ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig

Photo. Syed Hur Abbas, Dr. Sandra Hummel and Mana-Teresa Donner standing in front of two posters of the junior research group.

From September 30 – October 4, 2025, the team members of our junior research group "Situating AI-based Mentoring", Dr. Sandra Hummel, Mana-Teresa Donner, Gitanjali Wadhwa, and Syed Hur Abbas, joined the 6th Barcelona Conference on Education.

👉 https://scads.ai/bce2025/

Presentation slide titled “AI Insights MCP – Model Context Protocol” by Oliver Welz (ScaDS.AI). The slide shows a person at a laptop connected by a plug to a robot, symbolizing human–AI interaction. The ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig Living Lab logo appears in the top right corner. The background is light beige, and the slide is marked with a CC-BY 4.0 license.

Missed our #ScaDSAIMeetup on AI insights into the Model Context Protocol (#MCP)? 
All talks, workshop materials & repos are now on #Zenodo!

🎤 Talks: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17158643
🛠️ Workshop: https://zenodo.org/records/17158770"

The next @unileipzig.bsky.social's  #LunchLectures will take place on October 23, this time featuring @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social  from @scadsai.bsky.social . He will give a lecture on “How generative AI influences research and teaching.”

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/srahlhpary

Promotional graphic for the international workshop AI and Innovative Pedagogies with Educational Technology (AI InnoPed), scheduled for November 12–15, 2025. The ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig logo appears in the top left. A robot icon holding a graduation cap and diploma symbolizes AI in education. The background shows abstract network lines, and the words 'INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP' are vertically aligned on the right.

Join our workshop on AI and Innovative Pedagogies with Educational Technology (AI InnoPed) on November 12–15, 2025 at @scadsai.bsky.social and learn how to support teaching and learning processes. 

Registration and program:
👉 https://scads.ai/event/ai-innovative-pedagogies-workshop/

Together with the @iom-leipzig.bsky.social, @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social & Matthias Täschner hosted the #AISchool2025 last week in Leipzig. The Materials were provided by @scadsai.bsky.social.

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/yzmimoxbvz

#MachineLearning #DataVisualization #HPCWorkflows

Are you interested in how sovereign generative AI solutions can be used in the public sector? Or how AI can make scientific research more efficient?

At our @Sca_DS Meetup at October 21 at 4:45 p.m., these questions are to be discussed.

Register here: 
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/msylovjwpn

Erik Marx received the Best Paper Award at INFOS 2025 and the Best Presentation Award at ISSEP 2025, highlighting innovative ways to teach machine learning. Congratulations also to the co-authors Dr. Thiemo Leonhardt and Prof. Nadine Bergner! 👏

👉 https://scads.ai/infos-2025-and-issep-2025/

Dr. Arthur Fleig, Hannah Selder, Dr. Patrick Ebel, and Michal Miazga from @scadsai.bsky.social presented their research at the @acmuist.bsky.social.
They shared the goal of advancing simulated users for biomechanical models in human-computer interaction (HCI).

👉 scads.ai/scads-ai-goe...

Photo. Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand and Dr. Markus Wolfien meet with a research team from CMUH China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan.

As the next step in our close collaboration with Taiwan institutes, Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand & Dr. Markus Wolfien met up with colleagues from the China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) in Taiwan. The meeting is part of our initiative on AI in Medicine.

👉 https://scads.ai/visiting-cmuh-in-taiwan/

Dr. Parvaneh Joharinad is giving a talk standing in front of the audience. In the background her presentation is projected on to the wall.

Hannaneh Fahimi stands beside the poster titled "IsuMap: Manifold Learning and Data Visualization leveraging Vietoris-Rips Filtrations."

From September 22 to 25 the Conference on Mathematics of Machine Learning took place at the Hamburg University of Technology.
We are delighted with the various talks and posters contributed by @scadsai.bsky.social members to this conference.

Find all abstracts here:
https://f.mtr.cool/lmbfnrsvzr

Woman, wearing a conference badge, standing and smiling beside a conference poster titled "KENSHALL: Cloud-based Collaborative Environment for Personalized Learning Development" on board P-20, with poster sections showing abstract, diagrams of cloud-based architecture and workflow, a world map, and a visible QR code. Left to the woman, an adjacent poster board P-21 is visible.; conference branding for ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig appears at the top left.

@scadsai.bsky.social contributions at the #NHRConference25 in Göttingen combined #HPC engineering, domain-aware #AIEvaluation & empirical socio-technical research to advance AI research & education in a reproducible, scalable & human-centered way.
Book of Abstracts:
🔗https://shorturl.at/VR56s

Promotional flyer for the ScaDS.AI Colloquium showing headshots of Edoardo Altamura and Choy Boy; event title "Colloquium Session"; date and time Thursday, 16 October 2025, 10:30 AM CEST; location TUD Dresden, Strehlener Straße 12/14, room 745; ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig and TUD Dresden logos.

📅New #colloquium on October 16, 2025!
Organized by @dobrautz.bsky.social, Edoardo Altamura will discuss #QuantumMachineLearning for chemistry uses. 
Choy Boy will present on energy landscapes for variational quantum algorithms.
Join us @tudresden.bsky.social & online:
🔗https://tinyurl.com/43hhur49

🥇Congratulations to Filippo de Bortoli from @scadsai.bsky.social, who attended the #FroCoS2025 in Reykjavík, Iceland. He won the Best Student Paper Award for a paper co-authored with @scadsai.bsky.social PI Prof. Franz Baader.

Read more about the paper: 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/yegcmotvkl

The next @scadsai.bsky.social Meetup on October 21 will give you the chance to learn more about two highly topical fields of AI application: "Sovereign GenAI & Research Agents in Practice".

Register here, join the meetup community and share your ideas: 
👉 https://scads.ai/event/meetup/

Maja Schneider, PhD student at @scadsai.bsky.social, attended the ADBIS 2025 conference in Tampere, Finland, from September 23 to 26.
She presented the paper “Generating Semantically Enriched Mobility Data from Travel Diaries.”

► dbs.uni-leipzig.de/research/pub...

On Friday, September 26, Jonas Kunze, Eric Peukert and Miriam Louise Carnot from @scadsai.bsky.social visited the Mobilitätstag Nordsachsen focusing on the mobility of the future for rural areas where they also had a booth at the exhibition.
#SmartMobility #Innovation

A conference room with many tables and persons, which are looking to a PowerPoint presentation about ScaDS.AI.

⭕ This week at @scadsai.bsky.social:
25 employees from the Department of Research Services at the @unileipzig.bsky.social visited ScaDS.AI. During a tour of our Living Lab and Motion Capture Lab, the visitors had the opportunity to learn more about our center.🤝💻

The @scadsai.bsky.social Living Lab lecture #33 ""Geometry-aware Representation"" by Dr. Parvaneh Joharinad is now available on YouTube!

Find more information here:
👉 https://scads.ai/event/living-lab-lecture-series/geometry-aware-representation/

Watch it here:
👉 https://youtu.be/QH9zKheL-4s

Greetings from Maximilian Ferle from the International Myeloma Society (IMS) Meeting in Toronto, the largest annual meeting of experts who study multiple myeloma, a cancer that affects plasma cells. 

👉 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtct.2025.07.00
👉 Preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.12944

@scadsai.bsky.social training coordinator @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social provided insights into his professional career in the podcast series “The Microscopists.”
If you want to know why he'll never ask biologists for better images again, click here:
🍍 themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/episodes/rob...

SAVE THE DATE! Prof. Michael Färber will give his inaugural lecture "Will AI Replace Scientists? From Papers to Insights with LLMs and Knowledge Graphs" on October 16, 2025, 4:40 PM–6:10 PM. Join in person or online!

👉 https://scads.ai/about-us/ai-professorships/lectures/will-ai-replace-scientists/

How do I manage my #ResearchSoftware? 🤔 
Get the #OpenAccess presentation by Matthias Täschner and @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social, which was created as part of the #DevOps hands-on training at #DataWeek2025. 
👉 Find out about version control, collaborative working and much more: 10.5281/zenodo.15654888

On Monday, the Dresden location of @scadsai.bsky.social joined the general assembly of #CIDS - a great chance to further strengthen the ties with the departments, engage in conversation, and create further synergies. We had a great time with the CIDS team, which we are proud to be part of! 👏

⭕ This week at @scadsai.bsky.social:
In cooperation with Come2Data, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig held the "Data Science and AI in Medicine" Training School for medical professionals from Saxony from September 23 to 25. 
Find the material here: 
👉 https://scads.github.io/ai4medicine-2025/intro.html

Collage. Merging circuit board patterns with textile motifs in a grid-like background. Two arms are on each side, positioned as if gently pulling on strings that cross the image diagonally. The hands contrast with the rigid lines of the circuit board patterns behind them. The strings are woven through the hands and background, symbolising the connection between traditional weaving and modern technology. © Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN

We invite you to join the symposium "The Invisible Faces of AI: Ghost Workers, Click Labor and Digital Exploitation" on October 29, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at Zentralkino Dresden, Kraftwerk Mitte.

More information:
👉 https://scads.ai/event/pillars-and-umbrellas/the-invisible-faces-of-ai/

Geometry-aware Representation - ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig In the 33rd Living Lab lecture, Dr. Parvaneh Joharinad talks about Geometry-aware Representation. Learn more here.

Join the 33rd lecture of our Living Lab Lecture Series online! On October 2, 2025 at 11:00 a.m., Dr. Parvaneh Joharinad will talk about Geometry-aware Representation.

Learn more and watch the trailer here:

From large-scale virtual screening to candidate molecules: Fabian Liessmann has successfully defended his PhD.🎉
He used AI to virtually screen billions of molecules to discover new active compounds as drug candidates.
👉 https://scads.ai/fabian-liessmann-has-successfully-defended-his-doctoral-thesis/

Last Tuesday, the LivingLab #Meetup took place again at ScaDS.AI. This months topic was: AI Insights & Workshop on Model Context Protocol (#MCP)

Check out the german resources on Zenodo:
🗣️ Talk on MCP: https://f.mtr.cool/bttjmtqhof
🧑🏻‍💻 Workshop: https://f.mtr.cool/xcmbxtmqsl

There are only a few open spots left for our upcoming training "JupyterHub on HPC"! If you're interested in joining, make sure to register fast.

📅 October 16, 2025, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
📍 Online 
🗣️ Ilya Burenko, Lalith Manjunath, Dr. Robert Haase

👉 https://scads.ai/event/trainings/jupyterhub-on-hpc/

Join the inaugural lecture "Will AI Replace Scientists? From Papers to Insights with LLMs and Knowledge Graphs" of Prof. Michael Färber at @tudresden.bsky.social.

📅 October 16, 2025, 4:40 PM–6:10 PM
📍  Hybrid

👉 https://scads.ai/about-us/ai-professorships/lectures/will-ai-replace-scientists/