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November 19th, 2025
Spotlight on Lenka Zdeborová
#WomenInELLIS
Get to know Lenka Zdeborová, Associate Professor at EPFL🇨🇭
She’s an ELLIS Fellow in both the ELLIS Unit Lausanne and ELLIS Program Quantum and Physics Based Machine Learning.
Her research area is at the intersection of statistical physics, machine learning, and high-dimensional statistics—using tools from spin glass theory to understand learning dynamics, generalization, and the emergence of representations in neural networks.
Check out her advice for young female scientists and her long-term goal for the field of AI/ML.