Helmholtz AI Conference 2022 – Preliminary agenda.

Day 1 | Thursday, 2 June 2022

Conference Day 1 · Maritim Hotel & Internationales Congress Center Dresden · Moderator: Heidi Seibold

10:00–10:20Opening Remarks and Welcome

Opening remarks and welcome from:

  • Scientific Director, HZDR
  • Scientific Director, DLR (video)
  • Scientific Director, HMGU (video)
10:20–10:30Welcome from the Hosts / Intro to the Programme

Xiaoxiang Zhu (DLR)

10:30–11:00Helmholtz AI in 2022

Fabian Theis

11:00–12:30Session 1: Applications
  • Conrad Albrecht (DLR): Weakly Supervised Learning for Earth Observation
  • Shijie Jiang (UFZ): Exploring flooding mechanisms and their trends in Europe through explainable AI
  • Kurt Schmoller (HMGU): Cell-ACDC: deep-learning tools for live-cell image analysis
  • Ruth Schöbel (FZJ): Diagonal SDC Preconditioning via Reinforcement Learning enabled by Differentiable Programming
  • Ali Al-Fatlawi (TU Dresden): Alphafold in Protein Homology Inference: Tales from Diatoms, Redbeta, and Y-box Binding Proteins
  • Attila Cangi (CASUS): Data-Driven and Physics-Informed Modeling of Matter under Extreme Conditions
12:30–13:30Break

Break and an opportunity to connect with other participants.

13:30–15:00Session 2: Keynote & Applications

Keynote

  • Beth A. Plale: Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Democratizing Artificial Intelligence

Topic: Applications

  • Robin Spanier (DLR): Pollination Artificial Intelligence (PAI): Using deep learning to identify pollinators
  • Esteban Vaca (FZJ): Deep-Learning based Fiber Orientation Estimation on Human Brain Sections using Tiltable 3D-Polarized Light Imaging
  • Erik Thiessenhussen (HZDR): Reconstruction of SAXS Data using cINNs
15:00–15:30Coffee Break

A break for refreshments and informal conversation.

15:30–16:45Session 3: Local Session
  • Michael Bussmann (CASUS): AI connecting research domains and crossing borders
  • Martin Voigt (elevait GmbH): Productization of AI: Combine Formal Knowledge and Machine Learning
  • Sebastian Bodenstedt (NCT Dresden): AI in the Operating Room of the Future
  • Niklas Paulig (TU Dresden / ScaDS.AI): Reinforcement Learning in Transportation: Vessels on the Rhine River
16:45–17:00Break

A short break between sessions.

17:00–18:00Session 4: Panel Discussion on Fairness, Bias, Legal Aspects & Trustworthy AI

Panelists:

  • Prof. Dr. Mrinalini Kochupillai (TU Munich): legal questions / ethics
  • Dr. Müller-Pfefferkorn (TU Dresden): data availability
  • Kirill Bykov (TU Berlin): trustworthiness / explainability
18:00–19:30Poster Session: Lightning Talks

Lightning talks presenting poster highlights.

19:30Networking and Transition to Social Event

Continue conversations and make new connections as the day moves into the social event.

Day 2 | Friday, 3 June 2022

Conference Day 2 · Maritim Hotel & Internationales Congress Center Dresden · Moderator: Heidi Seibold

09:00–10:30Session 5: Consulting Session
  • Guido Juckland: Introduction to voucher system
  • Andres Camero (DLR): A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Aeronautics, Space and Transport
  • Stefan Kesselheim (FZJ): From small data to high-performance computing: Highlights from the AI consultant team in Jülich
  • Tobias Weigel (HEREON): ML for Earth and Environment: Laying the foundations for hybrid modelling
  • Christina Bukas (HMGU): AI consultants at HMGU – Empowering health researchers with AI
  • Peter Steinbach (HZDR): No democracy without education: Training and Teaching with Helmholtz AI
  • Markus Götz (KIT): Towards Sustainable AI in Energy Research
  • Discussion

Challenges

  • Markus Götz: Green AI – Precise Energy Consumption Measurements of AI Workloads
  • Stefan Kesselheim / Andres Camero: The Helmholtz AI CountMeIn Challenge
10:30–11:00Coffee Break

A break for refreshments and informal conversation.

11:00–12:30Session 6: Deep Learning, Social Aspects of Machine Learning & Infrastructure

Topic: Deep Learning

  • Bashir Kazimi (HEREON): Deep Active Learning for Segmentation of Biodegradable Bone Implants in High Resolution Synchrotron Radiation Microtomograms
  • Mathias Kuhl (DLR), Jan Lewen (DLR): GAN-based Calculation of Concentrated Radiation on Solar Tower Receivers
  • Eric Uppschulte (FZJ): Neuronal Cell Detection with Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Learning

Topic: Social Aspects of Machine Learning

  • Ivica Obadic (TU München): Attention Explainability for Crop-Type Classification

Topic: Infrastructure

  • Jannes Münchmeyer (GFZ): SeisBench: A toolbox for machine learning in seismology
  • Daniel Coquelin (KIT): HyDe: The First Open-Source, Python-based, GPU-accelerated Hyperspectral Denoising Package
12:30–13:30Break

Break and an opportunity to connect with other participants.

13:30–15:00Session 7: Poster Award Ceremony, Keynote & General Machine Learning

Poster Award Ceremony

Keynote

  • Ivo Sbalzarini: Data-driven Modeling of Living Matter

Topic: General Machine Learning

  • Lenz Fiedler (CASUS): Hyperparameter optimization for automated DFT surrogate model
  • Nikolaos Nikolaou (HMGU): Estimating high resolution daily relative humidity across Germany: a Random Forest approach
  • Georg Siedel (BAuA): Evaluating the Robustness of Machine Learning Classifiers
15:00Conference End

The Helmholtz AI Conference 2022 concludes.