I lead a research group in probabilistic machine learning and generative AI at the Technical University of Denmark, where I also teach Deep Learning and Advanced Machine Learning. My research focuses on deep generative models, inference for data with missing values, uncertainty quantification, and out-of-distribution detection, with applications in bioinformatics, physics, recommender systems, and remote sensing. I have authored more than 70 research articles and book chapters, including numerous publications at leading machine learning venues. I contribute actively to the research community as lead competition chair for NeurIPS (2025 and 2026), workshop chair for EurIPS (2025), and area chair for all the leading machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, and AISTATS). I am also a co-founder of the GeMSS PhD spring school on deep generative models and the GenU workshop on generative models and uncertainty quantification. I am a recipient of the Jorck's Foundation Research Prize for my contributions to generative AI.
I work on statistical machine learning with particular interest in:
Postgraduate members:
I am also frequently supervising several BSc and MSc thesis students.
| Jul 2019 - |
Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark |
| Aug 2016 - Jun 2019 |
Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen |
| May 2013 - Jun 2016 |
Postdoctoral researcher with Zoubin Ghahramani Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge |
| Dec 2011 - Apr 2013 |
Postdoctoral researcher with Anders Krogh Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen |
| Mar 2011 - Aug 2011 |
Postdoctoral researcher with Thomas Hamelryck Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen |
| 2011 |
PhD in Bioinformatics Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen. "Probabilistic methods in macromolecular structure prediction" Supervisor: Thomas Hamelryck, co: Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg |
| 2007 |
MSc in Bioinformatics, University of Copenhagen (I was awarded the highest possible grade for my master thesis) |
| 2005 | BSc in maths and CS, University of Copenhagen |
| 2004-2005 |
EAP exchange student at the University of California, Santa Cruz (worked in Kevin Karplus's Lab group wither and spring) |