Bethge Lab

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The Bethge Lab in Bad Urach, 2025.
The Bethge Lab in Bad Urach, 2025.

Principal Investigator

  • Matthias Bethge

    Professor for Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning & Director of the Tübingen AI Center

Postdocs

  • Lara Höfling

    Retina models and brain alignment of neural networks

  • Matthias Kümmerer

    Saliency and eye-movement models (DeepGaze)

  • Ameya Prabhu

    Long-horizon post-training, RL environments and recursive self-improvement

PhD Students

  • Susmit Agrawal

    Human and machine perception, video models, deep neural memories

  • Elif Akata

    Cognitive science of large language models

  • Ilze Amanda Auzina

    Credit assignment for long-horizon LLM agents

  • Hardik Bhatnagar

    LLM evals and automated post-training

  • Federico D'Agostino

    Collaborative retina modelling across datasets and species

  • Sebastian Dziadzio

    Model merging and continual learning for multimodal models

  • Adhiraj Ghosh

    Open datasets and benchmarks for vision-language models

  • Sergio Hernández

    Reasoning and credit assignment in long-horizon agents

  • Andreas Hochlehnert

    Reproducible evaluation of LLM reasoning and post-training

  • Susanne Keller

    Brain alignment and neuro-inspired architectures

  • Ronald Skorobogat

    Multilingual evaluation and automated AI research

  • Joschka Strüber

    Dense supervision for LLM agents and AI oversight

  • Lukas Thede

    Continual pretraining and knowledge editing in LLMs

  • Juliane Verwiebe

    Video saliency and personalized image generation

Master Students

  • Mahelie Dissanayake

    Behavioural variance in gaze

  • Urmi Jana

  • Anne Schlecht

    Visual processing and human eye movements

Administration

Alumni

Former members of the lab, and where they are now.

2026

2025

  • Ori Press

    ML Researcher, Nebius

    PhD student · 2019–2025

  • Matthias Tangemann

    Postdoc, University of Toronto & Vector Institute

    PhD student · 2019–2025

  • Yash Sharma

    PhD student · until 2025

  • Max F. Burg

    Machine Learning Engineer, GSK

    PhD student · until 2025

2024

2023

  • Marissa Weis

    Machine Learning Researcher, Google

    PhD student · 2019–2023

2022

2021

  • Dylan Paiton

    Senior AI Applied Scientist, Circle

    Postdoc · 2019–2021

  • David Klindt

    Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    PhD student · 2016–2021

  • Jonas Rauber

    Machine Learning Researcher, Apple

    PhD student · 2016–2021

2020

2010s

  • Alexander Ecker

    Professor of Data Science, University of Göttingen

    PhD student, postdoc & group leader · 2008–2019

  • Tom Wallis

    Professor of Perception, TU Darmstadt

    Postdoc & project leader · 2013–2019

  • Mackenzie Mathis

    Associate Professor, EPFL

    Postdoc · 2017

  • Leon Gatys

    Principal Researcher, Responsible AI, Apple

    PhD student · 2012–2017

  • Philipp Berens

    Professor of Data Science, University of Tübingen

    PhD student & postdoc · 2008–2016

  • Lucas Theis

    Founder & CEO, Mabyduck

    PhD student · 2009–2015

  • Holly Gerhard

    Human Factors Design Engineer, Apple

    Postdoc · until 2014

  • Niklas Lüdtke

    Data Scientist, Tachycon

    Postdoc · 2010–2014

  • Fabian Sinz

    Professor of Machine Learning, University of Göttingen

    PhD student · 2007–2012

  • Reshad Hosseini

    Associate Professor, University of Tehran

    PhD student · 2007–2012

  • Ralf Häfner

    Associate Professor, University of Rochester

    Postdoc · 2009–2011

  • Jakob Macke

    Professor of Machine Learning in Science, University of Tübingen

    PhD student · 2005–2010

  • Sebastian Gerwinn

    Bosch

    PhD student · 2006–2010

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