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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 has won the Best Paper Award at the 4th AutoML …
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 …
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 over 5,900 participants. Their work, titled “Bag of …
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 Cross-lingual Factual Inconsistency in Transformer …
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 …
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 the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, …
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 together with Siyao Logan Peng and Marie-Catherine de …
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
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 Perdomo from Harvard University has been selected for an …
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 for analyzing dynamic single-cell data. By …
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, and robotic imaging fields.” The award, presented …
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 with an outstanding scientific track record who …
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 work in explainable and trustworthy AI, including …
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 optimization problems, with applications in drug …
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 Cognition.” The project explores the development …
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) Workshop at CVPR 2025 for their paper “Multimodal …
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 healthcare. The Fellowship is awarded to …
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 into Graph Networks”. The award includes 2,000 …
24.03.2025
Azade Farshad Receives BVM Award for Top Medical Imaging Research
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 award was presented at the German Conference on …
01.02.2025
Steffen Schneider Awarded as Young Scientist of the Year
Academics Young Talent Prize 2024
Every year, academics, the leading online career portal for science, research, public affairs and society, honours a person who has made a lasting contribution to the respective scientific field with outstanding and forward-looking research …
13.12.2024
Björn Ommer Receives 2024 Eduard-Rhein-Foundation Technology Prize
Honored for Breakthroughs in Latent Diffusion Models and Text-to-Image Generation
Our PI Björn Ommer has been awarded the prestigious Eduard-Rhein-Foundation Technology Prize 2024 for his contributions to latent diffusion models and text-to-image generators. This award recognizes his globally acclaimed innovations, which have …
11.12.2024
Daniel Rückert Receives Leibniz Prize
TUM News
MCML Director Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025. He is being honored for his research on AI-assisted medical imaging. The most important German research prize is endowed with 2.5 million euros by the German Research …
05.12.2024
Matthias Nießner Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
TUM News
Our PI Matthias Nießner has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his research in computer vision and machine learning. His work focuses on developing advanced methods for 3D reconstruction, visual computing, and AI-driven content …
05.12.2024
Nassir Navab Receives the Prestigious ISMAR Career Impact Award
TUM News
Our PI Nassir Navab has been honored with the ISMAR Career Impact Award. This prestigious recognition celebrates his exceptional contributions to the field of mixed and augmented reality, acknowledging his research, innovations, and lasting impact on …
18.11.2024
Several MCML PIs Receive BMBF Funding
Funding of Two New Joint Projects
The BMBF is funding two new joint projects with several MCML researchers involved. One teaches AI models causal relationships, the other refines the tactile abilities of robots.
CausalNet: AI that Understands Cause and Effect
The CausalNet project aims …
28.10.2024
Alena Buyx Appointed as New Curator of the Bertelsmann Foundation
Appointment Underscores Bertelsmann Foundation’s Commitment to Social Health
MCML PI Alena Buyx, renowned German bioethicist, has been appointed as a new curator of the Bertelsmann Foundation, where she will contribute to strategic direction and foster dialogue on key societal issues.
With extensive experience in ethics and …
22.10.2024
Daniel Rückert Receives MICCAI Society’s Enduring Impact Award
MICCAI 2024 in Marrakesh
Our Director Daniel Rückert has been honored with the prestigious MICCAI Society’s 2024 Enduring Impact Award, which recognizes individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to the fields of medical image computing and …
16.10.2024
Alexander Fraser Receives EU Funding for Research on LLMs
TUM News
Our PI Alexander Fraser is spearheading an important EU-funded project aimed at enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs). His research project focuses on improving the integration of lesser-spoken languages into LLMs, the AI-driven technology behind …
13.10.2024
Success for the Group of Nassir Navab at MICCAI 2024
Multiple Awards Highlight Their Research in Medical Imaging and AI
The group of our PI Nassir Navab achieved remarkable recognition at MICCAI 2024, one of the world’s leading conferences in medical image computing and computer‑assisted interventions. Their outstanding research was honored with multiple prestigious …
11.10.2024
Alena Buyx Receives Order of Merit on German Unity Day 2024
TUM News
Our PI Alena Buyx, an expert in ethics and public health, was awarded the prestigious Order of Merit during the 2024 German Unity Day celebrations. The award, presented by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, recognizes her significant impact …
04.10.2024
Angela Dai Receives ECVA Young Researcher Award 2024
Awarded for Pioneering Work in Advancing Visual Perception and AI
The European Computer Vision Association (ECVA) has honored our PI Angela Dai with the Young Researcher Award 2024, recognizing her outstanding contributions to the field of computer vision: Angela stands out as a pioneering researcher in 3D scene …
30.09.2024
Björn Ommer Receives the German AI Award
LMU News
Our PI Björn Ommer has won 2024 German AI Prize awarded by the newspaper WELT. This award in the category “Innovation” is given for groundbreaking achievements in the research and development of artificial intelligence. The jury singled out the image …
24.09.2024
Frontiers of Science Award at ICBS 2024 for Fabian Theis and Colleagues
Recognizing Groundbreaking Work in Single‑cell Data Analysis
A team of computational biologists from Helmholtz Munich has been honored with the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award at the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing. MCML PI Fabian Theis, together with Alexander Wolf, and Philipp …
17.09.2024
2024 ACHA Charles Chui Young Researcher Best Paper Award for Johannes Maly
Dedicated to Young Researchers in the Field of Harmonic Analysis
Our Associate Johannes Maly was awarded the 2024 ACHA Charles Chui Young Researcher Best Paper Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding contributions by young researchers in the field of harmonic analysis, as selected by the editors and …
13.09.2024
Björn Ommer Nominated for Deutscher Zukunftspreis
LMU News
The development of the Stable Diffusion generative AI technology has garnered our PI Björn Ommer a nomination for the prestigious Deutscher Zukunftspreis awarded by the President of Germany. On November 27, 2024, it will be announced whether his …
12.09.2024
Angela Dai Receives German Pattern Recognition Award 2024
Awarded for Advancing the Field of 3D Perception and Pattern Recognition
Since 2011, the DAGM has annually granted the German Pattern Recognition Award for outstanding, internationally visible research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning. The German Pattern Recognition Award …
16.08.2024
Success at ACL 2024: Area Chair Award for Barbara Plank and Her Team
Recognized for Exceptional Contribution to NLP at ACL 2024
At ACL 2024, the premier conference in computational linguistics, the Senior Area Chairs of each track selected exceptional papers for the Area Chair Awards. We are proud to announce that our PI Barbara Plank, together with Junior Members Leon …
24.07.2024
Matthias Althoff and Team Receive TeachInfAward
TUM Student Councils Honor Outstanding Lecturers
The TUM student councils honor outstanding lecturers in the subject areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Informatics, and Mathematics from the past two semesters. The special feature of these prizes is that they are awarded by the students …
21.07.2024
Pedro Tomaz Da Silva Wins ISBM 2024 Best RegSys Poster Award
Our Junior Member Honored for Work on DNA Language Models
MCML Junior Member Pedro Tomaz da Silva, PhD student in the group of our PI Julien Gagneur, and his co-authors have received the ISBM 2024 Best RegSys Poster Award for their poster “DNA language models reveal the architecture of nucleotide …
02.07.2024
Nassir Navab Elected as Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers (IAMBE) Fellow
Recognizing Exceptional Contributions to Medical and Biological Engineering
The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) is composed of fellows who are elected in recognition of their exceptional and sustained contributions to the advancement of medical and biological engineering. We are honored to …
25.06.2024
Niki Kilbertus Appointed as a Member of the Junge Akademie
Recognized Among Germany’s Leading Young Academics
Founded in 2000 as the first academy for outstanding young academics, the Junge Akademie brings together exceptional minds from all scientific disciplines and the arts. At this year’s annual ceremony, ten young scientists were welcomed as new members. …
13.06.2024
Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists for Niki Kilbertus
The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Honors the AI Researcher for His Contributions to Ethical Machine Learning
Our PI Niki Kilbertus was awarded the Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists for his research and teaching achievements. As a Professor of Ethical Machine Learning, he focuses on the research and development of fair and transparent machine learning. …
24.05.2024
2024 Engagement Award for Maria Matveev
Honoring Outstanding Voluntary Commitment
MCML Junior Member Maria Matveev, a PhD student in the research group of PI Gitta Kutyniok, received the 2024 Engagement Award from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) in recognition of her outstanding …
16.05.2024
Alfred-Breit-Prize for Julia Schnabel
Recognition for Outstanding Contributions to Radiological Imaging
In the context of the 105th German Radiology Congress, our PI Julia Schnabel was awarded the Alfred-Breit-Prize of the German Radiological Society (Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft) for her work in the field of radiological imaging. Congrats from us!
16.05.2024
Humboldt Professorship for Stefanie Jegelka and Suvrit Sra
Our PIs Were Honored With Germany's Most Highly Endowed Research Award
We proudly announce that our PIs Stefanie Jegelka, Foundations of Deep Neural Networks and Suvrit Sra, Resource Aware Machine Learning have been honored with the prestigious Humboldt Professorship. This award not only recognizes the achievements of …
22.03.2024
Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2024 for Hinrich Schütze and Lütfi Kerem Senel
Advancing NLP for Low‑resource Turkic Languages
At EACL 2024, the paper “Kardeş‑NLU: Transfer to Low‑Resource Languages with Big Brother’s Help – A Benchmark and Evaluation for Turkic Languages” received the Outstanding Paper Award. The work, co‑authored by MCML PI Hinrich Schütze and Junior Member …
30.01.2024
Albrecht Schmidt Named 2023 ACM Fellow
Honoring Pioneering Contributions to Computing Science and Technology
The 2023 ACM Fellows were recently announced by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): MCML PI Albrecht Schmidt is one of them. Recognized for their pioneering contributions to computing science and technology, he joins a select class of ACM …
30.01.2024
Björn Schuller Named 2023 ACM Fellow
Honoring Pioneering Contributions to Computing Science and Technology
The 2023 ACM Fellows were recently announced by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): MCML PI Björn Schuller is one of them. Recognized for his empirical and theoretical contributions to the development of computer audition, affective …
26.10.2023
ERC Synergy Grant for Julien Gagneur
A Chatbot for Gene Regulation
Our PI Julien Gagneur, together with researchers from Sweden and Belgium, received a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for their research on deciphering the language in which our genomes are written. In this interview, they talk …
22.09.2023
GMDS Förderpreis 2023 for Theresa Ullmann and Julian Lange
Recognizing Outstanding Theses in Medical Informatics
Our MCML PhDs Theresa Ullmann and Julian Lange received the “GMDS Förderpreis 2023” of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) for their outstanding theses. Theresa received the award for her PhD thesis, Julian …
21.09.2023
Best Paper Award at ECML PKDD 2023
Towards Efficient MCMC Sampling in Bayesian Neural Networks by Exploiting Symmetry
Our MCML PIs Bernd Bischl, Stephan Günnemann, and David Rügamer and MCML PhD Lisa Wimmer received the Best Paper Award for the Research Track at the ECML PKDD 2023 with their paper “Towards Efficient MCMC Sampling in Bayesian Neural Networks by …
26.08.2023
ERC Starting Grant for Angela Dai
Spatial 3D Semantic Understanding for Perception in the Wild
For her project entitled “Spatial 3D Semantic Understanding for Perception in the Wild” our PI Angela Dai has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2022 by the European Research Council (ERC). Angela Dai’s research focuses on attaining a 3D …
21.07.2023
ACL 2023 Test of Time Paper Award Goes to Hinrich Schütze
Honoring Long‑lasting Impact in NLP and Computational Linguistics
Each year the Association for Computational Linguistics awards papers for their long-lasting impact on the field of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. This year the paper “Automatic Word Sense Discrimination” of MCML PI …
03.05.2023
Dominik Bär Awarded AI-Newcomer 2023
Awarded by Gesellschaft Für Informatik E.V. and Bundesministerium Für Bildung Und Forschung at This Year's KI-Camp
Our Junior Member Dominik Bär has been recognized for his AI research in the field of social media. Bär wants to use AI to solve social problems and improve social media. «My research leverages methods from AI and machine learning to study social …
25.01.2023
Alex Fraser Received a Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant for His Project "Data4ML"
LMU News
State-of-the-art machine translation is trained on large parallel corpora, texts and their translations. But such corpora are not available for less-resourced languages. With Data4ML our PI Alexander Fraser wants to provide a system for the rapid and …
08.12.2022
Fabian Theis Receives Leibniz Prize
TUM News
MCML PI Fabian Theis has won the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. The full professor for Biomathematics at TU Munich has been honored for his pioneering work in the analysis, modeling and interpretation of genomic data. The Leibniz Prize, the …
24.11.2022
Göran Kauermann and Collaborators Awarded With Corona Special Prize
LMU News
MCML PI Göran Kauermann and Giacomo De Nicola from the LMU Department of Statistics, together with Michael Höhle from the Robert Koch Institute, have been awarded the Corona Special Prize of the Federal Statistical Office for two papers on estimating …
27.09.2022
Best Poster Award at IBC 2022 Goes to Theresa Ullmann
Honored for Over-Optimism in Unsupervised Microbiome Analysis: Insights From Network Learning and Clustering
MCML PhD Theresa Ullmann won the Best Poster Award at the 31st International Biometric Conference (IBC 2022) with her paper “Over-optimism in unsupervised microbiome analysis: Insights from network learning and clustering”. The paper is a joint …
06.09.2022
Hinrich Schütze Awarded Proof of Concept Grant Grant for His Project Respond2Hate
LMU News
MCML PI Hinrich Schütze received a Proof of Concept Grant for his project Respond2Hate (Responsive classifiers against hate speech in low-resource settings). In his project, Schütze is seeking to develop a pilot browser extension that allows users to …
12.08.2022
ERC Results in Brief Article on Alexander Fraser's ERC Starting Grant
Pushing the Boundaries of Automatic Translation
The ERC has published a “Results in Brief” article on MCML PI Alexander Fraser’s ERC Starting Grant DASMT: Our globalised interconnected reality demands ever-smarter automatic translation tools. Via deep learning, Fraser’s team delivers solutions for …
08.11.2021
Max Berrendorf and Volker Tresp Receive Best Paper Award at ISWC 2021
Honored for Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using Hyper-Relational Facts
Congrats to our Junior Member Max Berrendorf and our PI Volker Tresp for receiving the Best Paper Award in the Research Track at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) for their work “Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using …
11.09.2020
Moritz Herrmann Receives the Bernd-Streitberg Award of the German Biometric Society
Large-Scale Benchmark Study of Prediction Methods Using Multi-Omics Data
NCML Junior Member Moritz Herrmann receives the Bernd-Streitberg Award of the German Biometric Society (IBS-DR) for his master thesis “Large-scale benchmark study of prediction methods using multi-omics data” supervised by our PI Anne-Laure …
14.11.2019
3rd Place at ACM SIGSPATIAL GisCup 2019
Optimizing the Spatio-Temporal Resource Search Problem With Reinforcement Learning
Felix Borutta, Sebastian Schmoll and Sabrina Friedl won the 3rd Place at ACM SIGSPATIAL GisCup 2019 for their contribution “Optimizing the Spatio-Temporal Resource Search Problem with Reinforcement Learning”. Congrats from us!