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, and mechanistic modeling to study interventions in complex systems. By advancing methods that …
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, patterns, and spatial structures. His work ranges from detecting production flaws in manufacturing to …
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 centers can operate climate-neutrally despite rising energy demands from AI applications. Gitta …
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? Clara Vetter, PhD candidate at LMU and MCML, uses machine learning to uncover hidden patterns in brain scans, genetic data, and even smartphone-based information. Her goal: identifying biological markers that could improve diagnosis and treatment in …
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 at TUM and MCML, develops transparent AI models that not only predict change but also give actionable insights for urban planners.
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 Germany, the strategic opportunities it offers, and the importance of digital sovereignty and open-source initiatives for staying competitive in the …
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19.08.2025
Nils Thuerey Develops New Method for Realistic Fluid Simulation
TUM News Article
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 method holds promise for applications in visual effects, scientific research, and engineering.
18.08.2025
Mingyang Wang Receives Award at ACL 2025
Award for Impactful Contribution to Reliable and Inclusive NLP
MCML Junior Member Mingyang Wang has been honored with the SAC Highlights Award at ACL 2025 for the paper “Lost in Multilinguality: Dissecting Cross-lingual Factual Inconsistency in Transformer Language Models.” This award recognizes impactful research advancing the understanding of factual consistency across languages in large language models, …
18.08.2025
Digital Twins for Surgery - With Researcher Azade Farshad
Research Film
Azade Farshad researches digital twins of patients at TUM and MCML to improve personalized treatment, surgical planning, and training. Using graph-based analysis and multimodal patient data, she builds models that create realistic surgical simulations — helping surgeons preview procedures, spot potential complications, and optimize strategies.
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 industry. The German education system opened up this opportunity for him, and he sees it as his duty to give something back to society. Starting in …
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, real-world videos. Unlike standard action recognition, this task requires identifying when and where an action occurs, pushing models to handle long, diverse, …
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 older, or the car to appear slightly more luxurious without changing anything else? Until now, that level of subtle, subject-specific control was …
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 decisions for us.
05.08.2025
MCML PI 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 Principal Investigator Björn Schuller shares insights on the role of artificial intelligence in mental health care. He discusses how AI systems can support the diagnosis and treatment of depression by analyzing voice, facial expressions, and behavior patterns. These …
04.08.2025
AI for Better Social Media - With Researcher Dominik Bär
Research Film
Meet Dominik Bär, MCML junior member and PhD student at LMU exploring how AI can enhance the integrity of social media platforms. Dominik’s work goes beyond just detecting harmful content like hate speech and misinformation. He’s developing AI that understands why content is posted and generates thoughtful, human-like responses - so-called …
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: autonomy in both planning and execution. While companies such as Softbank envision agents taking over tasks from programming to corporate decision-making, …
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 to computational biology and opened new directions in the field. Congratulations from us!
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 and teaching practice).
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 methods and plays a central role in industrial applications. The fundamental AI models are increasingly becoming common knowledge and readily …
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 by double‑digit percentages. The paper “Exact Certification of (Graph) Neural Networks Against Label Poisoning” by MCML Junior Member Lukas Gosch, …
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 in Earth Observation at TUM and PI at MCML, develops machine learning systems that analyze petabytes of satellite imagery. Her work focuses on …
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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 has been honored with one of the IJAR Young Researcher Awards at ISIPTA 2025. This prestigious award, presented by the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, recognizes early-career researchers for outstanding contributions in the field of imprecise probabilities and uncertainty quantification. Congratulations …