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The Postdoc-NeT-AI Fellows

Meet our current fellows and alumni.

Ehsan Abbasnejad - Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide

Machine Learning and Computer Vision

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I am looking forward to collaborating with great researchers in Germany and learn more about common interests.

Samuel Albanie - University of Oxford

Machine Learning and Computer Vision

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I want to visit German research institutions in my field.

Binod Bhattarai - Imperial College London

Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Career interests

Doing teaching/research at university and/or fundamental research institutes.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I would like to explore research opportunities at German universities and research institutes. I am equally interested to collaborate with fellow researchers, networking with industries, academia, and funding agencies.

Raffaello Camoriano - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Large-scale Machine Learning, Robot Learning, Lifelong Learning, Kernel Methods, Reinforcement Learning

Career interests

My research interests lie at the intersection between the Science and the Engineering of artificial learning systems. In particular, my work is chiefly focused on devising theoretically-grounded Machine Learning methods capable of scaling up to large datasets, adapting to changing conditions in time, and efficiently interacting with their environments to learn faster and generalize better. I also find Robotics to be an almost unlimited source of ‒ and a particularly well-suited testing platform for ‒ challenging and inspiring research problems, often calling for the development of novel Machine Learning methods. My work in this direction mainly spans robotic visual object recognition and detection, system identification, and locomotion control.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I am curious to know more about and interact with the broad and diverse network of institutions and research groups working at the forefront of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Germany. I am also interested in learning more about the German research system and community, along with the local culture and quality of life.

Adrian Cardoso - LinkedIn

Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Reinforcement Learning, Bandits

Career interests

My interests are twofold. First, I want to improve our theoretical understanding of Machine Learning, Optimization and Differential Privacy. Second, I want to have a positive impact in the world by deploying scalable systems that learn safely and make good decisions.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I want to gain exposure to the work of other researchers with similar research interests.

Luigi Carratino - MaLGa - University of Genova

Large-scale machine learning, bayesian/bandit optimization, convex optimization, statistical learning theory, regularization in deep learning.

Nooshin Ghavami - King's College London

Deep Learning for Medical Imaging

Career interests

I see myself staying within Academia and hopefully becoming a lecturer in the future. I love to teach therefore getting to the stage where I can do both research and teach within the university is my main aim.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I want to learn more about the research centres and groups within Germany which are working in the deep learning field, specifically for medical imaging. I would also love to be able to build connections and networks with researchers working in German institutions.

Peyton Greenside - BigHat Biosciences

Active learning, computational biology, deep learning

Career interests

Integrating machine learning approaches with modern biology to make a meaningful impact in biotechnology.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I am excited to learn about the German scientific ecosystem and meet other researchers with diverse interests in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Delowar Hossain - University of Calgary

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Career interests

I want to be an assistant professor in the next 3 years. I am also open to being a research scientist in an R&D position in a high-end AI company.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I want to explore research and career options and connect with the German artificial intelligence community.

Maximilian Igl - University of Oxford

Reinforcement Learning

Career interests

I'm excited about cutting edge research in Deep Reinforcement Learning and expanding the scope of where it can be applied in real word settings.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I want to learn more about the AI landscape in Germany.

Vinod Kurmi - IIT Kanpur

Domain Adaptation, Multimodal Learning, Incremental Learning, Bayesian Deep Learning

Career interests

I am an aspiring young researcher who is interested in AI-based technology. I am actively looking for opportunities to advance my research career in these domains.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

It is an excellent opportunity which gives me the privilege to see the physical implementation of Industry and top researcher. It also provides the opportunity to meet potential collaborators, learn about cutting-edge technologies, and network with researchers and companies in Germany.

Kaspar Märtens - The Alan Turing Institute

Statistical Machine Learning

Career interests

To develop statistical machine learning methods that would aid in solving real problems in genomics and healthcare.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I am interested in exploring opportunities for future collaborations.

Diego Marcos - Wageningen University

Interpratable Deep Learning, Equivariance, Earth Observation, Species Identification

Career interests

For the moment, I plan to keep doing research in academia. Topic-wise, I would like to focus on interpretable deep learning for species recognition before moving to other fields of application in the natural sciences.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I would like to get an overview of AI research in Germany, either to find possible job opportunities or contacts.

Vu Nguyen - University of Oxford

Machine Learning, Gaussian Process, Bayesian Optimization

Career interests

Academic research and Industry research-oriented

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

of Research collaboration, Research visiting and Networking

Nemanja Rakicevic - Imperial College London

Representation learning, Quality-diversity, Continuous control

Career interests

I am in the writing-up status of my PhD at Imperial College London. After I finish I would prefer to continue doing research either at an academic institution or an industrial research centre.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I would like to grow my professional network and seek potential collaborations.

Martin Schrimpf - MIT

Computational neuroscience

Career interests

Building accurate computational models of brain processing, so far mostly in primate vision and human language. I am hopeful that quantitative models will enable new kinds of applications, such as model-guided brain stimulation to elicit visual percepts.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I would like to connect with the German/European computational neuroscience community and find out if there is a scientific/entrepreneurial future for me here.

Martin Trapp - Aalto University

Probabilistic Machine Learning

Career interests

I'm planning to continue my path in academia by contributing to fundamental research on probabilistic machine learning and it's applications in all fields of science through probabilistic programming systems.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

For me, the Postdoc-NeT-AI is a unique opportunity to gain insight into AI research and the applied research landscape in Germany, to establish new collaborations and to possibly become a member of the German AI research community.

Elena Tutubalina - Kazan Federal University

Natural language processing

Career interests

Natural language processing, machine learning, biomedical text mining, drug discovery, clinical trials, knowledge graphs

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

it would be great to meet data scientists, exchange ideas, and collaborate on research topics.

Gido van de Ven - Baylor College of Medicine & University of Cambridge

Computational Neuroscience / Deep Learning

Career interests

My main career interest is in academic research, and to pursue this in a university environment has always been my "default option". An advantage of this environment is also the opportunity to combine research with teaching, which I have always liked doing. However, I'm less familiar with other potential research environments, and I'm interested to learn more about these.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

My main motivation for participating in the Postdoc-NeT-AI program is to network and to meet potential future employers. I will be looking to start a new job in ~Oct 2021, at which time I'm hoping to move to mainland Europe. Another reason to participate in this program is that I'd like to orientate myself on different working environments. So far my work experience has predominantly been in academic / university environments, but I'm interested to explore other options. A third reason for participation is to explore and learn about new research directions.

Ning Xu - Southeast University

Machine learning

Career interests

My research interests include machine learning and pattern recognition. Currently, I mainly focus on machine learning topics including multi-label learning, meta learning, and weakly-supervised machine learning.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

the Postoc-NeT-AI program provides opportunities to connect with the research community in machine learning and cooperate with the researchers in machine learning (especially in multi-label learning) in Germany.

Ozge Nilay Yalcin - University of British Columbia

Artificial Intelligence

Career Interests

Building from a background of Cognitive Science, my research centers around understanding human behavior using AI principles. Specifically, I focus on two core questions: How can we create cognitively accurate models of human behaviors in computational systems? How can we advance our interactions with technology by grounding the behavior of these computational systems with these computational models? To explore these questions, I draw on my interdisciplinary background of Cognitive Science, AI and Human-Computer Interaction, to develop a rigorous research methodology that allows me to build complex systems from individual components. My work balances quantitative research and applied AI methods, to gain a deeper understanding of human behavior via modeling them in theoretically grounded interactive systems. As a researcher, I focus on these issues by modeling high-level human behaviors such as empathy, personality and emotional dynamics from parameterized expressions such as bodily and facial gestures and speech. By creating biologically grounded models of these complex behaviors, my research aims to develop better interactive systems that can understand human experience and advance our understanding of human cognition by providing us means to evaluate our assumptions in a systematic and controlled environment.

I participate in the Postoc-NeT-AI program, because...

I want to expand my network, form collaborations and possibly find my next job.