ELLIS Unit Lisbon

🎓ELLIS PhD students: join us in Lisbon 🇵🇹 for #EDS2026 on Trustworthy AI on July 27–30.

4 days of talks, posters & discussion with peers & senior researchers from across the ELLIS network. @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social

🔗 Registration open → sites.google.com/view/eds2026...
⏰ First deadline: April 26

We’re excited to host Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre from the @bsc-cns.bsky.social for our next ELLIS & Sardine Lab Seminar on ML and NLP. He will talk about "Unlocking the Potential of Multilingual Language Models". Join us!

🗓 2nd March 2026
⏰ 5pm (WET)
💻 Online: lnkd.in/eSGqRVbu

📢The next UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series event is happening on 26 February at 4:00 PM CET with Antonio Orvieto and Sara Kangaslahti. Don’t miss it!🚀

AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with Mario Figueiredo on 'The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data'.

💬 AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with @marfig.bsky.social on 'The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data'.

📅 Wed, Feb 18th
🕓 16:00-17:00 CET

🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/4c7je2i
ℹ️ More info: https://bit.ly/47Qclim

The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data Modern machine learning excels at identifying correlations. However, to make a real impact, we must understand causality, the “why” behind the data, and

💬The upcoming AI for Good Webinar Series - with @marfig.bsky.social ( @istecnico.bsky.social) and Arnout Devos (@ellis.eu, @eth-ai-center.bsky.social) on "The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data"

📅 Wed, Feb 18th
🕓 16:00-17:00 CET
🔗Register: aiforgood.itu.int/event/the-wh...

Tune in to our ML & NLP seminar next monday to hear Federico Bianchi from Together AI talk about "Learning to Discover at Test Time".

📅 16th Feb, 5 pm (WET)

🔗 online: lnkd.in/eSGqRVbu

🔗 more info: lnkd.in/diMpUD57

📣 Upcoming Workshop! Join the ELIAS, ELLIOT & ENFIELD TDW on Trustworthy AI to explore the technical, ethical, & environmental challenges of deploying reliable, fair, and sustainable AI systems.

📅 Mar 6
📍 Paris/Hybrid
🔗 https://bit.ly/4bMMiME

@elliot-eu.bsky.social · @horizonenfield.bsky.social

👇 Happening today at 5pm Lisbon time - don't miss it!

Join us online: meet.google.com/sat-airk-gxj

📢 Our next ELLIS and Sardine Lab seminar will take place this upcoming Monday, with Gonçalo Faria from the University of Washington talking about "Rethinking Test-Time Alignment for Language Models".

📅 2nd of February, 5pm (WET)

💻 Online - shared on the day

🔗 More info: lnkd.in/diMpUD57

Looking ahead to a joined workshop with @elsa-ai.eu & EMBL on how to make AI systems in healthcare trustworthy by design - from privacy & fairness to robustness & clinical use.
📅 March 9th @ EMBL Heidelberg
📝 Poster submissions open until Jan 26
Register here: elsa-ai.eu/elsa-worksho...

ELLIS-ELLIOT Reading Group: Human-Centric Machine Learning Session | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems This reading group aims to gather researchers and students interested in both getting a wide vision of the topic and also deeply diving into it. Reading papers about different topics inside HCML, and also discussing new problem set-ups, different approa...

Check out the next session of the ELLIS-@elliot-eu.bsky.social Reading Group on Human-Centric Machine Learning. Topic/Title: "Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation"

📅 Jan 22nd
📍 Virtual
🔗 https://bit.ly/4sSkIUk

Link for today's talk meet.google.com/sat-airk-gxj

📣 Call for posters for @elsa-ai.eu TrustworthyAI4Health Workshop co-located w/ @embl.org AI & Biology Conference, on topics that advance reliable, clinically aligned AI systems across diverse data modalities and healthcare environments.

📅 Mar 9
📍 Heidelberg 🇩🇪
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pEK3OK

#EESAIBio

📢 Next Monday our ML & NLP seminars welcome Ammar Khairi and Julia Kreutzer from @cohereforai.bsky.social who will talk about Optimizing Multilingual Performance.

📅 19th January, 5pm (WET)

💻 Join us online - link will be shared on the day and posted on the website.

🔗 More info: lnkd.in/diMpUD57

Instituto Superior Técnico participates in the development of ‘EuroLLM-22B’, an open LLM developed within the scope of a European consortium for research into AI.

🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/4e5df8eu

#TécnicoULisboa #ULisboa

📢The first UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series in 2026 is coming!

Come join us on 15th January at 1 pm CET with
@noagarciad.bsky.social and @thwiedemer.bsky.social !

YouTube video by ELLIS EurIPS & ELLIS UnConference 2025 - Copenhagen 🇩🇰

🎬 EurIPS & ELLIS UnConference aftermovie - Relive the first @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen, a community-driven, NeurIPS-endorsed milestone for Europe’s AI community.

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaC...

📖 More: ellis.eu/news/eurips-...

⏰ Last call to host #EurIPS2026: ellis.eu/news/eurips-...

The team behind EuroLLM-22B

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗟𝗟𝗠-𝟮𝟮𝗕 launched: fully open 22B multilingual LLM for all EU languages, built by a Europe-wide consortium (ELLIS involved), incl. @andre-t-martins.bsky.social (@ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social)

ℹ️ Learn more & access the model:
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pIYVMK
🔗 https://bit.ly/4j33XRI

🎉 Congratulations to the team: @istecnico.bsky.social, @itnewspt.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @sorbonne-universite.fr, @univparissaclay.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam, University of Edinburgh, Aveni, Unbabel, NaverLabs

📢 Launching EuroLLM-22B - a fully open, EU-made LLM supporting all 24 EU languages (+11 more)!

🤝 Built by a Europe-wide consortium with #HorizonEurope & @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social support.

🔓 Available now on Hugging Face: lnkd.in/e-xgQXTX

🔗 Learn more: lnkd.in/e6FdpYrN

Say hi to Catarina Barata, Assistant Prof at @istecnico.bsky.social, researcher at @isrlisboa.bsky.social 🇵🇹, ELLIS Scholar in @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social.

Her work focuses on ML for computer vision + healthcare. A career highlight was winning a Google Academic Research Award.

#WomenInELLIS

We’re just days away from the ELLIS UnConference + #EurIPS. Will you be there? Come see us at Booth D03-07 to ask us about ELLIS….you can also make your own button. See you in Copenhagen 🇩🇰!

UnConference info: https://eurips.cc/ellis/
EurIPS info: https://eurips.cc/

Logo of the Ellis Institute Finland and a text: We're hiring! Principal Investigators in artificial intelligence and machine learning research.

Come to Finland, join the @ellisinstitute.fi and @helsinki.fi as an Associate/Assistant/Full Professor in Computational Precision Health!
ELLIS Institute PI recruitment is open until Jan 12:
www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2...

Professor position description: www.ellisinstitute.fi/pi-positions...

Our #ELLISPhD Reading Group "Human-Centric Machine Learning" is now associated with the @elliot-eu.bsky.social Young Researcher Group 🎉

Next talk:

🎯 Personality Traits in Large Language Models
📆 Thu, Nov 27th
🕙 10:00 (CET)
📍 Virtual
🔗 https://bit.ly/3LRBtho

Text: We're hiring! Principal Investigators in artificial intelligence and machine learning research. Below: ELLIS Institute Finland logo

ELLIS Institute Finland is hiring Principal Investigators in AI + machine learning. World-class resources for research incl. LUMI supercomputer, generous starting package & professorship affiliation with a university in the world’s happiest country! Apply by Jan. 12 ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026

Our seminars on ML and NLP are back - this time jointly organised with @sardine-lab-it.bsky.social!

Our first speaker is João Maria Janeiro from Meta & @sorbonne-universite.fr, who will talk about multilingual encoders.

📅 5pm (WET), 24th Nov 2025
🔗 more info sardine-lab.github.io/ellis-sardin...

📢 Save the date! Join us for the next @ellis.eu x @unireps.bsky.social Speaker Series!
📅18th November – 16:00 CEST
📍https://ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160
🎙️Speakers: Keynote Talk by Yilun Du & Flash Talk by Sihyun Yu

The ELLIS Society welcomes its new Board. As the primary decision-making body, it will play a vital role in shaping the future of ELLIS and advancing #AI and #MachineLearning research across Europe in a time of global change.

Read the full article: ellis.eu/news/ellis-s...

📢 Save the date! Join us for the next @ellis.eu x @unireps.bsky.social Speaker Series!
📅28th October – 16:00 CEST
📍https://ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160
🎙️Speakers: Keynote Talk by @stefanofusi.bsky.social & Flash Talk by @danielkunin.bsky.social

The @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social hosted its 3rd #PhD & Postdoc Symposium at @istecnico.bsky.social bringing together 50+ ML/AI resesearchers for a day of inspiring talks, discussions & new connections.

👏 Way to build a strong AI & ML community in Portugal 🇵🇹 & across Europe!