Upcoming AI Project Workshop – “Opencode with TUD:AI API & Bring Your Ideas” @scadsai.bsky.social invites researchers, developers, students, and industry innovators to a hands‑on Open Lab where you can prototype, test, and showcase AI solutions using TUD:AI API and OpenCode environments.

Super happy that our paper “Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs” just won Best Student Paper at #SIGIR2026🏆 It argues against the reflex to reach for an LLM whenever you need relevance judgments. What we found 🧵:

This year, several colleagues at @scadsai.bsky.social attended the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR). They submitted several papers and were actively involved in program planning as program chairs or members of the program committee.

How PriME-LLM helps protect sensitive information in AI chats. The blog post on @scadsai.bsky.social website takes a closer look at the project idea, on-device privacy protection, and the potential of privacy-aware AI in everyday use. 👉 Read the full blog post here: scads.ai/prime-llm-pr...

On August 6, join the lecture "From Understanding Language to Assisting Humans: Context-Aware AI for Communication and Software" of our Ada Lovelace Distinguished Research Fellow, Dr. Marina Litvak! She'll present research on context-aware AI across 3 application domains. 👉 scads.ai/about-us/ada...

Call for Participants: VR Privacy Assistant Study Researchers at @scadsai.bsky.social are investigating how an AI-powered privacy assistant in virtual reality can help users make more privacy-aware decisions when choosing apps.

Join our colloquium Shift your Perspective – Bias in Design and Creation of Digital Bodies, Worlds and Futures on August 19, 2026! We'll explore how social structures and power relations become visible in technological contexts.  👉https://scads.ai/event/pillars-and-umbrellas/shift-your-perspective/

@scadsai.bsky.social supports VoluLink in developing inclusive educational projects The platform brings together NGOs, IT students and experts in non-profit IT projects. The aim is to apply digital resources and expertise from the private sector and universities to create a positive social impact.

⭕️This week at @scadsai.bsky.social: We welcomed almost 30 participants for the first meetup in Dresden. The varied programme brought together the local AI community to discuss ideas, support each other and look for opportunities for collaboration. 👉 scads.ai/scads-ai-mee...

On Monday, the Living Lab team met for the annual Living Lab workshop. At our premises in Dresden, the team discussed how to further improve our demonstrators – looking at topics such as demonstrator creation, support by AI agents, accessibility, corporate design, deployment and infrastructure. 💻

Work with us @scadsai.bsky.social ! We are looking for a Scientific Associate for Project Management (m/f/d/x) in Leipzig. Applications can be submitted until August 15, 2026. All details here : 👉 uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/7...

Join our workshop Resilient AI: Securing Large Language Models! We show how LLMs work, introduce common attack scenarios, discuss privacy risks, and present safeguards methods and protective mechanisms. 📅 September 3–4, 2026 📍 Strehlener Str. 14, Dresden Register here: 👉 events.scads.ai/event/143/

What makes a good study in empirical software engineering and how should it be approached? On July 9, Alina Mailach presented her research on the topic at the #FSE2026 in Montreal, Canada. Find the paper here: https://f.mtr.cool/rvdtjukxcy

We are looking for a Research Associate for Networking and Knowledge Transfer (m/f/d/x) in Leipzig. 🦾 Applications can be submitted until August 21. All details here  👉  https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/e5db137c885d51c7acee0fa8db540ce1aa599bfc0

On Wednesday, 13 pupils visited the Living Lab in Dresden as part of Summer University at @tudresden.bsky.social. They gained insights into our research, covering topics such as generative AI, machine learing, and image segmentation. It was a pleasure to welcome them! ☀️ 👉 scads.ai/summer-unive...

From July 2–7, 2026, @scadsai.bsky.social joined #ACL2026 in San Diego with four papers. Zhan Qu and Prof. Michael Färber received an Outstanding Paper Award for "MediEval: A Unified Medical Benchmark for Patient-Contextual and Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning in LLMs". 👏 👉 scads.ai/acl-2026/

Our next Meetup is coming up! 👋 Discuss current projects, research findings and opportunities for collaboration with us! 📍 ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Strehlener Str. 14, Room 745, 01069 Dresden 🕓 July 21, 2026, 4–6 PM The talks will be held in German. 👉https://events.scads.ai/e/meetupgoesdresden

New on the @scadsai.bsky.social website: Our latest blog post takes a closer look at SemRepo and how research software connects to publications, people, institutions, datasets, and experiments. It highlights why these links matter for provenance, sustainability, and reproducibility.

From July 6–11, 2026, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig joined the 43th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in Seoul, South Korea. Our researchers contributed a paper and two posters to the conference.

In his hands-on session as part of the @scadsai.bsky.social Summer School 2026, Robert Haase introduced embeddings, latent space, and RAG as a way to combine LLMs with context-dependent knowledge bases. Participants also explored how to build RAG systems in practice. 👉 zenodo.org/records/2082...

Last week, @scadsai.bsky.social Researcher Miriam Louise Carnot attended the 37th #IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium in Detroit and had the opportunity to give a keynote presentation and a poster of her new dataset paper “GTSIGN-220: A Crowd-Sourced, StVO-Aligned Dataset of German Traffic Signs”.

🌞 From June 22 – 26 the 12th ScaDS.AI Summer School took place in Leipzig, bringing together students, researchers and practitioners in the field of AI. Thanks to all the speakers, participants and organizers for this inspiring summer school week. Read more: 👉 scads.ai/summer-schoo...

Save the date for the first @scadsai.bsky.social meetup in Dresden! On July 21, we look forward to welcoming you to an afternoon filled with short presentations, insights into research, and plenty of time for discussion and networking. Register here for the meetup: 👉 events.scads.ai/e/meetupgoes...

On June 19, 2026, Dr. Shuzhou Yuan successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Learning Language Models on Graphs", in which he examined what would happen, if if we gave language models the ability to reason with graphs. Congratulations!🎓 👉 https://scads.ai/shuzhou-yuan-defends-his-doctoral-thesis/

The European Conference on Human Genetics took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from June 13 to 16. @scadsai.bsky.social PhD student Ourania Theologi attended the conference and presented an e-poster titled: "Biologically-Informed Representation Learning on Peripheral Blood Mononuclear cells". 👏

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 From June 16-20 ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig junior research group leader Dr. Arthur Fleig attended the 10th S³CIX at the University of Glasgow. Fleig co-organized a workshop on the future of biomechanical reinforcement learning in computational interaction.

Last week, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig had the pleasure of welcoming more than 300 people at the Living Lab during OUTPUT.DD and Dresden Science Night. Thank you to all team members and visitors who braved the heat and came together to celebrate science with us. ☀️ 👉 scads.ai/output-dd-20...

PhD position in the IDEAS Graduate School ideas.helmholtz.de/apply/: SoilCloudAI: Interpretable and probabilistic AI for land–atmosphere feedbacks during hydroclimatic extremes with Jian Peng, Josefine Umlauft, me (@ufz.de @scadsai.bsky.social @meteoleipzig.bsky.social), Deadline: 26 July 2026

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New clothes and identities with the Magic Mirror at the #IdeenExpo 4200 students could use the Magic Mirror to design new identities and outfits with just a short voice command to gain insight into the underlying technology and the social stereotypes these systems reinforce. Photo: Christian Wyrwa

Thank you, ISC High Performance! We had a great time connecting with the international HPC community at this year's conference and exhibition. 🤝 Read our recap here: 👉 scads.ai/isc-high-per...