Open Positions

I have an opening in Linz for a PhD student in ML in Game Playing, Symbolic ML, ML and Logic, Neuro-Symbolic AI, or similar. More details here:

www.jku.at/en/institute...

European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI 2026)
📍 Vienna, Austria
📅 6–10 July 2026
🎓30+ courses, tutorials, and keynotes.

Early registration: April 30

More information @ essai2026.eu

Wohl verdient!

Well put, @garrykasparov.bsky.social. I have become a bit cautious with predicting the (non-)occurrence of miracles, but this one would surely be practically meaningless for us. Playing chess will be just as much fun once (if ever) the game has been solved.

In any consistent formal system powerful enough to do elementary arithmetic some statements can be proven to be true without a formal proof. Have we finally fixed Gödel's incompleteness?

The Dead Salmons of AI Interpretability In a striking neuroscience study, the authors placed a dead salmon in an MRI scanner and showed it images of humans in social situations. Astonishingly, standard analyses of the time reported brain re...

New preprint: The Dead Salmons of XAI

Standard fMRI pipelines once detected predictive brain regions in a dead salmon! A warning about poor statistical methodology

Now, XAI faces its own issues: many methods can yield plausible explanations even for randomized networks

arxiv.org/abs/2512.18792

Earlier this year I decided to stop reviewing for openreview conferences because I felt the bargaining about individual paper reviews that it advocates got way out of hand. But, no, I didn't see that one coming...

🚀 Join @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social as Professor for Ethical & Safe AI to advance the algorithmic foundations of ethical and safe AI and to shape “Reasonable AI."

Apply now and make an impact where AI meets society.
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(I/III) We're excited to announce a new tenure track opening! The position is called 'quantum informatics' and is affiliated with our QUICK group within the CS+AI division at @jku.at 🇦🇹. Application deadline is November 30th, 2025: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

I have joined the University of Helsinki as an associate professor and ELLIS Institute Finland as a PI. I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs to work on combining logical reasoning and machine learning. If interested, please contact me! @helsinki.fi @ellisinstitute.fi

... and it is freely available at www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Attending #KogWis2025 in Bochum this week. Cognitive Scientists have embraced LLMs as a subject of study and deliver amazing results. I think I am learning more about LLMs here than in recent ML or AI conferences. Dr. Susan Calvin, here we come...

Here's another twist to that...

I think today I set the new record for the longest time span between two consecutive papers at #KDD: 31 years between KDD-0 (an AAAI workshop in Seattle) and KDD-31 (thousands participants in Toronto). Both papers about rule learning, attendance was higher in 1994 (whatever that means...) 🤔

Just checked in for #KDD-25 in Toronto. They handed me my badge reminding me that I better not lose it because it costs 200$ to print one. At least I now know where 1/5th of my registration fee went to...

How come I've never heard (of) this guy before? RIP

KI Symposium and Summer School YouTube video by Universität Klagenfurt

Last week at the www.bilateral-ai.net Summer School in Klagenfurt: More than 40 of our symbolic and subsymbolic AI PhD students for the first time together.
youtu.be/MODjjqrijwg

Mein Buch “Was kann Künstliche Intelligenz?“ ist erschienen. Eine leicht zugängliche Einführung in das Thema Künstliche Intelligenz. LeserInnen – auch ohne technischen Hintergrund – wird erklärt, was KI eigentlich ist, welche Potenziale sie birgt und welche Auswirkungen sie hat.

🏹 Job alert: Tenure-Track Position for Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence at @jku.at. Opening is at the Institute for Symbolic AI for female candidates w/ PhD.

📍 Linz 🇦🇹
📅 Apply by: May 28
🔗 More info: bit.ly/3H2GDVk

#AIJobs

TENURE TRACK PROFESSORSHIP in Reinforcement Learning announced at Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Three other ML/AI tenure tracks also open.

www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

The calls for our 4 female-only tenure-track positions are now open (see my pinned message). Here is the call for the position in Knowledge and Data Processing.

www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

Applications to multiple positions are welcome. Deadline for all is May 28th.

Boost it and apply!

Very happy to announce an opening for a Tenure-Track Professor Position in Natural Language Processing and Interaction (topics of interest including IR and RecSys), which is open to female applicants, with an application deadline of May 28.
More details can be found at www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

Partial Pre-Post Code Tree: A Memory-Efficient Tree Structure for Conjunctive Rule Mining | Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1 You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

I've never done a paper video before, but now we had to do one for our KDD paper on more efficient data structures for our inductive rule learner LORD. I like the result, thanks Phuong! (you may want to turn off the sound though 😀). dl.acm.org/doi/suppl/10...

Four Tenure-track positions in AI exclusively for female applicants at @jkulinz.bsky.social! Details available soon at www.jku.at/en/lit-artif...

NeurIPS participation in Europe We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

This concerns so many of us international scientists. The US leadership in science has always relied on bringing excellent scholars to excellent American universities. Fulbright has recognized this has to start at the lowest academic levels, with incoming students as multipliers. #StandForFulbright

Leuven.ai Creative AI Event

Leuven.AI proudly presents its first Creative AI event. Featuring keynotes on computational creativity, humor and poetry generation, and human-machine collaboration.
Check out the program: ai.kuleuven.be/events/creat... @leuvenai.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Join Our Research Team in Linz!
We are looking for 5 PostDocs and 10 PhDs in Machine Learning working on xLSTM, NLP, robustness, density ratio.

Deadline: 04/20/25.

More details: www.jku.at/en/lit-artif...

#MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions

The 3rd edition of Interpretable Machine Learning is out! 🎉 Major cleanup, better examples, and new chapters on Data & Models, Interpretability Goals, Ceteris Paribus, and LOFO Importance.

The book remains free to read for everyone. But you can also buy ebook or paperback.