ELLIS - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

🏹 Job alert: Tenure-Track Faculty in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security 📍Saarbrücken & St. Ingbert 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by Nov 18th 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eRNgiV9m

Say hello to Margret Keuper, Professor at the University of Mannheim 🇩🇪 and ELLIS Fellow with the ELLIS Unit Saarbrücken. Her area of research is machine learning for computer vision, in particular on improving model robustness and out-of-domain behavior, on image generation, and on improving neural architectures and neural architecture search. She says a particular career achievement is, “having my own group with wonderful and highly motivated students in a good research environment. This is very rewarding!” She hopes that this campaign will help to increase visibility of women in ML and make the community more attractive to young researchers. ✨ ✨ ✨ #WomenInELLIS We're spotlighting women in ELLIS in 2025: celebrating their achievements, leadership, guidance, and innovation in the exciting fields of AI and machine learning across Europe.

🏹 Job alert: Faculty Positions in AI and Computer Science at INSAIT - Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology with a Joint INSAIT-MIT CSAIL Program 📍Sofia/Boston 🇧🇬🇺🇸 📅 Apply by Jan 30th, 2026 🔗 https://lnkd.in/euhSnGg2

How can AI learn not just from data — but through interaction and intervention? Join us for the ELLIS UnConference Workshop on “Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations” taking place in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on December 2, 2025, co-located with #EurIPS. This workshop brings together researchers exploring the connections between reinforcement learning and causality — and how these ideas intersect with large pretrained models. Together, we’ll discuss how agents can reason, act, and adapt in dynamic environments while uncovering causal structure in the world. Speakers: 🔹 🤖 Christoph Lampert (ISTA) 🔹 Michael Muehlebach (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) 🔹 Gergely Neu (UPF Barcelona) 🔹 Giorgia Ramponi (University of Zurich) 🔹 Yevgeny Seldin (University of Copenhagen) Organizers: 🔸 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan) 🔸 Andreas Krause (ETH Zürich) 🔸 Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS Institute Tübingen, MPI-IS) 🔗 All info: https://eurips.cc/ellis

🏹 Job alert: Faculty Positions in AI and Computer Science (Tenure-Track and Tenured) at INSAIT - Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology 📍Sofia 🇧🇬 📅 Apply by Jan 30th, 2026 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ebBeHnMK

Congratulations to ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI on its expansion, welcoming fifteen new members to the network, all of which are part of established ELLIS Units. 👏 After receiving an extension earlier this year, these new members help ELSA broaden its reach across Europe and strengthen its commitment to trustworthy, secure, and human-centered AI. Welcome to: 🔹České vysoké učení technické v Praze (ELLIS Unit Prague) 🔹Fundación de la Comunitat Valenciana Unidad (ELLIS Alicante Foundation) 🔹ELLIS Unit Delft 🔹Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (ELLIS Unit Jena) 🔹Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (ELLIS Unit Jena) 🔹Technische Universität Graz (ELLIS Unit Graz) 🔹IDEAS Research Institute (ELLIS Unit Warsaw) 🔹Institute for Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (ELLIS Unit Linz) 🔹Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ELLIS Unit Vienna) 🔹Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa) (ELLIS Unit Lisbon) 🔹INESC-ID Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Instituto de Desenvolvimento (ELLIS Unit Lisbon) 🔹Instituto de Telecomunicações (ELLIS Unit Lisbon) 🔹Instituto Superior Técnico (ELLIS Unit Lisbon) 🔹Ukrainian Catholic University (ELLIS Associate Unit Lviv) 🔹Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (ELLIS Unit Freiburg) Get more details: https://lnkd.in/ez646XTq

How can we make AI more energy-efficient and sustainable? Join us for the ELLIS UnConference Workshop on Energy-Efficient AI: Models, Algorithms, and Hardware for Sustainable Intelligence taking place in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on December 2, 2025, co-located with #EurIPS. As artificial intelligence systems grow in scale and capability, their energy demands are increasing at an unsustainable pace. This workshop addresses the urgent need for energy-efficient AI, a field that seeks to develop environmentally responsible and computationally efficient approaches to machine learning. The goal is to explore innovations that reduce energy consumption across the AI stack — from models and learning algorithms to hardware implementations — while maintaining or even enhancing performance. One source of inspiration for reaching this goal is the brain, which manages to provide intelligence with 20W. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds to foster collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas in making AI more sustainable without compromising its transformative potential. Keynote Speakers: 🔹 Angeliki Pantazi (IBM Zurich) 🔹 Emre Neftci (Forschungszentrum Jülich) 🔹 Wilfred van der Wiel (University of Twente) 🔹 Shih-Chii Liu (ETH and University of Zurich) 🔹 Iason Chalas (ETH and IBM Zurich) 🔹 Nasir Ahmad (Radboud University Nijmegen) 🔹 Yukun Yang (Graz University of Technology) Organisers: 🔸 Wolfgang Maass (Graz University of Technology, Director of ELLIS Unit Graz) 🔸 Marcel van Gerven (Radboud University Nijmegen, Director of ELLIS unit Nijmegen) 📣 Call for contributions now open! 📅 Submission deadline: October 23, 2025 (AoE) (extended) 🔗 All info at eurips.cc/ellis

On October 10th, the ELLIS Unit Lisbon hosted the 3rd ELLIS Unit Lisbon PhD & Postdoc Symposium at Instituto Superior Técnico. 👏 More than 50 members of the local AI and machine learning community came together for a day of inspiring talks, lively discussions, and new connections. We’re proud to see our Unit Lisbon continue building a strong and collaborative AI & ML community in Portugal 🇵🇹 and across Europe.

How can we make large language models safe, secure, and trustworthy? 🔐 Join us for the ELLIS UnConference Workshop on “LLM Safety and Security” taking place in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on December 2, 2025, co-located with #EurIPS. This workshop brings together researchers investigating the safety and security vulnerabilities of large language models (LLMs) — from adversarial prompts and data poisoning to fairness, robustness, and deceptive alignment. As LLMs grow in scale and autonomy, the threat landscape evolves. The workshop aims to foster rigorous discussion, share empirical insights, and advance technically grounded defences for safer AI systems. Discussion themes include: - Safety and security of LLMs and LLM-based agents - Evaluation frameworks, metrics, and open benchmarks - Explainability and interpretability - Robustness to adversarial prompts and distribution shifts - Fairness and bias mitigation - Alignment and deceptive-alignment challenges - Data poisoning and supply-chain attacks - Guardrails, red-teaming, and secure deployment practices Organizers: 🔸 Egor Zverev (IST Austria) 🔸 Aideen Fay (Microsoft & Imperial College London) 🔸 Sahar Abdelnabi (Microsoft, ELLIS Institute Tübingen, MPI-IS & Tübingen AI Center) 🔸 Mario Fritz (CISPA Helmholtz Center & Saarland University) 🔸 🤖 Christoph Lampert (IST Austria) 📣 Call for contributions now open! 📅 Submission deadline: October 28, 2025 🔗 All info: https://eurips.cc/ellis

𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 - 📢 Call for Papers – Present your poster from a top-tier venue of 2025 at the ELLIS UnConference poster session - ⏰ One week left to submit! Have you published a research paper this year that deserves to be shared with the community? Here’s your chance: We invite you to present your work at the ELLIS UnConference poster session! 📝 Get details and submit your poster here: https://lnkd.in/dknidSNk 📅 Submission deadline: Oct 23rd, 17:00 CEST ✉️ Accept/Reject notification: October 31, 2025, AoE This is a unique opportunity to: 🔹Share your research with the community 🔹Connect with peers and get feedback in an interactive and open setting 🔹Expand your network in a highly collaborative environment We’re excited to see your work and foster great discussions at the UnConference on Dec 2nd in 🇩🇰 Copenhagen! Check general information on the EurIPS + UnConference website: https://eurips.cc/ellis/