Anastasia Koloskova

Focus Period lund 2026 Assistant Professor University of Zurich (Switzerland) Anastasia Koloskova is an Assistant Professor of AI and Optimization in the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on...

Aaron Defazio

Focus Period Lund 2026 Research Scientist  FAIR (Fundamental AI Research), part of Meta Superintelligence labs (USA) Aaron Defazio is a Research Scientist at the FAIR (Fundamental AI Research), part of Meta Superintelligence labs, where he researches new theoretically...

Alex Damian

Focus Period Lund 2026 Research Fellow Kempner Institute at Harvard University (USA) Alex Damian is a research fellow at the Kempner Institute at Harvard University and will join MIT in Fall 2026 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and EECS[AI+D]. His research...

Jeremy Cohen

Focus Period Lund 2026 Research Fellow The Flatiron Institute (USA) Jeremy Cohen is a research fellow at the Flatiron Institute, New York, USA.  He is broadly interested in turning deep learning into a principled engineering discipline, and currently works on...

Jason Altschuler

Focus Period Lund 2026 Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania (USA) Jason Altschuler is Assistant Professor at UPenn in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, and by courtesy also the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Applied...

Sean Kearney

Focus Period Linköping University 2026 PhD student North Carolina State University (USA) Sean Kearney is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, advised by Dr. Sevgi Z. Gurbuz. He earned a B.S. in...

Gustav Nilsson Gisleskog

Focus Period Linköping University 2026 PhD student Lund University (Sweden) Gustav Nilsson Gisleskog is a PhD student in applied mathematics and computer vision at Lund University. His research focuses on computer vision problems where data from radars and possibly...

Andrew Zhang

Focus Period Linköping University 2026 Professor University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Dr J. Andrew Zhang (M’04-SM’11) is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests...
Tackling the challenges of robot learning

Tackling the challenges of robot learning

The ELLIIT focus period symposium on robot learning gathered roboticists from all over the world in Lund for three days of talks, panel discussions and networking. At the end of each symposium day, all the speakers of the day formed a panel that was moderated by a...