Keynote speaker at the ICLR Neural Compression workshop in 2021; successfully defended PhD thesis in 2020; invited talk on automation boundaries at Brave New World conference in 2018; contributed talk on AI influence at 34c3 (Chaos Communication Congress) in 2017; contributed talk on Bayesian compression at MILA/CIFAR Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School in 2017; tutorial on deep learning for the arts at Electromagnetic Field Festival in 2016; 4-week project on neural style transfer for music in 2016.
Research Experience
Research scientist (s/h) at FAIR NY; actively collaborating with researchers from the Vector Institute and the University of Amsterdam.
Education
PhD under the supervision of Prof. Max Welling; worked at the Austrian Research Institute for AI, Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning Group led by Prof. Gerhard Widmer; studied Physics and Numerical Simulations in Leipzig and Amsterdam.
Background
Main research focus: intersection of information theory and probabilistic machine learning / deep learning. Actively collaborating with researchers from the Vector Institute and the University of Amsterdam.
Miscellany
Projects include Bunker Streams, Save your Soul, Woodwork, Lügenpresse, Hebocon, Goethe on my Mind, Lumière, The prank call archive, Futuristic Farming, Haunted Farm.