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ELLIS is a network of excellence connecting top AI researchers across European borders to strengthen the leadership of AI made in Europe.
Beyond the Thesis
Hear from ELLIS PhD alumni on program benefits, challenges, career impact, and the future of AI research.
June 30th, 2025
Beyond the Thesis with Mathis Petrovich
Mathis is a research scientist at NVIDIA, working in the field of 3D human motion synthesis - building on the focus of his PhD, where he developed methods for...
July 7th, 2025
Beyond the Thesis with Edoardo Caldarelli
Edoardo Caldarelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, working on data-driven control algorithms for complex tasks, such as robotic...
July 17th, 2025
Beyond the Thesis with Zifeng Ding
Zifeng Ding is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge working on NLP and graph representation learning. He completed his PhD as an ELLIS student under...
July 24th, 2025
Beyond the Thesis with Zhijing Jin
Zhijing Jin is an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, a CIFAR AI Chair, and a faculty member at the Vector Institute, where she works on LLMs,...
August 7th, 2025
Beyond the Thesis with Steffen Schneider
Steffen Schneider is a Tenure Track Group Leader at Helmholtz Munich and the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), where he develops AI methods for dynamical...