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Am 16. April 2026 um 14:00 Uhr findet im Schloss, Raum O 048, das nächste Academic Speed Dating des Mannheim Center for Data Science statt. In diesem Semester steht die Veranstaltung unter dem Leitthema „Experiments and Causal Research with AI“. Wir freuen uns besonders, Prof. Marc Ratkovic und Dr. ...

Die an der Harvard University promovierte Forscherin Eirliani Abdul Rahman wechselte Anfang März dank einer Förderung der Baden-Württemberg Stiftung an die Universität Mannheim. Das Programm für internationale Wissenschafts­freiheit unter­stützt sie mit rund 1,8 Millionen Euro und ermöglicht ihr einen ...

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 his ...

Dr. Swapneel Mehta, academic/entrepreneur and co-founder of SimPPL, will visit the Chair on Friday, January 30 as a guest to the Closing Event 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 ...