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Haptic Intelligence Award 11-12-2025 2025 MPI-IS Gender Equality Prize for Vani Sundaram Vani Sundaram
Perceiving Systems Award 10-12-2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time Award 2025 For the paper "SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model", published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2015. Co-authors: Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Javier Romero, Gerard Pons-Moll, Michael J. Black. Matthew Loper Naureen Mahmood Javier Romero Gerard Pons-Moll Michael J. Black
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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
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Perceiving Systems Award 24-11-2025 Peter Kulits receives Outstanding Reviewer Award, BMVC 2025.  Peter Kulits
Haptic Intelligence Award 19-11-2025 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan and her team is selected for MAX!mize, the start-up incubation program for Max Planck Researchers Mayumi Mohan
Robotic Materials Award 29-10-2025 Alona Shagan receives the Research Prize Parkinson-Tremor together with Syn Schmitt (University of Stuttgart) und Daniel Häufle (Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health and University of Tübingen) Alona Shagan
Haptic Intelligence Award 27-10-2025 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan is selected for the MPG career building program Sign Up For Leadership Mayumi Mohan
Haptic Intelligence Award 27-10-2025 Postdoc Rachael L'Orsa is selected for the MPG career building program Sign Up For Your Career Rachael Lorsa
Perceiving Systems Award 21-10-2025 2025 Mark Everingham Prize The PAMI Mark Everingham Prize For Contributions to the Computer Vision Community was awarded at ICCV 2025 to "The SMPL body model team (Michael J. Black, Naureen Mahmood, Matthew Loper, Javier Romero, Gerard Pons-Moll) for a family of foundation models that have enabled body pose research." Michael J. Black Naureen Mahmood Matthew Loper Javier Romero Gerard Pons-Moll
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Perceiving Systems Award 19-10-2025 Nikos Athanasiou, Michael J. Black, and Peter Kulits receive Outstanding Reviewer Awards, ICCV 2025.  Nikos Athanasiou Michael J. Black Peter Kulits
Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Award 16-10-2025 Doctoral student Maria-Paola Forte is recognized as a NeurIPS 2025 Top Reviewer She is awarded a non-transferable complimentary registration to attend the conference. Maria-Paola Forte
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Empirical Inference Award 08-10-2025 Siyuan Guo receives the MIT EECS Rising Star award Siyuan Guo
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Safety- and Efficiency- aligned Learning Award 29-09-2025 Jonas Geiping receives 2025 GCPR Award Jonas Geiping
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Haptic Intelligence Award 26-09-2025 Postdoc Andrew Schulz and Fatemeh Farsijani win the top prize for outstanding demo at the Stuttgart open house of the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Andrew K. Schulz Fatemeh Farsijani
Medical Systems Award 10-09-2025 Jelena Zinnanti (born Lazovic) receives Best Oral Presentation Award at the Advanced Ceramics and Application Conference, No. XIII, Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Zinnanti
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Empirical Inference Award 19-08-2025 Bernhard Schölkopf wurde zum Korrespondierenden Mitglied in die Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz gewählt Bernhard Schölkopf
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Neuromechanics of Movement Award 31-07-2025 Janneke Schwaner receives the Dr Jacquelin Perry Emerging Female Scientist Award Every two years the International Society of Biomechanics awards the Jacquelin Perry Emerging Scientist Award. This price is awarded in honor of Professor Jacquelin Perry and her pioneering contribution to the science and application of biomechanics, in particular in the area of gait analysis and rehabilitation. The award is designed to acknowledge female researchers who have performed superior biomechanics research early in their career. Janneke Schwaner
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Social Foundations of Computation Award 14-07-2025 Moritz Hardt co-authored a paper which receives the 10-Year Test of Time Award at ACM STOC 2025 "Preserving Statistical Validity in Adaptive Data Analysis" published in 2015 is co-authored by Cynthia Dwork, Vitaly Feldman, Moritz Hardt, Toniann Pitassi, Omer Reingold, Aaron Roth. Moritz Hardt
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Haptic Intelligence Award 11-07-2025 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker wins the Top Work-in-Progress Contributor Award at the 2025 IEEE World Haptics Conference Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
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
Haptic Intelligence Award 04-07-2025 Postdoc Andrew Schulz wins the prize for best poster at the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Summer Symposium for his poster "Material Intelligence of Animal Whiskers" Andrew K. Schulz
Haptic Intelligence Award 01-07-2025 Postdoc Giulia Ballardini and Fatemeh Farsijani are accepted to the Touch Sensing and Processing Summer School 2025 Giulia Ballardini Fatemeh Farsijani
Haptic Intelligence Award 27-06-2025 Doctoral students Maria-Paola Forte and Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo receive honorable mentions for the 2025 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Maria-Paola Forte Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo
Social Foundations of Computation Award 27-06-2025 Vivian Nastl receives 2025 Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize of MPI-IS The following scientists received honorable mentions for this award: Melis Ilayda Bal (LDS Research Group) Maria-Paola Forte (HI- and PS Dept.) Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo (HI- and RM Dept.) Vivian Nastl Melis Ilayda Bal Maria-Paola Forte Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo
Organizational Leadership and Diversity Award 25-06-2025 Ksenia Keplinger receives SIG Best Paper Award at the 2025 EURAM Conference EURAM Conference in Florence, Italy, June 22-25, 2025 Ksenia Keplinger Yulia Litvinova
Organizational Leadership and Diversity Award 24-06-2025 Ksenia Keplinger receives EURAM/ERC Award for advancing to the interview round of the ERC Starting Grant Ksenia Keplinger
Haptic Intelligence Award 04-06-2025 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker wins the MPI-IS Community Award 2025 at the institute's retreat Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Empirical Inference Award 27-05-2025 Siyuan Guo receives G-Research PhD Prize. Siyuan Guo
Haptic Intelligence Award 03-03-2025 Postdoc Yarden Sharon wins a 6,000 EUR stipend from the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation Yarden Sharon
Human Aspects of Machine Learning Award 01-01-2025   The research program "Item Discovery for Psychological Testing Using Large Language Models" led by Tom Sühr, receives generous funding from the 2025 MPI-IS Grassroots program. The research aims at developing new methods for psychological test design, using large language models. The research program "Item Discovery for Psychological Testing Using Large Language Models" led by Tom Sühr, receives generous funding from the 2025 MPI-IS Grassroots program. The research aims at developing new methods for psychological test design, using large language models. The project is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional cooperation with Zhijing Jin and Bernhard Schölkopf from the Empirical Inference department and Augustin Kelava, from the Methods Center of the University of Tübingen. Samira Samadi, Tom Sühr and Lalitha Sivakumar from the Human Aspects of Machine Learning group, will join the efforts. Tom Sühr Samira Samadi Bernhard Schölkopf
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
Robotic Materials Award 06-12-2024 Daniela Macari wins the 2024 Gender Equality Award of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Daniela Macari
Organizational Leadership and Diversity Award 06-12-2024 Ksenia Keplinger wins the 2024 Gender Equality Award of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
Perceiving Systems Award 03-12-2024 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time Award 2024 For the paper "MoSh: Motion and shape capture from sparse markers", published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2014. Co-authors: Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Michael J. Black. Michael J. Black Matthew Loper Naureen Mahmood
Empirical Inference Award 22-10-2024 Annalena Kofler receives Best Poster Award at the 2nd Tübingen Women in Machine Learning workshop.
Haptic Intelligence Award 09-10-2024 Postdocs Yarden Sharon and Vani Sundaram are selected for the MPG workshop Sign Up! Yarden Sharon Vani Sundaram
Haptic Intelligence Award 03-10-2024 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova is selected to attend "Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering" held at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA Nataliya Rokhmanova
Human Aspects of Machine Learning Award 01-10-2024 Omri Ben-Dov received the ELSA mobility grant for a research visit in the university of Copenhagen     Omri received the ELSA mobility grant for a research visit in the university of Copenhagen to work with Amartya Sanyal Omri Ben-Dov
Learning and Dynamical Systems Award 01-10-2024 Best Paper Award: UNSURE Workshop MICCAI Best Paper Award: UNSURE Workshop MICCAI Michael Muehlebach
Perceiving Systems Award 25-09-2024 Sai Kumar Dwivedi and Peter Kulits receive Outstanding Reviewer Awards, ECCV 2024.  Sai Kumar Dwivedi Peter Kulits
Haptic Intelligence Award 19-09-2024 Doctoral student Bernadett Kiss wins an honorable mention for the prize for best poster presentation at the 2024 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Bernadett Kiss
Haptic Intelligence Award 19-09-2024 Doctoral student Iris Andrussow wins the prize for best poster presentation at the 2024 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Iris Andrussow
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 13-09-2024 VMV 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mention VMV 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mention for the work Controllable Action-aware Manifold for 3D Motion Synthesis, a collaboration with the group of Christian Theobalt (MPI-I). Balamurugan Thambiraja
Physics for Inference and Optimization Award 31-08-2024 Caterina De Bacco receives the Physical Review E Reviewer Excellence Award 2024 thanks to the work she has done while at MPI-IS, reviewing for the Physical Review E journal.  
Robust Machine Learning Award 01-08-2024 Emmy Noether Extension
Haptic Intelligence Award 15-07-2024 Rachael Bevill Burns receives an honorable mention for the MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Rachael Burns
Perceiving Systems Award 11-07-2024 Aamir Ahmad is one of the 2024 KI Champions Baden-Württemberg for the project "WildCap: Intelligente Flugroboter für den Wildtierschutz", funded by Cyber Valley.
Perceiving Systems Award 05-07-2024 Marilyn Keller wins Honorable Mention for the 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize.
Empirical Inference Award 05-07-2024 Siyuan Guo: 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize