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Kai studied physics at the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a special interest in theoretical physics. While in his Bachelor studies, he was involved in research about the fundamental structure of spacetime, he turned to more applied semiconductor optics in his Master’s work at the Max Planck I...

Die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Wissenschaftsstandortes Bayern auf entscheidenden Zukunftsfeldern zu stärken, ist grundlegendes Ziel der mit über drei Milliarden Euro unterfütterten Hightech Agenda Bayern und ihres Beschleunigungsprogramms Hightech Agenda Plus. Welchen Mehrwert die einzi...

Björn Eskofier gives the plenary lecture on AI and wearables for digital medicine this upcoming Thursday during the annual Congress of the German senology society. We at the MaD lab are happy to collaborate with Medical Valley, EIT Health, HIH 2025, Mobilise-D, and Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) t...

We are proud to announce that our last paper “Towards an IMU-based Pen Online Handwriting Recognizer” has been accepted for publication at the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2021), the premier international event for scientists and practitioners involved in...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new collaborative research center at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The SFB 1483 EmpkinS aims to open up completely novel "digital", patient-centered diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities for medicine and psychology wit...

Lukas has been interested in robotics and autonomous systems for as long as he can remember. He has studied Mechatronics and Computer Science at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, studying design, control, perception, and decision-making for autonomous systems. In his Bachelor thesis, Lukas used drones to ...

We are proud to announce that our last paper “Identifying Untrustworthy Predictions in Neural Networks by Geometric Gradient Analysis” has been accepted for publication at the annual conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2021, one of the premier international conferences on rese...

If you are a young life scientist looking to acquire crucial skills to transition to the working world, SCI FI can give you the skills you need to thrive as an innovator in the healthcare industry. There is still time to register for our informative webinar on the 19.05.21 at 5 pm CEST https:/...

We are proud to announce that our last paper “Dynamically Sampled Nonlocal Gradients for Stronger Adversarial Attacks” has been accepted for publication at the annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and...

Thomas, who grew up in the Bavarian alps near Berchtesgaden, received both his bachelor's and master's degree in computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). In April 2021 he joined the MaD team, where he is working to improve breast cancer prevention and treatment...