@scadsai
The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig is an institutionalized national center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence. 👩👩👧👧 scads.ai/about-us/people/ 💥 scads.ai/blog/ 🧪 scads.ai/research/
📢 Call for Papers: ResAI 2026
We invite submissions for the Resilience and AI Workshop - ResAI 2026 on September 24, 2026 in Dresden, Germany, co-occurring with the Informatik Festival 2026!
📌 Submission deadline: May 7, 2026
More information:
👉 scads.github.io/ResAI/
Four Days of Computational and Theoretical Biology / Chemistry in Bled
From February 9 to 13, @scadsai.bsky.social researchers Peter Stadler, Daniel Wiegreffe and Rebecca Holzschuh participated in the 41st TBI Winter Seminar in Bled. Their presentations and T-shirts were both worth attention!
Join our "AI on HPC Workshop 2026 - Performance Engineering, Challenges and Opportunities" at #ISC High Performance on June 26 in Hamburg, Germany!
❗️Submit your original research papers, case studies, and experience reports until March 15, 2026 (AOE)!
👉https://ai-on-hpc.github.io/
Excited to share our new paper (CVPR 2026 🚀): "MuViT: Multi-Resolution Vision Transformers for Learning Across Scales in Microscopy" which enables local predictions to use global context.
Great work led by @albertdm.bsky.social & another fun collab w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social! @scadsai.bsky.social
On February 26, 2026, the first day of the Data Science and AI for Medicine Training School 2026 took place. It is conducted as part of the Come2Data project for data literacy education, together with @scadsai.bsky.social, IMISE Medical Data Science, and EKFZ Clinical AI.🧑⚕️
⭕ Last week at @scadsai.bsky.social:
From February 16-20, 2026, Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel, director of ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig and #CIDS, joined the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, India.
👉https://scads.ai/ai-impact-summit-2026/
👩🏻🔬 February 11 marked the International Day of “Women in Science 2026 – Alliances for Change” at @unileipzig.bsky.social. Vanessa Kuhfs from @scadsai.bsky.social presented the interactive Magic Mirror together with Johannes Häfner and the team.
👉 https://scads.ai/magic-mirror-for-women-in-science/
Our work @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @scadsai.bsky.social fuses representation learning with spatial statistics @iclr-conf.bsky.social enabling #AI for spatial localization patterns: openreview.net/forum?id=09Y...
@scadsai.bsky.social is looking forward to Girls' Day on April 23, 2026! In Dresden, our joint program with #CIDS offers broad insights into digitalization at @tudresden.bsky.social and beyond! Topics include AI, language models, HPC, and career opportunities.
👉 www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/cen...
📆 Join the AI Project Workshop "Computer Vision - Pose and Gesture Recognition" on March 10, 2026. The open format is designed to provide a space to work independently and under guidance on AI ideas and projects, gain experience, and make contacts.
Register here:
✍ events.scads.ai/e/AI_Project...
Learn more about the event:
👉 tedxdresden.com/TEDxDresden_...
Get your tickets here:
👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/tedxd...
The talk "Artificial Intelligence – Perception, Ethics and Our Chance for a Good Tomorrow" by Prof. Birte Platow discusses how our perception of technology shapes the ethical choices we make and what it takes to aim for a genuinely good future.
👉 tedxdresden.com/beitrag/Birt...
In his talk "Precision Becomes Personal - The Patient’s Voice in the Molecular Tumor Board", Dr. Markus Wolfien explores how precision medicine can become truly personal and how technology can support better care for cancer patients.
👉 tedxdresden.com/beitrag/Mark...
🎤 Connecting tech with real human impact!
We are excited to announce that two members of @scadsai.bsky.social will join the next #TEDxDresden event on March 27, 2026 as speakers: Prof. Birte Platow and Dr. Markus Wolfien. Please note that the event will be held in German.
Further information (English) is available in our latest blog post:
👉 scads.ai/why-we-human...
Why do we humanize chatbots? 🤖
On February 13, 2026, the MDR published a media report that looks into this question. Among the interviewed experts is Prof. Michael Färber, PI and member of the board of @scadsai.bsky.social.
Watch the interview (German):
👉 www.mdr.de/medien360g/m...
The first @scadsai.bsky.social meetup of the year took place on Tuesday and was once again a great success. We are delighted by the high level of interest and lively discussion, and would like to thank all speakers for their contributions.
More about the meetup:
👉 https://scads.ai/event/meetup/
Last week, four BELL students from the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gynasium met to share their research with one another at @scadsai.bsky.social. As part of this special learning initiative, the students are working on a project with a scientific focus on AI. They all receive supervision for this.
👩💻 Application-oriented #PhD in Data Science
The Helmholtz Information & Data Science School #IDEAS has advertised several PhD positions to work on data science projects in areas such as bioinformatics, climate change impacts, biodiversity, toxicology and more.
👉 ideas.helmholtz.de/apply/
⭕️ This week at @scadsai.bsky.social:
The Indonesian-German Graduate School at @tudresden.bsky.social met up with our team during their bridging course to gather insights on our research. Besides listening to interesting talks, they also visited the Living Lab.
👉 scads.ai/visit-of-ind...
As part of the Come2Data project, @scadsai.bsky.social, in collaboration with IMISE (@unileipzig.bsky.social) and EKFZ (@tudresden.bsky.social), is hosting a three-day training school on data science and AI for medicine in Leipzig.
Registration:
👉 events.scads.ai/e/ai4medicin...
📸 Teresa Kamphausen
Tech needs more girls, more voices, and more future innovators. 👩💻 We’re proud to contribute a program to @Der_GirlsDay on April 23, 2026 - a hands-on intro to careers in digitalization, tech, and AI together with CIDS, #ZIH and #CODIP.
Register here:
👉 www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/cen...
📆 Save the date!
We are pleased to announce the 12th International Summer School on AI and Big Data, which will take place in Leipzig from June 22 to 26, 2026, focusing on the emerging paradigm of "Neuro+Symbolic AI."
Registration will open soon.
Find more information here: scads.ai/event/summer...
Junior Research Group Leader Martin Ritzert is searching for a new research associate/PhD student to focus on research in graph machine learning. Find all information about tasks, requirements, and the application process here:
👉 scads.ai/about-us/job...
In January, the research project SPARTAN was launched.
Prof. Erik Buchmann, Victor Jüttner, and Arne Roszeitis from @scadsai.bsky.social are collaborating with ipoque to develop a smart home IoT security dataset.
More: 👉 https://scads.ai/research/architectures-scalability-security/projects/spartan/
⭕️ Last week at @scadsai.bsky.social:
From January 27–30, 2026, our graduate school once again set off on its annual retreat. A total of 55 participants from Leipzig and Dresden came together to take part in a rich scientific and social program.❄️
Read more:
👉 scads.ai/graduate-sch...
On #SaferInternetDay 2026, our Living Lab team met pupils in Weinböhla to explore AI through hands-on demos, from object recognition to our interactive Robo Dog. At @scadsai.bsky.social, we are proud to support safer and smarter digital experiences for young users.
👉 scads.ai/safer-intern...
💡 ScaDS.AI Meetup: Start-Up Culture (Leipzig)
Enjoy start-up pitches, gain insights from Onsai and learn about funding perspectives from @sprind-de.bsky.social.
👉 On site registration: events.scads.ai/event/125/
👉 Online registration: cloud.scadsai.uni-leipzig.de/index.php/ap...
📆 Join us for the workshop "Magic Mirror – Generative Image AI, Body Images, and Power" on February 11, 2026 from 12:00–03:30 PM in Leipzig! It is part of the action day „Women in Science 2026 – Alliances for Change” at @unileipzig.bsky.social.
👉 www.uni-leipzig.de/chancengleic...
