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17-07-2026
Wieland Brendel Co-Founds Ontic Labs, Securing €3M SPRIND Funding for Physical AI
The Tübingen-based startup is one of only ten across Europe chosen for the Next Frontier AI Challenge to build the future of embodied intelligence.
Wieland Brendel
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21-06-2026
PI Maksym Andriushchenko Co-Founds Startup Exponential Security Labs
We are proud to announce that Maksym Andriushchenko, Principal Investigator leading the AI Safety and Alignment group at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, has co-founded Exponential Security Labs.
Maksym Andriushchenko
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20-05-2026
Kyutai and ELLIS Tübingen launch KE:SAI
A Premier Franco-German Partnership for Open Science in Physical AI
Empirical Inference
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19-02-2026
Scientific Director Bernhard Schölkopf Joins UN Global AI Panel
Shaping the Future of Global AI Governance in Tübingen
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17-12-2025
ELLIS Institute Tübingen joins CLS as Associated Partner
It’s official: The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is now an Associated Partner of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS)!
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14-11-2025
San Diego or Copenhagen: Meet us at NeurIPS and EurIPS 2025
The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is heading to two top-tier conferences this December: NeurIPS in San Diego and EurIPS in Copenhagen! We are excited to be part of both events, connecting scientists from around the world through outstanding research from December 2–7, 2025.
Empirical Inference
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06-03-2025
Neural network deciphers gravitational waves from merging neutron stars in a second
Machine learning method could revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy
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25-02-2025
From research to startup: Polybot receives order for AI-based harvesting robotics
ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Tübingen AI Center achieve important milestone for innovation in automated agriculture
Wieland Brendel
Wild, Efficient, and Innovative AI
Computational Applied Mathematics & AI Lab
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06-12-2024
Introducing our new Principal Investigators joining in 2025
We are thrilled to announce the addition of two exceptional Principal Investigators to our Institute. Their groundbreaking expertise and innovative approaches promise to enrich our research landscape and inspire future collaborations. Dr. T. Konstantin Rusch and Dr. Shiwei Liu will join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as PIs and Hector Endowed Fellows in June and July 2025, respectively. They will also have a co-affiliation with the MPI-IS and the Tübingen AI Center as Independent Research Group Leaders. Please find below their short CVs and their research interests.
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28-11-2024
From Tübingen to Vancouver: ELLIS Institute at NeurIPS 2024
Groundbreaking Research, Posters, and Our Booth!
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27-06-2024
Jump-start success: The ELLIS Institute's opening
AI, progress, Tübingen – this sums up the opening of the ELLIS Institute. The week was exciting for the young institute: workshops, symposium and the opening ceremony. Several events took place as part of the Cyber Valley Days, last but not least the opening of the world's first ELLIS Institute here in Tübingen.
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21-06-2024
A week in the name of AI
The grand opening ceremony of the young ELLIS Institute Tübingen is attracting many special guests this week. The celebration spans four exciting days, culminating in a grand finale on Friday, held as part of the Cyber Valley Days. The event starts with a scientific workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday: Colleagues from the Canadian Institute For AI Research (CIFAR) came to Tübingen along with renowned scientists. Some of the guests will speak not only during the workshop but also in honour of the institute during the scientific symposium on Thursday.
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19-06-2024
CIFAR Workshop: "World Models: Causality, Neuroscience, and AI Safety"
A CIFAR workshop took place on Tuesday, the 18th, and Wednesday, the 19th in Tübingen, in conjunction with the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS).
Robust Machine Learning
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07-06-2024
Cyber Valley Podcast with Wieland Brendel: "Education & farming will completely change with AI!"
Through a podcast series dedicated entirely to the Principal Investigators of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Cyber Valley continues to explore the profound implications of artificial intelligence with leading experts in the field.
Wieland Brendel
Algorithms and Society
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17-05-2024
‘AI Algorithms and their Impact on Society’: Third Episode of the Cyber Valley Podcast with Celestine Mendler-Dünner
The Cyber Valley Podcast continues to dive into the minds of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen. The third episode features our Principal Investigator Celestine Mendler-Dünner, an expert in machine learning focusing her research on the foundations of AI systems and their impact on society.
Celestine Mendler-Dünner
AutoML
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01-05-2024
Prof. Frank Hutter joins the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Hector Endowed Fellow
The ELLIS Institute Tübingen welcomes Prof. Frank Hutter as a new Hector Endowed Fellow and Principal Investigator.
Safety- and Efficiency- aligned Learning
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26-04-2024
Cyber Valley Podcast with the ELLIS Institute Tübingen: Second Episode with Jonas Geiping
With a Podcast Series entirely focused on the Principal Investigators of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Cyber Valley continues to explore the profound implications of artificial intelligence with experts in the field.
Jonas Geiping
Deep Models and Optimization
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12-04-2024
First Episode of the Cyber Valley Podcast Series with the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
Our Principal Investigators are the guests of the first Cyber Valley Podcast, an exciting series that aims to dive into the heart of AI innovation with leading experts. Our PIs talk about their research, their journey and their vision for the future of AI in Tübingen and Europe.
Antonio Orvieto
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09-02-2024
BUD-E: Enhancing AI voice assistants' conversational quality, naturalness and empathy
Members of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen team up with LAION to improve AI voice assistants
Wieland Brendel
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14-12-2023
ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest 2023 across Units: The ELLIS Institute Tübingen hosts the event for the Unit Tübingen
11 ELLIS Units across Europe, a total of 230 posters presented, 152 NeurIPS posters, and about 900 participants. Numerous lively discussions about the latest cutting-edge AI research in the run up to the NeurIPS conference taking place in New Orleans (USA) this week - one of the most important annual events for the global machine learning community - ELLIS units across Europe organized poster sessions to showcase and discuss conference contributions from the ELLIS network and the units’ local research environments.
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01-09-2023
First Principal Investigators join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen gGmbH as Hector Endowed Fellows
Tübingen, Germany. After the launch in July 2023, the ELLIS Institute Tübingen is growing, with the first Principal Investigators (PIs) joining the Institute as Hector Endowed Fellows in the fall of 2023.
Bernhard Schölkopf
Carmela Rianna