07.05.2026
Matthias Niessner Featured in Handelsblatt Disrupt Podcast
World Models and the Future of Robotics
MCML PI Matthias Niessner joined the Handelsblatt Disrupt podcast to discuss the growing hype around “World Models”, AI systems capable of understanding and recreating the world in 3D.
In conversation with host Larissa Holzki, he explains how these models could become the “brains” of future robots, why Europe is seeing a rise in research-driven AI start-ups, and how technologies like World Models may transform entire industries.
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Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2026 for Work on Accent Bias in Audio Language Models
A paper co-authored by MCML PI Valentin Hofmann on accent bias in audio language models won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2026.
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Best Thesis Award for Sohir Maskey
Former MCML Junior Member Sohir Maskey received the Best Thesis Award of the DFG Priority Programme 2298 for his PhD on graph neural networks.
