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Researcher Eirliani Abdul Rahman, who holds a doctorate from Harvard University, transferred to the University of Mannheim in early March thanks to funding from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung. The program for international academic freedom is supporting her with around EUR 1.8 million, enabling a ...

Prof. Ratkovic will be giving a talk on Thursday March 10, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in lecture hall SN 169 Röchling Hörsaal (Schloss Schneckenhof Nord). download date His talk will be titled “The current situation in the United States of America”. Topics covered in the lecture include the United States ...

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the NATO Innovation Continuum 2026 SPARK Event, where he gave a talk titled „Targeted Behavioral Risk Intelligence: Early Detection and Intervention on Radicalization“. The NATO Innovation Continuum is a strategic framework designed by NATO Allied Command ...

We are happy to welcome Dhara Mungra (M.Sc.) to the group! An NYU-educated data scientist with four years of experience at a leading audience analytics firm and research with top AI researchers at Anthropic, Dhara translates business and product needs into technical specifications, currently ...

Prof. Ratkovic visited the group of Prof. Daniel Wilhelm at the LMU Munich and gave a talk within the Departmental Seminar Series of the Department of Statistics entitled „Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem, Regression, ...

At the end of the Term we have to say goodbye to two colleagues: Mitchell Ewald is leaving the group after one year with us and finishing his Master's Thesis to explore new career oppotunities. In his time here he has not just been a great coworker, but he has become a friend and we will miss ...

Dr. Swapneel Mehta, academic/entrepreneur and co-founder of SimPPL, will visit the Chair on Friday, January 30 as a guest to the Closing Wvent of the DS 202 class in room A.001–003 (B6, E-F), starting at 10.30 a.m. His talk is titled titled “Arbiter: Improving Digital Safety with AI Agents”, the ...

We have a few last spots on left on the „Foundations of AI Product Development“ class, so we decided to extend the deadline until January 23rd, 2026.  Any submissions later than this date may be considered according to class capacity, but cannot be guaranteed a spot, although we do wish to give as ...

For the coming spring term (FSS26) we are pleased to announce a new, exclusive class called „Foundations of AI Product Development“, focusing on practical industry applications and ethical design principles. This class will be taught by Dhara Mungra M.Sc. who is joining our team next spring. The ...

Next term, Dhara Mungra (M.Sc.) will join the Chair as a researcher. An NYU-educated data scientist with four years of experience at a leading audience analytics firm and research with top AI researchers at Anthropic, Dhara translates business and product needs into technical specifications, ...