From June 25 to 28, 2024, Leipzig was the vibrant host city for the 10th International Summer School on AI and Big Data, organized by ScaDS.AI Desden/Leipzig. This esteemed event gathered students, PhD candidates, researchers, and practitioners from around the globe to engage with the latest advancements in AI and Big Data. The unique venue at Leipzig Zoo provided an excellent service for the week’s events. This year’s Summer School saw a significant turnout, with over 130 of participants eager to delve into the world of AI and big data. We invite you to watch our summary video capturing imp ..read more

It all boils down to answering one question: How does a mutation in a protein contribute to an observed or desired phenotype? A better understanding of these processes will help to address questions about drug resistance in bacteria, genetic diseases in humans, and the development of cancer cells. Accessible and user-friendly applications for predicting, exploring, and visualizing protein complexes are extremely useful for studying mutations and their effects on these complexes. Current sequencing methods are very successful in identifying and revealing the risks of phenotype effects. However ..read more

On 28.06.2024, a collaborative workshop on impact localization and impact force estimation took place at the Living Lab in Dresden. The meeting brought together teams from: the University of Patras, the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK), and the ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. During the workshop, all partners presented their current progress and outlined their future steps. The collaboration between the institutions is set to intensify, with researchers from University of Patras planning to continue their visit in Dresden for an additional two wee ..read more

In June 2024, we welcomed a number of guests at our Living Lab in Dresden. While many people already visited us during the Dresden Science Night, we offered a private tour to the following visitors: interns of ZIH, PhD candidates from the NHR Graduate School, as well as our dear former team member, Prof. Dr. Sunna Torge, accompanied by her new colleagues and students from HTW Berlin. 06. June 2024 In the first week of June, a group of students visited the Living Lab as part of their internship program. Together with the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH ..read more

On Monday, June 17, the quarterly ScaDS.AI General Assembly took place in Leipzig. After colleagues from both locations had met in Dresden in March, around 160 ScaDS.AI members came together for the second meeting of 2024. As a novel annual hightlight, prizes were awarded for the best doctoral posters. Scientific Presentations and Breakouts The event was opened with a warm welcome by the ScaDS.AI Directors Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel and Prof. Erhard Rahm. Next, an invited presentation on the AI junior research group GAIN (Graphs in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks) was given by its h ..read more

From 13.-17.06.2024, Dr. Sandra Hummel and Mana-Teresa Donner joined the Paris Conference on Education 2024. They presented two of the current research topics developed within the junior research group “Situating AI-Based Mentoring” at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. „We had the opportunity to engage in intensive exchanges with many colleagues, gaining insights into various research topics and networking extensively. Fascinating were the questions and stimulating discussions that emerged around our presentations on AI-powered learning assistants. These discussions highlighted the need for such a ..read more

On 10.06.2024, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig participated in forum sachsen digital 2024, organized by the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport (SMWA). The conference and networking event focused on the digitalization in Saxony and was held in Löbau, Germany. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, director of ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, participated in a panel discussion on the development of education, science and research in the areas of school education, vocational training, higher education, and lifelong learning. The other two participants in the panel were: Herr Martin Witscha ..read more

On 30.05.2024, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig and the Saxon State Chancellery invited experts from Science and Industry to the AI networking event „From Distributed Data to Large AI Models“. More than 80 people followed the invitation and gathered at the Dorint Hotel in Dresden. The program focused on two thematic strands: (1) AI Infrastructures and Systems and (2) Language Models. Program Flyer_From_Distributed_Data_to_Large_AI_ModelsDownload In the morning, the program started with welcome addresses by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, director of ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, and Dr. Lutz Bryja, head o ..read more

As part of the Digital Mobile Classroom (DigiMoK) project to promote education around artificial intelligence, coding, and robotics, expert interviews have been conducted with our researchers in collaboration with Helliwood media & education. In the coming weeks, we would like to present you with an expert video every week. As the videos are in German, we will use the blog post to contextualize them and describe the research of each expert. The fifth video in our series features Marie Eichholz on the calibration of clouds in climate models. How can artificial intelligence (AI) help us be ..read more

In May 2024, a celebration event was held to mark Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm’s 30 years as Professor of Databases, his 10 years as head of the Data Science and AI Center ScaDS.AI at Leipzig University and his 65th birthday. Generated celebration painting His achievements were honored by the Rector of Leipzig University, Prof. Dr. Eva Inés Obergfell and the President of the German Society for Computer Science, Christine Regitz, as well as by the database colleagues Prof. Volker Markl (TU Berlin) and Dr. Phil Bernstein (Microsoft Research) as well as by ScaDS.AI colleague and director Prof. Dr. Wol ..read more