Cyber Valley

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🎉 We had the pleasure to welcome journalists from across Europe in Tübingen to explore our Innovation Campus, with insightful talks from our partners, pitches from the Start-up Network and lab visits at MPI-IS and polybot 🤖🍎
A big thank you to everyone contributing who made this day successful 🙏

Kumpel, Therapeutin, Romanze. Chancen und Risiken emotionaler Interaktionen mit KI - Christoph Koch YouTube video by Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Ich wollte unbedingt alle Stunts selber drehen – deshalb hat die Postproduction etwas gedauert. Aber nun ist das Video meiner Abschlusspräsentation online.

Wer sich dafür interessiert, was ich als "Journalist in Residence" im Herbst in Tübingen recherchiert habe, bekommt hier eine Zusammenfassung.

Congrats to Yugen Space, the winner of the Valley and Sunrise Market Exploration Program! 🇯🇵🚀
The program connects Cyber Valley start-ups with UTokyo IPC's network of Japanese industry leaders. Well done, Anand Waghmare (CEO, see pic) & Parikshit Joshi (CTO)!
👉 Explore the story: tinyurl.com/yu8dzab3

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SAVE THE DATE! The first Cyber Valley Impulse will take place on Tuesday, March 17 at MPI-IS Stuttgart.
🚀 Topic: Mobility & Aerospace
This event brings together leading scientists, innovative start-ups, corporates, & investors.
📅 Registration opens on March 10.
Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/ysrek7um

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KI trifft Gaming: Meshcapade und Epic Games gestalten die Zukunft der Avatare Die amerikanische Firma Epic Games hat ein Tübinger Start-up des Cybervalleys übernommen. Damit wächst die Forschung in Tübingen mit einem Giganten in der Gaming-Branche.

📢 The US tech company Epic Games joins Cyber Valley in Tübingen by acquiring the Max Planck start-up Meshcapade. Check out the SWR's report about the takeover, interviewing Director of Perceiving Systems at MPI-IS and co-founder of @meshcapade.com, Michael J. Black: www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

What are the risks and potential of computing with cerebral organoids? At #stemcelltuebingen2026, our member dralinawernick.bsky.social held an interdisciplinary workshop on #OrganoidIntelligence, with Miriam Klopotek (unistuttgart.bsky.social) and debkrov.bsky.social. #stemcelltuebingen2026

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🎉 2026 marks Cyber Valley's 10-year anniversary! This month, we were celebrating the founding of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) in 2017 👉 Check out our last interviews with Rachael Burns & Leila Masri here: tinyurl.com/yc3ppskr & tinyurl.com/mwn9puku

Ein spannendes, neues Paper aus unserem Cluster, jetzt in @natmachintell.nature.com erschienen! Glückwunsch an die Autoren @mariokrenn.bsky.social und Sören Arlt! Lest die Pressemitteilung von @unituebingen.bsky.social für mehr Infos 👇

Portrait of Dr. Yatong Chen

Meet our fourth speaker: Dr. Yatong Chen, a group leader in the Social Foundations of Computation Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Her work focuses on the social aspects of ML, considering human decision subjects' responses when developing algorithmic systems.

Maximilian Dax Won Hector RCD Award 2025

🎉 Big congratulations to PI Maximilian Dax!
Max has won the Hector RCD Award 2025. He is one of three scientists recognized nationwide.

Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/maxi...

Portrait of Dr. Alina Wernick

The 4th workshop of TWiML features four speakers, and today, we are excited to introduce our third speaker: Dr. Alina Wernick, who leads the Law, AI, and Society Group.

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🚨 JOB alert: 📢
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 We're hiring: Research Coordinator for CRC Robust Vision
@unituebingen.bsky.social

Take a leading role in our DFG funded consortium in neuroscience, ML & CV

MSc/PhD + science mgmt. Apply by Mar 15 👇 join our team w/ @jakhmack.bsky.social @bethgelab.bsky.social

uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Animationen per Videoaufnahme: Epic Games kauft Tübinger Firma Meshcapade Epic Games kauft das Start-up Meshcapade, eine Ausgründung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Intelligente Systeme. Es entwickelt KI-Animationstechnik.

Epic Games kauft das #Startup Meshcapade, eine Ausgründung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Intelligente Systeme. Es entwickelt #KI -Animationstechnik vor allem für #Gaming und #Film.
www.heise.de/news/Animati... #UnrealEngine @mpi-is.bsky.social @meshcapade.com @cyber-valley.bsky.social

🎉 2026 marks Cyber Valley's 10-year anniversary!
This month, we’re celebrating the founding of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) in 2017. 👉 Check out two more interviews of Bernadett Kiss & Sofiane Ouaari here: tinyurl.com/53s8a4n5 & tinyurl.com/y9akkbe5

Photo: Prof. Tamim Asfour lächelt in die Kamera. Er steht neben dem humanoiden Roboter ARMAR, der mit seinen Roboterfingern ein Herz formt.

Prof. Tamim Asfour wurde zum IEEE Fellow 2026 ernannt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉 🥂 www.informatik.kit.edu/11147_15043....

#KITInformatik #IEEE #Fellow

Scientific Director Bernhard Schölkopf Joins UN Global AI Panel

Global AI Governance: Bernhard Schölkopf Joins UN International AI Panel
A strong recognition of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and its ecosystem and an important step toward responsible AI on a global scale.
Find out more here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/scie...

Hiring now!
📢 The CRC 1233 Robust Vision consortium at @unituebingen.bsky.social is looking for a Research Coordinator to lead science management, support project execution, and help steer our interdisciplinary research in neuroscience, machine learning and computer vision.

We are delighted to introduce our next speaker: Dr. Sahar Abdelnabi, who leads the COMPASS research group at the @ellisinsttue.bsky.social, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social.

Max Planck spin-off draws Epic Games to Tübingen Meshcapade, the Max Planck startup based in Tübingen’s Cyber Valley, is being acquired by Epic Games – a U.S. game developer and creator of Unreal Engine, a game development technology. Alongside the ...

Max Planck spin-off draws Epic Games to Tübingen:
The US-based game developer is acquiring Meshcapade and will establish a presence in the Cyber Valley tech hub. #UnrealEngine #MetaHuman w/th @meshcapade.com @cyber-valley.bsky.social @michael-j-black.bsky.social

ELLIS Institute PIs supported by UK government to research AI safety

Are AI systems learning to “game” their safety tests?
The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has awarded a grant to Principal Investigators Sahar Abdelnabi, @maksym-andr.bsky.social, and @jonasgeiping.bsky.social.
Find out more: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/news/elli...

Photo of Dr. Trang-Anh Nghiem.

Get to know our 4th workshop speakers!
Our first speaker is Dr. Trang-Anh Nghiem, group leader of Computational Neuropsychiatry at @hertie-ai.bsky.social. Her research aims to apply computational cognitive neuroscience, neuro-AI, and biophysics to psychiatry.

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🎉 2026 marks Cyber Valley's 10-year anniversary!
This month, we’re looking back to 2017 when Cyber Valley’s graduate school, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS), was founded.
👉 Lukas Schott joined it in 2017, read his interview here: tinyurl.com/34fdxkuv

📢 Cyber Valley GmbH is looking for a Managing Director. Apply to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI in Baden-Württemberg!
👉 See the job description for more information: stellenmarkt.sueddeutsche.de/job/detail/g...