People
Great science needs great people.
Meet them here.
All people are listed in alphabetical order according to their last name. Click on a portrait to learn more about them.
Juan P. G. Amboage
Ph.D. Student
Juan is interested in geometric and topological methods in machine learning. His interests also include machine learning for science and model quantization, as well as a broad range of other topics in machine learning and beyond.
Martin Carrasco
ELLIS Ph.D. Student
Martin is interested in topological and geometrical methods in deep learning. He is particularly interested in methods that leverage the structure of data such as graphs.
Inés García-Redondo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Inés completed her PhD at Imperial College London, as part of the London School of Geometry and Number Theory. She is interested in topological and geometric approaches to data analysis and machine learning.
Pankhil Gawade
Ph.D. Student
Pankhil is interested in methods involving genrative AI and topology. He is particularly interested in developing methods that work at the intersection of the both and applying it to design novel drugs.
Nadja Häusermann
Ph.D. Student
Nadja is interested in applying geometry and topology in machine learning. Particularly, she likes to think about magnitude (homology) and graphs at the moment.
Salome Kazeminia
Ph.D. Student
Salome is interested in unsupervised, self-supervised, and weakly supervised deep models, focusing on trustworthy representation and manifold learning to advance AI in health applications.
Katharina Limbeck
Ph.D. Student
Katharina is interested in using and developing topological machine learning methods to analyse complex structures in biomedical data, in particular single cell data.
Olivia Lecomte
Ph.D. Student
Olivia is a neuroscientist plunging into the world of machine learning. She is particularly interested in how topological deep learning methods can be leveraged to aid with the early diagnosis and prognosis prediction of mental health disorders.
Richard von Moos
Ph.D. Student
Richard is interested in topological and geometric ideas to understand high dimensional data and seeks to bring these ideas into action, forming methods to understand data. He’s in particular excited in applications in machine learning, improving and making learning more interpretable.
Bastian Rieck
Principal Investigator
When it comes to machine learning, Bastian is interested in all things geometrical and topological.
Johannes S. Schmidt
ELLIS Ph.D. Student
Johannes is interested in differential geometry and topology and the application on machine learning algorithms. At the moment, Johannes is intrigued by the Euler characteristic transform and its continued development and application on molecular or other structured data.
Kavir Sumaraj
Ph.D. Student
Kavir is interested in algebraic topology, applied topology, and the study of topological structures in machine learning
Elena Xinyi Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Elena’s research lies at the intersection of topological data analysis (TDA), computational topology and geometry, and machine learning. She is particularly interested in developing new geometric and topological tools for data analysis.
We, the people of the AIDOS Lab, firmly believe in and are committed to Dr. Federico Ardila-Mantilla’s axioms:
- Axiom 1. Mathematical potential is equally present in different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
- Axiom 2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
- Axiom 3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
- Axiom 4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
Collaborators
Mathieu Alain
Mathieu seeks to extend machine learning to topological and combinatorial domains, including manifolds, graphs, and simplicial complexes. This exciting adventure inspires him to explore tools in disciplines as diverse as differential geometry, algebraic topology, quantum mechanics, differential equations, and signal processing. Currently, his research focuses on developing Gaussian processes that leverage the richness of non-Euclidean data.
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Alumni & Alumnae
- Rubén Ballester (PhD, 2026)
- Pia Baronetzky
- Irene Cannistraci (now a postdoctoral researcher with Julia Vogt at ETH Zurich)
- Marek Černý (now a PhD student with Floris Geerts at the University of Antwerp)
- Ege Erdogan
- Katharina Hagedorn
- Ferdinand Hölzl (now a master’s student at University of Hamburg)
- Kalyan Varma Nadimpalli (now a research assistant at Helmholtz Munich)
- Barış Onarıcı
- Giacomo Parolin
- Julius von Rohrscheidt (PhD, 2026)
- Ernst Röell (PhD, 2026)
- Daniel Bīn Schmid
- Yevhenii Sharapov
- Emily Simons
- Franz Srambical (now building AGI at p(doom))
- Tejas Srinivasan
- Víctor Toscano-Durán
- Jeremy Wayland (PhD, 2026)