Biography

Hi! I’m a Ph.D. student working on deep learning, jointly supervised by Giulio Biroli (ENS Paris) and Levent Sagun (FAIR Paris). Before that, I studied Theoretical Physics and worked with NASA on black hole mergers.

My research focuses on understanding how deep neural networks are able to generalize despite being heavily overparametrized. On one hand, I use tools from statistical mechanics to study simple models, and try to understand when and why they overfit. On the other hand, I investigate how different types of inductive biases affect learning, from fully-connected networks to convolutional networks to transformers. I am also interested in bio-inspired alternatives to backpropagation.

I love communicating science to the general audience, and wrote a couple books for this purpose. In my spare time I also play music, feel free to check out my videos!