One winner and three honorable mentions at this year's Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize. Read more about the four (former) Ph.D. students and their research interests here: is.mpg.de/news/siyuan-gu…

Learning from the Nobel Laureates in Lindau: Early this month, Zhijing Jin & Andrew K. Schulz were invited to this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting #LINO24. They had the time of their life meeting many inspiring nobel laureates: is.mpg.de/news/learning-… #AI #Robotics

Zebras, wild horses and teams of flying #robots: Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut Wirtschaftsministerium BW awarded the prize #AI Champion #BadenWürttemberg to our Group Leader & Uni Stuttgart Junior Professor Aamir Ahmad. This is what their project #Wildcap is all about: uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/…

Hurray! Michael Kirchhof successfully defended his doctoral thesis! Congratulations on this huge milestone! He investigated how #ComputerVision models should behave when they face images that are ambiguous, for example blurry or low-resolution. #MaxPlanck #IMPRSIS #PHDdefence

🎉 👏 Congratulations Diego Theuerkauf for defending your #PhDThesis with the title "Optimal Transport: The Dynamical Monge-Kantorovich Model as a Bridge between Theory and Applications"! His #research focused on optimal transport theory: is.mpg.de/person/dtheuer…

🎉 👏Congratulations Junhyung Park for defending your Ph.D. thesis! Next stop is a postdoc position in the Statistical #MachineLearning Group at ETH Zurich. From September to December 2024, Jun will also be visiting the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley. Bernhard Schölkopf

Our Group Leader Aamir Ahmad is one of this year's #Kl Champions #BadenWürttemberg. At the University of #Stuttgart, he leads the Flight Robotic and Perception Group, which is funded by Cyber Valley. Watch the video that was shown at the award ceremony: youtube.com/watch?v=UZW0o-…

Congratulations to Christian Gumbsch for defending his Ph.D.! It is summa cum laude! Christian began his doctorate at MPI-IS & the University of #Tübingen in 2019 under the supervision of Georg Martius. In his Ph.D., Chris studied #ReinforcementLearning and planning systems. #AI #KI

Researchers at our Institute & ETH Zürich Zurich have developed a robotic leg with artificial muscles. Inspired by living creatures, it jumps across different terrains in an energy-efficient manner. The paper was published in Nature Communications today: is.mpg.de/en/news/artifi… #SoftRobotics