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Dear RWTH AI community,

This newsletter is meant to keep you informed on relevant activities around AI at the RWTH University. The newsletter also provides an excellent platform to showcase your success, share your results, and promote your events. We've had numerous contributions and suggestions, so keep up the good engagement. If you are missing something or have any other ideas how this newsletter could be even more interesting and useful to our AI community, please send an email to contact@ai.rwth-aachen.de

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Meet The Members

Project/Paper Of The Month

Events

Awards/Prizes/Recognitions

Open Calls

External Events

External Open Calls

Announcements/News

High-level visit at the AI Center: Städteregionsrat, Oberbürgermeister and Beigeordneter as Guests

It is no secret that the AI Center at RWTH Aachen University, with its scientific expertise, reaches not only researchers but also interested parties and institutions from across the Aachen metropolitan region. Events such as AI Weeks 2023 and 2025 always aim to inspire the public and make the much-discussed topic of “AI” relatable to everyday life and understandable for everyone. The leadership team at the AI Center is not only involved in technical research and development, but also actively engaged in structural change in the Rhineland mining region. The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia calls this forward-looking transformation process “Von der Kohle zu KI,” in which the Jülich supercomputer JUPITER and the emerging AI Factory will also play a major role. To find out about the latest developments in AI research and AI made in Aachen, city region council Dr. Tim Grüttemeier, Mayor Dr. Michael Ziemons, and Aachen city councilor for Housing, Social Affairs, and Economic Affairs Thomas Hissel visited the AI Center at RWTH Aachen University. They were very interested and supportive.

Meet The Members

Ulrich Kerzel

Area of Expertise:

Machine Learning / AI, materials science, physics, statistics

Ancillary activities:

at the moment dean of studies faculty 5

Fun fact:

Reading, weight training and, of course, spending time with the family

Contact:

ulrich.kerzel@rwth-aachen.de

Project/Paper Of The Month

Events

Awards/Prizes/Recognitions

Open Calls

We didn’t receive any information on open calls. If you have any suggestions for the next newsletter, please contact the editorial team by email: contact@ai.rwth-aachen.de

External Events

External Open Calls

KI2026 Conference in Bremen - different calls

KI2026 is the annual conference of FBKI of the “Gesellschaft für Informatik” and it offers a central forum for scientific exchange on recent findings and developments in artificial intelligence and will take place in Bremen, August 11–14, 2026. The following calls are now open:

Call for Papers (Long, Short, Extended Abstracts), submit by 24th of March 2026

Call for Workshops and Tutorials, submit by 13th of February 2026

Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions, submit by 15th of May 2026