Do you want to work in data-driven healthcare research? Are you curious how AI influences the healthcare industry?

Join us on Tuesday, May 13th, starting from 5 pm in room SG 1 for a workshop on career paths and research insights, followed by a networking apéro. Please register via the QR code below or under go.epfl.ch/siam-ai.

We are happy to welcome Kostas Sechidis from Novartis, Sebastien Benzekry from INRIA’s INSERM COMPO group, and Vincent Stimper from Isomorphic Labs. Please find excerpts of their bios below.

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Kostas Sechidis is Associate Director of Data Science and research scientist at Novartis where he specializes in exploratory analysis for biomarker discovery, digital biomarker development, and assessing treatment effect heterogeneity in clinical trials. He did his PhD at the University of Manchester and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher with AstraZeneca and Roche.

Sebastien Benzekry is a research scientist at Inria where he leads the INSERM project team Computational Pharmacology and Clinical Oncology (COMPO) modelling data arising from oncology to enhance therapeutic management, inform and design clinical trials, and test biological hypotheses. He did his PhD at Aix-Marseille University followed by a PostDoc at the Center for Cancer and Systems Biology, Tufts Univ, Boston, MA.

Vincent Stimper is a Machine Learning Research Scientist at the Google DeepMind’s sister company Isomorphic Labs where they use machine learning to develop novel drugs for challenging diseases. Before joining Isomorphic Labs in 2024 he did his PhD at the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and completed internships at Microsoft, Amazon and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

Tomorrow, October 24th at 18:00 CET, will take place the virtual “Estimathon” hosted by Jane Street: 13 unique estimation problems in 30 minutes, combining maths and trivia, to be solved as a team.

It’s good fun, a good challenge, and a great opportunity to learn more about Jane Street! Sign up here or follow the poster below to obtain the Zoom link.

The Quant Finance Workshop by G-Research took place last Wednesday at EPFL, followed by networking and pizza.
Thanks to more than 50 EPFL PhD students who joined, and congratulations to the winners of the cointegration challenge! 🏆

Stay tuned for more events like this in the future! 😉

The Professional Journey Showcase took place this Tuesday, October 8th. Thanks to everyone who attended, and special thanks to Dirk Hartmann from Siemens for an engaging presentation and answering our questions!

Thanks as well to the EPFL mathematics department and Agepoly for their financial support.

Are you an EPFL PhD student and curious about the world of Quantitative Finance?
You are invited to participate in G-Research’s Interactive Quant Finance Workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 18:00 to 22:00 at EPFL room GC B3 31.

🔍 What to Expect: You will take part G-Research’s brand new cointegration challenge, where you’ll test your strategies on unseen, real world datasets. Play for fun, or bring your competitive spirit for the chance to win prizes! Following the challenge you’ll have the chance to network with G-Research’s researchers over some food and drink!

👥 The workshop is a challenge that can be enjoyed solo, or in teams of up to three, so feel free to share the registration link with your friends and colleagues.

👉 Sign up now: qrco.de/EPFL2024 (or the QR code in the poster below)

Interested in a career in Applied Mathematics, Computational Science or Data Science, but still have some doubts?

Join us on Tuesday, October 8th, for the Professional Journey Showcase with Dirk Hartmann! The event will take place at EPFL in room MA B1 11, starting from 17h.

The workshop will consist in a short presentation, a career Q&A, and will be followed by a networking apéro. Registration is recommended (this link, or the QR code in the poster below).

Dirk Hartmann is an industrial mathematician, intrapreneur, and thought leader in the field of Simulation and Digital Twin. In his career, he took several leading roles in research, innovation, and development across Siemens including the lead of a multi-million Siemens R&D program and the technical leadership for the Simulation & Digital Twin field at Siemens Technology with more than 120 scientists across the globe. Many of his innovations have led to novel products and are regularly showcased at Siemens innovation events. For these achievements, he has received numerous Siemens awards, including the prestigious Werner-von-Siemens Top Innovator Award in 2019 and the Siemens Inventor of the Year Award in 2021.

Join us for an online seminar on Monday, June 10th at 4PM, given by Emilia Magnani, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tübingen. She will present her work on “Learning Solution Operators for PDEs with Uncertainty”.

Abstract: We provide a Bayesian formulation of the problem of learning solution operators of PDEs in the formalism of Gaussian processes. We consider neural operators, recent deep architectures that have shown promising results in tackling the task of learning PDE solution operators. The current state of the art for these models lacks explicit uncertainty quantification. Our approach offers a practical and theoretically sound way to apply the linearized Laplace approximation to neural operators to provide uncertainty estimates. Moreover, we introduce a new framework for Bayesian uncertainty quantification in neural operators using function-valued Gaussian processes.

Bio: Emilia Magnani is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Philipp Hennig. She is also part of the ELLIS program and spent part of her Ph.D. in Genoa working with Lorenzo Rosasco. Before that, Emilia obtained her Master’s degree in Mathematics from ETH Zurich. Her research interests span various areas of machine learning such as probabilistic numerics, Gaussian processes, and operator learning.

Zoom Link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63925499984?pwd=GOEI1rAQrMOXaIgFLG5B3IYle4Funr.1