Celestine Mendler-Dünner

I am a Principal Investigator at the ELLIS Institute in Tübingen, co-affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Tübingen AI Center. My research focuses on machine learning in social context and the role of prediction in digital economies. I strive to develop theoretical and practical tools to support a safe, reliable and trustworthy digital ecosystem with a positive impact on society. Before joining the ELLIS Institute I was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and spent two years as a SNSF postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley hosted by Moritz Hardt. I have obtained my PhD from ETH Zurich, advised by Thomas Hofmann. During my PhD I was employed at IBM Research Zurich where I co-lead the design of the IBM Snap ML library which is now part of IBM's core AI offerings.

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News

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Excited to be one of the keynote speakers at CAp+RFIAP 2024 in Lille
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Giving an invited tutorial on Performative Prediction at UAI in Barcelona
upcoming
Participating in the Thought Summit on the Future of Survey Science at Cornell
12/2023
Giving an invited talk at the NeurIPS AFT Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness
11/2023
Serving as Program Chair for EAAMO'23
10/2023
I was appointed an ELLIS Scholar and a faculty member of IMPRS-IS and CLS.
08/2023
Presenting at the Causality Discussion Group.
05/2023
Speaking at the Oxford Workshop for Social Foundations of Statistics and ML
07/2022
Speaking at the NeurIPS WiML Workshop in Baltimore
06/2022
Speaking at the ELLIS Theory Workshop in Arenzano
12/2021
Co-organizing the NeurIPS workshop on Learning and Decision-Making with Strategic Feedback.

Affiliations and Awards

I am a core faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS), an associated faculty member at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS), and an ELLIS Scholar. I am a member of the Tübingen Cluster of Excellence on ML for Science , and a fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann Kolleg of the Max Planck Society. For my dissertation I was awarded the ETH Medal. For the high industrial impact of my research on system-aware algorithm design I received the IBM Research Devision Award, the IBM Eminence and Excellence Award, and the Fritz Kutter Prize. My Postdoc wa supported by the SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship.

Advising

I am building up a new research group at the ELLIS institute in Tübingen!

Are you interested in working with me as a Postdoc? Please get in touch via email.
Prospective PhD students, please apply through one of the following PhD programs:

Resources, Media and Recordings

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Invited talk NeurIPS workshop on Algorithmic Fairness Through the Lense of Time.
Invited talk Oxford Workshop on Social Foundations of Statistics and Machine Learning
Invited talk MIT Optimization Seminar
Snap ML in the press: Forbes, The Register and EE Times writing about our research
Snap ML available through PyPi: > pip install snapml (see Medium article)