<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">We invite you to our upcoming spring school on the topic of Artificial Intelligence – perspectives and challenges of real data. </div><div class="">The DataNinja Spring School is aimed at PhD students as well as master students or interested researchers from the broad area of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. It is our goal to provide in-depth tutorials on current hot topics which are spanning the spectrum of current Machine Learning approaches with a specific focus on explainable models that allow for inspection. Furthermore, the tutorials are geared towards providing hands-on experiences and empowering the participants to directly apply or transfer methods onto their own tasks or problems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==========================================================<br class="">Overview Schedule<br class=""><br class="">The Spring School will be held in zoom (register here for a link for the webinar: <a href="https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ukHCJRyXTLOAp5KS2xN28A" class="">https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ukHCJRyXTLOAp5KS2xN28A</a> )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Date: 23rd to 25th of March 2022, </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tutorials as morning sessions (9 AM to 12:30 PM, CET)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>evening lectures on 23rd and 24th of March at 4:15 PM</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and there will be a poster session on 23rd of March at 5:15 PM.</div><div class="">More information and topics: <a href="https://dataninja.nrw/?page_id=762" class="">https://dataninja.nrw/?page_id=762</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tutorial Topics: Explainable AI, Graph Neural Networks, AutoML, Knowledge Graphs, Gaussian Processes.</div><div class="">Lectures:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Ethics in AI</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Outracing champion GT drivers with deep reinforcement learning, on the recent success of Sony AI in DRL</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==========================================================<br class="">Poster Presentation and Meeting PhDs in ML</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">We will also have a gather.town setup - to meet people, discuss sessions and lectures, and further to host a poster session. You are invited to present your work there (there will be a poster prize - certificate and 300 Euros). </div><div class="">For the poster session: This can be your recent findings, current, unfinished and ongoing work, or already an overview of already published work. We would like to ask you to submit a short extended abstract of up to two pages (send it to <a href="mailto:contact@dataninja.nrw" class="">contact@dataninja.nrw</a> ), until the end of the 22nd of March and a poster for presentation in gather.town until 12 PM on Wednesday, 23rd of March.</div><br class="">==========================================================<br class="">Further Information<br class=""><br class="">For further information, please contact Malte Schilling (<a href="mailto:mschilli@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de" class="">mschilli@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de</a>) and see the website containing more information: <a href="https://dataninja.nrw/?page_id=762" class="">https://dataninja.nrw/?page_id=762</a></div><div class="">For registration (required): <a href="https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ukHCJRyXTLOAp5KS2xN28A" class="">https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ukHCJRyXTLOAp5KS2xN28A</a><br class=""><br class="">Organizers: <br class="">Barbara Hammer (CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany),<br class="">Malte Schilling (Machine Learning Group, Bielefeld University)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Malte Schilling</div></div></body></html>