Johannes Fürnkranz

I have joined the University of Helsinki as an associate professor and ELLIS Institute Finland as a PI. I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs to work on combining logical reasoning and machine learning. If interested, please contact me! @helsinki.fi @ellisinstitute.fi

The 4th European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI 2026) will take place 6–10 July 2026 in Vienna, Austria. We invite leading AI researchers to submit course proposals for this premier event.

The deadline for course proposals is December 3, 2025.

Full details at essai2026.eu

... and it is freely available at www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Attending #KogWis2025 in Bochum this week. Cognitive Scientists have embraced LLMs as a subject of study and deliver amazing results. I think I am learning more about LLMs here than in recent ML or AI conferences. Dr. Susan Calvin, here we come...

Here's another twist to that...

I think today I set the new record for the longest time span between two consecutive papers at #KDD: 31 years between KDD-0 (an AAAI workshop in Seattle) and KDD-31 (thousands participants in Toronto). Both papers about rule learning, attendance was higher in 1994 (whatever that means...) 🤔

Just checked in for #KDD-25 in Toronto. They handed me my badge reminding me that I better not lose it because it costs 200$ to print one. At least I now know where 1/5th of my registration fee went to...

How come I've never heard (of) this guy before? RIP

YouTube video by Universität Klagenfurt KI Symposium and Summer School

Last week at the www.bilateral-ai.net Summer School in Klagenfurt: More than 40 of our symbolic and subsymbolic AI PhD students for the first time together.
youtu.be/MODjjqrijwg

Mein Buch “Was kann Künstliche Intelligenz?“ ist erschienen. Eine leicht zugängliche Einführung in das Thema Künstliche Intelligenz. LeserInnen – auch ohne technischen Hintergrund – wird erklärt, was KI eigentlich ist, welche Potenziale sie birgt und welche Auswirkungen sie hat.

🏹 Job alert: Tenure-Track Position for Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence at @jku.at. Opening is at the Institute for Symbolic AI for female candidates w/ PhD.

📍 Linz 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by: May 28
🔗 More info: bit.ly/3H2GDVk

#AIJobs

TENURE TRACK PROFESSORSHIP in Reinforcement Learning announced at Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Three other ML/AI tenure tracks also open.

www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

The calls for our 4 female-only tenure-track positions are now open (see my pinned message). Here is the call for the position in Knowledge and Data Processing.

www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

Applications to multiple positions are welcome. Deadline for all is May 28th.

Boost it and apply!

Very happy to announce an opening for a Tenure-Track Professor Position in Natural Language Processing and Interaction (topics of interest including IR and RecSys), which is open to female applicants, with an application deadline of May 28.
More details can be found at www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

Partial Pre-Post Code Tree: A Memory-Efficient Tree Structure for Conjunctive Rule Mining | Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1 You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

I've never done a paper video before, but now we had to do one for our KDD paper on more efficient data structures for our inductive rule learner LORD. I like the result, thanks Phuong! (you may want to turn off the sound though 😀). dl.acm.org/doi/suppl/10...

Four Tenure-track positions in AI exclusively for female applicants at @jkulinz.bsky.social! Details available soon at www.jku.at/en/lit-artif...

NeurIPS participation in Europe We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

This concerns so many of us international scientists. The US leadership in science has always relied on bringing excellent scholars to excellent American universities. Fulbright has recognized this has to start at the lowest academic levels, with incoming students as multipliers. #StandForFulbright

Leuven.ai Creative AI Event

Leuven.AI proudly presents its first Creative AI event. Featuring keynotes on computational creativity, humor and poetry generation, and human-machine collaboration.
Check out the program: ai.kuleuven.be/events/creat... @leuvenai.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Join Our Research Team in Linz!
We are looking for 5 PostDocs and 10 PhDs in Machine Learning working on xLSTM, NLP, robustness, density ratio.

Deadline: 04/20/25.

More details: www.jku.at/en/lit-artif...

#MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions

The 3rd edition of Interpretable Machine Learning is out! 🎉 Major cleanup, better examples, and new chapters on Data & Models, Interpretability Goals, Ceteris Paribus, and LOFO Importance.

The book remains free to read for everyone. But you can also buy ebook or paperback.

YouTube video by Amii TURING AWARD WINNER Richard S. Sutton in Conversation with Cam Linke | No Authorities in Science

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Pe... An interview with Rich. The humility of Rich is truly inspiring: "There are no authorities in science". I wish people would listen and live by this.

Just declined, I think for the first time ever, a reviewing invitation to a major ML conference. IMHO the expected amount of interaction in OpenReview (replying as reviewer to author rebuttals and vice versa) is getting way out of hand, reviewing becomes negotiation. Feels surprisingly relaxing. 😎

eine Gruppe von Menschen posiert für ein Foto

KI made in Austria: @fwf-at.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence "Bilateral AI” unter der Leitung der JKU nimmt Arbeit auf. Mit @tugraz.bsky.social, @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social, TU Wien, WU Wien und Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) 🆕 http://go.jku.at/n25e1

Deadline extension until Feb 21st! Submit your work or ideas on XAI in Game Playing! sites.google.com/view/fdg-ws-...

Today, the magical @timobertram.bsky.social defended his award-winning work on Contextual Preference Ranking in Magic: The Gathering and Reconnaissance Blind Chess, the green sign reflecting his true state of mind at this moment right before the defense. All went well. Congratulations, Dr. Bertram!

X-Ersatz mit Benefits

An international research team with leading participation from TU Darmstadt has now presented the first far-reaching data analysis on Bluesky: Openness, transparency, participation & a more even distribution of power are the biggest advantages of the decentralised platform, according to the study.

Back to Black...

We will host a WS on xAI in Game Playing in Vienna on April 15! Submission dl Feb 7. More details here: sites.google.com/view/fdg-ws-...

Black. The previous post too.