We are happy to invite you for the upcoming Pre-NeurIPS Poster Session featured by ELIZA. When: Thursday, November 26th, 2025, 4-6 pmLocation: IMBIT, NEXUS Lab, Georges-Köhler-Allee 201, Univ. FreiburgRegistration: https://brainlinks-braintools.uni-freiburg.de/registration/?id=2 Please register by 24.11.2026 latest. You will have the opportunity to view the latest research works from our ELLIS Unit, Read more
Last week, we had the privilege of attending the Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in ArtificialIntelligence anniversary as part of the student contingent from Freiburg. The event was avaluable opportunity to connect with leading researchers, industry experts, and fellow studentsfrom across the Zuse Schools. 🧠 Visionary Keynotes and Industry Insights Read more
Davide Scaramuzza, Professor of Robotics and Perception at the University of Zurich TIME: Friday, 12th December 2025, 11:15 AM.WHERE: IMBIT NEXUS Lab, Georges-Köhler-Allee 201, 79110 Freiburg ABSTRACT: Autonomous drones play a crucial role in inspection, agriculture, logistics, and search-and-rescue missions and promise to increase productivity by a factor of 10. However, they still lag Read more
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems offers an interdisciplinary PhD program. The ELLIS PhD program is a key element of the ELLIS initiative and its goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning related research areas by pairing outstanding students with leading academic and Read more
Are you an exceptional Master’s student aspiring to pursue a PhD in machine learning–driven AI?Don’t miss your chance to apply for the ELIZA Scholarship — designed to fast-track outstanding students into doctoral research within the ELLIS and ELIZA network. Application deadline: 25 October 2025Funding: DAAD rates + relocation and family Read more
From October 6–8, 2025, coordinators from across the ELLIS network gathered for the 2nd ELLIS Coordinators Retreat, hosted by the three Dutch ELLIS Units — Nijmegen, Delft, and Amsterdam. Bringing together representatives from 21 ELLIS Units, the ELLIS Institute Finland, the ELLIS Operations Team, and the Area Coordinators, as well Read more
Authors: Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Mauro Comi, Yen-Chen Lin, Nick Heppert, Abhinav Valada, Rares Ambrus, Zsolt Kira, Jonathan Tremblay How do we represent 3D world knowledge for spatial intelligence in next-generation robots? This is the question ELLIS-ELIZA PhD student Nick Heppert, ELLIS-ELIZA Fellow Abhinav Valada, and their co-authors tried to answer Read more
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jens Kober, TU Delft TIME: Monday, Oct 13th, 2025 at 11:15 AMWHERE: IMBIT NEXUS Lab, Georges-Köhler-Allee 201, 79110 Freiburg ABSTRACT: Learning motor skills in robotics has applications ranging from agriculture, manufacturing, to household environments and care. Imitation learning is one of the most prominent approaches in this field. Recent advances Read more
TIME: 23rd – 26th September 2025 The 47th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2025) will be hosted at the University of Freiburg! GCPR is the annual symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) and the leading national venue for advances in image processing, pattern recognition, and computer Read more
Prof. Dr. Tamim Asfour, KIT TIME: Thursday, Sep 04th, 2025 at 11:15 AMWHERE: IMBIT NEXUS Lab, Georges-Köhler-Allee 201, 79110 Freiburg ABSTRACT: Research in humanoid robotics strives to create versatile machines endowed with functional intelligence. These machines should be able to reason and act in the physical world and perform any task that a Read more