19.01.2026
MCML PI Frauke Kreuter Featured on ARD Alpha on AI
Exploring Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
MCML PI Frauke Kreuter was featured on ARD alpha, discussing how AI is shaping everyday life and the workplace. Alongside moderator Birgit Kappel and Sabine Pfeiffer, head of the Chair of Sociology at …
15.01.2026
Blind Matching – Aligning Images and Text Without Training or Labels
MCML Research Insight - With Dominik Schnaus, Nikita Araslanov, and Daniel Cremers
Vision-language models have shown that images and text can live in a shared space: a picture of a “cat” often lands close to the word “cat” in the embedding space. But such …
12.01.2026
MCML PIs Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung
Innovations in Science and Technology
MCML PIs Xiaoxiang Zhu and Felix Dietrich were featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung’s coverage of TU Munich’s major scientific breakthroughs in 2025. Their work contributes to current advances in …
12.01.2026
Call for Speakers Certificate Course „Responsible AI“
We Are Seeking Speakers for the First Certificate Course on Responsible AI
The certificate course “Responsible AI” is jointly organized by the German National AI Centers. It addresses AI researchers on all levels from the centers, the participating universities, …
08.01.2026
High-Res Images, Less Wait: A Simple Flow for Image Generation
MCML Research Insight - With Johannes Schusterbauer, Pingchuan Ma, Vincent Tao Hu, and Björn Ommer
Image generation models today can create almost anything, like a futuristic city glowing at sunset, a classical painting of your cat, or a realistic spaceship made of glass. But when you ask them to …
28.12.2025
Konstantin Riedl Wins Doctoral Award from the Friends of TUM e.V.
Former MCML Member Recognized for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
Konstantin Riedl, former MCML member, has received the Doctoral Award of the Friends of TUM e.V., honoring one of the most outstanding doctoral dissertations at the Technical University of Munich. He …
25.12.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Armin Nassehi, How Does Social Transformation Succeed?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, the sociologist Armin Nassehi declares, how social transformation succeeds. He discusses, why social changes are often not implemented despite clear goals and great urgency …
18.12.2025
"See, Don’t Assume": Revealing and Reducing Gender Bias in AI
MCML Research Insight - With Leander Girrbach, Yiran Huang, Stephan Alaniz and Zeynep Akata
Using AI and LLMs at work feels almost unavoidable today: they make things easier, but they can also go wrong in important ways. One of the trickiest problems? Gender bias. For example, if you ask …
16.12.2025
Fabian Theis Featured in Handelsblatt on the Future of AI in Precision Medicine
Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Research
Our PI Fabian Theis was recently featured in an interview exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping modern healthcare. As a leading researcher in AI-driven biomedical data analysis, he …
16.12.2025
Gitta Kutyniok Featured in VDI Nachrichten on AI Ethics
Defining Measurable Criteria for Responsible AI Agents
Our PI Gitta Kutyniok was featured in VDI Nachrichten discussing ethical and safety challenges for autonomous AI agents. She emphasizes the need for measurable criteria to guide AI decision-making, …
16.12.2025
Hinrich Schütze Featured in WirtschaftsWoche on Innovative AI Approaches
Advancing Language Models With Memory-Efficient and Context-Aware AI
Our PI Hinrich Schütze commented on the Swiss start-up Giotto.ai’s breakthrough in language models, featured in WirtschaftsWoche. Giotto.ai challenges the prevailing trend of ever-larger AI models by …
16.12.2025
Xiaoxiang Zhu Featured in Focus Online on Global 3D Building Atlas
AI-Driven 3D Mapping Reveals Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Social Insights
Our PI Xiaoxiang Zhu and her team have created a Global Building Atlas, mapping 2.75 billion buildings in 3D. Using satellite data and AI, the atlas captures building footprints, geometry, and height, …
11.12.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Will AI Be the New Colleague, Prof. Sabine Pfeiffer?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Sabine Pfeiffer from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg talks about AI as a new colleague. An MIT study shows that artificial intelligence is widespread in everyday life, but lags …
11.12.2025
From Sitting Dog to Standing: A New Way to Morph 3D Shapes
MCML Research Insight - With Lu Sang and Daniel Cremers
Ever wondered how a 3D shape can smoothly change — like a robot arm bending or a dog rising from sitting to standing — without complex simulations or hand-crafted data? Researchers from MCML and the …
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08.12.2025
Tom Sterkenburg Wins Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Honored for His Work at the Intersection of Philosophy, Statistics, and Machine Learning
MCML JRG Leader Tom Sterkenburg has been awarded the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW). The prize was presented at the Academy’s Ceremonial Annual …
08.12.2025
Björn Ommer Guest on ZDF’s Terra X
Image-Generative AI and Visual Understanding
Our PI Björn Ommer was a guest in the ZDF science series Terra X - moderated by Harald Lesch - where he explained how image-generative AI works and how systems like Stable Diffusion enable machines to …
08.12.2025
Björn Schuller Guest on ZDF’s Terra X
Emotion Recognition and Empathic AI
Our PI Björn Schuller was a guest in the ZDF science series Terra X - moderated by Harald Lesch, where he discussed the fundamentals of Affective Computing and the role of emotion recognition in …
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04.12.2025
World’s First Complete 3D Model of All Buildings Released
TUM News
A research team led by MCML PI Xiaoxiang Zhu has released the GlobalBuildingAtlas, the first global high-resolution 3D model of all buildings on Earth. Based on 2019 satellite data, the atlas includes …
04.12.2025
When to Say "I’m Not Sure": Making Language Models More Self-Aware
MCML Research Insight - With Yawei Li, David Rügamer, Bernd Bischl, and Mina Rezaei
Large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini are now everywhere, from summarizing text to writing code or answering simple questions. But there’s one thing they still struggle with: admitting …
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01.12.2025
Research Stay at Princeton University
Abdurahman Maarouf – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
From May to July, I spent three exciting months as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Manoel Horta Ribeiro. The visit grew out of a …
27.11.2025
Daniel Grün and Lukas Heinrich Receive BMFTR Funding for Physics Foundation Models
Developing Advanced AI Tools for Astro- And Particle Physics
MCML PIs Daniel Grün and Lukas Heinrich are part of the newly funded Germany-wide project “SciFM,” supported by the BMFTR, which aims to develop foundation models for astro- and particle physics. …
27.11.2025
MCML Members Honored in GAIE Spotlight 2025
Recognized for Their Contributions to AI Research and Innovation in Germany
Four members of the MCML have been selected for the GAIE Spotlight Series: Leading 30 German AI Experts & Academics 2025. The list recognizes outstanding researchers shaping the future of …
27.11.2025
Seeing the Bigger Picture – One Detail at a Time
MCML Research Insight - With Rui Xiao, Sanghwan Kim, and Zeynep Akata
Large vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) have changed how AI works with mixed inputs of images and text, by learning to connect pictures and words. Given …
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25.11.2025
How Will Artificial Intelligence Redefine Medicine in the Next Decade?
MCML Keynote at AI in Medicine Workshop 2025
The AI in Medicine Workshop 2025 brought together more than 120 experts from medicine and computer science at the Baltic, Charité’s innovation hub for digital health.
25.11.2025
Daniel Rückert Among the World’s Most Cited Researchers
TUM News
MCML Director Daniel Rückert is listed among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in the Cross-Field category for his work on artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine. In total, 17 …
20.11.2025
Digdeep Podcast: How Does Synera Shape Product Development of the Future, Moritz Maier?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Moritz Mayer talks about the shape product development of Synera. Developing physical products requires specialized knowledge and the use of complex tools. Moritz Maier …
20.11.2025
Zigzag Your Way to Faster, Smarter AI Image Generation
MCML Research Insight - With Vincent Tao Hu, Olga Grebenkova, Pingchuan Ma, Johannes Schusterbauer, and Björn Ommer
State-of-the-art diffusion models like DiT and Stable Diffusion have made AI image generation incredibly powerful. But they still struggle with one big issue: scaling to large images or videos quickly …
13.11.2025
Anne-Laure Boulesteix Among the World’s Most Cited Researchers
LMU Newsroom
MCML PI Anne‑Laure Boulesteix has been named a Highly Cited Researcher 2025 by Clarivate for her influential work in the Cross-Field category. The recognition highlights publications from 2014–2024 …
13.11.2025
Björn Ommer Featured in Frankfurter Rundschau
Google’s AI Search Mode Challenges Content Visibility and Online Publishing
MCML PI Björn Ommer was recently featured in Frankfurter Rundschau, commenting on the impact of Google’s new AI-powered search mode. The article discusses how AI-generated summaries in search results …
13.11.2025
Fabian Theis Among the World’s Most Cited Researchers
TUM News
MCML PI Fabian Theis is listed among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in Biology and Biochemistry for his work on mathematical modeling of biological systems. In total, 14 TUM scientists …
13.11.2025
Explaining AI Decisions: Shapley Values Enable Smart Exosuits
MCML Research Insight - With Julia Herbinger, Giuseppe Casalicchio, Yusuf Sale, Bernd Bischl and Eyke Hüllermeier
Picture a typical day in a warehouse: one worker lifts, bends, and carries out the same task over and over again. While the routine may seem simple, the physical toll steadily builds—affecting joints …
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07.11.2025
The MCML at the All Hands Meeting 2025 in Saarbrücken
Meet Up of All German AI Competence Centers - Hosted by DFKI
This year’s All Hands Meeting in Saarbrücken gathered researchers from all German AI centers (BIFOLD, ScaDS.ai, Lamarr Institute, Tübingen AI Center, DFKI and MCML) to exchange ideas and discuss …
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03.11.2025
Research on Human-Centred Exosuit Technology Highlighted in Börsen-Zeitung
MCML Research About Wearable Robotics
LMU and Harvard researchers are developing smarter and safer wearable technologies that adapt to the people using them. Their latest method not only optimizes how an exosuit supports workers during …
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30.10.2025
Language Shapes Gender Bias in AI Images
TUM News
Alexander Fraser, MCML PI, and his team discovered that AI image generators reproduce gender stereotypes differently across languages. In their study of nine languages, they found that generic prompts …
26.10.2025
CSG-Fusion Wins Best Paper at ICCV 2025 Workshop
Award-Winning Work by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and Junior Members Wenbo Ji and Weirong Chen
The paper “CSG-Fusion: Consistent Sparse-View Gaussian Splatting via Matching-based Fusion” by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and Junior Member Weirong Chen, together with Wenbo Ji, and Yan Xia, …
26.10.2025
Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze Featured on ARD
The Segment Highlights Challenges AI Faces in Understanding Regional Language Variations
MCML PIs Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze were featured in a recent ARD Capriccio segment on how AI struggles to understand dialects. The broadcast highlighted research from the MaiNLP lab, with …
26.10.2025
CoProU-VO Wins GCPR 2025 Best Paper Award
Award-Winning Work by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and His Team for Advances in Unsupervised Visual Odometry
The paper “CoProU-VO: Combining Projected Uncertainty for End-to-End Unsupervised Monocular Visual Odometry” by MCML Director Daniel Cremers and Junior Members Weirong Chen and Johannes …
26.10.2025
Unai Fischer-Abaigar Featured on Executive Code
AI Prediction and Its Impact on Government Resource Allocation
MCML Junior Member Unai Fischer-Abaigar, was featured in a recent episode of Executive Code. He discussed his paper “The Value of Prediction in Identifying the Worst-Off”, exploring how …
24.10.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Live From HerCareer With Anne Greul: How to Successfully Pivot a Startup.
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Anne Greul shows startup-pivots form herCareer. Anne took the courageous step into entrepreneurship and learned early on that the path is rarely straightforward. Instead …
20.10.2025
Björn Ommer Appointed LMU Chief AI Officer
LMU News
As of October 1, our PI Björn Ommer, has been appointed LMU’s Chief AI Officer. In his new role, he will help strengthen LMU’s strategic profile in Artificial Intelligence and further expand research …
17.10.2025
Call for Applications: Data Science Professional Certificate Program @LMU 2026
Application Deadline: 16.01.2026
The Data Science Certificate Program at LMU Munich, offered in collaboration with MCML, is a graded, part-time academic training program. It is designed for working professionals, researchers, and …
16.10.2025
SIC: Making AI Image Classification Understandable
MCML Research Insight - With Tom Nuno Wolf, Emre Kavak, Fabian Bongratz, and Christian Wachinger
Deep learning models are emerging more and more in everyday life, going as far as assisting clinicians in their diagnosis. However, their black box nature prevents understanding errors and …
12.10.2025
Panel on the "Ethics of AI Agents"
Recap of the Event
On 25 September 2025, LMU Munich hosted the panel discussion “Ethics of AI Agents” at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, in cooperation with MCML, the appliedAI Institute for Europe, the TUM …
10.10.2025
Digdeep Podcast: How Do We Get Germany on Track Digitally, Cihan Sügür?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the current episode of #digdeep, Cihan Sügür, associated partner of MHP, talks about digitalization in Germany. Since 2024, Capital magazine has ranked Cihan Sügür among its “Top 40 under 40” …
09.10.2025
Rethinking AI in Public Institutions - Balancing Prediction and Capacity
Researcher in Focus: Unai Fischer Abaigar
Unai Fischer Abaigar is a researcher at MCML whose work focuses on improving decision-making in public institutions by developing AI systems that are both fair and effective in practice.
08.10.2025
Three MCML Members Win Best Paper Award at AutoML 2025
Our Members Matthias Feurer, Lennart Schneider and Bernd Bischl Honored for Their Work on Hyperparameter Optimization
We are happy to announce that the paper “Overtuning in Hyperparameter Optimization” by MCML Thomas Bayes Fellow Matthias Feurer, MCML Junior Member Lennart Schneider, and MCML Director Bernd Bischl …
07.10.2025
Alena Buyx Joins 3sat’s NANO Talk as New Co-Host
Exploring Science Topics From AI to Nutrition
Since September, MCML PI Alena Buyx has been co-hosting NANO Talk on 3sat, alternating with journalist Stephanie Rohde and following in the footsteps of renowned science communicator Gert Scobel. The …
26.09.2025
Björn Ommer Featured in WELT
AI Bias and Why Neutrality Remains a Human Responsibility
MCML PI Björn Ommer was featured in WELT discussing the challenges of AI neutrality and the risks of over- or under-correcting bias in large models. He highlighted that no system can be fully neutral …
26.09.2025
Making Machine Learning More Accessible With AutoML
Researcher in Focus: Matthias Feurer
Matthias Feurer is a Thomas Bayes Fellow and interim professor, funded by the MCML and a member of the Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science at LMU. He aims to simplify the usage of machine …
25.09.2025
Björn Schuller Featured in Macwelt Article
The Role of Apple Watch in Personal Health and Wellness
MCML Principal Investigator Björn Schuller is mentioned in a recent Macwelt article discussing how the Apple Watch contributes to health monitoring and the future of healthcare. He highlights the …
25.09.2025
Compress Then Explain: Faster, Steadier AI Explanations - With One Tiny Step
MCML Research Insight - With Giuseppe Casalicchio and Bernd Bischl
Imagine re-running feature importance plots and getting slightly different “top features.” Annoying, right? That uncertainty often comes from a quiet assumption: model explanation algorithms typically …
24.09.2025
Björn Ommer Featured on ZDF NANO Talk
Discussing the Essence, Impact, and Future of Artificial Intelligence
MCML PI Björn Ommer joined the ZDF programme NANO Talk, hosted by MCML PI Alena Buyx, to explore the question: What is the essence of artificial intelligence? In the discussion, Ommer reflected on the …
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23.09.2025
Benjamin Lange Explores Opportunities and Risks of AI Agents
LMU News
Our MCML Junior Research Group Leader Benjamin Lange explores the opportunities and risks of AI agents that act like personal assistants, from booking trips to managing finances. While they promise …
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22.09.2025
Nassir Navab Shows How Avatars Reduce Stress in Autonomous Ultrasound Exams
TUM News
Our PI Nassir Navab led work showing that patients feel significantly less stress when a virtual avatar guides them during autonomous robotic ultrasound procedures. The avatar explains each step, …
19.09.2025
Digdeep Podcast: IAA in Munich – Will the Automotive Industry Turn Things Around?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Christof Horn himself talks about the turnaround of the automotive industry. Individual mobility is one of the freedoms that people value most. However, the mobility …
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19.09.2025
Björn Ommer at DLD Future Hub 2025
The Transformative Power of AI
At this year’s DLD Future Hub in Munich, our PI Björn Ommer took the stage as one of the featured speakers. In his keynote, he explored the transformative role of generative AI, emphasizing how …
19.09.2025
Fabian Theis at DLD Future Hub 2025
Reinventing Science With AI
At this year’s DLD Future Hub in Munich, our PI Fabian Theis delivered a keynote titled “Reinventing Science with AI”. He highlighted how AI is transforming research methodologies and driving …
18.09.2025
GCE-Pose – Predicting Whole Objects From Partial Views
MCML Research Insight - With Weihang Li, Junwen Huang, Hyunjun Jung, Nassir Navab, and Benjamin Busam
Imagine trying to identify the full shape of a familiar object, e.g. a mug, when only its handle is visible. That’s the challenge a computer faces when estimating the pose of an object (its …
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17.09.2025
Research Stay at Harvard University
Hannah Laus – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to spend 11 weeks at Harvard University as part of the AI X-change program, visiting the group of Flavio Calmon at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of …
08.09.2025
Niki Kilbertus Receives Prestigious ERC Starting Grant
Award Supports Project “DYNAMICAUS” on Causal Modeling in Complex Systems
MCML PI Niki Kilbertus has been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The grant supports his project DYNAMICAUS, which combines machine learning, causal inference, …
08.09.2025
3D Machine Perception Beyond Vision - With Researcher Riccardo Marin
Research Film
Can AI understand the world in 3D the way we do? Riccardo Marin, researcher at TUM and MCML, works at the intersection of computer vision and 3D geometry to teach machines how to perceive shapes, …
01.09.2025
Gitta Kutyniok Appears on ARD Audiothek
Discussing AI and Machine Learning in Today’s Research
Our PI Gitta Kutyniok appeared as a guest on the IQ – Wissenschaft und Forschung podcast on ARD Audiothek. The episode, titled “Grüne Rechenzentren – Wie werden sie klimaneutral?”, explores how data …
01.09.2025
AI for Personalized Psychiatry - With Researcher Clara Vetter
Research Film
Can AI help us understand why some people develop mental disorders while others remain resilient? MCML Junior Member Clara Vetter, PhD candidate in the group of our Director Daniel Rückert, uses …
27.08.2025
Top 20 in OpenAI’s Red-Teaming Challenge
MCML Junior Member Shuo Chen and Team Recognized for Advancing AI Safety Research
We are proud to share that MCML Junior Member Shuo Chen and his team ranked among the Top 20 worldwide (out of 600+) in OpenAI’s Red-Teaming Challenge on Kaggle, a global competition that attracted …
25.08.2025
Satellite Insights for a Sustainable Future - With Researcher Ivica Obadic
Research Film
Can AI from satellite imagery help us design more liveable cities, improve well-being, and ensure sustainable food production? Ivica Obadić, PhD student in the group of our PI Xiaoxiang Zhu, and MCML, …
21.08.2025
Björn Ommer Featured on IT-BUSINESS Podcast
Generative AI in Germany
MCML PI Björn Ommer was a guest on the eighth episode of the IT-BUSINESS podcast IT ImPuls. Together with hosts Mihriban Dincel and Agnes Panjas, he discussed the current state of generative AI in …
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19.08.2025
Nils Thuerey Develops New Method for Realistic Fluid Simulation
TUM News
MCML Principal Investigator Nils Thuerey and his team at TUM have introduced a novel approach that enables highly realistic simulations of fluids, capturing the complex interplay of air and water. The …
18.08.2025
Mingyang Wang Receives Award at ACL 2025
Award for Impactful Contribution to Reliable and Inclusive NLP
MCML Junior Member Mingyang Wang, PhD student in the group of our PI Hinrich Schütze, has been honored with the SAC Highlights Award at ACL 2025 for the paper “Lost in Multilinguality: Dissecting …
18.08.2025
Digital Twins for Surgery - With Researcher Azade Farshad
Research Film
Azade Farshad, MCML Junior Member and PhD student in the research group of Nassir Navab, researches digital twins of patients at TUM and MCML to improve personalized treatment, surgical planning, and …
14.08.2025
Digdeep Podcast: From University to CEO and Back – Entrepreneurship at LMU With Philipp Baaske
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Philipp Baaske let us know, how he turned his doctoral research into the globally successful company NanoTemper, which offers innovative machines for the pharmaceutical …
13.08.2025
From Physics Dreams to Algorithm Discovery - With Niki Kilbertus
Research Film
As a kid, Niki Kilbertus dreamed of becoming a theoretical physicist and discovering a fundamental law of nature. But when reality proved more complex, he found a new path through computer science.
12.08.2025
Tracking Actions in Space and Time: ICCV 2025 Challenge & Workshop
MCML Research Insight - With Tanveer Hannan, Mark Weber, and Thomas Seidl
Tracking actions, not just objects: The Spatiotemporal Action Grounding Challenge and Workshop at ICCV 2025 focusses on detecting and localizing actions both in space and time within complex, …
11.08.2025
AI for Dynamic Urban Mapping - With Researcher Shanshan Bai
Research Film
Imagine using social media to build a “living map” of our cities. Meet Shanshan Bai, MCML junior member and PhD student PhD student in the group of our PI Xiaoxiang Zhu, who’s …
07.08.2025
Precise and Subject-Specific Attribute Control in AI Image Generation
MCML Research Insight - With Felix Krause, Vincent Tao Hu, and Björn Ommer
Text-to-image (T2I) models like Stable Diffusion have become masters at turning prompts like “a happy man and a red car” into vivid, detailed images. But what if you want the man to look just a little …
06.08.2025
What Is Intelligence—and What Kind of Intelligence Do We Want in Our Future? With Sven Nyholm
Research Film
Sven Nyholm, Chair of the Ethics of AI at LMU Munich and PI at MCML, explores one of the most urgent questions in AI: how responsibility, agency, and credit shift when intelligent systems make …
05.08.2025
Björn Schuller Featured in ARD Documentary on AI and Depression Therapy
Depression - How to Get Out of It?
In the recent ARD documentary “Depression – wie kommt man wieder raus?”, MCML PI Björn Schuller shares insights on the role of artificial intelligence in mental health care. He discusses how AI …
01.08.2025
Stephan Günnemann Featured in BR24
Autonomous AI Agents: Support or Takeover?
MCML PI Stephan Günnemann was recently featured in a BR24 segment discussing the rise of autonomous AI agents. He clarified the key distinction between AI assistants like ChatGPT and true agents: …
01.08.2025
Fabian Theis Receives 2025 ISCB Innovator Award
Recognized for Advancing AI-Driven Biological Research
MCML PI Fabian Theis has been awarded the 2025 ISCB Innovator Award by the International Society for Computational Biology. The award honors leading scientists who have made progressive contributions …
01.08.2025
MCML Hosts “AI and School in Dialogue”
How Can Schools Prepare the Next Generation for an AI-Driven World?
This week, the Munich Center for Machine Learning hosted the event „KI und Schule im Dialog – Forschung, Bildungspolitik und Unterrichtspraxis” (AI and school in dialogue - research, education policy …
01.08.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Merantix – How Do You Build Europe's Most Successful AI Campus, Rasmus Rothe?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, Rasmus Rothe explains, how the company Merantix from Berlin combines AI startups, investments, and applications. Europe has developed significant artificial intelligence …
31.07.2025
From Vulnerable to Verified: Exact Certificates Shield Models From Label‑Flipping
MCML Research Insight - With Lukas Gosch, Stephan Günnemann and Debarghya Ghoshdastidar
Machine‑learning models can be undermined before training even starts. By silently altering a small share of training labels - marking “spam” as “not‑spam,” for instance - an attacker can cut accuracy …
30.07.2025
Tracking Our Changing Planet From Space - With Xiaoxiang Zhu
Research Film
From dreaming of seeing the Earth from space to leading efforts to understand our planet using AI and satellite data to tackle urgent global challenges. Xiaoxiang Zhu, Chair Professor for Data Science …
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29.07.2025
Yusuf Sale Receives IJAR Young Researcher Award
Award for Promising Work in Uncertainty Quantification at ISIPTA 2025
MCML Junior Member Yusuf Sale, PhD student in the group of our PI Eyke Hüllermeier, has been honored with one of the IJAR Young Researcher Awards at ISIPTA 2025. This prestigious award, presented by …
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29.07.2025
Barbara Plank Awarded 2025 Imminent Research Grant for Work on Language Data
Supporting Innovative Research at the Intersection of Language and AI
We are proud to announce that Barbara Plank, MCML PI and Professor of AI & Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich, has received the 2025 Imminent Research Grant for her work on language data …
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29.07.2025
AI Research by Daniel Rückert Improves Medical Imaging and Data Privacy
TUM News
MCML Director Daniel Rückert and his team are developing AI technologies to improve diagnostic imaging and protect patient data. Their research includes federated learning approaches that allow models …
29.07.2025
AI for Enhanced Eye Diagnostics - With Researcher Lucie Huang
Research Film
Curious how AI is revolutionizing the treatment of eye diseases? Learn more about what AI can do for ophthalmology with Lucie Huang, MCML junior member and PhD student in the research group of Martin …
24.07.2025
SceneDINO: How AI Learns to See and Understand Images in 3D–Without Human Labels
MCML Research Insight - With Christoph Reich, Felix Wimbauer, and Daniel Cremers
Imagine looking at a single image and trying to understand the entire 3D scenery–not just what’s visible, but also what’s occluded. Humans do this effortlessly: when we see a photo of a tree, we …
23.07.2025
How Reliable Are Machine Learning Methods? With Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Milena Wünsch
Research Film
Often a new machine learning method claims to outperform the last. Whether it’s in bioinformatics, finance, or image recognition, the message is the same: this algorithm is faster, more accurate, more …
22.07.2025
Eyke Hüllermeier to Lead New DFG-Funded Research Training Group METEOR
LMU News
We are happy to share that Eyke Hüllermeier, MCML PI will serve as spokesperson of the newly funded Research Training Group METEOR.
18.07.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Should Everyone Have Their Own AI Twin, Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, our PI Albrecht Schmidt talks about the possibility and chances of AI twins in the future. Everyone uses AI based chatbot models. Would it also be possible to have our …
18.07.2025
Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2025 for MCML Researchers
Unai Fischer Abaigar and Christoph Kern Honored for Their Paper on Identifying the Worst-Off Through Prediction
We are proud to share that the paper “The Value of Prediction in Identifying the Worst-Off” by our Junior Member Unai Fischer Abaigar, and Associate Christoph Kern, and collaborator Juan Carlos …
16.07.2025
AI-Powered Cortical Mapping for Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnoses - With Christian Wachinger
Research Film
Christian Wachinger, Professor of AI in Radiology at the Technical University of Munich and PI at MCML, is developing AI systems to precisely reconstruct the brain’s cortex — an extremely thin and …
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15.07.2025
ERC Proof of Concept Grants for Fabian Theis
Award Supports Project “DeepCell” on Modeling Cellular Dynamics
MCML PI Fabian Theis has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. The grant supports his project “DeepCell”, which aims to develop advanced deep learning methods …
15.07.2025
Nassir Navab Receives 2025 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award
Awarded at This Year’s EMBC Conference
Our PI Nassir Navab has received the 2025 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award. He was recognized “for pioneering roles in the establishment of the medical augmented reality, surgical data science, …
10.07.2025
Capturing Complexity in Surgical Environments
MCML Research Insight - With Ege Özsoy, Chantal Pellegrini, Felix Tristram, Kun Yuan, David Bani-Harouni, Matthias Keicher, Benjamin Busam and Nassir Navab
Imagine an operating room - a space filled with intricate interactions, rapid decisions, and precise movements. Now, imagine capturing every detail of such a complex environment not just visually but …
10.07.2025
Beyond Prediction: How Causal AI Enables Better Decision-Making - With Stefan Feuerriegel
Research Film
“A good prediction is rarely a good decision.” This may sound surprising in an age where AI is often celebrated for its predictive power. But when it comes to making real-world decisions — …
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09.07.2025
Entrepreneurship Insights at MCML Munich AI Day
Short Recap
At the MCML Munich AI Day, we held a Masterclass on Entrepreneurship, with two invited speakers from our collaboration partners, Annie Weichselbaum from the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship …
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09.07.2025
Masterclass on Science Communication at MCML Munich AI Day
Collaboration With RHET AI Center and Tue.AI - A Short Recap
The MCML Munich AI Day 2025 began on a collaborative note with a masterclass on science communication, in collaboration with the RHET AI Center and the Tübingen AI Center. A group of PhD researchers …
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07.07.2025
Anne-Laure Boulesteix Receives Reinhart Koselleck Grant
Funding for Innovative Statistical Research
MCML Principal Investigator Anne-Laure Boulesteix has been awarded a prestigious Reinhart Koselleck Grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The highly competitive program supports researchers …
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03.07.2025
Greetings From the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
PSt’in Dr. Silke Launert on the Importance of Responsible and Forward-Looking AI Research
We are pleased to share a video message from of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) on the occasion of the MCML Munich AI Day 2025. In her address, PSt’in Dr. Silke Launert …
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27.06.2025
Every Household Needs a “Digital Chimney Sweep”– Insights From Johannes Kinder
LMU News
At this year’s ACNS conference (June 23–26 in Munich), MCML Associate Johannes Kinder emphasized the growing security risks posed by smart home devices. From toothbrushes to robot vacuums, many …
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26.06.2025
Zeynep Akata Receives 2025 ZukunftsWissen Prize
Award Highlights Contributions to the Field of Interpretable Machine Learning
We are happy to share that our PI Zeynep Akata has been awarded the 2025 ZukunftsWissen Prize by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Commerzbank Foundation. The award honors her …
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26.06.2025
Volker Tresp Shares Insights on Germany’s AI Future
Interview With Plattform Lernende Systeme
Our PI Volker Tresp was recently interviewed by Plattform Lernende Systeme – Germany’s AI Platform. In the interview, he discusses Germany’s position in the international AI race, the challenges …
26.06.2025
What Words Reveal: Analyzing Language in the Trump–Harris 2024 Debate
MCML Research Insight - With Philipp Wicke
In presidential debates, every word counts - not only what candidates say but how they say it. Words are carefully selected to resonate with voters’ values, fears, and hopes. A new insightful …
25.06.2025
When Clinical Expertise Meets AI Innovation – With Michael Ingrisch
Research Film
Artificial intelligence has enormous potential in radiology — but realizing it requires more than good algorithms. Michael Ingrisch, Clinical Data Science Professor at LMU and MCML PI, shares how his …
23.06.2025
Autonomous Driving: From Infinite Possibilities to Safe Decisions— With Matthias Althoff
Research Film
How can we guarantee that autonomous vehicles always make the right decision in unpredictable traffic?
Matthias Althoff, Professor at the chair of Cyber-Physical Systems at the Technical University of …
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20.06.2025
ERC Advanced Grant for Massimo Fornasier
MCML PI Receives Funding for Nonconvex Optimization
MCML PI Massimo Fornasier has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project NEITALG. The project aims to develop new algorithms that can reliably find global solutions to challenging nonconvex …
20.06.2025
Zooming in on Moments: ReVisionLLM for Long-Form Video Understanding
MCML Research Insight - With Tanveer Hannan and Thomas Seidl
Imagine watching a two-hour video and trying to find the exact moment someone scores a goal - or says something important. Humans can do this with ease by skimming and zooming in. But for AI, finding …
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18.06.2025
ERC Advanced Grant for Albrecht Schmidt
Funding for Research on Personalized Generative AI
MCML PI Albrecht Schmidt has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for his project “AI of Human Experience: Towards Personal Generative AI‑Systems for Amplifying Human …
13.06.2025
Volker Tresp and His Team Win ReGenAI @CVPR 2025 Best Paper Award
Honored for Work on New Jailbreak Vulnerability in T2I Diffusion Models
MCML Junior Members Tong Liu, Gengyuan Zhang, Shuo Chen, and MCML PI Volker Tresp and their co-authors have received the Best Paper Award at the Second Workshop on Responsible Generative AI (ReGenAI) …
12.06.2025
Why Causal Reasoning Is Crucial for Reliable AI Decisions
MCML Research Insight - With Christoph Kern, Unai Fischer-Abaigar, Jonas Schweisthal, Dennis Frauen, Stefan Feuerriegel and Frauke Kreuter
As algorithms increasingly make decisions that impact our lives, from managing city traffic to recommending hospital treatments, one question becomes urgent: Can we trust them?
11.06.2025
Better Data, Smarter AI: Why Quality Matters – With Frauke Kreuter
Research Film
How does data quality shape the future of AI? Frauke Kreuter, Professor at the Chair of Statistics and Data Science at LMU Munich and MCML PI, shares her insights on the fundamental role of data …
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11.06.2025
Björn Ommer Delivers Keynote at re:publica 2025
Generative AI and the Future of Intelligence
At re:publica 2025 in Berlin, our PI Björn Ommer gave the opening keynote on how generative AI is transforming intelligence into accessible, scalable knowledge. This shift moves society from raw …
11.06.2025
Benjamin Lange Featured on the MCAST Podcast
Artificial Intelligence in Mobility: Your Friend and Helper?
MCML Junior Research Group Leader Benjamin Lange was recently featured on the mCAST podcast. He talks about the ethical challenges of using artificial intelligence in mobility, explains the concept of …
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04.06.2025
Daniel Rückert Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Over 90 Scientists Elected as Royal Society Fellows in 2025
MCML Director Daniel Rückert has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, UK’s national academy of sciences, in recognition of his contributions to artificial intelligence in medicine and …
20.05.2025
Call for Papers for NLPOR - First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research
Co-Located With COLM 2025, 10.10.2025, Montreal, Canada
Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming how we engage with and interpret human-generated data—highlighting critical issues around data …
08.05.2025
Digdeep Podcast: How Do Robots Get Muscles, Prof. Christoph Keplinger?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the next episode of #digdeep, Christoph Keplinger gives information about advances in robotics. Even though humanoid robots are increasingly adopting human geometries, with their hard metal forms, …
08.05.2025
Christian Koke Wins ICLR MLMP 2025 Best Paper Award
Our Junior Member Honored for Work on Multiscale Graph Networks
MCML Junior Member Christian Koke, PhD student in the group of our Director Daniel Cremers, and his co-authors have received the ICLR 2025 MLMP Best Paper Award for their paper “On Incorporating Scale …
30.04.2025
Who Spreads Hate?
MCML Research Insight – With Dominique Geissler, Abdurahman Maarouf, and Stefan Feuerriegel
Hate speech on social media isn’t just offensive - it’s dangerous. It spreads quickly, harms mental health, and can even contribute to real-world violence. While many studies have focused on …
29.04.2025
How Certain Is AI? an Introduction to Bayesian Deep Learning
Researcher in Focus: Emanuel Sommer
MCML Junior Member Emanuel Sommer is a PhD-student at the Munich Uncertainty Quantification AI Lab at LMU Munich supervised by our PI David Rügamer. His research focuses on Scalable and Reliable …
28.04.2025
MCML Delegation Visit to the USA
Advancing AI Research Through Transatlantic Cooperation
Generative AI and medical AI are at the forefront of technological innovation, offering transformative potential across sectors. A core delegation of around 15 researchers from MCML will showcase and …
10.04.2025
Gitta Kutyniok Joins National Academy of Artificial Intelligence
Honored for Excellence in AI Research
Our PI Gitta Kutyniok has been invited to join the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI). The invitation acknowledges her contributions to harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, and AI, …
10.04.2025
Text2Loc: A Smarter Way to Navigate With Words
MCML Research Insight - With Yan Xia, Zifeng Ding and Daniel Cremers
Imagine standing in an unfamiliar part of a city, no GPS in sight. All you can say is, “I’m west of a green building, near a black garage.” That might be vague to a machine, but Text2Loc …
07.04.2025
IVADO Visits MCML
Exploring Collaboration, Global Research Opportunities, and the New AI X-Change Program
The MCML was honored by the visit of Luc Vinet, Foutse Khomh, and Josée Savard from IVADO, Montreal. IVADO is a research consortium led by Université de Montréal to advance robust, reasoning, and …
04.04.2025
Digdeep Podcast: How to Bring AI Into Engineering, Philipp Noll From Spread.AI?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In another new episode of #digdeep, Philipp Noll, Co-Founder from Spread.AI talks about data networking in large-scale IT projects. Data is of central importance in modern industry, both in product …
03.04.2025
Digdeep Podcast: Reinvention in Structural Change – How Schwedt Goes Digital
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In the new episode of #digdeep, the podcast reports about circular economy at Schwedt and a startup-lab with Sascha Lademann. Schwedt, a town in the Uckermark region, is facing the challenge of …
03.04.2025
CUPS: Teaching AI to Understand Scenes Without Human Labels
MCML Research Insight - With Christoph Reich, Nikita Araslanov, and Daniel Cremers
Understanding the location and semantics of objects in a scene is a significant task, enabling robots to navigate through complex environments or facilitating autonomous driving. Recent AI models for …
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01.04.2025
AI as Co-Pilot
LMU News
Our PI Stefan Feuerriegel and his team at LMU developed AI systems to assist decision-making in areas like healthcare and public administration. The AI acts as a co-pilot—analyzing data, suggesting …
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31.03.2025
Robot Jack Navigates Like a Human – A Project Led by Angela Schoellig
TUM News
A research team at TUM, led by our PI Angela Schoellig, has developed the mobile robot Jack, which moves safely and efficiently through crowds. This is made possible by an innovative motion planning …
27.03.2025
Beyond the Black Box: Choosing the Right Feature Importance Method
MCML Research Insight - With Fiona Katharina Ewald, Ludwig Bothmann, Giuseppe Casalicchio and Bernd Bischl
Machine learning models make powerful predictions, but can we really trust them if we don’t understand how they work? Global feature importance methods help us discover which factors really …
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24.03.2025
Azade Farshad Receives BVM Award
Honored for Her Outstanding PhD Work in AI-Based Medical Imaging
Our Junior Member Azade Farshad was awarded the BVM Award for the best thesis in medical image processing. Her work, supervised by Nassir Navab, was recognized for its innovation and excellence. The …
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21.03.2025
Explainable Multimodal Agents With Symbolic Representations & Can AI Be Less Biased?
Ruotong Liao at United Nations AI for Good
More than 170 audiences visited the online lecture of our Junior Member Ruotong Liao, PhD student in the group of our PI Volker Tresp, on Monday, 17. March 2025, as an invited speaker at the United …