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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 8h

Meet Agata Lapedriza, Professor / Principal Research Scientist / Research Affiliate at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 🇪🇸 / @northeasternu.bsky.social / @mit.edu 🇺🇸. She’s an ELLIS Member in the ELLIS Unit Barcelona.

Her work intersects at Computer Vision, ML, and Affective Computing.

#WomenInELLIS

ELLIS @ellis.eu · 1d

🔸 Organizers: Cen-You Li, @conorhassan.bsky.social, Desi R. Ivanova, Luigi Acerbi (+ @samikaski.bsky.social as Advisory Member)

📣 Call for contributions open until Oct 10
👉 Details: eurips.cc/ellis

ELLIS UnConference - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe

A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 1d

Amortized ProbML UnConference Workshop:

🔹 Speakers: @haithambouammar.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, Yingzhen Li, Elizaveta Semenova

📣 Call for contributions open until Oct 10
👉 Details: eurips.cc/ellis

ELLIS UnConference - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe

A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 1d

The Amortized ProbML Workshop will explore how amortized inference, design & meta-learning are transforming real-world applications from robotics to weather & materials.

📣 Call for contributions open until Oct 10
👉 Details: eurips.cc/ellis

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 1d

How can we make probabilistic ML fast, generalizable, and ready for the real world? 🤔

Join us for the ELLIS UnConference Workshop on Amortized ProbML on Dec 2 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 co-located with #EurIPS

📣 Call for contributions open until Oct 10
👉 Details: eurips.cc/ellis

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 5d

We’re excited to announce that we received 329 nominations for the new ELLIS Fellows & Scholars call - a 37% increase from last year! 👏

❗Call is closed - but Unit/Program Directors & Coordinators can still finalise nominations until Oct 31st.

More: https://bit.ly/3HRdcWJ

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 5d

📣 Call for contributions!

The ELLIS UnConference Workshops are looking for work on ProbML, generative models, LLMs for molecules & materials, AI for earth & climate, LLM safety & more.

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
🔗 Details: https://eurips.cc/ellis/

Free entrance with a #EurIPS ticket 🎟️

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 6d

✨ EurIPS registration is now open! Get one of the 1,500 tickets available. 500 tickets are discounted for students 🎓.

In Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Dec 2-7, 2025.

❗ Entrance to the ELLIS UnConference is free with a #EurIPS ticket.

Get your ticket now: https://eurips.cc/

@euripsconf.bsky.social

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 6d

🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in the scope of the ERC project DECOLLAGE ("Deep Cognition Learning for Language Generation") at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

📍Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 Apply by Oct 31st

https://bit.ly/3VGnhtd

Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 7d

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 7d

🚀 New season: AI for Good Webinar Series 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 - starting TODAY!

@sebastian-sippel.bsky.social (Leipzig University) discusses how past climate events inform future climate risks.

📅 Oct 1st
🕓 17:00-18:00 CEST

Sign-up: aiforgood.itu.int/event/unders...

Understanding past climate events and trends to constrain near-future climate risk

The global mean surface temperature record —combining sea surface and near-surface air data— is central to understanding climate variability and change.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 7d

Meet @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Prof of Data Science at @uni-hamburg.de 🇩🇪. She’s an ELLIS Member working on #NLProc, Multimodal, Multilingual, Ethical & Safe AI.

Her goal is to make #AI more inclusive for both the research communities & the systems that can process & produce language.

#WomenInELLIS

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 8d

🏹 Job alert: Several fully-funded open Post-Doc positions for 'AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics' at @unituebingen.bsky.social

📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Oct 28th (unless filled before)
🔗 ellis.eu/jobs/ai-for-...

AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 8d

Join the upcoming ELLIS x UniReps @unireps.bsky.social Speaker Session Session in October focusing on DINOv3 and its representation alignment with the human brain!

📅 Oct 8
🕓 16:00-17:00 CET
📍 Virtual
🔗 https://ellis.eu/events/ellis-reading-group-ellisxunireps-speaker-series-session

ELLIS Reading Group: ELLISxUniReps Speaker Series Session

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 9d

🚀 ELLIS partners with the newly launched 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗜 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 to expand doctoral opportunities across Europe.

Fully funded PhDs with dual supervision: one advisor in ML/AI, one in an application domain, with optional ELLIS co-advisors.

📅 Oct 1-31
🔗 ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

@maxplanck.de

ELLIS Partners with New Max Planck AI Network to Expand Doctoral Opportunities

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 12d

🗺️🔍 Discover the ELLIS Sites - Showcasing 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵 🇩🇪, where they address key challenges of explainability, reliability, and trust in AI.

Research: 🧬 biomedicine, 👁️ computer vision, and 🌍 earth observation

🔗 Discover more: ellis.eu/news/ellis-u...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 13d

🎓 What could a pan-European PhD program focusing on #MachineLearning & AI be like?

Check out @wafaamohammed.bsky.social's reason for joining the #ELLISPhD Program.

You can apply to the via our central recruiting portal starting on Oct 1st.

Get all the details now 👉 bit.ly/45DSe75

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 14d

📢 Call for Posters – ELLIS UnConference 2025

Have a 2025 published paper? Present it in Copenhagen on Dec 2!

🔹 Showcase your research
🔹 Get feedback & connect with peers
🔹 Grow your network

📝 Submit here: https://forms.gle/vUUdM9mah34swX7U7
📅 Deadline: Oct 23, 17:00 CEST

#EurIPS

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 14d

Meet Julia Vogt, Prof at @ethz.ch 🇨🇭. ELLIS Scholar & member of ELLIS Unit Zurich. Her research area is at the intersection of #MachineLearning and medicine. Her team made a free tool for clinicians to support the diagnosis and management of appendicitis in kids—a real-world solution. #WomenInELLIS

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 15d

Continuing our highlights of this year’s 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 - next up is @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social 🇵🇹 at Instituto Superior Técnico

📖 Read the full recap for insights and impressions from attendees: ellis.eu/news/ellis-u...

ELLIS Unit Lisbon: Machine Learning Summer School 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 20d

🎓 Shape the future of #AI where discovery meets application: split your research between academia & industry in the Industry Track in the #ELLISPhD Program.

Apply via our central recruiting portal starting on Oct 1st.

Get all the details now 👉 https://bit.ly/45DSe75

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 20d

As summer comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to take a walk down memory lane and highlight the great ELLIS Summer Schools from this year - starting with ELLIS Unit Lausanne 🇨🇭(@epfl-ai-center.bsky.social)

📖 Full recap: https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-unit-lausanne-ai-for-health-summer-school-2025

ELLIS Unit Lausanne: AI for Health Summer School 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 21d

🏹 Job alert: Science Manager for Research Funding Acquisition at @tum.de

📍 Munich 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by Oct 5th
🔗 https://portal.mytum.de/jobs/sonstige/NewsArticle_20250912_104423

TUM - Science Manager (m/w/d) Drittmittelakquise

Das Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) sucht zum 07.01.2026 oder später in Teil- oder Vollzeit (50-100%) zunächst befristet auf zwei Jahre eine/n Science Manager Drittmittelakquise.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 21d

Meet Mihaela van der Schaar, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of #MachineLearning, #AI and Medicine, at the @cam.ac.uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. She’s an ELLIS Fellow in both @cambridgeellisunit.bsky.social & Program ELLIS Health.

See the achievements by her lab and her advice for young scientists!

#WomenInELLIS

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 22d

📣 Good news! The submission deadline for Posters and Demos at #AIS25 has been extended to Oct 1st.

Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025.

Learn more & submit early at https://ais25.eu/

#AIS25 #AI #eu2025dk

AI in Science Summit 2025

AI in Science Summit 2025 will convene scientists, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on scientific discovery - and how Europe can drive this transformation with a distinctive an...

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