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The total prize money amounts to 16,000 euros.

On Friday, 08 May 2026 Zhi Li defended her thesis with the title: “Monocular 3D Human-Environment Understanding: From Interaction to Reconstruction"

The awards go to a pioneer in the field and an emerging young researcher.

The award-winning papers are collaborative projects of the Sensorimotor Interaction group

On Wednesday, 18 March 2026 Seyedali Rasaii defended his thesis with the title: “Understanding Impact of Banner Interaction on User Tracking via Web Cookies”.

Max Planck researchers investigate “quantum neural networks” as a building block for more efficient visual-computing models.

The new graduate school will develop advanced AI methods for basic life sciences research.

Joint Press Release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology

On Monday, 09 March 2026 Nihar G. Sabnis defended his thesis with the title: “Re-envisioning Touch: Designing Embodied Material and Force Experiences with Motion-Coupled Vibrotactile Feedback”.

On Tuesday, 24 February 2026 Sneha Singhania defended her thesis with the title: “High-coverage Information Extraction from Web and Narrative Texts”.

On Tuesday, 17 February 2026, Khwaja Zubair Sediqi sucessfully defended his thesis titled: "Unexpected Routes: BGP Prefixes Beyond Recommended Practices”.

Three scientists at the MPI for Informatics share their perspectives.

On Monday, 09 Februarz 2026, Pascal Hennen defended his thesis with the title: "An Empirical Evaluation of Messy BGP Data Sources".

On Friday, 06 February 2026 Philipp Christmann defended his thesis with the title:"Question Answering over Heterogeneous Sources".

On Wednesday, 04 February 2026 Magdalena Theresa Kaiser defended her thesis with the title: "Reinforcement Learning from Implicit Feedback for Conversational Question Answering".