SmallData Highlights at NeurIPS 2025: Introducing TabArena

Cristóbal Tagle Ludwig 15/01/2026 No Comments

The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) took place across two official locations: San Diego, USA (Dec 2–7, 2025) and Mexico City, Mexico (Nov 30–Dec 5, 2025). In parallel, EurIPS, a…

SmallData at Research Day 2025

Cristóbal Tagle Ludwig 19/12/2025 No Comments

On Friday, December 12, 2025, the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg hosted Research Day 2025: “Shaping the Future of Research in Life Sciences and Medicine: Research Areas of the Faculty of…

Mental Health Workshop: Strengthening the Scientific Mind

Gheorghe-Eduard Marin 12/12/2025 No Comments

SMART has organized a full-day training on mental health in research for our doctoral researchers on Monday, December 8th. Dr. Bergner’s approach, tailored specifically to our program, integrates scientific evidence…

New Nature Microbiology Study Redefines CRISPR–Cas Classification

Cristóbal Tagle Ludwig 17/11/2025 No Comments

On November 6, 2025, Nature Microbiology published the article “An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems including rare variants,” co-authored by our PI Rolf Backofen. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and…

Towards a Shared Language: Collaboration follow up and Retreat Preparation

Ritika Gupta 12/11/2025 No Comments

In preparation for the upcoming SMART Retreat and as part of the ongoing collaboration follow-up, SMART doctoral researchers came together to present and refine their collaboration pitches, exploring connections and…

Experience “BrAInWorlds – The World in Our Heads”

Cristóbal Tagle Ludwig 10/11/2025 No Comments

On March 13, 2025, visitors to the interactive event BrAInWorlds – The World in Our Heads immersed themselves in a sensory-rich and emotion-evoking experience, discovering firsthand how our surroundings shape our perception…

Navigating Peer Review and Getting Published

Ritika Gupta 23/10/2025 No Comments

Last week, SMART doctoral researchers took part in the course Navigating Peer Review & Getting Published with Dr. Lukas Peintner. The two-day training guided participants through the publication process — from preparing and…

Progress Seminar: Updated Format to Strengthen Interdisciplinary Exchange

Ritika Gupta 21/10/2025 No Comments

The Progress Seminar is part of SMART’s shared language strategy, supporting interdisciplinary collaboration by providing a regular space where doctoral researchers present their work, receive feedback, and connect across fields. Following researcher…

SmallData Doctoral Researchers at the GCPR 2025

Cristóbal Tagle Ludwig 22/10/2025 No Comments

The city of Freiburg, Germany, hosted the annual German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) from September 23 to 26. Early-career researchers Simon Ging, Sebastian Walter, Jelena Bratulić, and Samuel Böhm from the CRC…

Building Trustworthy AI from Small Data: Maria Kalweit Named New CRIION Professor

Sophia Nolde 15/10/2025 No Comments

Freiburg is strengthening its position in cancer research with the establishment of a new Professorship for Bioinformatics within the Collaborative Research Institute Intelligent Oncology (CRIION), now held by our Associated…

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SmallData Highlights at NeurIPS 2025: Introducing TabArena

SmallData at Research Day 2025

Mental Health Workshop: Strengthening the Scientific Mind

New Nature Microbiology Study Redefines CRISPR–Cas Classification

Towards a Shared Language: Collaboration follow up and Retreat Preparation

Experience “BrAInWorlds – The World in Our Heads”

Navigating Peer Review and Getting Published

Progress Seminar: Updated Format to Strengthen Interdisciplinary Exchange

SmallData Doctoral Researchers at the GCPR 2025

Building Trustworthy AI from Small Data: Maria Kalweit Named New CRIION Professor

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