Foundation Models: Covering the basics of Large Language and/or Multimodal Models such as ChatGPT.


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Name Role ELLIS Unit ELLIS Program Spoken languages Website
Sepp Hochreiter Fellow Linz, Austria Machine Learning for Molecule Discovery English, German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepp_Hochreiter
Nicolas Flammarion Member Lausanne, Switzerland   English, French, https://www.epfl.ch/labs/tml/
Yiming Wang Member Trento, Italy Machine Learning and Computer Vision English, Chinese https://yimingwang.it
Sabine Süsstrunk Fellow Lausanne, Switzerland   English, French, German https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ivrl/
Nadja Klein Member     English, German https://kleinlab-statml.github.io/
Evangelos Kanoulas Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands   English, Greek https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/e.kanoulas/
Nuria Oliver Fellow Alicante, Spain Human-centric Machine Learning Spanish, English, French, Catalan https://nuriaoliver.com
Ole Winther Fellow Copenhagen, Denmark   English, Danish https://olewinther.github.io/
Holger Caesar Member Delft, the Netherlands Machine Learning and Computer Vision German, English https://it-caesar.com
Paolo Papotti Member Paris, France Natural Language Processing Italian, English https://papotti.eurecom.io/
Dubravko Culibrl Member Trento, Italy Multimodal Learning Systems English, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Bosnian https://www.dubravkoculibrk.org
Simone Scardapane Member     English, Italian https://sscardapane.it/
Tim Rocktäschel Scholar London, UK Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning English, German https://rockt.github.io/
Søren Hauberg Scholar Copenhagen, Denmark   Danish, English http://hauberg.org
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez Member     Spanish, English, Galician https://www.grupolys.org/~cgomezr/
Balazs Kegl Fellow Paris, France Machine Learning and Computer Vision English, French, Hungarian https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s0njcGgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ; https://twitter.com/balazskegl
Luis Leiva Member     English, Spanish, Catalan https://luis.leiva.name/web/
Alexander Koller Member Saarbrücken, Germany Natural Language Processing German, English https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~koller/
Christoph Bock Fellow   ELLIS Health German, English https://meduniwien.ac.at/ai
Anne Lauscher Member     German, English https://anne-lauscher.de
Lorenzo Baraldi Scholar Modena, Italy   English, Italian http://www.lorenzobaraldi.com/
Edoardo M. Ponti Member Edinburgh, UK Natural Language Processing English, Italian https://ducdauge.github.io/
Radu Tudor Ionescu Member     English, Romanian http://raduionescu.herokuapp.com
Adrian Weller Scholar Cambridge, UK Human-centric Machine Learning English http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/adrian
Vincent Fortuin Member Munich, Germany   English, German https://fortuin.github.io/
Gemma Roig Member     English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian https://www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/
Eran Yahav Fellow Haifa, Israel Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning English, Hebrew, https://csaws.cs.technion.ac.il/~yahave/
Hilde Kuehne Member     German, English https://hildekuehne.github.io/
Sergio Escalera Fellow Barcelona, Spain Human-centric Machine Learning Spanish, English, Catalan https://sergioescalera.com/
Michael Pfeiffer Member     German, English https://www.bosch-ai.com
Martin Jaggi Fellow Lausanne, Switzerland Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems English, German https://www.epfl.ch/labs/mlo/
Abhinav Valada Scholar Freiburg, Germany   English https://rl.uni-freiburg.de/people/valada
Mario Muñoz Organero Member Alicante, Spain ELLIS Health Spanish, English https://researchportal.uc3m.es/display/inv18527
Ekaterina Shutova Scholar Amsterdam, the Netherlands Natural Language Processing English  
Klaus Maier-Hein Fellow Heidelberg, Germany ELLIS Health German, English https://www.dkfz.de/en/mic/index.php
Goran Glavaš Member   Natural Language Processing English, Croatian, German https://sites.google.com/view/goranglavas
Robert Peharz Member Graz, Austria   English, German https://robert-peharz.github.io/
Daniel Hershcovich Member Copenhagen, Denmark Natural Language Processing English, Hebrew https://Danielhers.github.io
Oier Mees Member     Basque, Spanish, German, English https://www.oiermees.com
Maks Ovsjanikov Fellow Paris, France Learning for Graphics and Vision English, French, Russian https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~maks/
Piotr Sankowski Member Warsaw, Poland   Polish, English https://ideas-ncbr.pl/en/research/intelligent-algorithms-and-learned-data-structures/
Sandro Pezzelle Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands   English, Italian https://sandropezzelle.github.io/
Jonas Geiping Scholar Tübingen, Germany   English, German https://jonasgeiping.github.io/
Iryna Gurevych Fellow Darmstadt, Germany Natural Language Processing English, German, Russian, Ukrainian https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/index.en.jsp
Yonatan Belinkov Scholar Haifa, Israel   English, Hebrew, https://www.belinkov.com
Raquel Fernández Fellow Amsterdam, the Netherlands Natural Language Processing Catalan, Spanish, English https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/r.fernandezrovira/
Piotr Szymańśki Member   Natural Language Processing English, Polish, German https://ai.pwr.edu.pl/author/piotr-szymanski/
Wojciech Samek Scholar Berlin, Germany   German, Polish, English https://iphome.hhi.de/samek/
Hinrich Schuetze Fellow Munich, Germany Natural Language Processing German, English https://www.cis.lmu.de/publications/
Dario Zanca Member     Italian, Spanish, English https://www.dariozanca.com/
Gerard de Melo Member Potsdam, Germany   English, German http://gerard.demelo.org
Varun Kanade Scholar Oxford, UK Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems English https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/varun.kanade/website/
Fabian Theis Fellow Munich, Germany ELLIS Health German, English https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/icb/pi/fabian-theis
Venelin Kovatchev Member     Bulgarian, English https://vkovatchev.com
Jesus Cerquides Member Barcelona, Spain   English, Spanish, Catalan https://www.iiia.csic.es/~cerquide/
Danda Paudel Member Sofia, Bulgaria   English https://insait.ai/dr-danda-paudel/
Marius Kloft Member     English, German https://ml.cs.uni-kl.de/
Christian Theobalt Fellow Saarbrücken, Germany Learning for Graphics and Vision German, English https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/visual-computing-and-artificial-intelligence
Dima Damen Member   Multimodal Learning Systems English https://dimadamen.github.io
Emanuele Rodolà Fellow   Geometric Deep Learning Italian, English https://gladia.di.uniroma1.it/
Roberto Navigli Member   Natural Language Processing English, French, Italian https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/
Rufin VanRullen Member     English, French https://rufinv.github.io/
Adrian Hilton Fellow London, UK   English https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/adrian-hilton
Yuki M. Asano Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands Multimodal Learning Systems German, English, Japanese https://yukimasano.github.io/
Sayan Mukherjee Member     English, Bengali https://sayanmuk.github.io/
Eneko Agirre Member     Spanish, Basque, English hitz.eus/eneko