News & Awards

Empirical Inference Award 02-12-2025 Zhijing Jin won the ELLIS PhD Award 2025, for her dissertation on “Causality for Natural Language Processing”. Zhijing Jin

Empirical Inference Award 08-10-2025 Siyuan Guo receives the MIT EECS Rising Star award Siyuan Guo

Empirical Inference Award 19-08-2025 Bernhard Schölkopf wurde zum Korrespondierenden Mitglied in die Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz gewählt Bernhard Schölkopf

Empirical Inference Award 11-07-2025 Zhijing Jin receives Honorable Mention for the Wilhelm Schickard Dissertation Award, University of Tübingen Zhijing Jin wrote her dissertation “Causality for Natural Language Processing” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf. Zhijing Jin

Empirical Inference Award 27-05-2025 Siyuan Guo receives G-Research PhD Prize. Siyuan Guo

Empirical Inference Award 14-12-2024 Zhijing Jin receives two Best Paper Awards at workshops at NeurIPS 2024: Pluralistic Alignment Workshop and Workshop on Causality and Large Models.

Empirical Inference Award 12-12-2024 Luigi Gresele won the ELLIS PhD Award 2024, for his thesis on identifiability in representation learning and causal inference. Luigi Gresele

Empirical Inference Award 22-10-2024 Annalena Kofler receives Best Poster Award at the 2nd Tübingen Women in Machine Learning workshop.

Empirical Inference Award 05-07-2024 Siyuan Guo: 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize

Empirical Inference Award 16-05-2024 Julius von Kügelgen won the Cambridge PhD Prize in Quantitative Research (administered by G-Research) Julius von Kügelgen

Empirical Inference Award 24-04-2024 Niki Kilbertus receives Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists Niki Kilbertus

Empirical Inference Award 05-02-2024 Vincent Stimper receives G-Research PhD Prize.

Empirical Inference Award 16-01-2024 Zhijing Jin receives 3 Rising Star awards: EECS Rising Star, Rising Star in Data Science, and Rising Star in Machine Learning and invited to the 73. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Empirical Inference Award 16-11-2023 Amir-Hossein Karimi receives the ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Advances in Algorithmic Recourse: Ensuring Causal Consistency, Fairness, & Robustness".

Empirical Inference Award 14-07-2023 Zhijing Jin receives Honorable Mention for the MPI-IS 2023 Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize.

Empirical Inference Award 03-07-2023 Zeynep Akata-Schulz received the prestigious Alfried Krupp Prize 2023

Empirical Inference Award 10-06-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf  received the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking research in the field of artificial intelligence.

Empirical Inference Award 01-06-2023 Majid Khadiv received the outstanding reviewer award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters for the year of 2022

Empirical Inference Award 23-05-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain

Empirical Inference Award 14-04-2023 Julius von Kügelgen: Best Paper Award, CLeaR Conference 2023

Empirical Inference Award 07-03-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf, Asteroid (53839) Schölkopf = 2000 EY 197

Empirical Inference Award 28-02-2023 Francesco Locatello (Alumnus) received the Hector-Foundation-Award 2023

Empirical Inference Award 03-12-2022 Hamza Keurti, Hsiao-Ru Pan, Michel Besserve, Benjamin Grewe, Bernhard Schölkopf: Best abstract award at the NeurReps workshop @ NeurIPS 2022 for the paper "Homomorphism AutoEncoder — Learning Group Structured Representations from Observed Transitions"

Empirical Inference Award 01-08-2022 Bernhard Schölkopf: Thomas Mann Honorary Fellowship 2022, Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V.

Empirical Inference Award 20-07-2022 Bernhard Schölkopf, Dominik Janzing (Alumnus), Jonas Peters (Alumnus), Eleni Sgouritsa (Alumna), Kun Zhang (Alumnus) and Joris Mooij: Test of Time Honorable Mention at ICML 2022 for their 2012 paper "On causal and anticausal learning".

Empirical Inference Award 16-06-2022 Annika Buchholz and Cedric Engels (Doktor Whatson), Fast Forward Science Award, 1st price in the category Tandem.

Empirical Inference Award 04-05-2022 Zhijing Jin, Future of Life Institute, Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship in AI Existential Safety

Empirical Inference Award 04-05-2022 Zhijing Jin, Open Philanthropy AI Fellowship

Empirical Inference Award 29-04-2022 Annika Buchholz, 2nd price at the GeneDisco Challenge (presented at ICLR 2022)

Empirical Inference Award 22-03-2022 Julius von Kügelgen, Google Fellowship in Machine Learning

Empirical Inference Award 08-03-2022 Vincent Stimper, Award for the best Master's Degree in Physics 2019 from the Patrons Association for Physics at the TU Munich

Empirical Inference Award 19-11-2021 Francesco Locatello, ETH Medal for his PhD Thesis (2021)

Empirical Inference Award 27-09-2021 Karimi, Amir-Hossein: received the Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning 2021

Empirical Inference Award 21-09-2021 Bernhard Schölkopf received the 2020 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. Due to the pandemic, the award ceremony was postponed to September 2021.

Empirical Inference Award 16-07-2021 Georgios Arvanitidis, best Student Paper Award, at Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2021, for the paper: "Learning Riemannian Manifolds for Geodesic Motion Skills", by Hadi Beik-Mohammadi, Søren Hauberg, Georgios Arvanitidis, Gerhard Neumann, Leonel Rozo

Empirical Inference Award 01-07-2021 Gary Becigneul: Dieter-Rampacher-Prize 2020

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Award 26-11-2020 Best Paper Award, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020, for the paper "Grasping Field: Learning Implicit Representations for Human Grasps", by Karunratanakul, K., Yang, J., Zhang, Y., Black, M., Muandet, K., Tang, S.

Empirical Inference Award 01-10-2020 Bernhard Schölkopf awarded with "Deutscher KI-Innovationspreis" on October 1, 2020.

Empirical Inference Award 13-08-2020 Stefan Bauer elected CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. The research group leader at MPI-IS is one of thirteen early-career researchers that have been elected. He will join the "Learning in Machines & Brains" CIFAR research program.

Empirical Inference Award 16-07-2020 Bernhard Schölkopf receives Marsilius Medal and holds Marsilius Lecture "Symbolische, Statistische und Kausale Intelligenz" at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Empirical Inference Award 26-06-2020 Alex Hawkins-Hooker, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Bernhard Schölkopf and Gabriele Schweikert are one of the winning teams of the Encode Imputation Challenge.

Empirical Inference Award 07-05-2020 Sebastian Weichwald (recent graduate of EI Department): won the Causality 4 Climate NeurIPS competition together with his team members.

Empirical Inference Award 05-12-2019 Niki Kilbertus wird im Rahmen des #KI50 Projekts der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) als einen von zwei "Newcomer des Jahres" in der Kategorie "Informatik"gekürt

Empirical Inference Award 12-11-2019 Bernhard Schölkopf: Appointed as Full Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Empirical Inference Award 26-06-2019 Bernhard Schölkopf receives the Körber European Science Preis 2019.   

Empirical Inference Award 18-06-2019 Francesco Locatello, Stefan Bauer, Bernhard Schölkopf et. al.: ICML best paper award 2019 for the paper "Challenging Common Assumptions in the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations" 

Empirical Inference Award 31-05-2019 Bernhard Schölkopf: honoured as one of the leading minds in German AI research.

Empirical Inference Award 24-04-2019 Francesco Locatello: 2019 Google PhD Fellowship for Machine Learning Award.

Empirical Inference Award 02-01-2019 Jan Peters has been elected IEEE Fellow.

Empirical Inference Award 31-12-2018 2018 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation (Jan Peters et. al.)  