About

I’m a tenured senior research scientist at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, affiliated with the Approximate Bayesian Inference team and a core member of the Bayes Duality project. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher working with Emtiyaz Khan. I completed my PhD in the Computer Vision Group at TU Munich under the guidance of Daniel Cremers.

My current research focuses on the design and analysis of new algorithms to improve deep learning via Bayesian principles.

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• May 3-5, 2025. I’m attending the AISTATS Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
• April 21 - May 1st, 2025. I’m in Singapore, attending the ICLR Conference, the AABI Workshop, the A*STAR-RIKEN Joint Workshop and visiting Pierre Alquier at ESSEC Business School.
• April 1, 2025. I got promoted to Senior Research Scientist!
• March 26-28, 2025. Invited Talks at Flatiron Insitute in New York, US.
• March 24-25, 2025. I am visiting Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada.
• March 20-21, 2025. Attending a workshop at University of Washington, Seattle, US for a poster presentation.
• March 5-7, 2025. At an internal RIKEN AIP Retreat near Mt. Fuji, Japan.
• February 20-21, 2025. Attending the 6th RIKEN AIP Mathematics Seminar in Miura, Japan for an invited talk.
• January 23, 2025. One paper accepted at ICLR 2025: Uncertainty-Aware Decoding with Minimum Bayes’ Risk. See you in Singapore!
• January 10, 2025. Two new preprints: How to Weight Multitask Finetuning? and Natural Variational Annealing for Multimodal Optimization.
• December 4–5, 2024. Invited talk at OCAMI Workshop, Osaka, Japan.
• November 29, 2024. I will be an area chair for ICML 2025.
• November 18-20, 2024. I am visiting David Rügamer’s group at the University of Munich.
• November 10-15, 2024. Attending the Dagstuhl seminar on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the Age of Modern AI, Wadern, Germany.
• November 7, 2024. Invited talk at the IBIS 2024 Machine Learning Theory workshop, Tokyo, Japan.
• September 26, 2024. I will be an area chair for ICLR and AISTATS 2025.
• September 25-27, 2024. Invited talk at KAIST in Daejong, Korea.
• September 12, 2024. Invited talks at the Seminar on Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning (Aalto University) and the Mathematical Optimization Research Seminar (Saarland University).
• July 21-27, 2024. I am at ICML 2024 in Vienna, Austria for a spotlight poster presentation on our recent work.
• July 9-19, 2024. I am visiting the Data Science Group at LMU Munich and gave a talk in the Colloquium of the Department of Statistics.
• July 18, 2024. I am visiting Vincent Fortuin’s group at Helmholtz AI for an invited talk.
• July 8, 2024. I visited the Computer Vision Group at TU Munich and gave a talk about our recent IVON optimizer.
• July 1-7, 2024. Invited talk at the 2024 ISBA World Meeting in Venice, Italy.
• June 12-28, 2024. I am attending the second Bayes-duality workshop in Tokyo, Japan.
• June 5-7, 2024. Poster presentation at the LAMDA-RIKENAIP joint workshop at Nanjing University, China.
• June 4, 2024. Guest talk at SambaNova Systems on model merging.
• May 21, 2024. Invited talk at a joint symposium of RIKEN AIP and the Italian Institute of Technology.
• May 14, 2024. I am giving a talk at the Weierstraß-Instutit in Berlin and visiting Jia-Jie Zhu’s group.
• May 7-11, 2024. Presenting two posters at ICLR 2024.
• May 2, 2024. Our paper Variational Learning is Effective for Large Deep Networks is accepted at ICML 2024.

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