From July 11-15, 2022, the German Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig) hosted the 8th International Summer School on AI and Big Data. After two years with restrictions due to the Corona pandemic, this summer school could finally take place in attendance again. It was held on the premises of the Radisson Blu Hotel, right next to the Leipzig University.

Program & Highlights 

This year we selected five major ScaDS.AI topics and invited international experts to Leipzig to introduce the field and give insights to latest developments in the research. In addition, we also welcomed speakers from the fields of graph AI and AI-driven entity resolution.

Digital Summer School: For people who could not attend the event on-site, we provided access to the presentations via Zoom.

Within our program, we offered plenty of time to connect with the speakers. Moreover, the summer school offered several social activities such as a city walk and a dinner in a traditional restaurant. In this way, participants were able to connect with other international practitioners and researchers.

Below you can find the full program with additional information on the speakers and their topics.

Detailed information about the topics of the Scads.AI Summer School 2022 can be found in our summarizing blogpost: Recap of the 8th International Summer School 2022.

Program Monday 11.07.22

Time	Person	Institution	Title of presentation	Topic
13:30 – 14:00	Prof. Erhard Rahm	Leipzig University, Germany	Research and Transfer at the AI Center ScaDS.AI
14:00 – 15:00	Prof. Christian Bizer	Univ. of Mannheim, Germany	Training Transformer-based Entity Matchers using the Web as Supervision
15:00 – 15:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
15:30 – 16:30	Daniel Obraczka	Leipzig University, Germany	Connecting the Right Dots: Entity Resolution on Knowledge Graphs
16:30 – 17:15	Prof. Ihab Ilyas Digital Presentation	University of Waterloo, Canada	HoloClean and Kamino: Structured Learning for Data Cleaning and Private Data Generation Digital Presentation
19:00 – 20:30	City Walk	City Walk	City Walk

Program Tuesday 12.07.22

Time	Person	Institution	Title of presentation	Topic
9:00 – 9:40	Leonie Weissweiler	LMU Munich, Germany	The Past, Present, and Future of NLP from a Linguistic Perspective
9:40 – 10:20	Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Haritz Puerto	TU Darmstadt, Germany	Question Answering
10:20 – 11:00	Yamen Ajjour Digital Presentation	Leipzig University, Germany	Argumentation Technology Digital Presentation
11:00 – 11:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
11:30 – 12:30	Dr. Jelena Mitrović	University of Passau, Germany	Computational Rhetoric Approach to Solving Complex NLP Tasks
12:30 – 13:30	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
13:30 – 14:30	Prof. Peter Christen Dr. Anushka Vidanage	Australian National University	Linking Sensitive Data: Approaches and Vulnerabilities
14:30 – 15:00	Martin Franke	Leipzig University, Germany	Scalable, secure and reliable PPRL solutions with PRIMAT
15:00 – 15:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
15:30 – 16:30	Prof. Rainer Mühlhoff	Osnabrück University, Germany	Predictive Privacy: Collective Privacy Challenges by AI and Big Data
16:30 – 17:15	Dr. Mete Akgün	University of Tübingen, Germany	Privacy-preserving collaborative training of kernel-based machine learning methods

Program Wednesday 13.07.22

Time	Person	Institution	Title of presentation	Topic
9:00 – 10:00	Prof. Isabel Wagner Digital Presentation	De Montfort University Leicester, UK	Quantifying privacy: challenges, pitfalls, and ways forward Digital Presentation
10:00 – 11:00	Prof. Anne Lauber-Rönsberg	TU Dresden, Germany	A Legal Framework for AI
11:00 – 11:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
11:30 – 12:30	Prof. Esfandiar Mohammadi	University of Lübeck, Germany	Tight composition bounds for strong utility-privacy tradeoffs in privacy-preserving machine learning
12:30 – 13:30	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
13:30 – 14:30	Dr. Olga Zolotareva Mohammad Bakhtiari	University of Hamburg, Germany	FeatureCloud: a privacy by design platform for federated learning in biomedicine and beyond.
14:30 – 15:30	Prof. Sayan Mukherjee	Leipzig University, Germany	Challenges in modeling 3D images in Biomedicine
15:30 – 16:00	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
16:00 – 17:00	Dr. Carsen Stringer Digital Presentation	Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, USA	Solving cellular segmentation with limited data with Cellpose Digital Presentation
18:00 – 21:00	Boat Tour	Boat Tour	Boat Tour

Program Thursday 14.07.22

Time	Person	Institution	Title of presentation	Topic
9:00 – 10:00	Prof. Manja Marz	FSU Jena, Germany	Neural networks for molecular biological classification
10:00 – 10:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
10:30 – 11:30	Dr. Martin Weigert	EFPL Lausanne, Switzerland	Machine-learning based microscopy image analysis
11:30 – 12:30	Dr. Carsten Marr	Institute of AI for Health Helmholtz Munich	Artificial intelligence in computational hematopathology
12:30 – 13:30	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
13:30 – 14:30	Dr. Anna R. Poetsch	TU Dresden, Germany	Predicting mutations with AI in Genomics
14:30 – 15:30	Paul A. Johnson	Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA	Probing Earthquake Faults with AI
15:30 – 16:00	Jannes Münchmeyer	GFZ Potsdam, Germany	SeisBench – Lessons learned from building a library for machine learning in seismology
16:00 – 16:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
16:30 – 17:00	Jack Woollam Digital Presentation	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany	The evolving landscape of AI in seismology | Common perspectives and trends Digital Presentation
18:00-21:00	Summer School Dinner	Summer School Dinner	Summer School Dinner

Program Friday 15.07.22

Time	Person	Institution	Title of presentation	Topic
9:00 – 9:30	Dr. Teja Kattenborn	Leipzig Univ. Germany	Vegetation characterization across scales – from citizen science photographs, to drone and satellite remote sensing acquisitions
9:30 – 10:00	Dr. Paul Bodesheim	Jena Univ. Germany	Machine learning for upscaling, event detection, and biodiversity monitoring
10:00 – 10:30	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
10:30 – 11:30	Prof. Miguel Mahecha	Leipzig Univ. Germany	Data cubes uncover spatiotemporal dynamics in the Earth system
11:30 – 12:30	Dr. Jakob Zscheischler	UFZ Leipzig Germany	Data science for understanding extreme events in the Earth system

Organizers

The Summer School 2022 was organized by ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Dresden/Leipzig as a center for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data and one of five new AI centers in Germany funded under the federal government’s AI strategy and is to be established as a permanent research facility in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) e.V. at the Leipzig University.

Dr. Eric Peukert  Administration Director ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Dr. René Jäkel  Administration Director ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm Director ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel  Director ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden

Contact 

Jana Bendigs
Communication Management ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University
Nicole Spieß 
Project Assistance ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University