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MCML is one of six national AI Competence Centers. It is funded on a permanent basis by the German and Bavarian government's AI strategy, and brings together the leading ML researchers from LMU, TUM and associated institutions.

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Unite leading researchers in Germany, to strengthen international, national and regional competence in the field of ML and AI. We foster talent and make corresponding potential accessible to users from science, industry and society.

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27.11.2025

Seeing the Bigger Picture – One Detail at a Time

MCML Research Insight - With Rui Xiao, Sanghwan Kim, and Zeynep Akata

Large vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) have changed how AI works with mixed inputs of images and text, by learning to connect pictures and words. Given an image with a caption like “a dog playing with a ball”, CLIP learns to link visual patterns (the …

25.11.2025

Daniel Rückert Among the World’s Most Cited Researchers

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MCML Director Daniel Rückert is listed among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in the Cross-Field category for his work on artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine. In total, 17 TUM scientists were recognized in the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers rankings by Clarivate, …

Link to Research Stay at Stanford University

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24.11.2025

Research Stay at Stanford University

Kun Yuan – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program

During my research stay at Stanford University from July to September 2025, I had the pleasure of being part of the research group led by Assistant Professor Serena Yeung in the Department of Biomedical Data Science. My two-month stay in California gave me the opportunity to investigate how public …

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04

Dec

Pitchtalk Series • 04.12.2025 • Hochschule für Philosophie Kaulbachstraße 31/33 80539 München

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

MCML Pitchtalks With CReAITech

Join Us for Networking and Insights

MCML and CReAITech unite for an inspiring PhD Workshop on AI agents in science and their ethical, legal, and social aspects (ELSA). Join us for the PhD Workshop “AI Agents in Science: Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA)”, hosted by the Munich …

10

Dec

Open Lab Day • 10.12.2025 • Boltzmannstraße 1, 85748 Garching

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Open Lab Day 2025

Linked Dimensions

At the Open Lab Day 2025 on December 10th at the Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization (V2C) of the Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ), the focus is on the presentation of projects by LMU and TUM students under the motto “Linked Dimensions”. During an …

11

Dec

Link to MCML Thinkathon: Future of Schools

Workshop • 11.12.2025 • Technische Universität München Arcisstr. 21 80333 München Raum 4905

3:00 pm - 8:00 pm

MCML Thinkathon: Future of Schools

Translating AI Research Into Teaching Practice

The MCML Thinkathon is dedicated to bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and Bavarian educational practice. Its goal is to translate current insights from AI research into concrete workshop kits for teachers.

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