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Rationality Enhancement News 16-03-2020 Adrian Stock joined our lab Welcome, Adrian! Adrian is supporting the Rationality Enhancement Group as a student assistant. He will be working on the ACTrain-Project; which is a personalized companion for enhancing executive functions based on adaptive metacognitive feedback. Adrian will help develop the programming behind the scenes of the project. Adrian Stock

Rationality Enhancement News 12-03-2020 Submission to SIG 8 Meets SIG 16 Conference in Dresden has been accepted! Congratulations Victoria Amo on your successful conference submission! Victoria's submission touches on her research on the growth mindset approach as being key for maintaining motivation and overcoming setbacks. Victoria Amo Falk Lieder

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 05-03-2020 Vincent Kadiri selected to join Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting.

Rationality Enhancement News 05-03-2020 Lisa Eckerstorfer joined our lab Welcome, Lisa! Lisa is a postdoctoral researcher for the Rationality Enhancement Group. Lisa Eckerstorfer

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 05-03-2020 Vincent Kadiri selected to join Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Vincent Kadiri, PhD student in the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab, has been selected by the Lindau Meeting to participate in the 2020 Meeting of Nobel Laureates, which will be held in June. Vincent Mauricio Kadiri

Perceiving Systems Appointment 01-03-2020 Aamir Ahmad becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Appointment 01-03-2020 Hyeon-Ho Jeong becomes Assistant Professor at GIST, South Korea.

News 28-02-2020 Current Information about Coronavirus (COVID-19) The institute management takes the rapid spread of the Coronavirus very seriously and has decided to adopt precautionary measures to protect all employees and guests of the institute.

Physical Intelligence News 26-02-2020 Underwater Snail-o-Bot gets kick from light Light-fueled liquid crystal gels used to create robot inspired by aquatic invertebrates Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart in cooperation with Tampere University in Finland developed a gel-like robot inspired by sea slugs and snails they are able to steer with light. Much like the soft body of these aquatic invertebrates, the bioinspired robot is able to deform easily inside water when exposed to this energy source. Due to specifically aligned molecules of liquid crystal gels – its building material – and illumination of specific parts of the robot, it is able to crawl, walk, jump, and swim inside water. The scientists see their research project as an inspiration for other roboticists who struggle to design untethered soft robots that are able to move freely in a fluidic environment. Such inventions could one day play a pivotal role in the research field of minimally-invasive robotic medical applications. Hamed Shahsavan Amirreza Aghakhani Metin Sitti Yubing Guo

News 20-02-2020 European Commission Vice-President Vestager visits Cyber Valley Scientists from the ecosystem are making a decisive contribution to the future of European AI At a meeting with the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann, and the state’s Science Minister Theresia Bauer, scientists welcomed the European Commission’s new Digital Strategy and demanded strong support for research in the field of learning AI Bernhard Schölkopf Valerie Callaghan

Rationality Enhancement News 10-02-2020 Hernán González joined our lab Welcome, Hernán! Hernán is a researcher for the Rationality Enhancement Group. He is focused on how different kinds of goal-setting strategies can lead to a more fulfilled and productive life. Additionally he is interested in rational decision-making and generation and maintenance of motivated behavior. Hernán González

Rationality Enhancement News 10-02-2020 Sierra Kaiser joined our lab Welcome, Sierra! Sierra has joined the Rationality Enhancement Group to help support the general organization and management of the lab. She is supporting the group behind the scenes in order to keep the lab running smoothly. She has a B.A. in Linguistic Language Studies from UC San Diego. After several years of teaching English at the University of Reutlingen, and completing a course in Office Management, she has decided to support our team. Sierra Kaiser

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 03-02-2020 Peer Fischer has been appointed Adjunct Professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea.

Physical Intelligence News 03-02-2020 Acoustically driven microrobot outshines natural microswimmers Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have designed and fabricated an untethered microrobot that can slip along either a flat or curved surface in a liquid when exposed to ultrasound waves. Its propulsion force is two to three orders of magnitude stronger than the propulsion force of natural microorganisms such as bacteria or algae. Additionally, it can transport cargo while swimming. The acoustically propelled robot hence has significant potential to revolutionize the future minimally invasive treatment of patients. Metin Sitti Amirreza Aghakhani Oncay Yasa

Rationality Enhancement News 03-02-2020 Frederic Becker joined our lab! Welcome, Frederic! Frederic is a bachelor student of Cognitive Science at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He's interested in the connection between natural and artificial cognition. Frederic Becker

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 03-02-2020 Peer Fischer appointed Visiting Professor Peer Fischer has been appointed visiting Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea. Peer Fischer

Autonomous Learning News 01-02-2020 Accepted Paper at CVPR Our paper on optimizing rank-based metrics with blackbox differentiation received flawless reviews and got accepted at CVPR 2020 Michal Rolinek Anselm Paulus Marin Vlastelica Pogancic Georg Martius

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 21-01-2020 Zhichao Ma receives a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Embodied Vision News 21-01-2020 Two papers accepted for ICRA 2020 We have two papers accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020 Jörg Stückler

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 21-01-2020 Zhichao Ma receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his research on micro- and nano-particles manipulation, on microfluidics and high-frequency ultrasound. Zhichao Ma Peer Fischer

Rationality Enhancement News 13-01-2020 Saksham Consul joined our lab Welcome, Saksham! Saksham is a final year bachelor student in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at BITS-Pilani, India. He is interested in the fields of Artificial General Intelligence and Cognitive Prostheses. He is currently supporting the Rationality Enhancement Group as a Bachelor's Student Intern while writing his bachelor thesis under the supervision of Dr. Falk Lieder. Saksham Consul

Rationality Enhancement News 08-01-2020 Lennart Scatturin joined our lab Welcome, Lennart! Lennart is supporting the Rationality Enhancement Group as a student assistant. Lennart Scatturin

Rationality Enhancement News 02-01-2020 Aashay Metha joined our lab Welcome, Aashay! Aashay is a working on his bachelor's degree in Computer Science at BITS-Pilani, India. He is currently supporting the Rationality Enhancement Group as a Bachelor's Student Intern while writing his bachelor thesis under the supervision of Dr. Falk Lieder. He is broadly interested in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making. Aashay Mehta

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Hakan Ceylan named as a College for Life Science Fellow by Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Hamed Shahsavan joined University of Waterloo as an assistant professor in Canada.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Immihan Ceren Yasa named as an Innovation Fellow at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Vimal Kishore joined Banaras Hindu University as an assistant professor in India.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Wendong Wang joined University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute as an assistant professor in China.

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 01-01-2020 David Gueorguiev becomes CNRS Researcher in Paris

Perceiving Systems Appointment 01-01-2020 Siyu Tang becomes Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2020 Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani, Yubing Guo, Zoey Davidson, and Metin Sitti were the Cozzarelli Prize Finalist in the Engineering and Applied Sciences category in the PNAS journal for the research article entitled, “Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels” (1 paper won the prize and our paper was the finalist out of over 4000 papers published in PNAS in 2020).

Intelligent Control Systems Award 20-12-2019 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation honours doctoral student Andreas Dörr

Autonomous Learning News 20-12-2019 Perfect Review-Scores for our ICLR Submission Our paper "Differentiation of Blackbox Combinatorial Solvers" received perfect review-scores for ICLR 2020! Marin Vlastelica Pogancic Anselm Paulus Georg Martius Michal Rolinek

Intelligent Control Systems News 19-12-2019 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation honours doctoral student Andreas Dörr The Board of Trustees has selected nine young researchers from science and industry to be honoured and accepted into the network of outstanding young scientists. The awards were presented in Munich on December 13, 2019, on the occasion of Werner von Siemens’ 103rd birthday. Andreas Doerr Sebastian Trimpe

Autonomous Learning News 12-12-2019 Two posters at NeurIPS We presented two posters at NeurIPS: "Control What You Can" and "Differentiation of Blackbox Combinatorial Solvers" Sebastian Blaes Marin Vlastelica Pogancic Michal Rolinek Georg Martius

News 10-12-2019 Tübingen becomes an ELLIS unit The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) establishes a total of 17 ELLIS units across 10 European countries and Israel Grassroots initiative assembling top European talent in machine learning mobilizes more than 200 Mio in funding across Europe for the next 5 years Bernhard Schölkopf

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

News 29-11-2019 Niki Kilbertus is "Newcomer of the Year" The computer scientist is a PhD student in the Cambridge-Tübingen PhD Fellowship Program The German Society for Computer Science (GI) has selected 10 outstanding newcomers to German AI research as part of its "#AI50: Artificial Intelligence in Germany - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" project. Niki Kilbertus Valerie Callaghan

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 26-11-2019 Peer Fischer is CMTI Distinguished Lecturer at the Indian Institute of Science.

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 26-11-2019 Peer Fischer delivers Distinguished Lecture at CeNSE Peer delivers the CMTI lecture as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), at the Indian Institute of Science. Peer Fischer

Haptic Intelligence Award 26-11-2019 Postdocs David Gueorguiev and Hasti Seifi win a 9,500 USD grant from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to create a hands-on, standalone teaching module on haptic devices David Gueorguiev Hasti Seifi

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 21-11-2019 Andreas Geiger selected as Top 40 under 40 Andreas Geiger has been selected as top 40 under 40 by the capital magazine. Andreas Geiger

Neural Capture and Synthesis News 18-11-2019 Cabinet Meeting: Synthetic Media - Danger or Opportunity? In this session we showed several demonstrations of our current projects, to inform the Cabinet of Germany about the risks and the opportunities of synthetic media at Schloss Meseberg. Justus Thies

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

News 11-11-2019 Professor Dr. phil., Dr.h.c.mult. Hellmut Fischmeister deceased Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly Max Planck Institute for Metals Research), Stuttgart, died Nov 6, 2019, at the age of 92.

News 05-11-2019 CLS Recruiting 2020 Ph.D. Fellows Funded Ph.D. Positions at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ETH Zurich have joined forces creating the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS). The goal of the CLS is to advance artificial intelligence by achieving a fundamental understanding of perception, learning and adaption in complex systems by providing a platform for exchange in research and education. CLS is currently accepting Ph.D. applications for its 2020 generation of doctoral fellows. The application deadline is Friday, November 15, 2019. Sara Sorce

Haptic Intelligence Award 04-11-2019 Research Scientist Hyosang Lee, visiting Ph.D. student Kyungseo Park, Prof. Jung Kim of KAIST, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win the Best Poster Award at the 2019 IROS ROBOTAC workshop Hyosang Lee Kyungseo Park Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Smart Nanoplasmonics Award 03-11-2019 Laura Na Liu is elected a Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA).

Modern Magnetic Systems News 03-11-2019 Cage molecules act as molecular sieves for hydrogen isotope separation A new hybrid material developed by scientists at the University of Liverpool and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems may bring the dream of carbon-free nuclear fusion power a step closer. Michael Hirscher

Autonomous Vision Award 01-11-2019 Andreas Geiger: Ausgezeichnet als Junge Elite - Top 40 unter 40 (Capital Business Journal)

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