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

Empirical Inference News 28-05-2019 Bernhard Schölkopf honoured as one of the leading minds in German AI research The Director of the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, one of the world's leading researchers in the field of machine learning, has been named among the top ten influential minds in the history of German AI. Bernhard Schölkopf

News 22-05-2019 Cyber Valley’s machine learning research makes a strong showing on the global stage Twenty-seven papers accepted at world’s most competitive AI conferences Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart, and the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence demonstrate the strength of the Cyber Valley initiative at two of the world's most competitive AI conferences. Valerie Callaghan Bernhard Schölkopf Michael Black Andreas Geiger Georg Martius Sebastian Trimpe

Autonomous Vision News 13-05-2019 Autonomous Vision Blog We have started a new research blog. Happy reading! Andreas Geiger

Rationality Enhancement News 10-05-2019 Anastasia Lado joined our lab Welcome, Anastasia! Anastasia has joined our group as a Student Assistent and is supporting the research on Executive functions Training. Anastasia Lado

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 05-05-2019 TV show in Bayrischer Rundfunk "Gut Zu Wissen" (See Clip starting from 17:00 min onward). Ardian Jusufi

Smart Nanoplasmonics Award 05-05-2019 Xiaoyang Duan received the 2018 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad due to his excellent Ph.D. thesis. The award ceremony took place at the Chinese Embassy in Berlin on 5th May 2019.

Smart Nanoplasmonics Award 02-05-2019 Laura Na Liu wins the 2019 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship Award.

Intelligent Control Systems News 28-04-2019 Two awards at premier conference for cyber-physical systems Team of researchers from the MPI-IS, TU Dresden and ETH Zurich win Best Paper and Best Demo Awards at CPS-IoT Week. Dominik Baumann Sebastian Trimpe

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

News 20-04-2019 Ein neuer Dreh für Spinwellen Einem Forscherteam der Abteilung „Moderne Magnetische Systeme“ und des HZDR in Dresden gelingt gezielte Steuerung extrem kurzwelliger Spinwellen Seit vielen Jahren werden neue Prinzipien gesucht, die den Informationstransport in kompakteren Mikrochips ermöglichen soll. Einen Ansatz hierzu könnte sich durch Spinwellen ergeben. Nun ist es einem Forscherteam gelungen, diese sogenannten Magnonen mit extrem kurzen Wellenlängen nicht nur zu erzeugen, sondern sie gezielt zu lenken, wie die Physiker in der Zeitschrift Nature Nanotechnology schreiben. Gisela Schütz

News 15-04-2019 Minister of Economy Hoffmeister-Kraut visits Cyber Valley Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing, once again emphasised the state's support for Europe's largest research cooperation. Valerie Callaghan

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 06-04-2019 Poster Prize Winner: Poster Prize at Medical Conference Zhiguang Wu Tian Qiu Peer Fischer

News 04-04-2019 Baden Württemberg’s Minister President Winfried Kretschmann receives Europe's leading AI researchers Scientists convene to advance European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ELLIS “We believe the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems is a game changer. On a European level, we are pooling our resources and creating synergies so that we can be internationally competitive in the field of AI research. And as we shape ELLIS, we will build on the excellence we already have in several European countries. In Germany, we are very grateful for the strong support from the government of the state of Baden-Württemberg." Bernhard Schölkopf Valerie Callaghan

Autonomous Motion Award 01-04-2019 Jeannette Bohg: IEEE/RAS early career award

Autonomous Motion Award 01-04-2019 Ludovic Righetti: 2018 Google Faculty Research Award

Modern Magnetic Systems News 29-03-2019 Let’s not make big waves A team of researchers generates ultra-short spin waves in an astoundingly simple material Due to its potential to make computers faster and smartphones more efficient, spintronics is considered a promising concept for the future of electronics. In a collaboration including the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, a team of researchers has now successfully generated so-called spin waves much more easily and efficiently than was previously deemed possible. The researchers are presenting their results in the journal Physical Review Letters. Gisela Schütz Joachim Gräfe

Physical Intelligence News 28-03-2019 Leading researcher in small-scale robotics receives ERC Advanced Grant One of the world's most prestigious research funding programs supports Intelligent Systems research in Stuttgart The European Research Council is awarding a 2.5 million Euros research grant to Dr. Metin Sitti, who is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Sitti is the head of the Physical Intelligence Department and one of the world's leading researchers in the field of small-scale and soft robotics and its use in medical applications. The funding will go toward ground-breaking basic research in soft-bodied miniature mobile robots. These tiny machines could one day have a radical impact on non-invasive medical interventions and diagnostics. Metin Sitti Richard Segar

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 26-03-2019 Xiaolong Lu receives a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Physical Intelligence News 22-03-2019 Metin Sitti publishes a News & Views article in Nature Robotic collectives inspired by biological cells A robotic system has been demonstrated in which the random motion of individual components leads to deterministic behaviour, much as occurs in living systems. Environmental and medical applications could follow. Metin Sitti

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 20-03-2019 Xiaolong Lu receives Humboldt Research Fellowship He joins the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher Peer Fischer

News 19-03-2019 New height in popularity: IMPRS-IS on track to double size in 2019 "Young, talented people are the ones who will shape our future in the digital world, in science, in business, and in society." The doctoral program of the Cyber Valley initiative far exceeds expectations. Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science, Theresia Bauer, is pleased with the high number of applications from all over the world because it shows how attractive the multidisciplinary research landscape in the Stuttgart/Tübingen region is for highly talented young scientists. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Leila Masri Valerie Callaghan

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 12-03-2019 3rd Computational Vision Summer School - Apply now! From 30.6. to 7.7.2019 Application deadline: April 15, 2019 We are organizing the 3rd Computational Vision Summer School from 30.6. to 7.7.2019 in the beautiful black forest, Germany. It is aimed at PhD students and Postdocs with an interest in vision science research. Previous editions were fun, intellectually rewarding events for students and faculty alike. The summer school spans the entire spectrum of vision research from neuroscience and psychophysics to computer vision and fosters discussions at the intersection of biological and artificial vision systems. The school is unique in bringing together people from diverse disciplines in a very familiar atmosphere (only 60 people in total). CVSS is tuition free and accomodation is sponsored by the CRC/1233 Robust Vision. Andreas Geiger Michael Black Siyu Tang

Autonomous Learning News 12-03-2019 CVPR 2019 Paper Accepted Our paper 'Variational Autoencoders Recover PCA Directions (by Accident)' got accepted at CVPR 2019! We are looking forward to present it as a poster in June at Long Beach! The paper elaborates on the close connection between Variational Autoencoders and the well known PCA algorithm in terms of their alignment of the latent space. Michal Rolinek Dominik Zietlow Georg Martius

Smart Nanoplasmonics Award 11-03-2019 The Optical Society Names Laura Na Liu the 2019 Adolph Lomb Medal Winner

Intelligent Control Systems News 11-03-2019 Neues Kooperationsprojekt zw. IAV und MPI-IS Der Automotive Engineering-Dienstleister IAV und das Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme kooperieren bei der Entwicklung von Algorithmen, um selbstlernende Verfahren in der Automobiltechnik weiter voran zu bringen. Die Forschungskooperation ist eine von mehreren im Rahmen des Cyber Valleys, das den Austausch zwischen anwendungsorientierter Industrieforschung und Neugier getriebener Grundlagenforschung zum Ziel hat. Alexander von Rohr Sebastian Trimpe

Rationality Enhancement News 02-03-2019 Lab's first RLDM submissions The lab has submitted three wonderful abstracts to this year's 4th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making at the McGill University in Montréal. They introduce research around our intelligent cognitive tutor and cover aspects of overcoming present bias, inspecting cognitive decline, and a process-related approach to trace the evolution of planning skills. We keep our fingers crossed! Falk Lieder Yash Raj Jain

Modern Magnetic Systems News 01-03-2019 3D structure of skyrmions becomes visible for the first time An international team of scientists was able to make the indestructible magnetic structures visible for the first time with the aid of a high-resolution X-ray microscope. Gisela Schütz Joachim Gräfe

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 15-02-2019 Udit Choudhury has his PhD defence in Groningen Congratulations to Udit Choudhury for defending his thesis on the "Dynamics of self-propelled colloids and their application as active matter", and best of luck as he is leaving the group to start a Postdoc at AMOLF in the Netherlands. Udit Choudhury Mariana Alarcon-Correa Vincent Mauricio Kadiri Peer Fischer

Autonomous Learning News 11-02-2019 Winners of the final RL Course Competition Congratulations to Team SSP for winning the final Reinforcement Learning course competition with their SAC (Soft Actor Critic) agent. Sebastian Blaes Jia-Jie Zhu Georg Martius

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 10-02-2019 Hannah-Noa Barad receives Minerva Fellowship The Postdoctoral Researcher in the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems lab receives the Fellowship for two years. Hannah-Noa Barad Peer Fischer

Modern Magnetic Systems News 08-02-2019 Dr. Michael Hirscher Chair of the GRC Hydrogen-Metal Systems Conference The head of the "Hydrogen Storage" research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, together with Ned T. Stetson, will lead one of the most important conferences in the field of hydrogen-material interaction. The core topic of the conference will be new hydrogen storage materials, understanding from atomic level to applications. Michael Hirscher

Rationality Enhancement News 02-02-2019 Lab's first CogSci submissions We have submitted a great set of papers to this year's 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Montreal. A historic moment for the lab! We will continue this proud tradition in the years to come. Falk Lieder Maria Wirzberger Florian Mohnert Yash Raj Jain Lin Xu

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 01-02-2019 Dr. Dhruv Singh becomes Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Congrats and good luck to Dr. Dhruv Singh Dhruv Pratap Singh

Rationality Enhancement News 01-02-2019 Gabriela Iwama joined our lab Gabriela Iwama has joined our lab for an internship on the development of psychometric measures of cognitive growth. She is currently working towards her bachelor degree in Psychology at the University of Brasília. Welcome Gabriela! Gabriela Iwama

Rationality Enhancement News 28-01-2019 Mateo Tosic joined our lab Mateo Tosic has joined our lab as student assistant focusing on software and web development. He is a bachelor student of Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen. Welcome Mateo! Mateo Tosic

Empirical Inference News 28-01-2019 Schlüsseltechnologie der digitalen Revolution Wissenschaftspreis der Hector Stiftung geht an Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf erhält in diesem Jahr den mit 150.000 Euro dotierten Wissenschaftspreis der Hector Stiftung. Die Jury würdigt damit seine herausragenden Leistungen in der Grundlagenforschung zum maschinellen Lernen und der Künstlichen Intelligenz, die als Schlüsseltechnologien der digitalen Revolution gelten. Bernhard Schölkopf

Empirical Inference News 23-01-2019 Helping to memorize information more efficiently using AI Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems develop algorithms which optimize the well-known spaced repetition method used for memorizing educational material. By using optimal spacing time, the learning process becomes as efficient as possible. Their findings were published in the prestigious journal PNAS on Tuesday. Behzad Tabibian Bernhard Schölkopf Manuel Gomez Rodriguez

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 21-01-2019 Hannah-Noa Barad receives a Minerva PostDoctoral Fellowship.

Rationality Enhancement News 19-01-2019 Article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences accepted Behavioral and Brain Sciences has accepted our target article “Resource-rational analysis: understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources”. According to the editor we have set a new record with our 53 page long response to the reviewers! Falk Lieder

Rationality Enhancement News 14-01-2019 Article in Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences accepted Good news! Our paper “Doing more with less: Meta-reasoning and meta-learning in humans and machines” has been accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Falk Lieder

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

News 02-01-2019 Jan Peters elected IEEE Fellow Prof. Dr. Jan Peters, Head of the Robot Learning Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Professor for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, was appointed IEEE Fellow. He is honored for his important contributions to machine learning for robots to acquire motor skills. This work is of outstanding importance for current developments in artificial intelligence in two areas, autonomous robotics and machine learning, in particular reinforcement learning. They have the potential to make more intelligent robots more useful in our everyday lives in the future. Jan Peters

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Guillermo Amador joined Wageningen University as an assistant professor in Netherlands.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Hakan Ceylan and Metin Sitti's medical microrobotics research was featured as among “5 amazing projects that will change the future of healthcare” by the PC Magazine.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Matthew Woodward joined Tufts University as an assistant professor in USA.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Metin Sitti received the ERC Advanced Grant for the project titled, "SoMMoR: Soft-bodied Miniature Mobile Robots".

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Morteza Amjadi joined Heriot-Watt University as an assistant professor in UK.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Musab Cagri Ugurlu received the Ministry of Education PhD fellowship from Turkey.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Xinjian Fan and Mingtong Li received the CSC PhD fellowship.

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