in Recommender Systems" is accepted at the #RecSys2025 FAccTRec workshop. 🎉 We propose a realistic benchmark for machine unlearning that addresses real-world privacy challenges like GDPR's "right to be forgotten". @bifold.berlin

Congratulations to Dr. Dimitrios Giouroukis on defending his PhD "Adaptive Sensor Data Management", supervised by Prof. Dr. Volker Markl at the DIMA Group. #PhDDefense #DataManagement #SensorData @tuberlin.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sebastian Baunsgaard successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Workload-aware Compressed Linear Algebra for Data-centric Machine Learning Pipelines" Sebastian is part of the DAMS group (lead: @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social) BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social #phd #defended

🚨 Job Opportunity | PostDoc Position in Machine Learning & Security 🗓️ Apply by 22 August 2025 Join the #ERC funded #MALFOY project at the Chair of Machine Learning and Security, part of the BIFOLD AI competence center. www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... @rieck.mlsec.org

BIFOLD’s MLSec group will present 2 papers at #USENIX Security 2025. One study shows that “virtual” backgrounds in video calls can still leak real-world details — a privacy risk with broad implications. Details: www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @rieck.mlsec.org @tuberlin.bsky.social

Dr. Alexander von Lühmann, Research Group Lead at BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social , plays a central role in shaping the N.E.W.S – Neuroscience of the Everyday World 2025 conference. 🧠 IBS Lab presents Cedalion: a Python toolbox for multimodal fNIRS/DOT ML analysis. 🔗 neuroscienceeverydayworld.org

🎉 Congratulations to BIFOLD researchers Simon Letzgus, Klaus-Robert Müller, and Grégoire Montavon on receiving the Best Paper Award at the 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (hashtag#XAI2025). www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @tuberlin.bsky.social

We're hiring at BIFOLD! 4 research positions at @tuberlin.bsky.social 🔹 2x Postdoc – Data Management (TV-L E14) 🔹 1x Postdoc – Multimodal Data Analysis (TV-L E13) 🔹 1x PhD – ML & Computer Vision (TV-L E13) 🗓️ Deadlines: July 21 & 25, 2025 🔗 www.bifold.berlin/about-us/opp... #Postdoc #PhDposition

Thank you @bifold.berlin for the feature! @hpi.bsky.social #SpatialAnalytics #LargeScaleData #WomenInSTEM

Today, Jonas presents a new type of adversarial examples at @icmlconf.bsky.social! We exploit subtle numerical differences between linear algebra backends and craft inputs that yield different predictions from the same model depending on the backend used 🤯 mlsec.org/docs/2025-ic... 1/4

It´s #National AI Day | 10 years of Explainable AI (#XAI) From LRP to SemanticLens: @tuberlin.bsky.social, @fraunhofer.bsky.social HHI & BIFOLD have shaped a decade of explainable AI. Retrospective by Prof. Dr. Wojciech Samek—leading researcher in XAI: t1p.de/hzrq3 (BIFOLD News) 📸: HHI

📢 Save the Date BIFOLD Colloquium 08/2025, featuring a keynote by Matthias Seeger (Amazon) on: "Long Context Inference and Key-value Caching: What It Is, and Why It Matters" 🗓️ July 16, 2025 🕰️ 16:00–17:00 (CEST) 📍 @tuberlin.bsky.social 🔗 www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

Join us for tomorrow's Lunch Talk on July 10, 2025, at 12 PM, at @tuberlin.bsky.social! Robin Geyer from Charité Berlin and ETH Zürich will present on the topic "Measuring Orthogonality in Representations of Generative Models." www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

🚀 NebulaStream is now Open Source! NebulaStream is an Extensible, High-Performance Streaming Engine for Multi-Modal Edge Applications. This novel stream processing engine analyzes sensor data in real time. Now freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

Thank you senator Katharina Günther-Wünsch, Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie, for taking the time to visit the BIFOLD booth at LNdW 2025. We believe that AI education belongs in schools and we try to get the next generation of scientists interested in AI research at an early stage.

Our position paper on algorithmic explanations is out—excited to share it! 🙌 Proud of this collaborative effort toward a scientifically grounded understanding of generative AI. @tuberlin.bsky.social @bifold.berlin @msftresearch.bsky.social @UCSD & @UCLA

Work done in collaboration with Kaustubh Beedkar, @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social , and Volker Markl at @bifold.berlin and Technische Universität Berlin, and supported by @softwarecampus.bsky.social.

Die wichtigste Wissenschaftskonferenz für #Datenmanagement findet erstmals in Berlin statt. Volker Markl erklärt, welche Trends & Entwicklungen dort diskutiert werden und wie die Verarbeitung von massiv verteilten Datenströmen auch im Krankenhaus eingesetzt werden kann 👉 is.gd/oRlsNp @bifold.berlin

Meet the BIFOLD researchers at #SIGMOD2025 in Berlin! From June 22–27, we’re excited to welcome the global data community and contribute with papers, demos & workshops—plus help shape the event as part of the organizing team. See you there! 🚀 #datamanagement News www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

Join us - we have four open positions for doctoral/postdoctoral researchers at BIFOLD, doing cutting edge research in data management and machine learning as well as their intersections. More information: www.bifold.berlin/about-us/opp...

🗓️ Just one week to go! ACM SIGMOD PODS 2025 is coming to Berlin. Here’s what you can look forward to: >1000 international databasemanagement researchers, 150 scientific lectures, >200 posters, >70 scientific demos and … 🔍✨ full program: 2025.sigmod.org/program_at_a...

⏳ Halfway there! 20 days left to apply for the 2025 Berlin Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society on Open Science & AI. Apply by June 30 🔗 www.bifold.berlin/education/su... #BIFOLD #TUBerlin #SCIOI #Weizenbaum

"Who owns the tools that shape our understanding of the past?"

Our demo "mlidea: Interactively Improving ML Data Preparation Code via 'Shadow Pipelines'" was accepted at VLDB! 🥳 We demo suggestions for ML pipelines, similar to IntelliJ code inspections or Grammarly suggestions youtu.be/ePGm1J6S2qk Joint work w/ @mersault.bsky.social @p-groth.bsky.social

🌟 Looking forward to joining this fun and unique event. 🗓️ Sunday, June 15, 2025 🕒 3–7 PM 📍 Holzmarkt 25, Berlin Come say hi! #ScienceForEveryone #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #SoapboxScience #SciComm