The following three MPI-SWS papers have been accepted to NeurIPS 2019, the flagship conference in machine learning: Teaching Multiple Concepts to a Forgetful Learner Learner-aware Teaching: Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Preferences and Constraints Preference-Based Batch and Sequential Teaching: Towards a Unified View of Models
Researchers from the Machine Teaching Group at MPI-SWS have won a Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship for the project "Reinforcement Learning for Enabling Next-Generation Human-Machine Partnerships". The scholarship provides funding for one PhD student. More details about the scholarship programme can be found here.
The Winter 2019/2020 core Operating Systems course at Saarland University is being co-taught by MPI-SWS faculty members Björn Brandenburg, Antoine Kaufmann, and Keon Jang, along with MPI-SWS doctoral student Aastha Mehta.
Goran Radanovic joined MPI-SWS as a research group leader on Sep 16, 2019. He is generally interested in studying AI systems, and more specifically in the design and analysis of systems with intelligent and self-interested agents. Particular topics of interest include value-aligned artificial intelligence, human-AI collaboration, and decision making systems with…
Ori Lahav was awarded an ERC starting grant on "Verification-Aware Programming Language Concurrency Semantics". Ori was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Software Analysis and Verification group, and is now a tenure-track faculty member at Tel Aviv University. Read more about this year's ERC Starting Grants here.
