Talks and presentations
Selected keynotes, invited talks, conference presentations, and posters across AI for science, interpretable machine learning, cardiac modeling, and scientific computing. Where available, entries include slides, video, or external event pages.
July 24, 2026
Invited Talk, NVIDIA Research (Digital Biology / BioNeMo), Santa Clara, CA, USA (virtual)
Invited talk to NVIDIA’s Digital Biology / BioNeMo and Fundamental Generative AI Research teams on an “autoresearch” loop in which an LLM acts as an automated experimenter: it proposes interpretable filter rules over signals already available in a design pipeline (AlphaFold3 confidence, ProteinMPNN, antibody structural self-consistency), evaluates them under strict held-out protocols, logs each result, and iterates. Across several benchmark datasets the loop discovers compact, human-readable scoring rules that reach parity with supervised ML and state-of-the-art LLM prompting, with no model training and no LLM call at inference. The talk closes by framing the loop as symbolic regression with an LLM in the experimenter’s seat, connecting it to the interpretable-ML and equation-discovery line of work.
September 23, 2025
Keynote, AI for Science 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Keynote talk on deep symbolic optimization and reinforcement learning for equation discovery at AI for Science 2025.
March 27, 2023
Symposium talk, AAAI 2023 Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport, California
Symposium talk on deep symbolic optimization as a framework for scientific discovery across symbolic regression, control, and other structured design problems.
September 04, 2022
Conference talk, 49th Computing in Cardiology Conference, Virtual
Conference presentation on intracardiac electrical imaging from 12-lead ECGs using machine learning trained with synthetic data.
August 04, 2021
Workshop talk, Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences (CASIS) 25th Annual Workshop, Virtual
Workshop talk introducing Deep Symbolic Optimization as a framework for symbolic optimization using deep learning.
July 18, 2021
Conference talk, The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), Virtual
Conference presentation on discovering interpretable symbolic policies with deep reinforcement learning.
May 03, 2021
Workshop talk, 1st Mathematical Reasoning in General Artificial Intelligence Workshop, ICLR 2021, Virtual
Workshop talk on improving exploration in policy-gradient search for symbolic optimization problems.
April 16, 2018
Workshop talk, INdAM Workshop - Mathematical and Numerical Modeling of the Cardiovascular System, Rome, Italy
Workshop talk on numerical approximation of electromechanical coupling in the left ventricle, including the Purkinje network.
September 13, 2017
Conference talk, ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference 2017, Milano, Italy
Conference presentation on coupling schemes and unfitted-mesh methods for fluid-structure interaction. Participant in the ECCOMAS PhD Olympiad 2017.
June 12, 2017
Conference talk, VII International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, Rhodes Island, Greece
Conference presentation on coupling schemes for the FSI Forward Prediction Challenge, with a comparative study and validation focus.
September 13, 2016
Conference talk, XIII SIMAI Biannual Congress (SIMAI 2016), Milano, Italy
Conference presentation on Nitsche-XFEM formulations and splitting schemes for coupling an incompressible fluid with immersed thin-walled structures.
March 08, 2016
Seminar talk, Séminaire d’analyse numérique, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Seminar talk on Nitsche-XFEM methods for coupling an incompressible fluid with immersed thin-walled structures.
July 22, 2015
Conference talk, 13th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM13), San Diego, California, USA
Conference presentation on Nitsche-XFEM methods for coupling an incompressible fluid with immersed thin-walled structures.
November 24, 2014
Poster, International workshop on numerical methods and applications in fluid-structure interactions, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Grenoble, France
Poster presentation on splitting schemes for fluid and thin-walled structure interaction using unfitted meshes.
July 21, 2014
Conference talk, WCCM-ECCM-ECFD 2014, Barcelona, Spain
Conference presentation on recent developments in explicit Robin-Neumann schemes for fluid-structure interaction.
July 22, 2013
Conference talk, 12th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM12), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Conference presentation on fully decoupled time-marching schemes for incompressible fluid and thin-walled structure interaction.
