At the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems we aim to understand the principles of Perception, Action and Learning in artificially intelligent systems.
We are thrilled to officially announce that
@mrtz
has been appointed a Director at the
#MaxPlanck
Institute for Intelligent Systems! He founds the Social Foundations of Computation department, taking a social perspective on
#ComputerScience
and
#ML
:
In 10 days, MPI-IS will 🎉 its 10-year anniversary as one of the world's leading
#research
institutes on
#IntelligentSystems
. Every day leading up to this 😄 event we'll post one image per year: in 2011 founding directors
@bschoelkopf
&
@Michael_J_Black
toast to the reorientation
Today, our Autonomous Vision Group released KITTI-360, successor of the KITTI dataset! It aims to foster
#research
towards complete semantic 3D understanding with rich sensory information & dense annotation. Enjoy the trailer:
#AI
Our ELLIS Ph.D. program is sending out a call for applications. Apply by Nov 15 to join in 2022! The program is a key element of
@ELLISforEurope
. Its goal is to foster and educate the best talent in
#machinelearning
and related
#research
areas:
The
#MachineLearning
Summer School is in full swing and running until the end of the week. We are very pleased to have you all with us in
#Tuebingen
, even if only virtually this time! Check out all
#MLSS2020
lectures online at
We are hiring! Apply now to our International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. We are looking for the generation of doctoral students who are curious, creative, and passionate about intelligent systems:
🧑🎓This could be you in a few years! The
#MaxPlanck
Center for Learning Systems CLS is offering fully-funded doctoral fellowships! Apply now! Ph.D. students are co-supervised by advisors from
@ETH_en
and the Max Planck Society:
We are joining forces in
#SupportingEllis
: The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) announced the formation of its professional association at
#NeurIPS
:
@bschoelkopf
We have prominent support from the world´s top
#AI
companies!
And another one... :-)
Bernhard Schölkopf receives LEIBNIZ-PRIZE 2018.
Germany's most prestigious research funding prize - €2.5 million each for outstanding research work. Congratulations!
#DFG
#maxplanck
#Tuebingen
#MachineLearning
Europe´s leading
#AI
and
#MachineLearning
researchers want to form a European AI hub to compete with the US and China. In an open letter, the scientists say the proposed
#Ellis
institute is essential to avoid brain drain to big tech firms:
Our highlight in 2014 was
@metin_sitti
joining our institute as a new director. He is a pioneer in wireless medical robots, gecko-inspired adhesives, and bio-inspired miniature robots and named his department "Physical Intelligence". From 2014 to today, his citations are up 280%!
Stefan Bauer has been elected a
@CIFAR
Azrieli Global Scholar! Congratulations 🎉🎊! Our research group leader will join the “Learning in Machines & Brains“ research program lead by Yoshua Bengio and
@ylecun
.
🎉 🥳 Congratulations Dr. Ziyu Ren! Our postdoc in the Physical Intelligence Department, who also studied at
@ETH_en
, won an
#ETH
Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis🤖 In the picture, you can see
@Vision21437617
with
@metin_sitti
#Robotics
#AI
🎉🎊👏Happy Birthday to us! We turn 10 today! We have every reason to be proud, the past decade has been amazingly exciting! We achieved so much, published like crazy & significantly shaped the research fields of
#AI
,
#MachineLearning
,
#Haptics
,
#ComputerVision
&
#Robotics
! 🍾🥂
📢 🎓Funded Ph.D. positions are up for grabs at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems! Apply to do a
#PhD
in our joint academic program
@ETH_en
and MPI-IS in
#Stuttgart
and
#T
übingen. We are now accepting applications for 2024:
#AI
#Robotics
#KI
🎉 Our Ph.D. student Birgül Akolpoglu
@akolpoglu
was selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
#LINO23
! Birgül is a micro roboticist and works in our Physical Intelligence Department. In June, she will meet some of the world’s greatest minds.
Sorry for repeating ourselves - but we are speechless AGAIN!😯🙂😯🙂😀🎉🤗🙃😯😁😃😁😯🙃🍾🎉😀🙂😃😁😯🙃🤗🍾🎉😀🙂😀🎉🍾🤗🙃😯😁😃😁😯🙃🤗🍾🎉😀🙂😯🙂😀🍾🎉
#NobelPrizeChemistry2021
Benjamin List
@maxplanckpress
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung🤗😯🙂😀🍾😯🎉🤗🙃😁😃😁🙃🤗🎉
The times, they are a changing! In the run-up to our 10th birthday on March 18, we look back to 2012: A year after our institute's reorientation, we went on the first MPI-IS retreat to the Black Forest. Fast-forward to 2019: in just 8 years, we grew to four times as many people!
Today, one year after the devastating earthquakes in
#Turkey
and
#Syria
, members of the Max Planck Society are proud to introduce MAXMINDS, a mentoring initiative aimed at empowering university students affected by the disaster:
@maxplanckpress
Research beacons MPI-IS and
@ETH
Zurich strengthen their cooperation. Both institutions in the field of intelligent systems and
#AI
have agreed to continue their
#research
partnership, the
#MaxPlanck
ETH Center for Learning Systems, for a further 5 years:
We are hiring, looking for outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems to establish up to two new W2 independent
#research
groups at our institute's
#Stuttgart
site:
#Robotics
, Human-Machine Interaction, Robotics for
#Healthcare
,
#AI
etc.
We are hiring! Calling all outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems to establish up to two new W2 independent
#research
groups at our institute's
#Stuttgart
site:
#Robotics
, Human-Machine Interaction, Robotics for
#Healthcare
,
#AI
etc.
Congratulations to Isabel Valera, who recently became Group Leader of the newly established Probabilistic Learning Group at MPI-IS in Tübingen. Well done, Isabel!
Our Institute is launching a video series! We will be releasing several short films that present our researchers, their projects and goals. We want to show what we work on! Watch the first video in full length here:
@maxplanckpress
#AI
#CyberValley
#KI
#MLSS2020
has been over for a week, but we'll be feeling the warm and fuzzies for a while thanks to all the great moments we experienced. Meeting the talented
#AMMI
students who tuned in from Ghana and Rwanda was one of them. Thanks again
@Moustapha_6C
and
@AIMS_Next
!
Our Institute and the
#CyberValley
initiative are looking for outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems to establish three new independent
#MaxPlanck
#Research
Groups. Apply or spread the word!
The members of the European Laboratory for Learning & Intelligent Systems, a network of European research labs in the field of
#machinelearning
, today launched several ELLIS Programs at a meeting in San Sebastián, Spain:
#SupportingELLIS
#AI
@bschoelkopf
The International
#MaxPlanck
#Research
School for Intelligent Systems is currently accepting applications for its 7th hiring round. This elite
#PhD
program is a partnership we have with
@Uni_Stuttgart
&
@uni_tue
. Applications possible until Nov. 1, 2022:
Top 40 under 40: According to the magazine Capital, these are the most important talents that shape our country. Philipp Hennig, group leader at our institute and Professor at the University of Tübingen, is one of them this year. Congratulations!
@uni_tue
@maxplanckpress
LAST CHANCE TO APPLY! Nov. 1, 2021 is the application deadline for our doctoral program
#IMPRSIS
, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. Join an ecosystem of world-leading
#AI
research and really cool people:
#CyberValley
#KI
We were very pleased to take Chancellor
#Merkel
on a virtual tour of the Capture Hall
@PerceivingSys
yesterday as part of her visit to
#CyberValley
. What an honour it was to showcase our work in
#ComputerVision
and help make
#AI
research in Stuttgart-Tübingen more visible!
Tune in today at 5:30 p.m. (CEST) for the annual Max Planck Lecture. This year's speaker is world-renowned computer scientist Yoshua Bengio from
@UMontreal
. His talk: "
#MachineLearning
for
#COVID19
Risk Awareness from Contact Tracing". Details here:
Come join us as a doctoral student at our
#IMPRSIS
, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. Apply now and join an ecosystem of world-leading
#AI
research:
#CyberValley
#KI
Symbolic, Statistical und Causal AI - this will be the topic of
@bschoelkopf
's keynote on Wednesday at 11:10am at the first-ever virtual Big-Data.AI-Summit 2021
#BAS21
, a leading conference on the practical applications of
#AI
&
#BigData
in business.
#KI
Continuing with our series where we highlight our support facilities at MPI-IS, today we want to feature our high-performance computing cluster in
#T
übingen. This server room & the equipment in it is essential to run the memory and computation-intensive
#AI
#research
programs.
A first-time cooperation between
@metin_sitti
and his team and
@mpifkf
resulted in a
@PNASNews
publication showing a solar-battery effect that enables a new light-driven organic
#microswimmer
to operate in the dark. Find out more:
Scientists
@MPI_IS
in
#Stuttgart
have developed a soft
#robot
that can help visualise in real time the fine morphological details of partial vascular blockages such as stenoses, even in the narrowest and most curved vessels:
@metin_sitti
@ScienceAdvances
We were delighted that
@zhenanbao
held our 2022
#MaxPlanck
Lecture today. Zhenan is a Professor
@Stanford
and talked about “Skin-Inspired Organic Electronics”, highlighting the right formula and the complex material properties of such devices:
In a comment for
@NatureMaterials
, scientists
@MPI_IS
discuss together with collaborators from
@Cornell
and
@MIT
issues that currently stand in the way of a wide-spread use of functional soft materials in real-world robotic systems:
Congratulations to Andreas Geiger, the leader of our Research Group for Autonomous Vision and Professor of Computer Science
@uni_tue
for receiving the
@ERC_Research
Starting Grant!
.
@metin_sitti
and his team took a leukocyte as the blueprint and developed a
#microrobot
that has the size, shape and moving capabilities of a white blood cell. Their work was published in
#ScienceRobotics
today. Find out more about the microroller here:
Today,
@athn_nik
,
@mkocab
and
@Michael_J_Black
are presenting VIBE at
#CVPR2020
. This new video-based approach to 3D motion capture makes virtual avatars more realistic than ever. Find out more here:
Metin Sitti & his team are finalists for the prestigious 2020 Cozzarelli Prize awarded by
@PNASNews
. "This recognition testifies to the outstanding & high-impact
#research
in my group, our institute, and across the
#MaxPlanck
Society", says
@metin_sitti
In 2017, our highlight was Katherine J. Kuchenbecker joining our institute as Director of the
#HapticIntelligence
Department. This image of her, the other directors &
#MaxPlanck
Society's President was shot during the opening of our building in
#T
übingen:
Congratulations to Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Director at the MPI-IS Stuttgart site and of the Haptic Intelligence Department, for becoming the first female Managing Director in the Institute's history. Her 18-month term started July 1.
🎉🥳🎂Happy Birthday to us! Our institute was founded 11 years ago: The Senate
@maxplanckpress
decided on March 18, 2011 to rename the former MPI for Metals Research to MPI for Intelligent Systems. It's been quite a ride since then! Well done & keep up the good
#research
! 😄 💖
📢 We are looking for a new
#Research
Group Leader to join our institute in
#Stuttgart
. Know anyone - then please help us spread the word! We are looking for outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems:
#Robotics
#MachineLearning
#AI
#KI
Directors Bernhard Schölkopf and Michael Black were guests of
#Chancellor
#AngelaMerkel
who hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic of
#ArtificialIntelligence
, in which the potentials and challenges of AI for Germany were discussed. We support ELLIS:
Just started a group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (
@MPI_IS
) & Tübingen AI Center🎉 Focus: robustness, identifiable representation learning & interpretability. Plus a cool project on
#AI
,
#robotics
&
#sustainable
food production. Interested in a
#postdoc
? DM me!
Die reale Welt künstlich nachbilden:
@JustusThies
forscht an der
#KI
basierten Erfassung & Synthese sowie im Bereich der Digitalen Forensik. Zum 1.4. tritt er eine Stelle als
#MaxPlanck
-Forschungsgruppenleiter an:
Our highlight in 2013 was the
@PerceivingSys
new state-of-the-art 4D body scanner.
@Michael_J_Black
& his team set up the first version that year. Since then, many prominent people have stood in it. Only recently, we captured the motion of the Vice-President of the EU Commission
The IMPRS-IS Executive Board successfully completed the current round of applications for the PhD program in Tübingen today. We look forward to the fourth cohort of fabulous young scientists from around the world!
@uni_tue
@Uni_Stuttgart
@Cyber_Valley
#intelligentsystems
An
#ARD
TV team came to
#T
übingen today to film with our
#MaxPlanck
group leader
@JustusThies
about the risks of
#DeepFakes
in the upcoming Bundestag elections. The clip featuring his
#research
will be aired Sunday, July 11, at 12:45 pm in Europamagazin
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf
@MPI_IS
mit dem Wissenschaftspreis der Hector Stiftung ausgezeichnet: Die Jury würdigt damit seine herausragenden Leistungen in der Grundlagenforschung zum
#maschinellenLernen
und der
#K
ünstlichenIntelligenz. Mehr dazu:
The MPI-IS is making a strong showing at the virtual
#ICLR2021
conference this week, with 11 accepted posters and spotlights. ICLR is one of the world's highest-impact conferences in the field of
#MachineLearning
,
#DeepLearning
, and
#AI
Well done!
🎉Congratulations Ksenia Keplinger! She was appointed Group Leader of the new independent Organizational Leadership & Diversity group at our institute. Her research focuses on virtuous leadership, diversity & inclusion: