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Dr. Yiting Xia and Dr. Thomas Leimkühler awarded ERC Starting Grants

Last week of August: MPI for Informatics hosts the Summer School on Verification Technology, Systems & Applications

This year’s Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADFOCS) focused on theoretical aspects of machine learning

The AI-based approach turns video footage into a detector for Deepfakes of a specific person.

On Thursday, 16 July 2026 Ntumba Elie Nsampi defended his thesis with the title: “Aggregation in Neural Fields via Differential Constraints"

The Saarbrücken Computer Science Research Days support the next generation of scientists with lectures, workshops, and insights into current computer science research.

The award was presented during the 35th Spanish Conference on Computer Graphics

The prize honors a 2011 paper that has had a major impact on the field.

On May 13, 2026, the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics met in Saarbrücken.

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.