NEWS
Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler
What if AI could learn to see the world the way we do? BIFOLD PhD graduate Dr. Lukas Muttenthaler is pushing AI beyond raw performance, exploring representational alignment, where cognitive science meets computer vision to build machines that perceive more like humans.
Open-Source Award for DifferentiationInterface.jl
DifferentiationInterface.jl, co-developed by BIFOLD researcher Adrian Hill, wins one of France’s Open Science Awards for making cutting-edge modeling and optimization more flexible, efficient, and open.
EVENTS
kennedy+swan: The Red Queen Effect
Starting January 26, 2026, the foyer of the Rahel Hirsch Center will host a new exhibition dedicated to a topic central to research at BIH and Charité: artificial intelligence.
"The Target-Disease Model Is Dead. AI Can’t Fix It — Yet"
The target-disease model that built modern pharma is dead — not because AI killed it, but because biology walked away from it. As molecular mechanisms are mapped with increasing granularity, biological reality reveals itself as combinatorial, redundant, and fragmented.
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OPPORTUNITIES
BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.
PUBLICATIONS
Carlos Enrique Muñiz-Cuza, Matthias Böhm, Torben Bach Pedersen
CAMEO: Autocorrelation-Preserving Line Simplification for Lossy Time Series Compression
Olga Ovcharenko, Matthias Boehm, Sebastian Schelter
SemPipes -- Optimizable Semantic Data Operators for Tabular Machine Learning Pipelines
Jonas Möller, Erik Imgrund, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Konrad Rieck
Hardware-Triggered Backdoors
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Based on a highly competitive application process, the BIFOLD Graduate School offers an innovative fast-track PhD Program for students holding a bachelor’s degree, as well as a PhD Program for students with a master’s degree.
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