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,…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have coauthored 17 papers at the colocated LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020, two of the top conferences in theoretical computer science. LICS is…
The following two MPI-SWS papers have been accepted to ICML 2020, one of the flagship conferences in machine learning: Policy Teaching via Environment Poisoning: Training-time Adversarial Attacks against Reinforcement Learning by Amin Rakhsha, Goran Radanovic, Rati Devidze, Xiaojin Zhu, Adish Singla. Adaptive Reward-Poisoning Attacks against Reinforcement Learning by Xuezhou Zhang, Yuzhe Ma, Adish…
