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Events/News

  • May/2025:  I'm excited to share that I'm joining The Alan Turing Institute as Senior Research Associate in Fundamental Research in AI for Physical Systems!
     

  • April/2025: AI agents debating scientific strategy: starting with particle physics. Check out my prototype on GitHub.
     

  • 19-21 March/2025: I will participate in the Physics for AI workshop at the Mathematical Institute here in Oxford.
     

  • 9-15 December/2024: I'm attending NeurIPS'24 in Vancouver. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to meet up!
     

  • 19 November/2024: I will participate in the Physics for AI and AI for Physics: Landscaping Workshop at the Institute of Physics, London. See the community report [here].
     

  • 1 November/2024: I'm giving a talk at the AI Security Reading Group, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
     

  • 28-29 October/2024: I'm presenting a poster at the 'Beyond the symbols vs signals debate' meeting at The Royal Society (London).
     

  • September/2024: Our paper, An exactly solvable model for emergence and scaling laws, was accepted at NeurIPS 2024!

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RESEARCH

My current work focuses on understanding fundamental phenomena in artificial intelligence. My approach, which I call 'Phenomenology of Deep Learning', draws from my background in particle physics phenomenology to combine rigorous theoretical analysis with empirical evidence. For instance, see [here] for our work on emergence and scaling laws and [here] for our work on double descent and online/offline correspondence in similarity learning. 

 

Previously, I explored the construction of models to explain small- and large-scale phenomena in the universe. I worked on the interplay between particle physics theory and cosmology, learning from the early universe how to build and interpret our models of particle physics. See [here] for all publications. 

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ABOUT ME

I'm a Senior Research Associate at The Alan Turing Institute, where I work on Fundamental Research in AI. Before joining Turing, I was a Research Fellow at Oxford Physics. Previously, I was at IBM Research,  ICTP in Trieste, DESY Theory Group in Hamburg, CTP at MIT, University of São Paulo, and University of Campinas.

 

For more details, please see my [CV].

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