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MPI-SWS Ph.D. student Aastha Mehta has been selected to attend the Rising Stars Workshop to be held at MIT from October 28-30, 2018. She is one of 76 participants, and one of only three invited from a European university. Rising Stars is a prestigious workshop that provides mentoring to women graduate students and postdocs interested in pursuing an academic career.

Many real-world systems involve repeatedly making decisions under uncertainty—for instance, choosing one of the several products to recommend to a user in an online recommendation service, or dynamically allocating resources among available stock options in a financial market. Machine learning (ML) algorithms driving these systems typically operate under the assumption that they are interacting with static components, e.g., users‘ preferences are fixed, trading tools providing stock recommendations [...]

Mahmoud Salamati and Rupak Majumdar have received the Best Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2018) for their paper entitled “Approximate Time Bounded Reachability for CTMCs and CTMDPs: A Lyapunov Approach” (with Sadegh Soudjani from Newcastle University).

The French Data Protection Authority CNIL has recognized the benefits of Diffix anonymization by republishing an article by Paul Francis in which the utility of Diffix anonymization is highlighted. Diffix is the anonymization technology developed in joint research between Francis‘ group and Aircloak GmbH.