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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)

Rationality Enhancement News 01-11-2019 Ella Eisemann joined our lab Welcome, Ella! Ella is a Bachelor's Student Intern for the Rationality Enhancement Group. Ella Eisemann

Rationality Enhancement News 01-11-2019 Victoria Amo joined our lab Welcome, Victoria! Victoria has joined the Rationality Enhancement Group as a researcher. Victoria Amo

Empirical Inference News 30-10-2019 Bernhard Schölkopf meets French President Emmanuel Macron The Machine Learning scientist is in Paris to attend the Global Forum on AI for Humanity which brings together many of the world’s leading AI experts who together work on promoting and protecting a human-centric and ethical approach to AI, grounded in human rights. Bernhard Schölkopf

Haptic Intelligence News 29-10-2019 Vibrant research environment creates pulling force Many students from around the world choose the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems for research stays abroad. The Haptic Intelligence Department is currently hosting several promising young researchers. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 28-10-2019 Endoscopic prostate surgery performed on a first human-like phantom Intelligenter Operationssimulator ermöglicht quantitative Bewertung A team of scientists headed by Dr. Tian Qiu, leader of the Cyber Valley Biomedical Microsystems research group, and Professor Peer Fischer from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have made a decisive contribution to improving complex surgical training by developing a very realistic prostate phantom. They then gave the 3D printed model to a medical team from the University of Freiburg, which practiced the surgical removal of the gland. To quantitatively evaluate the results, the group of scientists developed an automatic system to provide feedback to the trainee surgeon immediately after the training session – something that would be impossible with real tissue. EunJin Choi Tian Qiu Peer Fischer

Perceiving Systems Award 27-10-2019 Dimitrios Tzionas is recognized as an ICCV 2019 Outstanding Reviewer.

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision News 25-10-2019 Color patch could throw self-driving vehicles off track Researchers send wake-up call to the car industry A team of researchers in Tübingen show that optical flow systems based on deep neural networks – a likely component of future autonomous cars – are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. The computer vision experts are shaking up the automotive industry by warning car manufacturers around the globe that it could take a simple color pattern to put the brakes on computer vision systems in autonomous cars. Michael Black Andreas Geiger Anurag Ranjan Joel Janai

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 23-10-2019 Robert Siddall receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The roboticist from the Cyber Valley research group “Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems” at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will now be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to continue his research in Germany. Ardian Jusufi

Rationality Enhancement News 22-10-2019 Article about To-Do List Gamification Project in Scientific American Great news! Scientific American published an article about our to-do list gamification project. Falk Lieder

Rationality Enhancement News 15-10-2019 Jugoslav Stojcheski joined our lab Welcome, Jugoslav! Jugoslav is a master's degree student in machine learning at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and a student assistant in the Rationality Enhancement Group. He is interested in artificial intelligence and curious about human behavior, neuroscience and psychology. He joined us from Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Jugoslav Stojcheski

Haptic Intelligence Award 11-10-2019 Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins Second Place for Best Research Lightning Talk at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Rachael Burns

Haptic Intelligence Award 01-10-2019 Stanford Ph.D. student Cara Nunez receives a ten-month DAAD scholarship to do research with the HI Department as a visiting Ph.D. student Cara Nunez

Autonomous Vision News 23-09-2019 Andreas Geiger receives a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) The funding will be used to advance the field of autonomous vision The MPI-IS group leader and professor at the University of Tübingen will receive a grant of some 1.47 million euros for his "LEGO 3D" project. Andreas Geiger Valerie Callaghan

Rationality Enhancement News 23-09-2019 Julian Skirzynski joined our lab Welcome, Julian! Julian is a researcher at Rationality Enhancement group. He is interested in scientific interests include modeling higher level cognitive processes, synergies between cognitive science and machine learning, explainable AI, and improving cognitive skills. Julian Skirzynski

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