News & Awards

Appointment 26-10-2021 Biological Cybernetics: Member of the Editorial Board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Annual Review in Neuroscience: Member of the Editorial Board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Current Opinion in Neurobiology: Member of the Editorial Board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Brain and Behavioral Function: Member of the Editorial Board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Neural Computation: Member of the Editorial Board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Hippocampus: Member of the Editorial board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Journal of Computational Neuroscience: Member of the Editorial board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Journal of Computational Psychiatry: Member of the Editorial board

Appointment 26-10-2021 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Appointment 26-10-2021 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Appointment 26-10-2021 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Appointment 26-10-2021 Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom

Physical Intelligence Award 17-10-2021 15 journal articles of our group were selected as the Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science.

News 11-10-2021 Moritz Hardt appointed a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Social perspective on computer science at the center of research The Max Planck Society has appointed the professor from the University of California, Berkeley as a director at the Tübingen site of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He founds the Social Foundations of Computation department, which extends the institute's deep expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics and physical systems towards a social perspective on computer science. Bernhard Schölkopf Moritz Hardt Celestine Mendler-Dünner

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 10-10-2021 Dr. Zhichao Ma appointed Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Congrats and good luck to Dr. Zhichao Ma Congrats and good luck to Zhichao Ma, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group, who will join the School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as an Associate Professor. Best of luck and lots of success!

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Appointment 10-10-2021 Zhichao Ma appointed Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Appointment 05-10-2021

Empirical Inference News 04-10-2021 Youtuber Doktor Whatson und MPI-IS erklären gemeinsam KI Video-Serie über Künstliche Intelligenz gestartet Folge 1 beschäftigt sich mit Generativen Modellen, Folge 2 mit Kausalität, Folge 3 mit Fairness und Folge 4, die wir vor Ort in Tübingen gedreht haben, mit Reinforcement Learning. Annika Buchholz Bernhard Schölkopf

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 01-10-2021 Hyosang Lee is a Cyber Valley Research Group Leader at the University of Stuttgart

News 01-10-2021 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems celebrates double anniversary Prominent guests look back on 10 and 100 years of scientific excellence in Stuttgart's Neues Schloss Bernhard Schölkopf

Appointment 28-09-2021

News 28-09-2021 Leading ETH Zurich Scientists appointed Max Planck Fellows at MPI-IS Affiliation of four professors from the renowned university boosts Swiss-German partnership in learning systems research Under the umbrella of their successful research partnership, the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, two world class research institutions in the field of intelligent systems have further intensified their strategic connection with the appointment of four outstanding researchers from ETH Zurich as Max Planck Fellows. The new Fellows share research goals strongly aligned with those of MPI-IS, and will contribute expertise complementary to that found already at the German institute. Sarah Danes Bernhard Schölkopf

News 27-09-2021 Carl Schneider Stiftung supports acquisition of state-of-the art equipment for novel robotics research At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the foundation, another 135,000 euros were granted to MPI-IS to support the acquisition of a novel mechanical analysis device. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Gunther Richter Jonathan Fiene

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

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 25-09-2021 Johannes Sachs wins Springer Dissertation Award Johannes' Ph.D. thesis "Motion, Symmetry & Spectroscopy of Chiral Nanostructures" has been awarded a Springer Dissertation Award. Congratulations!

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 23-09-2021 Peer Fischer has been named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Sigma Xi scientific research honor society.

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 News 20-09-2021 Bernhard Schölkopf receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award At an award ceremony in Bilbao, the BBVA Foundation recognizes Schölkopf for his work that has advanced the field of artificial intelligence by teaching machines the human skill of classifying data. Bernhard Schölkopf

News 20-09-2021 Wanted: new research group leaders Applications are open until November 14 Max Planck is looking for outstanding candidates to establish up to two new independent Max Planck Research Groups at our institute’s Tübingen site and one independent Cyber Valley Research Group located at the Stuttgart site of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Florian Mayer

News 13-09-2021 Anniversary website of the MPI-IS and former MPI-MR launched For all employees, alumni, and friends of both Institutes, it is a place to see and read about the history that spans 10 and 100 years. Alejandro Posada Nassim Taghipour Claudia Daefler Matthias Tröndle

News 13-09-2021 CLS doctoral fellowships 2022: Call for applications Apply by November 1, 2021, to join the CLS Ph.D. Program in 2022. Sarah Danes

News 13-09-2021 Funded Ph.D. Positions at the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen collaborate to offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). This doctoral program will accept its sixth generation of Ph.D. students in spring of 2022. Leila Masri Sara Sorce

Physics for Inference and Optimization Award 09-09-2021 Caterina De Bacco received the 2021 EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize in the Statistical And Nonlinear Physics Division Caterina De Bacco

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Appointment 09-09-2021 Tingting Yu appointed Assistant Professor at South China University of Technology

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 07-09-2021 Geckos glide, crash-land, but don’t fall thanks to tail Soft perching robot validates the benefit of having a fifth leg A scientific study published in Nature Communications Biology by researchers who work at the intersection between robotics and biology shows that geckos are capable of gliding. In the publication titled Tails stabilize landing of gliding geckos crashing head-first into tree trunks, the authors present footage showing that geckos with no major specializations for flight are in fact capable gliders. Experiments with a gecko-inspired robot confirm the reptile’s locomotion abilities are not entirely down to its feet. The tail plays just as much a pivotal role, the team from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Siena College in New York, and the University of California at Berkeley discovered. Ardian Jusufi Robert Siddall

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Appointment 02-09-2021 Peer Fischer appointed Distiguished Lecturer

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 02-09-2021 The gecko's most astounding maneuver has nothing to do with its sticky feet (CNN) - Geckos would definitely medal in a contest for nature's best feet. The lizard's sticky toes, covered in tiny hairs, mean it can climb across ceilings in a fantastic feat of evolution. But scientists say the lizards' tails are just as extraordinary, with geckos performing a remarkable, if ungainly, maneuver that allows them to land securely and at ballistic speeds on vertical surfaces like tree trunks. Ardian Jusufi Robert Siddall

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 01-09-2021 Johannes Sachs wins the 2021 Springer dissertation award for his Ph.D. thesis.

Empirical Inference Appointment 01-09-2021 Stefan Bauer becomes Assistant Professor at KTH, Sweden

Perceiving Systems Award 31-08-2021 Timo Bolkart and Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya are recognized as ICCV 2021 Outstanding Reviewers.

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 30-08-2021 Dr. Tingting Yu becomes Assistant Professor at the South China University of Technology Congrats and good luck to Dr. Tingting Yu Congrats and good luck to Tingting Yu who recently obtained her Ph.D. in the group and who will start her own lab as an Assistant Professor in the Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology. Best of luck and lots of success!

Rationality Enhancement News 26-08-2021 "Resource-Rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit" is now published! Great work Ben, Florian, Mateo, and Falk! Benjamin Prystawski Florian Mohnert Mateo Tosic Falk Lieder

News 13-08-2021 ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications Apply by November 15, 2021, to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2022 Daniela Diaconu Lynn Anthonissen

Perceiving Systems Award 30-07-2021 Michael J. Black, Simone Behrens, Javier Romero, Stephan Streuber, and Anne Thaler: Their paper ``Body size estimation of self and others in females varying in BMI'' reached in July 2021 the PLoS ONE top 10% most cited papers, for papers published in 2018.

Haptic Intelligence Award 22-07-2021 Ph.D. student Alexis E. Block is selected as a 2021 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) to support her postdoctoral research with Veronica Santos at UCLA in the USA Alexis Block

News 20-07-2021 Constraints in First-Order Optimization New preprint available

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

Haptic Intelligence Award 10-07-2021 Postdoc Yitian Shao receives a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department Yitian Shao

Haptic Intelligence Award 09-07-2021 Ph.D. student Saekwang Nam and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win Honorable Mention for their IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference Saekwang Nam Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 09-07-2021 Postdoc Yitian Shao wins the 2020 EuroHaptics Society prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics; he earned his doctorate with Yon Visell at UCSB in the USA Yitian Shao

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