Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Sahar Vahdati, Professor at Leibniz University Hannover, with photo of Sahar
22/04/26

Spotlight on Sahar Vahdati

#WomenInELLIS
Say hi to Sahar Vahdati, Professor at Leibniz University Hannover, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) 🇩🇪. She’s an ELLIS Member and her research focuses on representation learning and reasoning, with an emphasis on building intelligent systems that can learn structured, meaningful abstractions.

Her short-term goal in the field, she says, is to design and empirically validate representation-learning and reasoning frameworks that demonstrate robust generalization on benchmark tasks such as ARC-AGI, while remaining aligned with real-world scientific and societal impact.

Read on for her long-term goals and advice for young scientists.

On taking part in this campaign, she says, “If sharing my story can positively influence even one person’s journey, especially someone navigating uncertainty or self-doubt, then I feel it is meaningful to be involved and to help pay forward the inspiration that once guided me.”

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