Since April 2025, I am a FCAI Research Fellow at Aalto University, a 5-year position funded by the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence. I work with groups
- Computational Systems Biology (Prof. Harri Lähdesmäki)
- Probabilistic Machine Learning (Prof. Samuel Kaski)
I am also a member of the ELLIS AI network, affiliated with ELLIS Institute Finland.
My interests span:
- Biology-Informed Machine Learning: blending flexible data-driven approaches and mechanistic models within Systems Biology
$\rightarrow$ For more information, you can have a look to this position piece: Position: Biology is the Challenge Physics-Informed ML needs to Evolve
- Bayesian Optimization, in particular recently, in-context learning flavors, see e.g., our ICLR’26 paper, our recent preprint, or this poster.
I obtained my PhD in February 2022 from Ecole polytechnique, Inria and Institut Curie, under the supervision of François Fages and Annabelle Ballesta. The manuscript can be
found here and the slides here. A detailed CV can be found here (Last updated: May 2026).
Besides, for a few years now, I have been cultivating a passion for indoor bouldering, with a mild success thus far ðŸ«
News
We are recruiting a PhD student at Aalto University, jointly supervised by Harri Lähdesmäki and me. A short project description is available here. The ad is now also up on Aalto University’s website here!
It is also possible to apply to this project as part of the ELLIS Institute Finland PhD call: see here for more information! The deadline is set to September 21th.
Funding news:
I was awarded an Academy Research Fellowship by the Research Council of Finland, providing four years of support for my independent research as Principal Investigator and for a PhD student position from September 2026 to September 2030.