🚀 Join us at the SAIL Science Slam at #GENIALE2025 at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld. 📅 Fri, Sept 26, 18:30 Free entry – an evening full of fun & science! ℹ️ The event is held in in German. Register here: wissenswerkstadt.de/was-ist-hier...

Discover your brain in a new way – join the SAIL Hackathon!👨‍💻 📆 7–9 Nov 2025 at Hochschule Bielefeld Work with EEG (brain wave) data + machine learning in interdisciplinary teams at the crossroads of AI and health sciences. More info here: www.sail.nrw/hackathon-20... #Hackathon

📣The next lecture in our lecture series will be given by Tarek Gaber (University of Salford) on the topic of "Adversarial Machine Learning in Real-Time Systems: Challenges and Defenses for Sensor-Driven AI” on June 26, 4:15 pm.👨‍💻 ➡️All information can be found here: www.sail.nrw/2025/06/lect...

Good news! We’ve extended the deadline for our Postdoc Fellowship at Paderborn University 🎓 Apply by June 30! Details here 👉 www.sail.nrw/research/cal... #fellowship #postdoc #research #AI #academia

📣Reminder! On Thursday, Rianne M. Schouten will give a lecture entitled ‘Exceptional Model Mining for Hierarchical Data’ at 2:15 pm. All information and the Zoom link can be found here: www.sail.nrw/2025/05/lect...

📣The next lecture in our lecture series will be given by Rianne M. Schouten (Eindhoven University of Technology) on the topic of "Exceptional Model Mining for Hierarchical Data” on June 5, 2:15 pm.👩‍💻 ➡️All information and the zoom link can be found here: www.sail.nrw/2025/05/lect...

📣 Reminder! This Thursday the next event of our lecture series "Robust AI" will take place. Manuel Roveri will speak on the topic "Tiny Machine Learning: From Algorithms to Technology (And Back)". The lecture will be held online. ➡️ Link and further information here: www.sail.nrw/2025/04/lect...

👉 Check out this new article from #HSBI about the research on the use of AI for cell segmentation using Deep Active Learning by SAIL members Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schenck, Dr. Alaa Othman and Eiram Mahera Sheikh, as well as Dr. Constanze Schwan: www.hsbi.de/presse/press...

📣The next lecture in our lecture series will be given by Prof. Manuel Roveri (Politecnico di Milano) on the topic of "Tiny Machine Learning: From Algorithms to Technology (And Back)” on May 8 2025, 4pm.👨‍💻 ➡️All information and the zoom link can be found here: www.sail.nrw/2025/04/lect...

🚀 New paper! 🚀 I am happy to announce our paper "Summarizing Online Patient Conversations Using Generative Language Models: Experimental and Comparative Study," which has just been published in JMIR Medical Informatics!

📣 Call for International Fellows! The SAIL fellowship program is suitable for international researchers who would like to expand their research in line with SAIL’s research agenda. ➡️ See the current Calls with all the details about the application process here: www.sail.nrw/research/cal...

🎉That’s a wrap! The SAIL Spring School 2025 at Bielefeld University was an inspiring event, bringing together young researchers to explore AI evaluation beyond accuracy & precision. A big thank you to all speakers, participants & organizers! 🤝 See you at the SAIL Spring School 2026 in Paderborn! 🚀

🚀 New month, new paper! 🚀 Our paper "Open challenges for the automatic synthesis of clinical trials" has been published at BMC Research Notes! 🎓 Authors: Olivia Sánchez Graillet, David M. Schmidt, Christian Kullik and Philipp Cimiano 🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s131...

We are looking forward to the next lecture in our "Robust AI" series: On February 13, 4:15pm, Annika Mütze will present on the topic "Influence of Texture, Shape and Color for Learning Semantic Segmentation".🤩🙌 👉As always, you can find all information on our website: www.sail.nrw/2025/01/lect...

We would like to invite to our next SAIL Lecture! On Thursday, Jan 23 Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn will give a lecture on the topic ‘Designing for Human Value: A Human-Centered Perspective on AI System Design in Healthcare’.🙌👩‍🏫➡️All information here: www.sail.nrw/2025/01/lect...

📣 Spring School 2025: Innovating AI Evaluation – Beyond Accuracy and Precision 📅 March 26–28 📍 CITEC, Bielefeld University Join us for an exciting line-up of tutorials, discussions, and networking opportunities! 🎓 ➡️More info & program: www.sail.nrw/springschool/

📢A quick reminder that Fabian Offerts's lecture “Has (AI) Critique Run Out of Steam?” will take place on Thursday.👨‍💻➡️ All information is also available at: www.sail.nrw/2024/12/lect...

We are grateful for a great year 2024 and are delighted with the many accomplishments we were able to achieve.🙌😊 We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone happy holidays and a healthy and successful new year! 🥳🎇🍀

Time to wrap up our 2024 review🎆We proudly look back on many international conferences where SAIL members presented their research, such as @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social or #CIKM.🤩👏 Another highlight was our retreat, where we were able to exchange ideas intensively.💬🤝See you in 2025!🥳

We would like to announce our next event in the SAIL Lecture Series “Robust AI”: On January 9, Fabian Offert will be lecturing on the topic “Has (AI) Critique Run Out of Steam?”.👨‍💻💬 ➡️Please note, it is a different room and Zoom link this time. More: www.sail.nrw/2024/12/lect...

Let's continue with our review of the 2024 highlights! From participating in Girls' Day to discussing SAIL topics at various events like Republica, the SAIL Practice Day at #HSBI with lectures and a demonstrator exhibition as well as the first SAIL #Hackathon at #THOWL. 🤩👏🤖

As another SAIL year comes to a close, we're filled with gratitude for all that we've accomplished.😊🙌 From our successful AI Winter School, participation in workshops, the continuation of our lecture series “Robust AI” to the joint event with @johnshopkins.bsky.social in DC. 🤝🤩

The proceedings from @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social are now available! Check out the latest research from SAIL members Sina Zarriess, Sanne Hoeken and Judith Sieker and their colleagues from @clausebielefeld.bsky.social.🤩👏 ➡️You can also find all publications on our website: www.sail.nrw/publications/

While the PIs held a board meeting at the SAIL retreat, the PhD students and PostDocs had the opportunity to practice archery.🏹 The takeaway from this activity? 👉Just like in research, with a good eye, some practice and the right technique, you can hit the bull's eye!🎯😅

It's time again for our annual retreat!⛵️ For this reason we met in Bad Sassendorf to present and discuss our current research results and the next steps of the SAIL research network.🚀🙌 Thanks to everybody who participated!🤝

Our “Robust AI” lecture series continues on November 14.🙌 Be there when Helge Rhodin from #BielefeldUniversity gives a lecture on the topic of “What is left to do in visual computing?”.🤩 Participation is possible on site or via Zoom. ➡️Further information: www.sail.nrw/2024/11/lect...

Have you already seen our new SAIL brochure?🤩 It provides an informative insight into the interdisciplinary research of SAIL and the researchers involved.🤝👩‍💻👨‍🏫 👉Find out more and download our brochure now here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The "8th International Workshop & Tutorial on Interactive Adaptive Learning (IAL 2024)", co-organized by SAIL member Alaa Tharwat, took place as part of #ECMLPKDD2024 this month. He opened the session with the tutorial "Introduction to Uncertainty-Based Active Learning."👨‍💻👏

A little throwback to the special session “Learning from Small Data: Techniques and Applications” at the #IJCNN2024 in Yokohama in July, organized by SAIL members Barbara Hammer, Martin Kohlhase, Wolfram Schenck and Alaa Tharwat.👏🤝

SAIL member Clarissa Sabrina Arlinghaus presented two late-breaking reports at the IEEE RO-MAN conference in Pasadena.🚀🤩 Well done!👏 ➡️ Take a look at the reports and find out more about her research here: www.sail.nrw/project/soci... #IEEEROMAN2024

Become part of SAIL!⛵️ As of November 1, we have a vacancy for a Post Doc position in SAIL in the area of Reinforcement Learning.👩‍💻 ➡️You can find all information about the position and how to apply here: https//www.uni-pad...

We would like to announce the next lecture in our “Robust AI” series: On Wednesday, August 28 at 4:15pm, Kacper Sokol will speak on “Naturalistic Explainable AI for Clinical Reasoning Support Systems”.👨‍💻 Come along or join us online.🤩➡️More info here: www.sail.nrw/events/

We send our best wishes to Yokohama!🇯🇵 There, SAIL member Daniel Leite presented the paper "Interpretability Index based on Balanced Volumes for Transparent Models and Agnostic Explainers" at the IEEE WCCI conference.🤩👏 #WCCI2024 #IEEEWCCI2024

From June 7 to 9, the first SAIL Hackathon "Intelligent Industrial Work Spaces" took place at the inIT at TH OWL.🚀🤩 Many thanks to the organization team!🤝👉 Read a short review of this great event here: sail.nrw/2024/06/sail...

June 20 at 4:15pm, we welcome Nicole Ludwig to our lecture series "Robust AI"at Bielefeld University.🤩 Come along or join us online when she talks about "Assessing Climate Change Impacts: An ML Approach to Multi-Decadal Energy Forecasting".👩‍💻👍 ➡️More info here: www.sail.nrw/2024/06/lect...

Under the title “AI Research Meets Practice: Perspectives for Companies and Society,” SAIL invited participants to the Applied AI Day at #HSBI on May 23.🤩🤝 ➡️Read the full report on this great event and get more impressions now here: www.hsbi.de/en/press-rel...

We are delighted to have another upcoming talk🥳: On June 13, we welcome Prof. Dr. Ricardo Vinuesa from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with a talk titled “The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”.👏 ➡️More info: sail.nrw/2024/06/lect...

We continue with our lecture series “Robust AI”: On June 10 at 2:15 pm we are looking forward to Francesco Leofante from Imperial College London, who will talk about “Robustness Issues in algorithmic recourse”.👏🤩 Come by or join via Zoom.👨‍💻 ➡️Further information: www.sail.nrw/2024/05/lect...

Together with journalist Svea Eckert, Barbara Hammer talked about voice assistants of the future at the re:publica24 festival in Berlin.🤩🗣️🤖 More information about the talk: re-publica.com/en/node/4253 #rp24

April 25 was the annual Girls' Day, where schoolgirls are introduced to study programs & professions in which women are usually underrepresented.👩‍💻👩‍🔬 SAIL also took part this year and provided insights into research in the field of AI.🤩 👉Find out more: www.sail.nrw/2024/05/sail...

A report on the SAIL delegation visit to the US and the event "How Sustainable is AI?" at the Johns Hopkins Science Diplomacy Hub in Washington DC has been published.🤩😊 ➡️Here you can find out more about our trip and future cooperation opportunities: www.uni-paderborn.de/en/news-item...

Big Event coming up: From June 7-9, the first SAIL Hackathon "Intelligent Industrial Work Spaces" will take place in Lemgo. Get ready to hack your way to smarter industrial workspaces at the SAIL Hackathon - it's gonna be epic! Free registration: www.eventbrite.de/e/sail-hacka...

On April 22, Barbara Hammer acted as panel member of the panel "Industry. AI" at the 2024 Summit for Research and Innovation taking place at Messe Hannover. 🤩🤝 ➡️Watch the exciting discussion about the opportunities and impact of AI in industry here: forschungsgipfel.de/2024

“Prototype-based Classification Learning: From traditional versions to modern approaches” – our lecture series continues with this lecture by Dr. Sascha Saralajew (NEC Laboratories Europe) on April 25 at 4pm.🤩👨‍💻 All information and the link to participate 👉 www.sail.nrw/2024/04/lect...

📣Event announcement: On Friday, March 15, we will continue our lecture series "Robust AI". Petra Bevandić will give a lecture on "Leveraging class relations for multi-dataset semantic segmentation".👨‍💻🤩 👉 Participation is possible on site at Bielefeld University or online.

A wonderful Winter School comes to an end. 3 days packed with lectures, training sessions, networking, coffee breaks, poster sessions and lively discussions.️👩‍💻☕🎓💬 Many thanks to everyone who took part, we hope you had a great week at #PaderbornUniversity! 📸Farshad Afshari (paderfoto.de) Many thanks!

📣Call for international fellows! We are looking for postdocs and advanced researchers who want to continue and expand their research in line with the SAIL research agenda at #BielefeldUniversity or #PaderbornUniversity for a 3-month fellowship 🤩🤝 ➡️All Information: www.sail.nrw/research/cal...

📆The next lecture of our SAIL lecture series "Robust AI" is coming up: On Thursday, Feb 15 at 4pm, Prof. Daniel Neider from TU Dortmund will give a talk titled "A Gentle Introduction to Neural Network Verification".🤩 👉The event is hybrid, online participation is possible👨‍💻

At the beginning of December, our doctoral researchers Clarissa Sabrina Arlinghaus and Lina Mavrina took part in the HAI Conference in beautiful Gothenburg❄️, where they were able to exchange ideas with other researchers on the topic of human-agent interaction.💬🤝

On Dec 13th, SAIL PIs Wolfram Schenck & Carsten Röcker had the opportunity to present SAIL at the Parliamentary Breakfast at the NRW State Parliament.🤩 In their presentation they emphasized the importance of research on sustainable AI.👏 ➡️Learn more: www.sail.nrw/2023/12/sail...