Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems focuses on understanding the principles of perception, action, and learning in autonomous systems that interact with complex environments, combining mathematics, computation, materials science, and biology.

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

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Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems | 24,972 followers on LinkedIn. Perception - Action - Learning | At the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, our goal is to understand the principles of Perception, Action and Learning in autonomous systems that successfully interact with complex environments and to use this understanding to design future artificially intelligent systems. The Institute studies these principles in biological, computational, hybrid, and material systems ranging from nano to macro scales. We take a highly interdisciplinary approach that combines mathematics, computation, materials science, and biology.

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What a finale at the Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz BWKI in Tübingen: whether predicting heart disease, protecting bees or intelligent water control in droughts, students are using AI to solve everyday and global problems. Germany's Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the event and took a look at all the projects. The BWKI was launched in 2018 by our institute and Director Bernhard Schölkopf and Wieland Brendel , among others, and has since encouraged young people to actively demonstrate their skills in the field of #AI research. The host is now the Tübingen AI Center . The Carl Zeiss Foundation has been the main sponsor since 2020. Further information can be found at: https://bw-ki.de #Tübingen #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz

Big shoutout to Hassan Shahmohammadi for successfully defending his doctoral thesis! "My Ph.D. research focused on advancing multi-modal language learning, specifically through the development of numerical representations of language that integrate both textual and visual data. Currently, I am continuing this research journey as a research scientist at the Sony R&D center in Stuttgart, where I am excited to apply my insights to real-world applications." In 2020, Hassan joined IMPRS-IS under the supervision of Professors Hendrik Lensch and Harald Baayen. His research focused on developing cognitively plausible word and sentence embeddings that closely align with human judgments. Additionally, at the intersection of language and vision, he introduced the first automated pipeline for figurative and abstract visualization, for which he received the Outstanding Paper Award at the EMNLP 2023 conference. Previously, Hassan earned his master’s degree in Computer Science from Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran, where he specialized in natural language processing and deep learning. #MPIIS #IMPRSIS #LLMs #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #IntelligentSystems #Phdstudent #Phdthesis #ThesisDefense University of Tuebingen

👩🎓 🎉 Congratulations Lisa Schmors for successfully defending your doctoral thesis recently. Many congratulations on this huge milestone! "During my PhD at IMPRS-IS, I used machine learning tools to investigate neural mechanisms in the brain. Through diverse statistical methods, I explored how single neurons and neural populations process sensory information depending on cell type and brain state. Looking ahead, I’m more excited than ever to work on scientific questions related to the brain. In my next project, I will continue collaborating with my PhD supervisor, Philipp Berens, as well as Katrin Franke and Andreas Tolias at Stanford University." Lisa joined the Data Science group at the University of Tuebingen in 2019, and is now also part of the newly established Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health. Her academic journey began with a bachelor’s degree at the Free University of Berlin, including a thesis project in biotechnology at the University of Birmingham, followed by a master’s in neuroscience from the University of Oldenburg, where she focused on computational modeling. During her PhD, Lisa also had the unique opportunity to teach a master’s course in statistics at the medical research center in Gabon, Africa. She thinks that the synergies between statistics and neuroscience are broad and can not only enhance our understanding of the brain but also inspire machine learning models and artificial system that are more interpretable and robust. #MPIIS #IMPRSIS #unituebingen #machinelearning #AI #Tübingen #IntelligentSystems #Phdstudent #Phdthesis #ThesisDefense

Our Institute and the Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI Center), which is part of the University of Tübingen, kicked-off a 3-day interdisciplinary symposium today, focussing on the foundations, functions, and communicative implications of generative AI. The symposium is titled "Persuasive Algorithms". Our Director Moritz Hardt, who runs the Social Foundations of Computation Department, was part of the panel. https://lnkd.in/e2AZbEQf #GenerativeAI #AI #Tübingen #MachineLearning #LLMs #Causality

👨🎓🚀 🎉 A big congratulations to you for earning your Ph.D.! 👨🎓🚀 🎉 #MPIIS #IMPRSIS #unituebingen #IntelligentSystems #Phdstudent #Phdthesis #ThesisDefense

Our PostDoc Alona Shagan from the Robotic Materials Department in #Stuttgart was interviewed by a Journalist reporting for Deutschlandfunk's Forschung Aktuell. Listen to the clip about edible robots here: https://lnkd.in/ePKAXB9x #Robotics #AI #Robots #RoboticMaterials #SoftRobots

Scientists at our MPI-IS in Stuttgart published a paper in Science Advances where they present a novel method for deploying several magnetic miniature robots which can easily navigate through a 3D matrix resembling a network of blood vessels. One day, this new method could perhaps enable the simultaneous treatment of multiple locations in hard-to-reach areas of the human body, increasing the effectiveness of minimally invasive therapies: https://lnkd.in/e-8pu4xP #Robotics #AI #Stuttgart #PhysicalIntelligence Chunxiang Wang Tianlu Wang Metin Sitti

Just 10 more days to join our elite IMPRS-IS doctoral program! Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dcVyK2b Conduct doctoral research in machine learning, robotics, HCI, computer vision, and related fields. This partnership between the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Stuttgart, and University of Tübingen is accepting applications until Nov. 15, 2024.

Huge congratulations to Ellen Rumley on successfully defending her Ph.D.! 🎓🥳 Ellen made a memorable impression as the first graduate from our Robotic Materials Department, dressed in impressive armor reminiscent of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and symbol of the Max Planck Society — because, as they say, the best defense is a strong thesis offense! Ellen's research explored innovative ways to develop more controllable, environmentally sustainable, and versatile artificial muscles for soft robots. We’re so proud of this incredible milestone and excited to see where Ellen's expertise will lead next!

One week from today is the last day when people can apply to the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS) Ph.D. program. Grab a spot now!

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