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Say hi to Alba Carballo Castro, 🎓 ELLIS PhD Student at @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social 🇨🇭 and Uni Cambridge 🇬🇧. She researches generative models for discrete data. She says her long-term goal working in the field is to contribute to making AI a safe, trustworthy, and inclusive field. #WomenInELLIS

🗺️🔍 Discover the ELLIS Sites: next up Ellis Unit Jena 🇩🇪 — advancing interpretable, causal, and uncertainty-aware AI at the interface of machine learning and Earth system science. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4f8s6Gz @ellisunitjena.bsky.social

Meet @msminirobot.bsky.social, Sr Researcher at UT Nuremberg 🇩🇪 researching multi-robot systems, focusing on how modern AI methods can enhance their capabilities and how complex collective behaviors can be learned. She’s an ELLIS Member in the new ELLIS Unit Franconia! #WomenInELLIS 📸 Phil Dera

Meet Qi Chen, PI & Asst. Professor @ellisinstitute.fi & @aalto.fi 🇫🇮 & ELLIS Member researching Trustworthy AI, Continual Learning & #AI4Science. Organiser of ELLIS Summer School 🇫🇮 on AI for Research. Her mantra: focus on what you can learn from new challenges, not whether you're ready. #WomenInELLIS

🗺️🔍 Discover the ELLIS Sites: featuring ELLIS Unit Madrid 🇪🇸 — connecting researchers across Madrid's public universities, the unit advances interpretable, causal, and probabilistic AI across healthcare, climate, biometrics, and robotics. 📖 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RF3GdS

Say hi to @didemgurdurbroo.bsky.social, Asst Prof at @uu.se 🇸🇪 & ELLIS Member. She researches multi-robot systems, symbiotic multi-agent RL & bio-inspired robotics for cyber-physical systems. Establishing her own lab to define her own research vision has been a career highlight. #WomenInELLIS

Get to know Żaneta Świderska-Chadaj, Assoc Prof at Ideas Research Institute 🇵🇱. She’s an ELLIS Member in ELLIS Unit Warsaw. She researches applying AI to computational pathology to enhance medical diagnosis thru advanced data analysis. "Science has immense, vital space for women." #WomenInELLIS

Meet Neslihan Bayramoglu, Sr Research Fellow at @oulu.fi 🇫🇮 & ELLIS Member. Her work is applied AI in health, focusing on ML & computer vision for medical image analysis & large-scale health data. Her goal is to support ML tools that ease the lives of those dealing w/ health issues. #WomenInELLIS

Say hi to Sahar Vahdati, Prof at @unihannover.bsky.social, Leibniz Info Centre for Sci & Tech (TIB) 🇩🇪. She’s an ELLIS Member researching representation learning & reasoning, w/ an emphasis on intelligent systems that can learn structured, meaningful abstractions. #WomenInELLIS 📸: Sören Pinsdorf

🎉 25 ELLIS Units have been successfully extended! Following our five-year reapplication process, we celebrate the sustained excellence these Units bring to European AI research. Congratulations to all! 👏 📖 Get more details: ellis.eu/news/25-elli...

Meet Karolina Pircs, Senior Researcher, Group Leader at Semmelweis University, HCEMM, & HUN-REN SZTAKI-SU Rejuvenation Group 🇭🇺. She’s an ELLIS Member whose research bridges bioinformatics and molecular neuroscience to study human brain aging and neurodegeneration. #WomenInELLIS

Get to know @cherise-chen.bsky.social, Asst Prof at @sheffielduni.bsky.social 🇬🇧. She’s an ELLIS Scholar in the ELLIS Unit Manchester and the ELLIS Program Robust Machine Learning. Her area of research is in AI and machine learning for healthcare. #WomenInELLIS

Say hi to Nadja Klein, Prof, Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at @kit.edu 🇩🇪 & ELLIS Member. Her research areas are Bayesian Methods, ML, and Spatio-Temporal Learning. She was awarded the COPSS Emerging Leader Award in 2025, which recognises early career statistical scientists 👏 #WomenInELLIS

Meet @lisakoch.bsky.social, Asst. Prof at @unibe.ch🇨🇭 & ELLIS Member. Her research: ML for biomedical data & medical imaging, with a focus on trustworthy AI. Her goal: "certifiably safe & effective ML tools aligned with clinicians' & patients' needs." #WomenInELLIS

Say hi to Chiara Plizzari, Assistant Prof at Bocconi Uni 🇮🇹, ELLIS Member at @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social. Her research areas are Computer Vision & Egocentric Video Understanding. As advice, she says, “don’t hesitate to ask for opportunities — many doors don’t open unless you knock!” #WomenInELLIS

Meet Elizabeth Daly, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBMResearch 🇮🇪 & ELLIS Member On responsible AI: "It can empower technologists to innovate at speed while doing the right thing: protecting people from harm." #WomenInELLIS

Meet Akshita Gupta, #ELLISPhD Student at @tuda.bsky.social 🇩🇪 with an exchange visit at Google Zurich 🇨🇭. Her research area is multimodal reasoning & generation with focus on developing methods for long-form videos. By sharing her experiences, she hopes to help others feel encouraged 👏🏻 #WomenInELLIS

Get to know @mariyahendriksen.bsky.social, Research Fellow at @ox.ac.uk 🇬🇧 & ELLIS Member. She works on multimodal machine learning, focusing on adaptable & trustworthy models. Her advice for female scientists is to have a diverse support team of mentors who will advocate for you. #WomenInELLIS

Meet Hayley Hung, ELLIS Fellow & Associate Professor at TU Delft 🇳🇱. She researches Multimodal ML & Social Computing, and leads Metascience for ML at the ELLIS Unit Delft to improve how we do research. #WomenInELLIS

Meet Micol Spitale, Assistant Prof at Politecnico di Milano 🇮🇹. She’s an ELLIS Member in @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social working on Human-Robot Interaction. Her advice for early-career scientists is to seek out mentors who understand the unique challenges and fears they may face. #WomenInELLIS

Meet @theeimer.bsky.social, Postdoc at @unihannover.bsky.social 🇩🇪, ELLIS Member working on AutoRL, hyperparameter optimization & Reinforcement Learning evaluation. Her challenge at work: bridging #AutoML + RL and sharpening communication to make her work clear to both communities. #WomenInELLIS

Meet @annalukina.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at TU Delft 🇳🇱 and ELLIS Member, working on the intersection of artificial intelligence, formal methods, and control theory. Her goal is to rethink neuro-symbolic AI verification using compositionality for sustainable certification. #WomenInELLIS

Meet @weissweiler.bsky.social, Postdoc at Uppsala Uni 🇸🇪 and ELLIS Member, working on #NLProc, computational linguistics & LM interpretability. She’s accepted an Assistant Prof position at Leipzig Uni 🇩🇪—the first female CompSci professor there—and is eager to support more women 👏 #WomenInELLIS

Meet Silvia Zuffi, Senior Research Scientist at IMATI–CNR 🇮🇹 and ELLIS Member working in #ComputerVision. She believes in the power of connecting scientists across Europe and aims to make a real impact with AI for animal welfare & conservation. #WomenInELLIS

Kicking off another year of #WomenInELLIS 👋 Meet @vdignum.bsky.social, Prof at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social / @aipolicylab.se.web.brid.gy 🇸🇪, ELLIS Fellow in ELLIS Program Human-Centric ML. She works on responsible AI—ethics, accountability & governance—with a new book, "The AI Paradox," out soon.

Get to know Emine Yilmaz, Prof at @ucl.ac.uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. She’s an ELLIS Fellow part of the ELLIS Unit London and her area of research covers #NLProc & information retrieval. Some of the methods she has developed have been adopted by the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). #WomenInELLIS

Meet @bunnech.bsky.social, Asst Prof at EPFL 🇨🇭. She’s an ELLIS Member, part of ELLIS Unit Lausanne (@epfl-ai-center.bsky.social), her research area is AI for Molecular Medicine. A highlight: being lead author of a Cell paper on "How to build the AI virtual cell," among 42 co-authors. #WomenInELLIS

Say hi to Catarina Barata, Assistant Prof at @istecnico.bsky.social, researcher at @isrlisboa.bsky.social 🇵🇹, ELLIS Scholar in @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social. Her work focuses on ML for computer vision + healthcare. A career highlight was winning a Google Academic Research Award. #WomenInELLIS

Meet Michaela Klauck, Software Systems Engineer at @rohdeandschwarz.bsky.social 🇩🇪 & ELLIS Member. She works on formal verification for autonomous systems, aiming to boost trust, reliability & interpretability in AI. See her advice for young women in science! #WomenInELLIS