MPI-SWS faculty member Joël Ouaknine has been elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2020. This is the second election for MPI-SWS, following the election of Peter Druschel as a member in 2008. The aim of the Academy is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in…
Europaweit haben sich führende Forscher auf dem Gebiet der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) und dem Maschinellen Lernen im Ellis-Netzwerk zusammengeschlossen. Dies hat zwei Ziele: Internationale Top-Forschung zu diesen Themen in Europa zu etablieren und Europa auf diesem Gebiet auch wirtschaftlich zu stärken. Damit soll ein Gegengewicht zur derzeitigen Dominanz von US-amerikanischen…
Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, head of the MPI-SWS Human-Centric Machine Learning group, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Over the next five years, his project "Human-Centric Machine Learning" will receive 1.49 million euros, which will allow the group to develop the foundations of human-centric machine learning. In the most recent round…
Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, a postdoctoral fellow in the Rigorous Software Engineering group, was accepted to the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Science Foundation (DFG). This grant programme is the most prestigious programme for early career researchers from the DFG. It provides funding for an independent research group for a period of…
Aastha Mehta, a doctoral student in the Distributed Systems group and the Security & Privacy group, has accepted a position as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Congratulations Aastha! Aastha's research interests span systems security, data privacy, operating systems,…
