European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

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.

European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
FormationDecember 6, 2018 (2018-12-06)
Websiteellis.eu

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 research groups

ELLIS has set up so-called ELLIS units, research groups, at 19 locations. In an open competition, the research groups were selected by an international commission of scientists according to their scientific excellence in the field.

These institutions will invest 200 million euros in artificial intelligence research over the next 5 years.[6]

Current ELLIS Units
City Country Institution Leader(s) References
Alicante Spain University of Alicante Nuria Oliver [7][8][9]
Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Max Welling [10][11][12][13]
Cambridge UK University of Cambridge, Unit Carl Edward Rasmussen and José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
Copenhagen Denmark DTU, ITU, KU Ole Winther [14]
Darmstadt Germany TU Darmstadt Stefan Roth [15]
Delft Netherlands TU Delft Wiro J Niessen [16]
Freiburg Germany University of Freiburg [17]
Helsinki Finland Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence Samuel Kaski [18]
Linz Austria LIT AI Lab Sepp Hochreiter [19][20][21]
Lausanne Switzerland École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Leuven Belgium KU Leuven Matthew Blaschko
Munich Germany HMGU, TUM Daniel Cremers, Massimo Fornasier and Fabian Theis
Oxford UK University of Oxford Stephen Roberts, Yee Whye Teh and Michael Woolridge [22]
Prague Czech Republic Czech Technical University
Saarbrücken Germany Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Tübingen Germany Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems [6]
Tel Aviv Israel Tel Aviv University
Vienna Austria IST Austria Christoph Lampert [19][20]
Zürich Switzerland ETH Zürich Thomas Hofmann

Research programmes

ELLIS set up 11 research programmes. The research programmes have been selected by an international commission.[23]

References
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  4. Else, Holly (2018-12-10). "Europe's AI researchers launch professional body over fears of falling behind". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07730-1.
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  6. Williams, Jon. "Tübingen becomes an ELLIS unit | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems". is.tuebingen.mpg.de. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  7. "Alicante será la sede española del centro europeo de investigación en inteligencia artificial". El País (in Spanish). 2019-12-11. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
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  10. "Netwerk van wetenschappers investeert €200 mln in 'menselijke' AI". FD.nl. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  11. "Amsterdam selected as excellence center to retain AI talent". University of Amsterdam. 2019-10-12. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  12. "Amsterdam en Delft krijgen ELLIS Units voor behoud AI-talent". AG Connect (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  13. Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2019-10-12). "Amsterdam selected as excellence center to retain AI talent - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  14. "Copenhagen is in the Champions League of Machine Learning - DTU Compute". DTU Compute. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  15. "Im europäischen Netzwerk für KI-Spitzenforschung". Technische Universität Darmstadt (in German). 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  16. "Amsterdam en Delft krijgen ELLIS Units voor behoud AI-talent". AG Connect (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  17. "Erfolg für Experten des maschinellen Lernens — Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit". www.pr.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  18. "Helsinki and FCAI will host a new ELLIS unit for top AI research | Aalto University". www.aalto.fi. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  19. "The JKU and IST Austria Thrilled to Join the ELLIS Network". JKU - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
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  21. 2019-12-11, krone at (2019-12-11). "JKU Linz ist bei Netzwerk für „Kunsthirne" dabei". www.krone.a (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-11.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. "AI experts from across Europe assembled in new units | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  23. Williams, Jonathan. "ELLIS Programs launched". European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
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