Michael N. Arbel

I am a Research Scientist (Chargé de recherche) at INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, THOTH team. Before that, I was a Starting Research Fellow at the same team working with Julien Mairal. I completed my Ph.D. in 2021 at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit of University College London under the supervision of Arthur Gretton. Even before that, I graduated from Ecole polytechnique with a focus in Applied Mathematics and obtained a Masters Degree in Mathematics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision (MVA) from ENS Paris-Saclay. I also worked as a Computer Vision Engineer at Prophesee where I developed tracking algorithms based on signals from neuromorophic cameras.

My research interests include Unsupervised Representation Learning, Non-convex optimization for Machine Learning and High Dimensional Sampling. I find problems arising from natural sciences and physics to be a great source of inspiration and a good way to find a balance between theory and practice.