Curious Mind Award
October 2023
Vahid Babaei was awarded the Curious Mind Award in the category of AI, Digitalization and Robotics. Awarded along the Hall of Fame of German Research, this prize "recognizes young scientists under the age of 40 whose work not only demonstrates the highest level of academic excellence, but also provides impetus for the future economy".
EXIST Transfer of Research Grant
February 2023
Our technology transfer project, Oraclase, based on our computational laser marking technology is awarded the EXIST Transfer of Research grant.
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ICRA 2023
January 2023
Learning Deposition Policies for Fused Multi-Material 3D Printing accepted to ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation).
Saarland Open Science reporters award
January 2023
Navid Ansari, our PhD student, has recieved Saarland Open Science reporters award for promoting Open Science while conducting research.
NeurIPS spotlight
September 2022
Autoinverse: Uncertainty Aware Inversion of Neural Networks was accepted to NeurIPS 2022 and highlighted with a spotlight presentation.
News coverage
August 2022
Closed-Loop Control of Direct Ink Writing via Reinforcement Learning in the news.
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
August 2022
Shape from Release: Inverse Design and Fabrication of Controlled Release Structures accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 (journal track).
Hermann Neuhaus Prize
July 2022
Vahid Babaei was awarded the Hermann Neuhaus Prize. This prize (€25,000) is given annually to one of postdocs and research group leaders from all Max Planck institutes who are conducting cutting edge research with real-world applications.
Max!mize award
May 2022
Our group has been awarded a Max!mize grant. MAX!mize is the official start-up incubation program of the Max Planck Society.
SIGGRAPH 2022
April 2022
Two papers accepted to SIGGRAPH 2022 (journal track).
Symposium on Computational Fabrication 2021
Auguest 2021
Topology Optimization via Frequency Tuning of Neural Design Representations accepted to Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF) 2021.
News coverage
June 2021
Neural Acceleration of Scattering-Aware Color 3D Printing in the news.
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Eurographics 2021
April 2021
Neural Acceleration of Scattering-Aware Color 3D Printing accepted to Eurographics 2021.
News coverage
April 2021
Mixed Integer Ink Selection for Spectral Reproduction in the news.
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News coverage
December 2020
Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing in the news.
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
August 2020
Three papers accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2020.
PhD scholarship
July 2020
Navid Ansari starts a PhD in our group thanks to a scholarschip from the International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing.
Optics Express
May 2020
Fabrication of Moiré on Curved Surfaces accepted to Optics Express.
SIGGRAPH 2020
April 2020
Computational Image Marking on Metals via Laser Induced Heating accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020.