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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/09/2026

Many thanks to Madelon Hulsebos for her talk at the BIFOLD Colloquium. @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social In "On the Different Flavors of Tabular Reasoning," she showed that reasoning over tabular data spans several distinct challenges:

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 18/09/2026

Photo Recap: Berlin Summer School on AI and Society. From Sept 14-17, 50 students from 10 countries met in Berlin for four days on the responsible design of AI-driven autonomous systems, robotics, and physical AI. Organized by BIFOLD, the Weizenbaum Institute, and TU Berlin's LIS Lab.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 17/09/2026

Join us in Berlin at the scientific workshop "Agentic AI for Earth Observation," organized by BIFOLD and the ESA Φ-lab from October 19 to 21, 2026. Begüm Demir shares the workshop's aims and invites researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers. agentic-eo.berlin #gischat #EO #ESA #GeoAI

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/09/2026

BIFOLD researcher Dr. Mina Jamshidi Idaji to lead a €1.5 million research consortium on AI in Oncology. The project brings together oncologists, pathologists, and ml researchers from BIFOLD/TU Berlin, LMU Munich, and UKE Hamburg. 🧵 @tuberlin.bsky.social @lmu.de @xai-berlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 14/09/2026

The 2026 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society opened today, September 14, and runs through September 17, 2026, in a new setting: for the first time, the summer school takes place in BIFOLD's own premises. @tuberlin.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/08/2026

BIFOLD congratulates Dr. Pattarawat Chormai on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation. On August 27, 2026, Pattarawat Chormai defended his dissertation, "Understanding and Improving Neural Networks with Relevant Subspace Analysis." @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/08/2026

Save the date: Sep 25, 2026. #BIFOLD #Colloquium. Prof. Dr. Masashi Sugiyama (The University of Tokyo, RIKEN) will present his group's latest research on advanced reward modeling.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/08/2026

Most privacy protection systems slow down and become less useful the more data they have to protect. Does it have to be that way? In our new Researcher Spotlight, BIFOLD introduces Dr.-Ing. Rudi Poepsel Lemaitre, who defended his PhD summa cum laude at BIFOLD. t1p.de/8n1sk @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 26/08/2026

The #ELLIS Unit Berlin hosted its first #VLDB & #ECCV Fest, bringing together around 50 researchers from Berlin and Potsdam ahead of VLDB 2026 and ECCV 2026. Thank you to everyone who presented and joined! Wishing all presenters great success at both conferences. @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 11/08/2026

Everyone calls sparse autoencoders "interpretable," almost no one measures it. A new benchmark changes that. /// #ECCV2026 #OralPresentation #Paper #BIFOLD @tuberlin.bsky.social #compVision #EO #gischat

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 30/06/2026

BIFOLD congratulates Dr. Tom Burgert! 🎓🎉 Tom has successfully defended his PhD thesis with distinction - Summa Cum Laude - at @tuberlin.bsky.social Tom is part of the RSiM research group, led by Begüm Demir, at BIFOLD.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 16/06/2026

🚀 Have you registered for the 2026 Berlin Summer School of AI & Society on "Responsible Design of AI-driven Autonomous Systems"? 14 to 17 September 2026, Berlin Deatils: t1p.de/bv5sj ⏳ Two weeks left! Deadline: 30 June 2026. 🧵👇 #AcademicSky @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/06/2026

Gustavo Alonso will join the BIFOLD Colloquium series with a talk titled: "Data Stream for Heterogeneous System Design." Join us this Wednesday at BIFOLD. June 17, 2026. 3 PM. BIFOLD: Franklinstraße 28/29, 10587 Berlin. t1p.de/g8wxm 📈🤖 @tuberlin.bsky.social #DBs #ML #AI

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 02/06/2026

Are you researching AI, robotics, or AI and society? The BIFOLD Summer School 2026 brings 50 early-career researchers to Berlin to explore the responsible design of AI-driven autonomous systems. 🧠🤖 t1p.de/01v6s #ResponsibleAI @tuberlin.bsky.social #summerschool @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 02/06/2026

ACM AsiaCCS 2026: BIFOLD research reveals a blind spot in #software security. 📃Shape-Shifting Malicious Code in Software Backdoors via Language Models. M E Fard, F Weissberg, E Imgrund, T Eisenhofer, K Rieck. Link: t1p.de/8ym87 Code: t1p.de/j3rwe #Backdoors #Attacks #MLsky #AI @rieck.mlsec.org

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 28/05/2026

🤖 How does ChatGPT actually "think"? Find out on June 6 at #LNDW Berlin! We're running a free workshop that demystifies AI language models. Will be held in German. For families, young adults & everyone curious. 🧠✨ www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det... #ScienceNight

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 21/05/2026

Job tip: #HEIBRiDS offering 5 fully funded PhD positions where #AI meets molecular medicine, geosciences, energy, and environmental science. Apply by June 24, 2026 www.heibrids.berlin/admission/op... @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/05/2026

🎤 Science Slam 🕗 20:00–21:30 📍 Anna-von-Helmholtz-Bau, PTB campus, 1st floor, Room 105/106 (5 min walk from U Ernst-Reuter-Platz) 👉 Suitable for teenagers and older audiences. Science meets stage! 👉Optical Pumping: ... www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/05/2026

🧠 Workshop: Wie „denken“ ChatGPT & Co.? Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen. 🕠 17:30–18:30 📍 PTB, Elsa-Neumann-Bau, Marchstraße 25, 10587 Berlin - 1st floor, Room 105 👉 Suitable for teenagers and older audiences. 👉 Registration required. Host: www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 15/05/2026

BIFOLD, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB are teaming up for the LNDW in Berlin, bringing two events, held in German. @tuberlin.bsky.social @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social #ptb #LNDW #AISquare #SciComm #ScienceSlam #AI #LLM

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 13/05/2026

Quick heads-up: we've changed the venue! 🏢✨ If you're joining us for the AI to Accelerate Scientific Understanding workshop, please note that we've changed the venue! 🏢✨ 🏛️ Lanolinfabrik, Salzufer 15–16, 10587 Berlin All details: www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 30/04/2026

[1/7]📍 Meet our researchers at #ICDE2026 in Montréal, Canada (May 4–8)! BIFOLD's DIMA group (Volker Markl) and D2IP group (Ziawasch Abedjan) are contributing across multiple sessions this year. 🧵 @icde-publicity.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social #nebulastream #DataEngineering #DataManagement #IEEE

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 29/04/2026

Is a new era of #cyberattacks looming? BIFOLD's Konrad Rieck on Claude Mythos. On April 27, 2026, the German science TV show Nano (3sat/ZDF) aired a segment on #Claude #Mythos. 📺https://t1p.de/iyg7p (start: 00:06, end: 08:05) @tuberlin.bsky.social @rieck.mlsec.org @anthropic.com @bsi.bund.de

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 23/04/2026

We had the pleasure of welcoming a group of eleven curious and talented young women to BIFOLD for Girls' Day 2026. 🚀 Our participants dove headfirst into the world of computer science and IT security. @tuberlin.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #Science #Girlsday #Zukunftstag

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 23/04/2026

Offensive AI Is Here. Now What? Join us at the next BIFOLD Colloquium with Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (April 30, 2026; 4 PM; BIFOLD) More: t1p.de/tbqes @tuberlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 22/04/2026

#Publication review #compchem 💡Rethinking AI architecture for molecular simulations A simple transformer-based model challenges the role of physical constraints in molecular dynamics simulations. More: t1p.de/0k8gc @tuberlin.bsky.social @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social #AI #research #compchemsky 💻⚗️

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 21/04/2026

#ICLR 2026 in Rio! Meet our scientists. 7 workshop papers and 7 posters co-authored by BIFOLD researchers will be presented. All details (Date of presentation, venue, etc): t1p.de/pn00w @iclr-conf.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social @xai-berlin.bsky.social #MLSky #AI

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 20/04/2026

New AI Method Enables More Precise Simulation of Complex Molecules. Nature Machine Intelligence: Machine Learning Global Atomic Representations With Euclidean Fast Attention. J T Frank, S Chmiela, KR Müller, O T Unke More: t1p.de/b3q7v @tuberlin.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de #GoogleDeepmind

Caption: New AI sees the entire molecule: Unlike previous methods, which primarily capture the immediate surroundings of an atom, Euclidean Fast Attention can also directly incorporate regions that are far away. This allows important long-range interactions in molecules to be described more precisely.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 14/04/2026

A big round of applause for Dr. Ariane Ziehn! On April 10, 2026, Ariane successfully defended her dissertation at the Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) research group, led by Prof. Dr. Volker Markl. Photo: G Dusella #PhDDone @tuberlin.bsky.social #CEP #DataEngineering #DIMA

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 09/04/2026

The research addresses a key challenge at the intersection of data engineering and machine learning. 📄MEMPHIS: Holistic Lineage-based Reuse and MemoryManagementfor Multi-backend ML Systems More: t1p.de/c2v79 @sigmod.bsky.social #dataskyence #Datascience #Dataengineering

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 09/04/2026

Memphis paper receives 2026 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award. Research by BIFOLD scientists A Phani & M Böhm on eliminating inefficient reuse of intermediate computations across multi-backend machine learning systems. More: t1p.de/c2v79 @tuberlin.bsky.social @arnabphani.bsky.social #AI #Data

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 26/03/2026

🌍 BIFOLD is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher – AI Agents for Earth Observation The RSiM Group is looking for an postdoc to shape the future of AI-powered satellite intelligence, funded by the @erc.europa.eu. t1p.de/dhfmw @tuberlin.bsky.social #sciencejobs #STEMjobs #academicjobs #postdocjob

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 26/03/2026

Harry aims to make querying across disconnected databases faster, more affordable, and easier, since fragmentation is a key challenge in our data-driven world.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 26/03/2026

Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Haralampos Gavriilidis, also known as Harry, earned his PhD at BIFOLD as part of the DIMA research group under the supervision of Volker Markl. Learn more: t1p.de/80cch @harrygav.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social 🧪 #datasystems #AI #datascience #datasci #datasky

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 23/03/2026

BIFOLD supports IEEE SaTML 2026. 🧵 🔔Program Chair: Konrad Rieck, alongside Rachel Cummings 🔔Web Chair: @eisenhofer.bsky.social & Stefan Czybik 🔔Part of the Program Committee: Thorsten Eisenhofer, @kirillbykov.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @tumunich.bsky.social @rieck.mlsec.org @satml.org

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 16/03/2026

#GirlsDay 2026 Join us at BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social Three hands-on stations await you in the world of data science & IT security. Register here 👉 t1p.de/2wwys #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #ComputerScience #cs

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 12/03/2026

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Volker Markl, Co-Director of BIFOLD, on being elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! BIFOLD News: t1p.de/1wsrz @tuberlin.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social @leopoldina.org

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 11/03/2026

Dr. Maximilian Bandle, founding engineer at @cedardb.com , talks about the real-world experience of transforming Umbra, a TU Munich research project, into CedarDB. Join us at the BIFOLD Colloquium: t1p.de/zrt13 March 19, 2026 - 4 pm @tuberlin.bsky.social #datascience #database #ops #data

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 10/03/2026

BIFOLD is hiring: #Phd Candidate. Focus: Data Science & AI. Details 💼 D2IP Group, led by Ziawasch Abedjan 🗓 Start date: May 6, 2026 📅 Apply by: March 27, 2026 🔗https://t1p.de/dfhtm @tuberlin.bsky.social #jobvacancy #jobalert #ScienceJobs #DataIntegration #DataPreprocessing #jobvacancy

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 09/03/2026

🔔 Application deadline approaching: March 13, 2026! The DIMA Research Group (BIFOLD/ @tuberlin.bsky.social ) is hiring a Doctoral Researcher. Job Info: t1p.de/w6k50 #jobvacancy #jobalert #ScienceJobs #AdminJobs #phdsky #fundedphd #sciencejobs #STEMjobs #SciJobs #AcademicJobs #FacultyPosition

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 09/03/2026

#Student Assistant at BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social. Join the D2IP group, led by Ziawasch Abedjan. Research focus: data lakes & ML pipelines! 🔹 40–80 hrs/month 🔹 Python, pandas, PyTorch 🔹 Until April 2027 📅 Apply by March 16, 2026 👉 t1p.de/t93i6 #jobvacancy #jobalert #ScienceJobs #STEMjobs

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 27/02/2026

Great talk by Leonard Hackel in our lunch talk series on the future of remote sensing foundation models today. Here are the key takeaways 👇 #RemoteSensing @tuberlin.bsky.social 🛰️🌍 #eochat #geoai #GIS #space4good #opensource #classification #CSMoE #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #BIFOLD

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 27/02/2026

Thanks a lot to Thomas Dohmke for joining us at the BIFOLD Colloquium. He delivered a keynote on "The New Age of Developer AI." @thomasdohmke.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @github.com #AIResearch #ML #SoftwareDevelopment #AIAgents #TUBerlin #BerlinAI #DeveloperTools 📷Michael Setzpfandt

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 20/02/2026

Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler BIFOLD PhD graduate Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler is pushing AI beyond raw performance, exploring #representational #alignment. More: t1p.de/pe5z5 @lukasmut.bsky.social @eml-munich.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @xai-berlin.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 19/02/2026

📋 Student Assistant | Biomedical Sensing (IV-SB-0004-2026) Brain-body monitoring, biosignal analysis, ML on sensor data. 40h/month, in-person Berlin. ⏳ Deadline: February 26, 2026 🔗 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... #NeuroJobs

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 19/02/2026

📋 PhD | Machine Learning & Security (IV-47/26) LLM security, differential testing — Excellence Cluster CASA. TV-L E13 ⏳ Deadline: February 27, 2026 🔗 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... @rieck.mlsec.org #cybersecurity

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 19/02/2026

📋 PhD | Data Management & Scalable Systems (IV-76/26) Distributed data streams, analytics infrastructure. TV-L E13 | 5 years ⏳ Deadline: March 14, 2026 🔗 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...

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