09.11.2026
Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2026 for Work on Accent Bias in Audio Language Models
Examining the Risks of AI in Political Communication
The paper “The Cost of Sounding Different: Accent Bias in Audio Language Models” received an Outstanding Paper Award at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026) …
06.11.2026
Best Thesis Award for Sohir Maskey
Recognition for Research on the Theoretical Foundations of Graph Neural Networks
Former MCML Junior Member Sohir Maskey received the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning Best Thesis Award of the DFG Priority Programme 2298. The award recognizes his PhD thesis “Theoretical …
02.11.2026
Gitta Kutyniok Elected Member of acatech
Bringing a Mathematical Perspective to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering
MCML PI Gitta Kutyniok has been elected a member of acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering. acatech brings together science, engineering, industry, and policy to advise on key …
30.10.2026
Best Paper Award at Yale Digital Ethics Center Symposium for Anna-Maria Brandtner
Recognition for Research on the Ethics of AI Text Detection
MCML Junior Member Anna-Maria Brandtner, a PhD student in the group of MCML PI Benjamin Lange, received the Best Paper Award at the inaugural Digital Ethics Center Symposium (DECS) at Yale University. …
29.10.2026
Teaching Language Models to Express Uncertainty
MCML Research Insight – With David Bani-Harouni, Chantal Pellegrini, Ege Özsoy, Kamilia Zaripova, Nassir Navab, and Matthias Keicher
An AI assistant may give a confident answer even when it is wrong. But what if it could tell us how sure it really is? MCML researchers have developed a reinforcement learning approach that teaches …
27.10.2026
Runner-Up Prize at AutoML 2026 for Tabular-DC-Bench
A Meta-Dataset for Hyperparameter Optimization in Deep Clustering on Tabular Data
At the International Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML 2026), the paper “Tabular-DC-Bench” received the runner-up prize in the ABCD track (Applications, Benchmarks, Challenges, and …
27.10.2026
Welcoming Ewa Szczurek to MCML
Developing Probabilistic and Generative Models for Cancer, Lung Diseases, and Antibiotic Resistance
We are pleased to welcome Ewa Szczurek as a Principal Investigator. Ewa Szczurek is Professor of AI in Life Sciences at LMU Munich, associate professor at the University of Warsaw, and Director of the …
26.10.2026
Best Paper Award at AIES 2026 for Work on Algorithmic Contestability
Why Explainable AI Is Not Enough to Challenge Algorithmic Decisions
The paper “Explainable AI Isn’t Enough! Rethinking Algorithmic Contestability” received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2026). The paper was …
23.10.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Technology, Power & Society – What Can We Learn From the History of IT?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, historian Debora Gerstenberger talks about the influence of the IT history. Technological developments often seem inevitable in retrospect, but they are shaped by decisions …