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Jul 30, 2025 I passed the certification exam and I’m now a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer. It has been a fun journey diving into papers and research in a completely different field and learning more about running faster, lifting heavier, and minimizing injury risk.
May 29, 2025 My Master’s thesis paper on suitability filters for classifiers has been accepted as a spotlight poster to ICML 2025 and selected for an oral (code here). I’m very thankful for the great collaboration with Mohammad Yaghini, Stephan Rabanser and Nicolas Papernot.
Jan 06, 2025 I just re-joined Google DeepMind in Zürich to work on multimodal understanding in large language models.
Sep 25, 2024 Our paper on cultural diversity in contrastive vision-language models has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
Jul 15, 2024 Our paper on cultural diversity in contrastive vision-language models has been accepted with an oral presentation at the Data-centric Machine Learning Research workshop at ICML 2024. Looking forward to giving a brief talk, participating in a panel, and interesting poster session discussions.
May 24, 2024 Very excited to share our paper on cultural diversity in contrastive vision-language models that I worked on while at Google DeepMind with Lucas Beyer, Emanuele Bugliarello, Xiao Wang, Andreas Steiner, Xiaohua Zhai and Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin.
May 01, 2024 Until the end of this year, I will be working with Nicolas Papernot and the other CleverHans Lab team members as a research intern at the Vector Institute and a visiting graduate student at the University of Toronto.
Apr 28, 2024 During my Bachelor thesis with Abbas Rahimi and Michael Hersche at IBM Research, I developed a sparse resonator network (the full thesis can be found here). The resulting paper was just accepted for publication in Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence.
Apr 17, 2024 I presented some of my research interests at this year’s Meet the Talent, organised by the ETH Foundation.
Mar 24, 2024 I was accepted into the 2024 Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School taking place in Toronto in July.
Feb 19, 2024 I just re-joined Google DeepMind in Zurich to finalize my work on cultural diversity in contrastive vision-language models with Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin, Lucas Beyer, Xiaohua Zhai, Emanuele Bugliarello, Xiao Wang and Andreas Steiner.