Michael N. Arbel

THOTH team, INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes

655 Av. de l'Europe

Montbonnot-Saint-Martin

38330, France

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.

News

Oct 2022 Glad to start a new position as a Research scientist at INRIA Grenoble!
Aug 2021 Code released for Annealed Flow Transport Monte Carlo.
Jul 2021 Long presentation at ICML2021
Apr 2021 poster presentation at ICLR2021.
Apr 2021 Joined THOTH team at INRIA Grenoble-Alpes as a Starting Research Fellow!
Mar 2021 Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis!

Activities

2021 - Now Organizing the THOTH seminar series
2017 - 2019 Organized the CSML weekly seminars
2017 - 2017 Teaching Assistant: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning
2017 - 2017 Teaching Assistant: Probabilistic and Unsupervised Learning