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Awards and Prizes

MCML researchers are regularly honored with prestigious awards for their contributions to machine learning and artificial intelligence. This section highlights notable achievements, from distinguished research prizes to academic honors, reflecting the impact and excellence of our community.

2025

08.10.2025

Awards and Prizes

Three MCML Members Win Best Paper Award at AutoML 2025

Niki Kilbertus Receives Prestigious ERC Starting Grant

Mingyang Wang Receives Award at ACL 2025

Fabian Theis Receives 2025 ISCB Innovator Award

Yusuf Sale Receives IJAR Young Researcher Award

Barbara Plank Awarded 2025 Imminent Research Grant for Work on Language Data

Eyke Hüllermeier to Lead New DFG-Funded Research Training Group METEOR

Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2025 for MCML Researchers

ERC Proof of Concept Grants for Fabian Theis

Nassir Navab Receives 2025 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award

Anne-Laure Boulesteix Receives Reinhart Koselleck Grant

Zeynep Akata Receives 2025 ZukunftsWissen Prize

ERC Advanced Grant for Massimo Fornasier

ERC Advanced Grant for Albrecht Schmidt

MCML PI Volker Tresp and His Team Win ReGenAI @CVPR 2025 Best Paper Award

Daniel Rückert Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Christian Koke Wins ICLR MLMP 2025 Best Paper Award

Azade Farshad Receives BVM Award for Top Medical Imaging Research

Steffen Schneider Awarded as Young Scientist of the Year

Björn Ommer Receives 2024 Eduard-Rhein-Foundation Technology Prize

MCML Director Daniel Rückert Receives Leibniz Prize

Matthias Nießner Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

Nassir Navab Receives the Prestigious ISMAR Career Impact Award

Several MCML PIs Receive BMBF Funding

Alena Buyx Appointed as New Curator of the Bertelsmann Foundation

Daniel Rückert Receives MICCAI Society’s Enduring Impact Award

Alexander Fraser Receives EU Funding for Research on LLMs

Success for the Group of Nassir Navab at MICCAI 2024

Alena Buyx Receives Order of Merit on German Unity Day 2024

Angela Dai Receives ECVA Young Researcher Award 2024

Björn Ommer Receives the German AI Award

Frontiers of Science Award at ICBS 2024 for Fabian Theis and Colleagues

2024 ACHA Charles Chui Young Researcher Best Paper Award for Johannes Maly

Björn Ommer Nominated for Deutscher Zukunftspreis

Angela Dai Receives German Pattern Recognition Award 2024

Success at ACL 2024: Area Chair Award for Barbara Plank and Her Team

Matthias Althoff and Team Receive TeachInfAward

Pedro Tomaz Da Silva Wins ISBM 2024 Best RegSys Poster Award

Nassir Navab Elected as Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers (IAMBE) Fellow

Niki Kilbertus Appointed as a Member of the Junge Akademie

Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists for Niki Kilbertus

2024 Engagement Award for Maria Matveev

Alfred-Breit-Prize for Julia Schnabel

Humboldt Professorship for Stefanie Jegelka and Suvrit Sra

Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2024 for Hinrich Schütze and Lütfi Kerem Senel

Albrecht Schmidt Named 2023 ACM Fellow

Björn Schuller Named 2023 ACM Fellow

ERC Synergy Grant for Julien Gagneur

GMDS Förderpreis 2023 for Theresa Ullmann and Julian Lange

Best Paper Award at ECML PKDD 2023

ERC Starting Grant for Angela Dai

ACL 2023 Test of Time Paper Award Goes to Hinrich Schütze

Dominik Bär Awarded AI-Newcomer 2023

Alex Fraser Received a Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant for His Project "Data4ML"

Fabian Theis Receives Leibniz Prize

Göran Kauermann and Collaborators Awarded With Corona Special Prize

Best Poster Award at IBC 2022 Goes to Theresa Ullmann

Hinrich Schütze Awarded Proof of Concept Grant Grant for His Project Respond2Hate

ERC Results in Brief Article on Alexander Fraser's ERC Starting Grant

Max Berrendorf and Volker Tresp Receive Best Paper Award at ISWC 2021

Moritz Herrmann Receives the Bernd-Streitberg Award of the German Biometric Society

3rd Place at ACM SIGSPATIAL GisCup 2019