Dr. Wieland Brendel is as Principal Investigator and Group Leader of the Robust Machine Learning team at the ellis institute tübingen. His work is focused on building machine vision systems that see and understand the world like humans. After receiving his Diploma in physics, he obtained his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience. In 2023 he received the German Pattern Recognition Award for his substantial contributions on robust, generalisable and interpretable machine vision. About Cyber Valley: Cyber Valley is Europe’s largest and leading center for excellence in artificial intelligence and modern robotics. Its mission and public mandate are to advocate for research, development, application, and acceptance of technologies and methods in the field of intelligent systems. The Cyber Valley Community is a network of AI researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, and start-ups, alongside partners from academia, industry, and society. Cyber Valley GmbH is owned by the State of Baden-Württemberg and the Max Planck Gesellschaft. It acts as the service provider, central organizer, and host for the Cyber Valley Community. https://www.cyber-valley.de What is the Ellis Institute Tübingen? The Ellis Institute is set to become a world-renowned center for pioneering basic research in the field of artificial intelligence.The Institute aims to attract the world's best machine learning talent, providing them with outstanding conditions to conduct research in a state-of-the-art facility located in Tübingen, Germany. The vision is part of a broader initiative, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), which aims to build a pan-European institution for machine learning research. https://institute-tue.ellis.eu