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, meta-learning, 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, cognitive computational neuroscience, and philosophy excites me the most. While I approach these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective (drawing on my computational neuroscience background), my primary focus is on the computational, AI/ML part, particularly in the following areas:

• Representation learning
• (Mechanistic) interpretability
• Meta-learning and second-order perception
• Test-time training

I am always happy to discuss these topics, so if you have related thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you have strong opinions or an interest in machine consciousness, I’d be especially happy to hear from you :)