ELLIS Doctoral Symposium #EDS2026 concluded with the closing remarks, the Best Poster Awards, and a memorable Gala Dinner. 🎉Thank you to all organizers, speakers, and participants the event filled with outstanding research and discussions. Until next time! 👏 @ellis.eu @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social

🎓 Over 100 PhD students, postdocs, & AI researchers from across Europe gathered in Lisbon 🇵🇹 for the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026, a four-day event centered on "Trustworthy AI" organised by @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social. Watch: youtu.be/JtBkNalwKRk Read 🔗 ellis.eu/news/bringin... 📸 : Lukas Zittlau

Highlights from the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026 Lisbon

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📸 The people behind the ELLIS community. It is a great opportunity to meet and reconnect with colleagues from across the @ellis.eu network at the Doctoral Symposium 2026 in Lisbon. 🇵🇹🤝 Looking forward to continuing to strengthen Europe's AI research community together! #EDS2026

🎓EDS 2026 kicked off in Lisbon 🇵🇹 yesterday! 100+ #ELLISPhD students gathered for 4 days packed with research talks, industry panels, poster sessions, networking, & more. Organised by @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social at Técnico Lisboa. 🔗 All info: sites.google.com/view/eds2026...

🎉 We're delighted to welcome Sword Health as a Bronze Sponsor of the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026! Thank you for supporting #EDS2026 and @ellis.eu, and for your commitment to advancing #AI training and innovation in Europe. Learn more about Sword: lnkd.in/eKaSgyc2

🎓 G-Research is supporting the #ELLISPhD Program with scholarships for 36 students across Paris 🇫🇷, Tübingen 🇩🇪, Munich 🇩🇪 & Amsterdam 🇳🇱 covering fees and living expenses from 2026–2028. Get more details: https://bit.ly/3QwAFBb

📢Join us for the next UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series event, happening on July 1st at 4:00 PM CEST with @paurodriguez.bsky.social, Xavier Suau and Santiago Acevedo! 🚀

📢Join us for the next ELLIS & @sardine-lab-it.bsky.social seminar on Machine Learning & NLP! We're excited to welcome Christos Papadimitriou from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, who will present "What is the Biological Basis of Language?". 📅 June 22, 5pm WEST 💻 Online: lnkd.in/eN6c2N3e

🎓 Applications are now open for the ELLIS Summer School on Machine Learning & Computer Vision in Munich! Get insights into: → Computer Vision → Machine Learning → Natural Language Processing 📍 TU Munich 🇩🇪 📅 15–18 September ⏰ Apply by 30 June 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vvEzJk

‼️Registration for EDS2026 closes this Sunday 31st of May! Don't miss this opportunity to engage with the rest of the ELLIS community in ☀️ Lisbon! Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/3xh6ac7j @ellis.eu

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Registration for the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 is now open to all PhD students and postdocs working in the fields of #AI and #ML. 📅 July 27–30, Instituto Superior Tecnico 📝 Apply by May 31 Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/3xh6ac7j

Registration for the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 is now open to all PhD students and postdocs working in the fields of #AI and #ML. 📅 July 27–30, Instituto Superior Tecnico 📝 Apply by May 31 Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/3xh6ac7j

Join us for the next ELLIS & @sardine-lab-it.bsky.social seminar on #ML & #NLP with Kangrui Wang from Northwestern University presenting: “VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents”. 📅 18 May, 5pm WEST 💻 Online: lnkd.in/eN6c2N3e 🔗 More info: lnkd.in/diMpUD57

Registration for the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 is now open to all PhD students and postdocs working in the fields of #AI and #ML. 📅 July 27–30, Instituto Superior Tecnico 📝 Apply by May 31 Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/3xh6ac7j

AI is evolving fast - are we keeping it safe? 🤔 Register now to attend the ELLIS Workshop on Safe & Secure AI 2026. Co-organised by ELLIS Units Prague, Lviv, @ellisalicante.org & Program Human-Centered ML, with support from #ELIAS. 📍 Virtual 📅 20 May 🕐 13:00 - 16:30 CET 🔗 https://bit.ly/4u85CKc

Workshop Registrations are still open! ELSA network, join the workshops at the ELSA General Assembly: 1️⃣ “AI in Cybersecurity: Offensive Capabilities, Impacts, and Response Strategies” elsa-ai.eu/elsa-general... 2️⃣ “Towards Integrated Understanding of Trustworthy AI” elsa-ai.eu/elsa-general...

🎓 Next ELLIS x @unireps.bsky.social session on 'When, How, and Why Do Neural Models Learn Similar Representations?' Speakers: João Sacramento (Google) & Paul Friedrich (University of Zurich) 📅 April 29 ⏰ 16:00 CET 📍 Virtual 🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4vLa6rx

Priority registration for ELLIS network PhD students to the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium at @istecnico.bsky.social in Lisbon closes this Sunday - don't forget to register early to secure your place! 🔗 Register here: lnkd.in/deCU6KSp 🔗 More information: lnkd.in/d7spq8pW

#ICLR2026: ELLIS-affiliated researchers contribute to 11.1% of all accepted papers, highlighting the scientific strength of the network. 👏 Huge congratulations to all authors! 👉 check out the full list of contributions: https://ellis.eu/news/iclr-2026-ellis-member-phd-students-contributions

🎉 25 ELLIS Units have been successfully extended! Following our five-year reapplication process, we celebrate the sustained excellence these Units bring to European AI research. Congratulations to all! 👏 📖 Get more details: ellis.eu/news/25-elli...

Apply now: AI for Research Summer School in August at @aalto.fi. Focusing on fundamental and applied AI methods for accelerating discovery across scientific domains. For students, postdocs, academics in AI+ML, especially @ellis.eu members. Apply by May 20: www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-summer...

🎓 Register now for LxMLS! Co-organised by @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social, covering ML topics from theory to practice. Designed for researchers and grad students in #NLProc & comp. linguistics, computer scientists & industry 📍 Lisbon 🇵🇹 📅 20-25 July ⏰ Register by 29 April 🔗 https://lxmls.it.pt/2026/

LxMLS 2026 - The 16th Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School

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🚀 Applications are open for LxMLS 2026! Join us July 20–25 at Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon for a 6-day, in-person deep dive into ML & NLP. 📅 Deadline: April 29th 👉 Apply: lisbonmls.wufoo.com/forms/applic... 🔗 More info: lxmls.it.pt/2026/

📢 Nominations are open for the ELLIS PhD Award! Know an outstanding AI/ML researcher who defended their European dissertation in 2025? Nominate them for a €2,500 award, sponsored by Kühborth Stiftung GmbH. ⏰ Deadline: April 15, 2026 🔗 Full details: ellis.eu/research/phd... #PhDAward #AI

Join us next Monday for our ML & NLP seminar with @swabhs.bsky.social from @usc.edu! "Small Samples, Big Reveal: What can we learn from limited observations of language model behavior?" 🗓️ 30th Mar @ 5pm (WEST) 💻 Online: meet.google.com/sat-airk-gxj

We look forward to welcoming Jonas Hübotter from @ethz.ch to the next ELLIS & Sardine Lab seminar on ML & NLP! Jonas will present his work on "Rethinking Post-Training with Self-Distillation". Join us! 📅 16th of March 2026, 5pm (WET) 💻 Online - lnkd.in/eSGqRVbu

🔵🔴You want to see a specific presenter at the ELLIS x UniReps Speaker Series? We hear you! 👀 Fill in this form to nominate keynote speaker candidates: 🔗 forms.gle/rQjkZ1YVWLwj...

Keynote Speaker Nomination | ELLISxUniReps Speaker Series

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🎓ELLIS PhD students: join us in Lisbon 🇵🇹 for #EDS2026 on Trustworthy AI on July 27–30. 4 days of talks, posters & discussion with peers & senior researchers from across the ELLIS network. @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social 🔗 Registration open → sites.google.com/view/eds2026... ⏰ First deadline: April 26

We’re excited to host Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre from the @bsc-cns.bsky.social for our next ELLIS & Sardine Lab Seminar on ML and NLP. He will talk about "Unlocking the Potential of Multilingual Language Models". Join us! 🗓 2nd March 2026 ⏰ 5pm (WET) 💻 Online: lnkd.in/eSGqRVbu

📢The next UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series event is happening on 26 February at 4:00 PM CET with Antonio Orvieto and Sara Kangaslahti. Don’t miss it!🚀

💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with @marfig.bsky.social on 'The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data'. 📅 Wed, Feb 18th 🕓 16:00-17:00 CET 🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4c7je2i ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim