Berlin Learning &
Intelligent Systems Society
BLISS is the AI organisation in Berlin that connects like-minded individuals who share great interest and passion for the field of machine learning.
Upcoming Events
Abstract
How closely do AI models resemble the human brain, and what can each teach us about the other? This talk explores brain-inspired language models, their connections to human cognition, and how those connections can help make AI more interpretable.
About
Badr AlKhamissi is a PhD candidate at EPFL working on AI and neuroscience. He develops brain-inspired AI models and uses them to study human cognition. His previous research includes work at Google DeepMind, Meta AI and Sony AI.
Jonas Geiping - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
About
Jonas Geiping is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, where he leads the Safety- & Efficiency-Aligned Learning group. Before moving to Tübingen, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his PhD from the University of Siegen.
Jonathan Richard Schwarz - Imperial College London
About
Jonathan Richard Schwarz is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, working on topics from continual and meta-learning to sparsity.
Ida Momennejad - Microsoft Research
About
Ida Momennejad is a Principal Researcher in Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft Research in New York City. As a cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher, she studies memory and planning in brains and AI.
Robert McCarthy - University College London
About
Robert McCarthy is a PhD student in Computer Science at University College London. He is launching AI Character Evaluations, an independent non-profit for AI safety evaluations.
About Us
Founded in 2022, our student initiative Berlin Learning & Intelligent Systems Society (BLISS) aims to create a community of students and young professionals
excited about machine learning and AI. Our vision is to provide an environment
to deeply engage with AI research while fostering connections to leading
researchers and industry professionals.
We host many awesome events, including a speaker series, reading groups,
hackathons and social events. We've always been independent from companies
and universities and became a registered non-profit organization in 2022.
You are cordially invited to our events!
Team
Westerhoff
Loos
Tschörner
Hoang
Hufe
Neuhäuser
Beese
Pinetzki
Goelbasi
Erdem Erdogan
Sherif
Kojonazarov
Zukowska
Kosiarski
Ramadan
Ndjiki-Nya
Pfeiffer
Sztukiewicz
Samjatin
Mavaddat
Sahin
Özdemir
Schulte
Deckard
Dickson
Thakkar
Xie
ÇOLAK
Chapagain
Hübner
U.
Partners
We frequently cooperate with our partners granting them access to a large community of AI talents while using the given resources to increase the quality of our events.
