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The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig is an institutionalized national center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence.

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Today, all team members of @scadsai.bsky.social came together for the 3rd General Assembly of 2025. 🤝

This time, we also had fascinating guest keynotes by Prof. Dmitry Vetrov (Constructor University) and Prof. Matthew McGinity (@tudresden.bsky.social).

Thank you to all participants!
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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At the end of September @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social, training coordinator @scadsai.bsky.social held the AI competence training AI4psychology which focused on fundamentals, efficient application, risks, and legal framework of AI models and systems.
Find the slides here:
👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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📅 Get ready for the upcoming Living Lab Lecture "Computational User Models – From Fitts’ Law to Simulated Users that Learn via Experience" by Dr. Patrick Ebel on December 4, 11AM!
👉 https://scads.ai/event/living-lab-lecture-series/computational-user-models/

Join the lecture:
👉 https://tud.link/i8zf
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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From November 2-7, Marzan Tasnim Oyshi attended IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna. She presented the poster “Understanding Wind Dynamics in VR: Visual Analytics for Terrain and Architecture“. In this work, 9TB wind data covering the entirety of Saxony from 1961-2020 was visualized in VR.
Photo. Marzan Tasnim Oyshi standing in front of her poster “Understanding Wind Dynamics in VR: Visual Analytics for Terrain and Architecture “ at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna, Austria. She's smiling.
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Last week, Jakob Riccabona attended PEGS europe 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. 🇵🇹 

He presented the poster "Vaccine Design Using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks - Stabilizing Viral Glycoproteins by Mutating Amino Acids to Proline Residues" on his first PhD project.
Photo. Jakob Riccabona standing in front of his poster "Vaccine Design Using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks - Stabilizing Viral Glycoproteins by Mutating Amino Acids to Proline Residues" at PEGS europe 2025.
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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This week at @scadsai.bsky.social:
Together with CIDS, ZIH and SpiNNcloud, we joined the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (#SC25) in St. Louis, Missouri. 👩‍💻

👉 https://scads.ai/sc25/
Photo. Group photo of the CIDS and ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig team at SC25.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Don’t miss our 34th Living Lab Lecture “Demystifying Data Stream Processing" tomorrow!

🗣️ Apurv Deepak Kulkarni @scadsai.bsky.social  / @tudresden.bsky.social 
🗓️ November 20, 11 AM 
🔗Online (https://tud.link/i8zf)

👉https://scads.ai/event/living-lab-lecture-series/demystifying-data-stream-processing
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Last thursday, @scadsai.bsky.social researcher Oliver Welz attended the 5th Robotics & AI Project Workshop in Chemnitz, Germany. There, he pitched the topic of Vision Language Action Models and made promising connections with researchers and companies from the field of robotics in Saxony.🤖🤝
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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How can AI shape the production of tomorrow and open up new avenues in research? A delegation around Prof. Michael Färber addressed these questions with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, & XENON Automation.

👉https://scads.ai/michael-faerber-in-china-2025/
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Now on #Zenodo: "Data literacy, Open Science and Collaborative Coding and CI/CD" slides from the @Sca_DS GA workshop presented by Mike Berger, Pia Voigt and Matthias Täschner. 
Share, copy, distribute & adapt the work with proper credit to creators!
🔗 https://zenodo.org/records/17130780
Presentation slide: "Working with data and code like a pro – Data Literacy, Open Science and Collaborative Coding and CI/CD," by Mike Berger, Pia Voigt, and Matthias Täschner at the ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig General Assembly in Leipzig, 6 September 2023; with logos for ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, the Competence Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science, and Technische Universität Dresden, slides are reusable under CC BY 4.0, and funding from the Federal Ministry of Research, Science and the Arts.
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Supercomputer boosts AI research at @scadsai.bsky.social
A new AI chip-driven system forms the basis for applications that go beyond traditional #HPC, including real-time AI, adaptive systems, and neuromorphic signal processing. 
Read more:
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/sbcjpujlyw
Professor Jens Meiler (right) and Professor Christian Mayr inspect the new AI chip-controlled system at Leipzig University. Photo: Christian Hüller, Leipzig University
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Last week, Christofer Meinecke presented “Cluster‑Based Random Forest Visualization and Interpretation” at IEEE VIS Vienna.
The paper clusters similar trees and introduces Feature Plot and Rule Plot to improve RF interpretability.
Preprint: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.22665
Photograph of a presenter standing at a podium in a conference room; a large projected slide behind them displays a QR code, headshots and names of contributing researchers (Max Sondag, Christofer Meinecke, Dennis Collaris, Tatiana von Landesberger, Svel van Elzen), and logos for VIS 2025, Maastricht University, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Universität zu Köln, Universität Leipzig, and TU/e, indicating a multi‑institutional academic collaboration.
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Join our 34th Living Lab Lecture about "Demystifying Data Stream Processing"!

🗣️ Apurv Deepak Kulkarni (@scadsai.bsky.social / @tudresden.bsky.social) 
📅 November 20 | 11 AM
📍 Online (https://tud.link/i8zf)

👉 https://scads.ai/event/living-lab-lecture-series/demystifying-data-stream-processing/
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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From November 4 –9, 2025, Prof. Michael Färber, Shuzhou Yuan and Nicholas Popovič joined the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) in Suzhou, China. They contributed 4 papers to the conference. 👏

Learn more:
👉 https://scads.ai/emnlp-2025/
Photo. Shuzhou Yuan, Nicholas Popovič, and Michael Färber are standing in front of their poster at the EMNLP 2025 conference in Suzhou, China.
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Last week, Prof. Simon Razniewski and Luca Giordano attended the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Nara, Japan. Their demo paper, "Introducing GPTKB to the Semantic Web" won the best demo award at the main conference. 🏆
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Would you like to learn more about #XAI? 
Take a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social's presentation on "Explainable Machine Learning" on the @scadsai.bsky.social #Zenodo page. It covers the basics, including SHAP analysis and Grad-CAM as examples.

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/mzmitnigaa
Slide titled "Explainable Machine Learning" by Robert Haase; ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig with logos of TUD Dresden and Leipzig University; CC‑BY‑4.0 reuse note; date September 24, 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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When your eyes and ears can’t be trusted, how do you know what’s real? Students explored deepfakes with Prof. Michael Färber, looking at risks, opportunities, and why responsibility and media literacy matter. 

Read more: 
👉 https://scads.ai/detecting-deepfakes/
Visualization. A monitor shows a blurred, faceless figure while a hand holds a realistic mask, illustrating the concept of deepfakes and digital identity manipulation. The image is AI-generated.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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⭕ This week at @scadsai.bsky.social:
We joined the All Hands Meeting of the German AI Community in Saarbrücken, organized by the @dfki.bsky.social . Besides getting to meet colleagues from Germany and France, we contributed a center highlight presentation, workshops, a demo station, and posters!
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Last week, our @scadsai.bsky.social colleague Oliver Welz spoke at the AI Meetup Leipzig at Basislager Coworking Leipzig. In his talk he covered both technical and practival aspects of the Model Context Protocol.
 More about the topic #MCP:
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/bkqialovfo
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Lea Kabjesz, Lea Gihlein, @marabuuuu.bsky.social and Luisa Götze led a workshop at @scadsai.bsky.social General Assembly, titled “Coding Effectively with AI: Getting Started with Cursor and Copilot”. The slides are free and suitable for beginners.

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/ajbildzipj
#SmartPrompts
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Join us at the upcoming ScaDS.AI #Meetup on November 24 in Leipzig. 💫
Learn about the latest AI developments in #LifeSciences, featuring research from ScaDS.AI, leap:up, and Bayer.

📅 November 24, 5:00 p.m.
📍 ScaDS.AI Leipzig, Humboldtstr. 25

Register here: events.scads.ai/event/120
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Following the personal and official farewells marking his retirement, we published a blog post honouring the work of our long-standing founding director, Prof. Erhard Rahm, and celebrating his achievements and the past eleven years. 🍀

👉 scads.ai/farewell-to-...
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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⭕ This week at @scadsai.bsky.social :
We are excited to announce the winners of LiLaComp, a competition for scientific demonstrators, which was initiated by our Living Lab.

🏆 Chatopia by Lalith Manjunath
🏆 RELATABLE by Dr. Arthur Fleig

Learn about the winners:
👉 https://scads.ai/lilacomp-winners/
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🇻🇳🇩🇪 As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relationships between Germany and Vietnam, Eric Roldan Roa and Doris Kristina Raave visited Ho Chi Minh City last month to present their #EducationalTechnology projects PCA and Play My Math they developed at @scadsai.bsky.social.
Two people standing and smiling in front of a colorful backdrop celebrating 50 years of Vietnam-Germany relations, featuring sponsor logos. A group of people are seated in a classroom setting, watching a woman give a presentation. A cartoon monkey is displayed on a large screen behind the presenter.
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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👾Meet Scaddy, an interactive conversational agent from the Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social Living Lab!
Scaddy is bilingual (EN/DE), combining speech, vision and retrieval for context-aware interactions.
One tap on the tablet to talk, show, or teach; the dynamic sphere speaks and visually reacts.
A glossy green glowing orb with a soft radiating aura at center; above it the bold text "Hello, I'm Scaddy" with a smiling emoji; below a rounded button labeled "Talk to Scaddy" with a microphone icon; logos for "ScaDS.AI Dresden Leipzig Living Lab" in the bottom right, on a dark background.
October 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM