ELLIS Summer School at Unit Barcelona

The 4-day school combines expert lectures, hands-on activities, poster sessions from students, and networking events, starting from 09:00h and ending at 17:00h. Each day features 2-3 talks by leading researchers, thematic panels, and breakout sessions. Day 2 includes transportation to CVC campus for autonomous vehicle demonstrations and Panel #1. The program concludes with Panel #2, awards, and a closing ceremony. For hands-on learning, we plan a hackathon using the 6,000+ km Catalunya driving dataset from ELLIOT.

Topics span the autonomous driving pipeline and cutting-edge ML approaches including

• End-to-end driving and imitation learning

• Dataset construction and curation

• Simulation and sensor synthesis

• Multimodal foundation models

• BEV perception and reliability

Additional topics include SLAM, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, world models, video-language action models, neural 3D reconstruction, and federated learning.

Contact: Diego Porres

This is part of the 2026 ELLIS Winter & Summer School Program