Professor Sonntag contributed as an expert on artificial intelligence in medicine to the 24th German–Korean Forum, held in Eschborn from 2–4 September 2026.The German–Korean Forum brings together representatives from politics, academia, industry and civil society to develop recommendations for strengthening bilateral cooperation between Germany and the Republic of Korea. The Read more
Omair Shahzad Bhatti and Pratik Sitapara from DFKI’s IML department participated in the Joint Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs and KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay (GenAIK-NORA 2026), co-located with IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is the premier international gathering Read more
This year, the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2026) took place in Bremen from 15–21 August, and the IML department was represented with ten contributions. Across the main conference and associated tracks, including the Demonstrations Track, 858 of 6,342 full submissions were accepted, corresponding to an overall Read more
On 24th June, our senior researcher Thiago Gouvea attended the FONA-Forum 2026 in Berlin. Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister for Research, presented the new strategy “Research for sustainability”. A key objective is to bring cutting-edge research into practical application more quickly. To ensure that good ideas are turned into concrete solutions Read more
On Tuesday, 9 June, the final event of the MASTER project took place at CORE IML in Oldenburg. After three and a half years of collaborating in the field of XR-based robotics training in manufacturing, the partners from the MASTER consortium and the Open Call winners, who have developed additional Read more
We are happy to announce that IML member Duy Nguyen received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026. This is Duy’s second reviever award this year after the one he received from ICML 2026. CVPR honours the high-quality reviews of the Read more
We are happy to announce that IML members Duy Nguyen and Tuan Tran received a Gold Reviewer Award from the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026! ICML is a leading venue for machine learning and AI. It awards the Gold Reviewer status to the top reviewers among thousands for Read more
Hannover Messe is held annually in Hannover on the world’s largest exhibition grounds. This year’s fair highlighted key advancements in industrial development, with a strategic focus on Artificial Intelligence. Representing the IML department at the DFKI booth, Robert Leist showcased the OphthalmoAI project alongside colleagues Siting Liang and Tuan Tran, Read more
We presented a full paper titled “Do You (Dis)agree With Me? Modelling Implicit User Disagreement in Human–AI Interaction Using Gaze Data” at CHI 2026 in Barcelona during the Inferring Human State session. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is generally considered the most prestigious conference in Read more
Omar Adjali from the Interactive Machine Learning (IML) Department at DFKI presented our paper, “Aligning Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Event Extraction with Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning”, at the 48 th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), held from 29 March to 2 April 2026 in Delft, The Netherlands. The European Conference Read more