Managed by Prof. Sepp Hochreiter, the LIT AI Lab was created as a permanent research center at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT). The unique environment at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz is an opportunity for the LIT AI Lab to pool the JKU’s world-class expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) to shape and advance AI research and its industrial applications.
The LIT Lab is committed to scientific excellence. We focus on theoretical and experimental research in machine learning, logical reasoning, and computational perception. We are educating the next generation of AI researchers and engineers in AI technology at various academic levels.
Created in 2017 as a permanent research institution, the LIT AI Lab launched with three seed groups conducting core research in AI:
The ELLIS Unit Linz is comprised of six ELLIS faculty members, including Martina Seidl, two ELLIS members Bernhard Nessler and Johannes Brandstetter, and three ELLIS fellows, Sepp Hochreiter, Gerhard Widmer and Johannes Fürnkranz, as well as ELLIS scholar Günter Klambauer. The ELLIS Unit Linz includes the recently established Institute of Advanced Research Artificial Intelligence, opens an external URL in a new window (IARAI) which is also part of the ELLIS PhD and PostDoc program, opens an external URL in a new window, educating ELLIS PhD candidates and providing a post-doctoral education program for some of the best junior researchers in the field.
ELLIS Unit Linz
Address
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
A-4040 Linz/Austria
Location
Computer Science Building, Room S0309
The LIT AI Lab/ ELLIS Unit Linz Seminar launched in the summer of 2021, bringing researchers and students interested in the field of Artificial Intelligence together. Click here to learn more.
Name | Position | Phone |
Mag. Doris Kaiserreiner | ELLIS Manager | +43 732 2468 9391 |
Jenny Joana Knauth, MA | ELLIS Administration | +43 732 2468 9390 |
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent systems (ELLIS) is a pan-European effort initiated in 2018 to foster European research excellence in machine learning and related fields. ELLIS aims to provide European researchers with outstanding opportunities to conduct their research in Europe, thereby supporting the next generation of junior European researchers in this strategically important field. The goal is to keep Europe competitive in the field of modern AI and benefit from a more positive economic and societal impact.
ELLIS' mission will benefit Europe in two ways:
At the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) on December 11, 2019 (a leading international conference on machine learning), ELLIS announced it would establish an initial 17 ELLIS units across 10 European countries and Israel. The recently established research units, centered around outstanding AI researchers, will address underlying AI challenges focusing on research excellence and social impact. An open call generated 28 proposals from 13 countries, each of which pledged local funding of a minimum of EUR 1.5 million per year for no less than five years, including 20% reserved for ELLIS activities such as student and faculty exchange and organizing joint ELLIS research programs and workshops. An international evaluation committee selected the proposals from Alicante, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Darmstadt, Delft, Freiburg, Helsinki, Linz (LIT AI Laboratory), Lausanne, Leuven, Oxford, Prague, Saarbrücken, Tel Aviv, Tübingen, Vienna (IST Austria), and Zurich (ETH Zurich) based on proven scientific merit and implementing measures in line with the ELLIS mission. In an effort to avoid any conflicts of interest, all of the peer reviews were conducted by scientists and scholars from countries other than the targeted institutions. The list of ELLIS unit leaders includes European researchers such as Wolfram Burgard, Sepp Hochreiter, Thomas Hofmann, Sami Kaski, Nuria Oliver, Bernhard Schölkopf, Yee Whye Teh, Luc van Gool, and Max Welling..
Turing Laureate Geoffrey Hinton, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Engineering Fellow at Google, and one of the leading scientists in the field of artificial intelligence, states that: "Deep learning is at the core of the staggering progress we are witnessing in AI today. Companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are investing billions in developing this technology. If Europe wants to keep up with North America and China, it needs to focus its major AI investments on deep learning."
Several European companies have indicated their support for this initiative, including Audi, AVL, Bayer, Bosch, DeepMind, Greiner, Porsche, Siemens, as well as U.S. companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and the Canadian startup Elemen.
Topic:
Large-scale ligand-based virtual screening for potential SARS-Cov-2 inhibitors using a deep neural network
Team:
Over 20 theses by Master's degree students in the AI program at the Johannes Kepler University were presented on campus.
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Project Manager: Markus Schedl
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Trusted Artificial Intelligence: Towards Certification of Machine Learning Applications
In our new paper, we identify and counter domain shifts in machine learning models for COVID-19 diagnosis from blood tests:
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This online workshop will present projects on how to tackle Covid-19 using methods of machine learning and AI.
This online workshop will present projects on how to tackle Covid-19 using methods of machine learning and AI.
This online workshop will present projects on how to tackle Covid-19 using methods of machine learning and AI.
On Failure Modes of Molecule Generators and Optimizers by Philipp Renz, Dries Van Rompaey, Jörg Kurt Wegner, Sepp Hochreiter, Günter Klambauer.
Publication by Institute for Machine Learning and LIT AI Lab in cooperation with Department of Immunology and Department of Informatic, University of…
This online workshop will present projects on how to tackle Covid-19 using methods of machine learning and AI.
This online workshop will present projects on how to tackle Covid-19 using methods of machine learning and AI.
This online workshop will present projects on how to tackle Covid-19 using methods of machine learning and AI.