BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data

Opening of the Agentic AI for Earth Observation Workshop in Berlin Today, BIFOLD and the European Space Agency (ESA) opened the Agentic AI for Earth Observation Workshop at Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in Berlin. @esa.int @tuberlin.bsky.social #Agentic #AI for #Earth #Observation #EO #Gischat

Volker Markl (BIFOLD), and Claudio Iacopino (ESA Φ-lab Explore Office) spoke for the two organizing institutions. Begüm Demir (BIFOLD), and Nicolas Longépé, (ESA Φ-lab Explore Office), then introduced the workshop's goals and program.

Opening of the Agentic AI for Earth Observation Workshop in Berlin Today, BIFOLD and the European Space Agency (ESA) opened the Agentic AI for Earth Observation Workshop at Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in Berlin. @esa.int @tuberlin.bsky.social #Agentic #AI for #Earth #Observation #EO #Gischat

Welcome to Berlin: the Agentic AI for Earth Observation Workshop starts today. From Oct 19 to 21, 2026, BIFOLD and the ESA host the workshop at Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in Berlin-Mitte. BIFOLD welcomes all participants and looks forward to meeting them on-site. agentic-eo.berlin

AI systems that plan and carry out multi-step tasks with a degree of autonomy, in Earth Observation (EO). Over three days, participants will exchange ideas, discuss open questions, and explore new collaborations across ...

Welcome to Berlin: the Agentic AI for Earth Observation Workshop starts today. From Oct 19 to 21, 2026, BIFOLD and the ESA host the workshop at Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in Berlin-Mitte. BIFOLD welcomes all participants and looks forward to meeting them on-site. agentic-eo.berlin

Two days until the BEADS Summit at BIFOLD. On October 21, 2026, eleven speakers from universities and companies will meet in Berlin for a day of invited talks on data management. #datamanagement #Datasystems @databricksinc.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

Topics range from data security and cardinality estimation, the step in which a database predicts how large intermediate query results will be, to time series analytics and the role of AI agents in data processing.

Two days until the BEADS Summit at BIFOLD. On October 21, 2026, eleven speakers from universities and companies will meet in Berlin for a day of invited talks on data management. #datamanagement #Datasystems @databricksinc.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

Speakers from research 🔹 Elisa Bertino, Purdue University 🔹 Dan Olteanu, University of Zurich 🔹 Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University 🔹 Peter Boncz, CWI / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🔹 Thomas Neumann, TU Munich 🔹 Tim Kraska, MIT

What a Kick-Off for BEADS (Berlin Ecosystem for Analytics and Data Systems): The very first Meetup was already a great success. With a full house and a lively discussion, it offered a glimpse of what this new format brings to Berlin's data community. www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

Many thanks to Madelon Hulsebos for her talk at the BIFOLD Colloquium. @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social In "On the Different Flavors of Tabular Reasoning," she showed that reasoning over tabular data spans several distinct challenges:

, and early work on foundation models and agents for predictive reasoning over tables. Together, these threads point toward smaller, specialized models that make insights from structured data more accessible and trustworthy.

Many thanks to Madelon Hulsebos for her talk at the BIFOLD Colloquium. @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social In "On the Different Flavors of Tabular Reasoning," she showed that reasoning over tabular data spans several distinct challenges:

Photo Recap: Berlin Summer School on AI and Society. From Sept 14-17, 50 students from 10 countries met in Berlin for four days on the responsible design of AI-driven autonomous systems, robotics, and physical AI. Organized by BIFOLD, the Weizenbaum Institute, and TU Berlin's LIS Lab.

BIFOLD Co-Director Klaus-Robert Müller opened with a call for Safety by Design: safety must be built into AI systems from the outset, not added later. Keynotes by Judith Simon, Marc Toussaint, and Iyad Rahwan, plus a visit to Google AI Center Berlin.

Join us in Berlin at the scientific workshop "Agentic AI for Earth Observation," organized by BIFOLD and the ESA Φ-lab from October 19 to 21, 2026. Begüm Demir shares the workshop's aims and invites researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers. agentic-eo.berlin #gischat #EO #ESA #GeoAI

Madelon Hulsebos will join the BIFOLD Colloquium with a talk titled "On the Different Flavors of Tabular Reasoning." Join us on-site at BIFOLD. 👉Sep 25, 2026 👉11 AM 👉Franklinstr. 28/29 www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @tuberlin.bsky.social @cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social

BIFOLD researcher Dr. Mina Jamshidi Idaji to lead a €1.5 million research consortium on AI in Oncology. The project brings together oncologists, pathologists, and ml researchers from BIFOLD/TU Berlin, LMU Munich, and UKE Hamburg. 🧵 @tuberlin.bsky.social @lmu.de @xai-berlin.bsky.social

Led by Dr. Mina Jamshidi Idaji (BIFOLD/TU Berlin), with Prof. Dr. Philipp Jurmeister (LMU Munich) and Prof. Dr. Michael Bockmayr (UKE Hamburg).

BIFOLD researcher Dr. Mina Jamshidi Idaji to lead a €1.5 million research consortium on AI in Oncology. The project brings together oncologists, pathologists, and ml researchers from BIFOLD/TU Berlin, LMU Munich, and UKE Hamburg. 🧵 @tuberlin.bsky.social @lmu.de @xai-berlin.bsky.social

When oncologists assess a cancer patient, they draw on histopathological images (tissue samples), molecular analyses of the tumor, and clinical data. Many AI systems examine these sources separately, or treat them as one fixed snapshot of the patient.

Most privacy protection systems slow down and become less useful the more data they have to protect. Does it have to be that way? In our new Researcher Spotlight, BIFOLD introduces Dr.-Ing. Rudi Poepsel Lemaitre, who defended his PhD summa cum laude at BIFOLD. t1p.de/8n1sk @tuberlin.bsky.social

Meet BIFOLD researchers at VLDB 2026! Aug 31-Sep 4 in Boston, USA: 6 research papers, 3 workshop papers, 2 demos, a workshop keynote, and a panel, plus an Emerging Reviewer Award. Here is when and where to catch us on site (thread):

Also at VLDB 2026: Aug 31, QDB Workshop keynote "Ad-hoc Data Integration in Data Lakes" by Ziawasch Abedjan DEI Panel with Ziawasch Abedjan Congratulations to Arnab Phani, recipient of the AIDB Workshop Emerging Reviewer Award

Meet BIFOLD researchers at VLDB 2026! Aug 31-Sep 4 in Boston, USA: 6 research papers, 3 workshop papers, 2 demos, a workshop keynote, and a panel, plus an Emerging Reviewer Award. Here is when and where to catch us on site (thread):

Demonstrations, Sep 1 (13:45-15:15) and Sep 2 (15:45-17:15), Graph, Systems and Infrastructure: EarthLake, a model lake system for Earth observation foundation models SemPiper, interactive code synthesis for semantic operators in ML pipelines

Meet BIFOLD researchers at VLDB 2026! Aug 31-Sep 4 in Boston, USA: 6 research papers, 3 workshop papers, 2 demos, a workshop keynote, and a panel, plus an Emerging Reviewer Award. Here is when and where to catch us on site (thread):

Research papers, part 1: Sep 1, 10:45-12:15, R3: Matryoshka (feature discovery in data lakes) Sep 1, 10:45-12:15, R3: FedAugment (table augmentation over decentralized data) Sep 1, 17:15-18:30, Poster Session 1: Distilled Documentation for Dialect-Specific SQL Generation

AI-generated phishing emails are 2.4x more effective than generic ones, and cost only $0.03 to produce. BIFOLD field study (7,741 participants) shows how cheap automated spear phishing has become. Full story on our website 🧵 t1p.de/10n32 @tuberlin.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @rieck.mlsec.org