Jan
Podcast: AI in the Social Economy
Alexander Löser appeared on the Social Economy podcast discussing "Artificial Intelligence in the Social Economy – Visions, Opportunities, and Challenges for 2026."
The lab’s history,
in chronological order
Awards, papers, releases, media and events. Every notable milestone since 2009.
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2025
Jan
Falling Walls 2025
Alexander Löser was invited as an expert on NFDI Data Infrastructures – Connected & Resilient AI Enablers.
Jan
Paper Accepted: Longhealth QA Benchmark (Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research)
The paper "Longhealth: A question answering benchmark with long clinical documents" by Lisa Adams, Felix Busch, Tianyu Han, Jean-Baptiste Excoffier, Matthieu Ortala, Alexander Löser, Hugo J.W.L. Aerts, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Daniel Truhn, and Keno Bressem was accepted at the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.
2024
Sep
Conor Fallon Presents at SHIFTHUB DemoDay, Berlin
Conor Fallon presented DATEXIS's advancements in clinical outcome prediction at the SHIFTHUB DemoDay in Berlin.
Jul
Shonan Seminar: “Empowering Local Open Source LLMs”
Shonan Seminar Empowering Local Open Source LLMs with Alexander Löser (organizer), Paul Grundmann, and 29 experts from top AI-organisations from four continents.
Jul
Paper accepted: Autonomous medical evaluation for guideline adherence of large language models.
Dennis Fast, Lisa C. Adams, Felix Busch, Conor Fallon, Marc Huppertz, Robert Siepmann, Philipp Prucker, Nadine Bayerl, Daniel Truhn, Marcus Makowski, Alexander Löser and Keno K. Bressem. Nature, NPJ digital medicine 2024.
Jul
Deutsche Welle Interview on AI
Alexander Löser discussed current challenges surrounding artificial intelligence in the interview "Künstliche Intelligenz unter Druck."
Jul
ATP Journal Keynote: “Wir laufen Gefahr, zum KI-Kunden zu werden”
Alexander Löser's keynote piece "Wir laufen Gefahr, zum KI-Kunden zu werden" was published in ATP Journal.
Jun
Interview on rbb24 Inforadio: “Large Language Models: Spitze der KI-Forschung”
Alexander Löser was interviewed on rbb24 Inforadio about large language models.
May
Talk: Workshop with SMITH Consortium and Uni Leipzig
Paul Grundmann and Jens-Michalis Papaioannou gave a talk at a workshop with the SMITH Consortium and University of Leipzig (Medizininformatik Initiative).
Apr
Talk: BiFold Workshop on Clinical Embeddings
Alexander Löser and Paul Grundmann gave a talk, "Clinical Embeddings for Patient Representations," at the BiFold Workshop.
Mar
Talk: KI Kongress, Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Alexander Löser gave a talk on applications in medicine for large language models at the KI Kongress hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS).
Jan
Talk: heibrids Lecture, ECDF
Alexander Löser gave the heibrids lecture "Representing Patients with Large Language Models" at Einstein Center Digital Future.
Jan
AI Solutions for Berlin’s SMEs
Alexander Löser gave a talk at Berliner Sparkasse on "Welche KI-Lösungen braucht der Berliner Mittelstand?"
Jan
Paper Accepted: DDxGym (LREC-COLING 2024)
The paper "DDxGym: Online Transformer Policies in a Knowledge Graph Based Natural Language Environment" by Benjamin Winter, Alexei Figueroa, Alexander Löser, Felix A. Gers, Nancy Figueroa, and Ralf Krestel was accepted at LREC-COLING 2024.
Jan
Paper Accepted: Data Drift in Clinical Outcome Prediction (LREC-COLING 2024)
The paper "Data Drift in Clinical Outcome Prediction from Admission Notes" by Paul Grundmann, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Tom Oberhauser, Thomas Steffek, Amy Siu, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at LREC-COLING 2024.
Jan
Paper Accepted: Revisiting Clinical Outcome Prediction for MIMIC-IV (NAACL Workshop 2024)
The paper "Revisiting Clinical Outcome Prediction for MIMIC-IV" by Tom Röhr, Alexei Figueroa, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Conor Fallon, Keno Bressem, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at a NAACL Workshop 2024.
Jan
Paper Accepted: Boosting Long-Tail Data Classification with Sparse Prototypical Networks (ECML PKDD 2024; Demo at IJCAI 2026)
The paper "Boosting Long-Tail Data Classification with Sparse Prototypical Networks" by Alexei Figueroa, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Conor Fallon, Alexandra Bekiaridou, Keno Bressem, Stavros Zanos, Felix Gers, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at ECML PKDD 2024, and its demo paper was separately accepted at IJCAI 2026 (acceptance rate 27%, 50 of 185).
2023
Dec
SWR Interview
Alexander Löser was interviewed by SWR.
Dec
Talk: Papaioannou and Figueroa at ECDF Graduate School Hebridis
Jens-Michalis Papaioannou and Alexei Figueroa gave a talk on prototypical networks at the ECDF Graduate School Hebridis.
Nov
Alexander Löser Publishes Second BMBF Study on LLMs
Alexander Löser published a second study for the BMBF on large language models with a focus on medical applications.
Sep
Keynote: Berliner Chirurgische Gesellschaft
Alexander Löser gave the keynote "Deutsche Sprachmodelle in der Medizin: Das nächste Wort" at the Berliner Chirurgische Gesellschaft.
Aug
Paper Accepted: medBERT.de (Expert Systems with Applications)
The paper "medBERT.de: A comprehensive German BERT model for the medical domain" by Keno K. Bressem, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Paul Grundmann, Florian Borchert, Lisa C. Adams, Leonhard Liu, Felix Busch, Lina Xu, Jan P. Loyen, Stefan M. Niehues, Moritz Augustin, Lennart Grosser, Marcus R. Makowski, Hugo J.W.L. Aerts, and Alexander Löser was accepted at Expert Systems with Applications (Impact Factor 8.5).
May
BHT Magazine Feature on AI and Large Language Models
BHT Magazine featured a piece on AI and large language models.
May
Talk: Joint Seminar, UKB Darmstadt and LMU München
Alexander Löser, Paul Grundmann, and Michalis Papaioannou gave a talk at a joint seminar with UKB Darmstadt (Iryna Gurevych) and the NLP Group at LMU München (Hinrich Schütze).
Apr
Presentation: Betty van Aken at NLP Summit Healthcare
Betty van Aken presented "Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Diagnosis Prediction" at the NLP Summit Healthcare.
Apr
Talk: L3S Research Seminar
Alexander Löser gave a talk at the L3S Research Seminar (Wolfgang Nejdl).
Apr
Interview in Capital Magazine
Alexander Löser was interviewed in Capital magazine about the race for AI dominance.
Jan
Rudolf Schneider Defends PhD Thesis, University of Stuttgart
Rudolf Schneider successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Stuttgart.
Jan
Alexander Löser in Handelsblatt on ChatGPT and LLMs
Alexander Löser was featured in Handelsblatt discussing ChatGPT and large language models.
Jan
Betty van Aken Nominated for BMBF KI-Newcomer Award
Betty van Aken was nominated for the BMBF KI-Newcomer*innen award at KI Camp 2023.
Jan
Podcast: “Technik aufs Ohr”
Alexander Löser appeared on the podcast "Technik aufs Ohr."
Jan
Talk: L3S Hannover on Representing Patients and Predicting Clinical Outcomes
Alexander Löser gave a talk at L3S Hannover on representing patients and predicting clinical outcomes.
Jan
Podcast on German Large Language Models
Alexander Löser appeared on a podcast discussing German Large Language Models.
Jan
German MedBERT Model Published on Hugging Face
The German MedBERT model was published on Hugging Face, developed with Keno Bressem and DATEXIS.
Jan
Betty van Aken Defends PhD Thesis, University of Hannover
Betty van Aken successfully defended her PhD thesis at the University of Hannover.
Jan
DFG Structural Program Funded with €5+3 Million
DATEXIS's DFG structural program, focused on foundation models and medicine, was funded with 5+3 million euros.
Jan
Alexander Löser, Consultant for BMWK Research Programs
Alexander Löser served as a consultant for BMWK research programs regarding large language models.
Jan
Alexander Löser, Guest Editor for “LLMs for Medicine” (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier)
Alexander Löser served as Guest Editor for the special issue "LLMs for Medicine" in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).
Jan
Interview: BMBF/acatech on Local LLMs
Alexander Löser was interviewed by BMBF/acatech on how the German economy can benefit from local LLMs.