
Zeynep Akata
@zeynepakata
Professor of Computer Science at @TU_Muenchen and Director @Helmholtz_Munich, @ELLISforEurope Fellow
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Checkout two postdoc positions fully funded by TU München and Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich! The application deadline is November 19th. Please apply if you are interested in our core research topics and have a good track record in ML and CV. More details in the link👇

Watch Eric Schulz from Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI explain how testing LLMs with psychology tasks reveals new insight into how they work and how they can be improved. The latest talk at the #KempnerInstitute: youtu.be/-QubTOvK9mM?si…


The deadline for PhD applications in our Explainable Machine Learning group TU München Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich is tomorrow! Checkout the ELLIS PhD program if you are interested (we won’t evaluate email applications, MSc degree is a must, flexible starting dates) ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd…

We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers in our Explainable Machine Learning group TU München Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich ELLIS, application deadline is November 19th (fully funded, flexible starting dates, flexible topics, duration negotiable). More details 👇







🎓PhD Spotlight: Jae Myung Kim We’re thrilled to celebrate Jae Myung Kim , who will defend his PhD on 25th June! 🎉 Jae Myung began his PhD at Universität Tübingen as part of the ELLIS & IMPRS-IS programs, advised by Zeynep Akata and collaborating closely with Cordelia Schmid . His


🚨Happy to announce that one paper, "Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs", is accepted at #icml2025 ! Congrats to the wonderful authors Lukas Thede , Karsten Roth , Matthias Bethge ,Zeynep Akata , and Tom Hartvigsen. 👇 Highlights in the thread


🎓PhD Spotlight: Thomas Hummel A spotlight on our one and only Thomas Hummel , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! 🎉 Thomas started his PhD in 2020 at Universität Tübingen as part of the IMPRS-IS program under the supervision of Zeynep Akata . His main research focuses on multi-modal


🎓PhD Spotlight: Leonard Salewski Celebrate Leonard Salewski, who will defend his PhD on 24th June! 📸🎉 Leonard has been a PhD student in the EML and Computer Graphics Tübingen groups at Universität Tübingen since May 2020. He is part of the IMPRS-IS program (Intelligent Systems), jointly supervised by Zeynep Akata



In Nashville for my last PhD conference 🥲. Come join today 10:30-12:30 in Hall D (#391) to talk insights, tips and tricks to modify pretraining for representation reuse - scalably. 🚀Joint work w/ Zeynep Akata, Dima Damen @CVPR 2025, Ivana Balazevic & Olivier Hénaff while at Google DeepMind.



🎓PhD Spotlight: Shyamgopal Karthik Celebrate Shyamgopal Karthik , who will defend his PhD on 23rd June! Shyam has been a PhD student Universität Tübingen since October 2021, supervised by Zeynep Akata. His research has been centred around compositionality in vision and language. In


It is a great honor to receive the ZukunftsWissen Prize 2025 from the German Academy of the Sciences Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina with generous support of the Commerzbank-Stiftung 🎉 This achievement wouldn’t have been possible without my wonderful group Explainable Machine Learning TU München Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich