Research
ELLIS fosters international collaboration across domains, connecting top researchers while investing in the next generation of AI talent.
Members
ELLIS Members are leading scientists in machine learning and AI, shaping Europe's global position in these fields.
About
ELLIS is a network of excellence connecting top AI researchers across European borders to strengthen the leadership of AI made in Europe.
Natural Intelligence
Established: January 9, 2019
Mission
To advance the science of natural intelligence by investigating how an evolving brain learns across tasks and domains. Our program shifts focus from task-centric machine learning to truly agent-centric intelligence, exploring lifelong learning, deep semantics, adaptive computation, inductive biases, and social reasoning—toward understanding and replicating the generality, flexibility, and robustness of natural brain computations and cognition.
Highlights
- Active in the ELLIS PhD program
- NI Workshop in Crete
- Ongoing efforts to host a workshop in 2025/2026
Collaborations
ELLIS Unit at EPFL, and the Swiss AI Initiative, Tübingen AI Center, and MPI-Biological Cybernetics
