Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Official account of the MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken. Our goal is to advance foundational research and drive innovation in key areas of computer science.
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- Next up in our series "Research at MPI for Informatics": The Computer Vision and Machine Learning department. Director Bernt Schiele talks about the department’s work on explainable AI, foundation models, and how this connects to a range of real-world applications. 🎓 www.youtube.com/shorts/KUwuL...
- Science where it’s rarely present: “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” brings researchers back to their rural homes to talk about their work. @oduenkel.bsky.social spoke in Boxberg-Schwabhausen on generative AI. 86 attendees in a village of ~600 people, plus a lively Q&A.🎓 ↪️https://sic.link/heimspiel
- First of all: Happy New Year! Today we’re excited to share the first episode of our video series about the research at MPI for Informatics. 🎉 In this format, we introduce each department and IRG at our institute, starting with the Algorithms and Complexity department. ↪️ youtube.com/shorts/Urh70...
- MPI-INF presents two works at SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, that advance how virtual avatars look, move, and react to voice. 🎓 Both works in scienitific collaboration with industry; with Google at the VIA-Center and with the film technology company Flawless AI. ↪️ More Info: sic.link/avatars
- 🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de and @rptu.bsky.social 🗓️ Application deadline: December 31st ↪️ sic.link/imprs
- Congrats to Hannaneh Akrami for being selected for the @maxplanck.de Minerva Fast Track Programme! 🎉 Her work in algorithmic game theory explores fairness in allocation problems – how to distribute indivisible goods so everyone perceives the result as fair. 🎓 ↪️ sic.link/fasttrack
- Two new Emmy Noether research groups established at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, led by Dr. @janericlenssen.bsky.social and Dr. Karol Węgrzycki. Together, they will receive around 3.7 million euros in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).🎓 More info ↪️ sic.link/emmynoether
- Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence. ↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch 📸MPI-INF
- International research team from MPI for Informatics and TU Delft has detected more than 16,000 compromised servers using a subtle feature of the SSH authentication protocol. Published at USENIX Security Symposium 2025, won Distinguished Paper Award + Internet Defense Prize. ↪️ sic.link/catch22
- Kurt Mehlhorn, Founding Director of MPI for Informatics, was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit yesterday by Minister President Anke Rehlinger. The award recognizes his life’s work, from advancing algorithmic research to mentoring researchers and helping build key institutions. More: sic.link/merit
- System admins don’t just fix servers—they coordinate with users, support colleagues in high-stress situations, and much more. 🖥️🤝 Mannat Kaur from MPI-INF shows how these elements of social negotiation and care-work are an important part of IT security. ↪️ sic.link/sysadminday #sysadminday
- Congrats to Tomasz Kociumaka for winning the 2025 EATCS Presburger Award! 🎉🏅The prize committee recognized his work for resolving long-standing open problems and developing near-linear time algorithms for fundamental string processing tasks. ↪️ More Info: sic.link/presburger25
- Congrats to @annakukleva.bsky.social, for winning the Otto Hahn Medal of @maxplanck.de! 🏅In her PhD thesis she shows how AI can learn to recognize images & videos with less manual labeling, using self-supervised and weakly supervised methods. ↪️ sic.link/ottohahn25 #AI #ComputerVision #research
- 🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de and @rptu.bsky.social 🗓️Application deadline: June 30th ↪️ sic.link/imprs
- Reposted by Max Planck Institute for InformaticsThread: Main Conference Papers from Our Lab at CVPR 2025! 🚀 👏 Big congrats to everyone! Keep an eye out at #CVPR2025 🌟 #MPI-INF #D2 #ComputerVision #AI #PhD #ML @mpi-inf.mpg.de
- Reposted by Max Planck Institute for InformaticsThe CVML group at the @mpi-inf.mpg.de has been busy for CVPR. Check out our papers and come by the presentations!
- 🎉 Exciting News #CVPR2025! We’re proud to announce that we have 5 papers accepted to the main conference and 7 papers accepted at various CVPR workshops this year! We’re looking forward to sharing our research with the community in Nashville! Stay tuned for more details! @mpi-inf.mpg.de
