talks and posters

• 07/2025 • ICML 2025, Vancouver, CA
  Poster • [poster] • Capturing Temporal Dynamics in Large-Scale Canopy Tree Height Estimation

• 07/2025 • ICML 2025, Vancouver, CA
  Poster • [poster] • Approximating Latent Manifolds in Neural Networks via Vanishing Ideals

• 07/2025 • ICML 2025, Vancouver, CA
  Poster • [poster] • DUNIA: Pixel-Sized Embeddings via Cross-Modal Alignment for Earth Observation Applications

• 07/2025 • ICML 2025, Vancouver, CA
  Poster • [poster] • Neural Discovery in Mathematics: Do Machines Dream of Colored Planes?

• 05/2025 • RIKEN AIP, Tokyo, JP
  Invited Talk • [slides] • [video] • Towards Efficient Prune-Retrain Pipelines: SMS and PERP

• 04/2025 • ICLR 2025, Singapore
  Poster • [poster] • On the Byzantine-Resilience of Distillation-Based Federated Learning

• 04/2025 • ICLR 2025, Singapore
  Poster • [poster] • Compressed sparse tiles for memory-efficient unstructured and semi-structured sparsity

• 10/2024 • Machine Learning and Data Engineering Group WWU, Münster, DE
  Invited Talk • [slides] • Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning via Model Averaging

• 07/2024 • ICML 2024, Vienna, AT
  Poster • [poster] • Estimating Canopy Height at Scale

• 05/2024 • ICLR 2024, Vienna, AT
  Poster • [poster] • Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning via Model Averaging

• 11/2023 • AI4Forest Kick-off Meeting, Paris, FR
  Invited Talk • [slides] • Approaches to Neural Network Compression - Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Retraining

• 05/2023 • ICLR 2023, Kigali, RW
  Poster • [poster] • How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Retraining

• 03/2023 • Workshop on Optimization and Machine Learning, Waischenfeld, DE
  Poster • [poster] • How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Retraining

• 06/2022 • Siemens workshop @ ZIB, Berlin, DE
  Invited Talk • Sparsity in Neural Networks

event participation

• 11/2025 • Google - Shaping a New Era of Innovative Cities, Barcelona, ES

• 07/2025 • 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vancouver, CA

• 05/2025 • 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Phuket, TH

• 05/2025 • 7th DOxML Conference, Kyoto, JP

• 04/2025 • 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore

• 10/2024 • Google AI Connect Conference, Berlin, DE

• 10/2024 • Google Responsible AI Summit, Paris, FR

• 07/2024 • 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vienna, AT

• 05/2024 • 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Vienna, AT

• 03/2024 • ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models, Amsterdam, NL

• 12/2023 • Neurips@Paris, Paris, FR

• 05/2023 • 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Kigali, RW

• 03/2023 • Workshop on Optimization and Machine Learning, Waischenfeld, DE

reviewing

• ICLR 2026

• AAAI 2026

• NeurIPS 2025

• ICML 2025

• ICLR 2025

• NeurIPS 2024