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European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
Formation6 December 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12-06)
Websiteellis.eu

The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) is a pan-European nonprofit organization for the promotion of artificial intelligence with a focus on machine learning. The organization's goal is to establish top AI research institutes, strengthen basic research and create a European PhD programme for AI.

History

The organization was inspired by the Learning in Machines and Brains program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. ELLIS was first proposed in an open letter to European governments in April 2018, which stated that Europe was not keeping up with the US and China. It urged that European governments act to provide opportunities and funding for world-class AI research in Europe.[1][2][3]

It was founded on 6 December 2018 at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).[4]

Board

The members of the board are:[5]

ELLIS Units

Currently, there are 39 ELLIS Units in 14 countries. The long-term goal is to establish a set of world-class ELLIS institutes, each acting as the core of a local AI ecosystem.


New environments for outstanding researchers

Highly innovative ecosystems emerge at outstanding academic institutions like Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and ETH, which serve as international talent magnets and incubators of innovation. Thus, rather than just building a “virtual” network amongst institutions, ELLIS aims at creating new working environments for outstanding researchers to enable them to combine cutting-edge research paired with the creation of start-ups and industrial impact. As a stepping stone towards this goal, in September 2019 ELLIS started establishing smaller ELLIS Units based on a call for proposals carefully reviewed by an international selection committee. The ELLIS units bring together the best AI researchers at their locations and fulfill a set of criteria to ensure excellence and to be maximally competitive at the international level.

Beyond this grassroots initiative, ELLIS also calls for action directed towards European countries willing to invest in excellence in AI to set up larger ELLIS Institutes that are strong and agile enough to be able to compete with the best of academia and industry worldwide.        


Budget of ELLIS Units and Institutes

An ELLIS Unit has an annual budget of at least EUR 1.5 million, while a full-fledged ELLIS Institute will require more significant resources (building costs as well as an annual budget increasing to EUR 30 million). Excellent researchers at other sites can be connected to ELLIS units and institutes via fellowships, and the sites work closely together in research, training and infrastructure.

These institutions will invest 300 million euros in artificial intelligence research over the next 5 years.[6]


Current ELLIS units
Name City Country Institution(s) Director(s) References
Alicante Spain University of Alicante Nuria Oliver [7][8][9]
Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Max Welling [10][11][12][13]
Berlin Germany Technische Universität Berlin Klaus-Robert Müller [14][15]
Cambridge UK University of Cambridge, Unit Carl Edward Rasmussen and José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
Copenhagen Denmark DTU, ITU, KU Ole Winther [16]
Darmstadt Germany TU Darmstadt Stefan Roth [17]
Delft Netherlands TU Delft Robert Babuska, Frans Oliehoek, Jens Kober [18][12]
Edinburgh Scotland, UK University of Edinburgh Chris Williams, Guido Sanguinetti, Sharon Goldwater [19]
Freiburg Germany University of Freiburg [20]
Genoa Italy Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia [19]
Haifa Israel Technion Shie Mannor [19]
Heidelberg Germany University of Heidelberg Anna Kreshuk, Oliver Stegle [21]
Lausanne Switzerland École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Pascal Frossard, Jan Kerschgens [1]
Helsinki Finland Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence Samuel Kaski [22]
ELLIS Unit Jena Jena Germany Max Planck Institute for Biogeochmistry Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Data Science Jena Markus Reichstein, Joachim Denzler [23][24][25]
Leuven Belgium KU Leuven Matthew Blaschko [26]
Linz Austria LIT AI Lab Sepp Hochreiter [27][28][29]
Lisbon Portugal Instituto Superior Técnico Mario A. T. Figueiredo [30]
London UK University College London [19]
Munich Germany HMGU, TUM Daniel Cremers, Massimo Fornasier and Fabian Theis
Nijmegen Netherlands Radboud University Marcel van Gerven [31]
Oxford UK University of Oxford Stephen Roberts, Yee Whye Teh and Michael Woolridge [32]
Paris France PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Université de Paris [27]
Prague Czech Republic Czech Technical University
Saarbrücken Germany Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Germany University of Stuttgart, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Andreas Bulling, Ingo Steinwart [33]
Tübingen Germany Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems [34]
Turin Italy Politecnico di Torino
Tel Aviv Israel Tel Aviv University
Vienna Austria Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) Christoph Lampert [27][28]
Zürich Switzerland ETH Zürich Thomas Hofmann

ELLIS Research programmes

In addition to ELLIS Units, a European network of top researchers working at locations throughout Europe is being established, organized into ELLIS Programs. These Programs, directed by outstanding European researchers and including leading researchers as Program Fellows, focus on high-impact problem areas that have the potential to move the needle in modern AI.

The ELLIS Programs are inspired by the CIFAR Program model, and closely collaborate with the CIFAR LMB (Learning in Machines and Brains) Program. Each Program has a budget for 2-3 workshops/year to enable meetings of 10-15 Fellows plus guests for intensive scientific exchange. Workshops can be co-located with academic meetings (usually) held in Europe, or organised as stand-alone events, usually at (and with the support of) ELLIS unit sites.

Program directors can invite guests to individual workshops. This ensures that fresh outside ideas are represented, and also that a wider community benefits from the workshops. Fellow Programs are started by a peer review process.[35]

Name Director(s)
ELLIS Health Gunnar Rätsch, Oliver Stegle, Mihaela van der Schaar
ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap!
Geometric Deep Learning
Human-centric Machine Learning
Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations
Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences Markus Reichstein, Gustau Camps-Valls
Multimodal Learning Systems
Natural Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Quantum and Physics Based Machine Learning
Robust Machine Learning
Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning
Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems
  • ELLIS Health

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