Published multiple papers and patents; Given talks at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and NLP Meetup in Zürich; Won a $10k prize at the IARPA Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge 2018.
Research Experience
Tech Lead & Senior AI/ML Researcher at Google DeepMind; Research Scientist at IBM Research and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, focusing on LLM alignment and efficient NLP; Lecturer and module head at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU), teaching advanced generative AI and deep learning for NLP at the M.Sc. level.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL, under the supervision of Prof. Boi Faltings. Thesis titled 'Textual Explanations and Critiques in Recommendation Systems'.
Background
Interests in generative AI, LLM alignment, multimodal, iterative refinement, efficient ML, NLP, self-supervision, and conversational explainable recommendation. Tech Lead & Senior AI/ML Researcher at Google DeepMind, specializing in enhancing multimodal large language models.
Miscellany
Selected as an alumni for the next bachelor enrollment campaign by HE-Arc University of Applied Sciences; Attending ICLR 2025 to discuss current research directions; Participating in the Google DeepMind workshop at AMLD - Applied Machine Learning Days 2025.