📢 We are hiring! Our Communications Team at #MCML is growing! 🎉 Join us as Science Manager for Communication and Outreach. 🗓️ Application deadline: August 30, 2026. Read more ➡️ job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

🎬 «I want to take these models from the lab and bring them into clinical practice.» #MCML PI Benedikt Wiestler develops AI models to visualize what current brain tumor imaging cannot. Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_H...

How AI Could Transform Brain Cancer Treatment with Prof. Benedikt Wiestler

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🩺 Medical #AI can score highly on exams, but real-world patient conversations reveal new challenges. 🎯 A new #MCML study shows why realistic testing is key to uncovering hidden weaknesses. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

💡 The learning rate does more than set the pace: it influences which solutions neural networks find and how well they perform on new data. ⚖️ A study by #MCML researchers shows that the best results often come from finding the right balance during training. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

🇨🇦🇩🇪 We were happy to welcome students from #HECMontréal at #MCML for an inspiring exchange on AI, research, entrepreneurship, and science policy. 🌍 Thank you for the inspiring conversations that show how international and interdisciplinary collaboration shapes the future of #AI.

🏆 Congrats to #MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma on receiving both a Best Paper Award and a SAC Highlight Award at #ACL2026! 📄 His awarded work reveals a blind spot in LLMs. 📊 His co-authored survey reviews table question answering with LLMs. 🔎 Read more here: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

🎤 #MCML visited SAP Labs Munich for another edition of our Industry Pitch Talks! Our junior members shared their latest research on Bayesian optimization, causal #AI, and uncertainty quantification, connecting academic research with industry practice. Learn more: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

🏆Congrats to #MCML Junior Member Sarah Ball and co-author Phil Hackemann on receiving the Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML2026! 📃Their award-winning position paper warns that methods designed to align AI models with human values are dual-use technologies. 🔎Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

🌍🇺🇸 Research Stay at Stanford University: As part of the #MCML AI X-Change Program, Felix Dülmer visited Stanford University to collaborate with the Ultrasound Imaging and Instrumentation Lab on medical ultrasound imaging. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-06...

📚🏫 MCML hosted two interactive #AI workshops for primary school students in Eching. Led by #MCML PhD researcher Ahmad Dawar Hakimi, the sessions covered how AI works, where it appears and the importance of critically evaluating AI-generated content. 🔎Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-06...

✍️🎓 Apply for the ELLIS Summer School on Machine Learning & Computer Vision aimed at postgraduate students and researchers from around the world. 📅 15–18 September 2026📍 Garching Organised by the ELLIS Unit Munich 📢Applications are open. Places are limited.

🌍🇸🇬 Research Stay at the National University of Singapore: As part of the #MCML AI X-Change Program, Bailiang Jian visited NUS to collaborate with Hongwei Bran Li’s MVI-Lab on #AI for medical imaging. 🐒🌳 Beyond the lab, he explored Singapore’s tropical rainforest. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-06...

#ICML2026 starts this week in Seoul and #MCML researchers have contributed a total of 76 papers! Congratulations to all our researchers! 🎉 📄 Check out their papers: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

#MCML researchers have contributed a total of 36 papers to #ACL2026 in San Diego. Congratulations to all our researchers! 🎉 📄 Check out their papers: mcml.ai/news/2026-07...

We ended #MCML Munich AI Day 2026 with one of the defining questions of our time: How can we regulate AI wisely? In our panel Zeynep Akata (MCML), Armin Nassehi (LMU), Philipp Knobelspies (UnternehmerTUM) and Dagmar Schuller (IHK) discussed what responsible AI governance requires in practice.

Our first keynotes of the #MCML Munich AI Day 2026 by Serge Belongie (University of Copenhagen) and Klaus-Robert Müller (BIFOLD) explored how AI is transforming the way we understand the world – from images to scientific discovery.

The #MCML Munich AI Day 2026 officially started this morning with the MCML Career Fair at the #Muffathalle, bringing together our members and four leading companies: SAP, NVIDIA, Allianz, and DeepL.

Great kick-off to #MCML Munich AI Day 2026 with our NVIDIA-Workshop! MCML researchers explored the full AI stack: from LLM lifecycle & alignment to inference optimization, model compression, and Physical AI & World Foundation Models. Thanks to all speakers for a fantastic start!

🎤MCML Munich AI Day 2026 Meet our moderator Sara Weber, journalist and author covering AI, work, and society. We’re excited to have her guide us through a day of discussions on #AI and its societal impact. See you next week in Munich! 📍 Muffathalle 📅 23 June 2026 🔎 More info: mcml.ai/events/2026-...

🗓️ #MCML Munich AI Day 2026 💬 How do we create rules for #AI that encourage innovation while ensuring safety and accountability? At this year’s panel, we’ll discuss what it takes to regulate AI wisely and who gets to shape the rules. Looking forward to seeing everyone at #MunichAIDay 2026!

⏳ Less than two weeks to go until MCML Munich AI Day 2026! 🎟️ Check your tickets and get ready for a day of keynotes, panels, posters, and networking. 📍 Muffathalle, Munich 📅 23 June 2026 ⏰ Starting at 1:00 PM 🔎 Event details: mcml.ai/events/2026-...

⚽️Introducing 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚: a benchmarking platform for real-world LLM predictions ✅Predictions for 104 games @FIFAWorldCup with frontier LLMs 🏆Opus 4.8: Spain / GPT-5.5: Spain / Grok 4.3: Argentina / Mistral-large: France ➡️All predictions & leaderboard llmsoccerarena.up.railway.app

#CVPR started today in Denver and #MCML researchers have contributed multiple papers. Congrats to our researchers! Check out their papers: mcml.ai/news/2026-06...

🎬“As we delegate more to AI agents, we risk undermining our autonomy.” #MCML Junior Research Group Leader Benjamin Lange explains how trust in #AI agents can itself become a source of risk. 👉 Watch the video: youtu.be/L4iBxgQmF1w

The Real Risk of AI Agents is Manipulation Through Kindness with Benjamin Lange

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🎓 Opportunities for School Graduates at #MCML Start ✍️September 2026, MCML offers a Voluntary Social Year in Science, Technology, and Sustainability (FJN). Participants gain insight into science management, event organization, and public outreach at LMU and TUM. 🔎 Learn more: mcml.ai/opportunitie...

🎬 “We need to understand what goes on behind the scenes when AI decisions are being made.” #MCML PI Zeynep Akata discusses how explainability in #AI can guide the development of foundation models to improve trust and safety. 🎥Watch the full video: youtu.be/TA3ggzKv7xg

Prof. Zeynep Akata: To Trust AI, We Need to Understand What Goes on Behind the Scenes

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❓ MCML Research Insight: #AI models can sometimes give the correct answer but for the wrong reasons. A Study by #MCML researchers Xinpeng Wang and Barbara Plank with NYU collaborators accepted at ICLR 2026. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-05...

MCML @LRZ: Pitchtalks, Meetup & Guided Tour We visited the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre for an afternoon of talks, exchange and a tour of one of Europe’s leading HPC facilities. 🎤 Talks by Michael Hoffmann (LRZ), Kanishk Bhatia (MCML), and Ajay Navilarekal (LRZ) 🔎Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-05...

🌍🇬🇧 Research Stay at Imperial College London: As part of the #MCML AI X-Change Program, Jun Li visited Imperial College London and collaborated with Wenjia Bai’s group on medical #AI research. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-05...

🌍🇬🇧 Research Stay at Imperial College London: As part of the #MCML AI X-Change Program, Lennart Bastian ( #TUM ) worked with Tolga Birdal’s CIRCLE group on higher-order topological structures for 3D vision, surgical AI & molecular systems. 🔎 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2026-04...