Due to the impressive advances in Machine Learning and the unlimited availability of data, neural networks are rapidly becoming prevalent in our everyday lives, for instance by assisting in image-classification or decision-making tasks. As a result, there is growing concern regarding the reliability of neural networks in performing these tasks.…
Isabel Valera, a postdoc alumni of the Human-Centric Machine Learning group, has become full professor in the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University. Congratulations Isabel! Isabel's research focuses on developing machine learning methods that are flexible, robust, interpretable and fair. Her research can be applied in a broad range…
Azalea Raad, postdoctoral fellow in the Software Analysis and Verification Group and the Foundations of Programming Group, has accepted a position as Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. Congratulations Azalea! Azalea's research is in the area of programming languages and verification, spanning several topics including non-volatile memory,…
The following three MPI-SWS papers have been accepted to AAAI 2020, one of the flagship conferences in artificial intelligence: Incremental Fairness in Two-Sided Market Platforms: On Smoothly Updating Recommendations by Gourab K. Patro, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P. Gummadi. Regression Under Human Assistance by Abir De, Paramita Koley, Niloy Ganguly, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez. The Effectiveness of Peer Prediction…
MPI-SWS faculty members Peter Druschel, Keon Jang, and Antoine Kaufmann have been appointed as joint general chairs for the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'21), to be held in Koblenz, Germany from Oct 25 to Oct 28, 2021. SOSP is a top-tier conference covering the full range of theory…
