30.07.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Will the Lights Stay Off in Factories in the Future, Sebastian Linzmair?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, Sebastian Linzmair talks about roboters in factories of the future. Industry 4.0 may not have fully lived up to expectations, but the digitalization and connectivity it …
28.07.2026
Gaps in the Benchmark: Why Medical AI Fails in the Real World
MCML Research Insight – With Jiazhen Pan, Bailiang Jian, Niklas Bubeck, Christian Wachinger, Benedikt Wiestler, and Daniel Rückert
We’ve all seen the headlines: the latest Artificial Intelligence model has aced the US medical licensing exams, scoring higher than many human doctors. It sounds like the future of healthcare has …
26.07.2026
Barbara Plank Becomes President of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Leading the Global Natural Language Processing Community
MCML PI Barbara Plank has become President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), serving on the ACL Executive Committee for 2026. As the world’s leading professional organization for …
25.07.2026
Konstantin Riedl Receives 2026 SIAM Student Paper Prize
Advancing the Mathematical Foundations of Nonconvex Optimization
Former MCML Junior Member Konstantin Riedl received the 2026 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Paper Prize for outstanding research in optimization. The award recognizes …
22.07.2026
Sven Nyholm Explores the Ethics of Living With Robots
Exploring AI Ethics Beyond the Trolley Problem
MCML PI Sven Nyholm joined the podcast Art of the Question to discuss the ethical questions surrounding intelligent robots and their growing role in everyday life. The conversation explores how …
22.07.2026
MCML Welcomes Student Delegation From HEC Montréal
Strengthening International Academic Exchange
The Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) recently welcomed a group of students from HEC Montréal, one of Canada’s leading business schools, led by Professor Jean-François Ouellet. The visit began …
21.07.2026
Timo Heiß Receives Best Student Paper Award at XAI 2026
Improving Feature Effect Estimation in Explainable AI
MCML Junior Member Timo Heiß received the Best Student Paper Award at the 4th World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI 2026) for the paper Analyzing Error Sources in Global Feature …
21.07.2026
The Learning Rate Does More Than Set the Pace
MCML Research Insight – With Maria Matveev, Vit Fojtik, Gitta Kutyniok, and Johannes Maly
A neural network can fit its training examples in many different ways. The harder question is which of these possible solutions will continue to perform well on new data, and whether the choices made …
20.07.2026
How Fair Does AI Seem in Job Interviews?
Enkelejda Kasneci Explores Fairness in AI Job Interviews
Many companies rely on AI for recruitment. A new study shows that job applicants mostly trust the avatars conducting their interviews – but only until they receive a rejection. How fair this decision …
20.07.2026
TUM Develops Intelligent 3D Twins of Crime Scenes
Advancing AI for Digital Crime Scene Investigation
A crime scene is often accessible only for a short period of time. During that time, all relevant evidence must be documented quickly, and even small details can prove crucial. Researchers at the …
16.07.2026
Digdeep Podcast: 5 Tipping Points, 10 Years of #Digdeep – Did We Get the Future Right?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, the podcast founder look back on 10 years of exciting topics. Ten years ago, #digdeep set out to identify and make sense of digital transformation early on, and five years …
10.07.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Can AI Save Our Legal System From Collapse, Viktor Von Essen (Libra)?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, Viktor von Essen talks about AI and our legal system. This talk explains why Legal Tech is becoming increasingly important due to overloaded legal systems and the growing …
09.07.2026
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma Earns Best Paper and SAC Highlight Awards at ACL 2026
Bolei Ma Receives Two ACL 2026 Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma received a Best Paper Award at ACL 2026 for “The Imperfective Paradox in LLMs” and an SAC Highlight Award for the survey “Table Question Answering in the Era of Large …
09.07.2026
Benjamin Lange Introduces AI to Elementary School Students
Benjamin Lange Introduces Elementary School Students to Artificial Intelligence and Answers Their Questions About How AI Works.
MCML PI Benjamin Lange recently welcomed a group of elementary school students from the Städtisches Haus für Kinder am Hollerbusch as part of BR’s MünchenHören 2026 project, KI macht Schule. Together, …
08.07.2026
How Autonomous Systems Learn to Understand Their Environment
Startup SE3 Labs Develops Spatial AI
Generative AI like ChatGPT can write text, generate images, and even write code. But when it comes to the physical world, these models reach their limits. They have only a limited understanding of …