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Empirical Inference Award 11-04-2025 Zhijing Jin: selected Young Researcher to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2025. Zhijing Jin
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 Zhijing Jin 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. Zhijing Jin
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 GEP Prize
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 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. 
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 Christian Theobalt
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
Perceiving Systems Award 04-07-2024 Yao Feng was selected as WiGRAPH Rising Stars in Computer Graphics. 
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 01-07-2024 Justus Thies receives the DAGM German Pattern Recognition Award 2024.
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 01-07-2024 Justus Thies receives the EuroGraphics Young Researcher Award 2024.
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 01-07-2024 The ERC Starting Grant Learning Digital Humans in Motion (LeMo) got accepted and will define the future research direction of the group.
Learning and Dynamical Systems Award 01-07-2024 Amazon PhD Fellowship Amazon PhD Fellowship Michael Muehlebach
Perceiving Systems Award 01-07-2024 Eric Price and Aamir Ahmad, won Best Paper for "Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behaviour Analysis" at the 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems  (DELTAs) conference at IIT Bombay, India. 
Perceiving Systems Award 01-07-2024 Eric Price, Michael Black, and Aamir Ahmad receive the Uni Stuttgart Best Faculty Paper award for the paper "Viewpoint Driven Formation Control of Airships for Cooperative Target Tracking," in IEEE RA-L.
Haptic Intelligence Award 17-06-2024 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan receives the prize for best presentation at the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Summer Symposium for her talk "Crafting Motion: From Robotic to Expressive" Mayumi Mohan
Robotic Materials Award 13-06-2024 Ellen Rumley and Zachary Yoder win 1st place of the 2024 EuroEAP Society Challenge. Ellen Rumley Zachary Yoder Johannes Walter Alona Shagan
Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Award 01-06-2024 Our research won the Best Poster Award in ICRA2024 Workshop
Haptic Intelligence Award 27-05-2024 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova is selected by the Max Planck Society to be a nominee for 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows program Nataliya Rokhmanova
Haptic Intelligence Award 27-05-2024 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan and her team win the competition at MPG Career Evolution Games Week Mayumi Mohan
Haptic Intelligence Award 17-05-2024 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker debates on the Future of Robotics Research at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Embodied Vision Award 16-05-2024 Jörg Stückler is recognized as an Outstanding Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Jörg Stückler
Empirical Inference Award 16-05-2024 Julius von Kügelgen won the Cambridge PhD Prize in Quantitative Research (administered by G-Research) Julius von Kügelgen
Physical Intelligence Award 01-05-2024 Ali Amini Harandi received the NSREC postdoctoral fellowship from Canada. Ali Amini Harandi
Empirical Inference Award 24-04-2024 Niki Kilbertus receives Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists Niki Kilbertus
Haptic Intelligence Award 10-04-2024 Behnam Khojasteh, Yitian Shao, and KJK win best IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the IEEE Haptics Symposium Behnam Khojasteh Yitian Shao Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 CELLnROLL team has been awarded the CyberValley Innovation Fellowship. Erdost Yildiz Alp Can Karacakol Ugur Bozuyuk
Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 Chong Hong, Yingdan Wu and Metin Sitti received the Best Workshop Poster Award in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference Chong Hong Yingdan Wu Metin Sitti
Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 Xianqiang Bao and Metin Sitti received the Best Paper Award in Automation in the IEEE Int. Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Xianqiang Bao Metin Sitti
Haptic Intelligence Award 01-03-2024 Andrew K. Schulz wins a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship Andrew Schulz
Haptic Intelligence Award 26-02-2024 Former Postdoc Hasti Seifi wins an NSF CAREER Award titled “Democratizing Haptics: Enabling Novice Designers with Vibrotactile Models and Tools” Hasti Seifi
Physical Intelligence Award 06-02-2024 Metin Sitti is elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering Metin Sitti
Empirical Inference Award 05-02-2024 Vincent Stimper receives G-Research PhD Prize.
Empirical Inference Award 16-01-2024 Zhijing Jin receives 3 Rising Star awards: EECS Rising Star, Rising Star in Data Science, and Rising Star in Machine Learning and invited to the 73. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2024 Metin Sitti was elected as the Highly Cited Researcher and received the Material Science Leader Award by Clarivate. Metin Sitti