- Lisa, Bernd, and David received the best paper award at the ECML PKDD 2023 with their paper “Towards Efficient MCMC Sampling in Bayesian Neural Networks by Exploiting Symmetry” (joint work with J.G.Wiese, T.Papamarkou and S.Guennemann).
- Chris, Bernd, and David received the best paper award at the “International Workshop on Statistical Modelling 2023” with their paper “Sparse Modality Regression” (joint work with Christian L. Mueller).
- Felix received the best poster award at AI.BAY2023 for the paper Domain Adaptation for Time-Series Classification to Mitigate Covariate Shift.
- Daniel and Lennart won first place at the baiosphere hackathon 2023 and presented their findings at AI.BAY2023.
- Tobias, Bernd and David received the best poster award at the “AI and Data Science at the Medical Faculty Symposium 2023” for the paper Cascaded Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Chest X-ray Synthesis.
- Jann, Bernd and Matthias received the best paper award at the “First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP (EvoNLP)” at EMNLP 2022.
- Matthias received the Teaching Award for Non-Faculty Lecturers 2022 from the BWL Student Council Wasti.
- Mina and Bernd : Received the 2022 Medical Imaging - Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award for the paper Bayesian uncertainty estimation for detection of long-tail and unseen conditions.
- Mina and Bernd : Received the 2022 Medical Imaging - Poster Award for the paper Deep mutual GANs: representation learning from multiple experts.
- Patrick Schratz, one of our alumni: Received the FAIRest Data Set Award 2021 for the data set Monitoring forest health using hyperspectral imagery: Does feature selection improve the performance of machine-learning techniques?.
- Bernd and Quay: Received the 2021 DGOF Best Paper Award for the paper Predicting personality from patterns of behavior collected with smartphones.
- Bernd: Received the 2021 SIGEVO Impact award for the article Exploratory Landscape Analysis.
- The developers of the Open Source Machine Learning Package mlr (incl. Bernd, Michel, Giuseppe, Jakob) received the ODSC West 2019 Data Science Award.
- Bernd: Won the best paper award of the ITAT conference with their paper Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Online Algorithm Selection - an Empirical Study.
- Janek: Won the TEFDataChallenge at Wayra.
- Giuseppe: Ranked 1st in “Predict the next phone call competition”
- Giuseppe: Ranked 1st in “Predict Exacerbation in patients with Respiratory Diseases”
- Bernd: Best dissertation award 2013 from Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund.
- Bernd: I have regularly taught and lead a student team for the German Data Mining Cup competition. We scored 1st place in 2013 and 2011, and 2nd place in 2010 and 2013.
- Bernd: Julia Schiffner, Claus Weihs and I won the best paper “Method Award” of the GfKl 2010 conference for our contribution “Bias-Variance Analysis of Local Classification Methods”.
- Bernd: Hong Qinyuan won the Industrial Challenge of the GECCO 2011 conference for his
“Dynamic Linear Trading System”. He submitted his solution as a student under my supervision.
- Bernd: Best intermediate diploma award in computer science from University of Hamburg.
