My name is Jan, I am a master’s student in computer science at EPFL and a research assistant at the MLBio Lab, where I work on unsupervised learning, multimodal foundation models, and out-of-distribution generalization. Additionally, I conduct research on world models for reinforcement learning agents at the Biorobotics Laboratory.

At a high level, I am interested in (1) understanding how our mind and cognition, as well as those of other diverse systems, work and (2) building machines that can perceive, think, and learn. This intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive computational neuroscience excites me the most. While I approach these topics with a fairly multidisciplinary background, my primary focus is on the computational part, particularly in the following machine learning areas:

• Representation learning
• Data-driven control
• (Mechanistic) interpretability
• Meta-learning

I am always happy to discuss these topics, so if you have related thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.