We are excited to announce that the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to relAI Fellow Niki Kilbertus for the project DYNAMICAUS, which focuses on advancing the understanding of cause-and-effect relationships in complex dynamical systems.
Many global challenges, from climate change to healthcare and pandemic preparedness, involve systems where small changes can have far-reaching effects. Understanding how interventions influence outcomes in such complex dynamics requires reliable “if-then” reasoning. Traditional mathematical dynamical models often oversimplify these systems, while purely data-driven machine learning models, though powerful, can be difficult to interpret and may not generalize well to new situations. The DYNAMICAUS project addresses this gap by combining machine learning methods with rigorous mechanistic modeling and methods from causal inference.
DYNAMICAUS aligns closely with the mission of relAI. Its goal is to provide reliable insights that address complex societal challenges in a responsible and impactful way. Additionally, a key application area for these methods is medicine & healthcare, where the aim is to enhance treatment planning by improving the anticipation of patient outcomes.
More Information:
https://www.nat.tum.de/en/nat/latest/article/six-erc-starting-grants-for-researchers-at-tum/
