Ander Artola Velasco

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany.

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Welcome! I’m Ander, a PhD. student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, under the supervision of Dr. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez and as part of the IMPRS-TRUST program. Previously, I obtained my masters in Physics at Heidelberg University under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Bosman. I graduated with high honors in 2023 from the Complutense University of Madrid in Mathematics and Physics.

My primary (and past) interests include:

  • Machine learning, uncertainty quantification, explainability and support systems
  • Bayesian modelling and inference
  • Causality
  • Decision-making
  • (Differential geometry and its applications)
  • (Cosmology, dark matter, the intergalactic medium and reionisation)
  • Anything that is intensive in abstract reasoning: from coding to philosophy

You can find my CV here.

news

Feb 05, 2025 Our group at MPI-SWS has released a new joint paper on the evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs). We use a causal framework to argue why controlling for the randomization in the generative process can be beneficial when evaluating models. It can be found here. It has also been submitted to ICML 2025.
Dec 01, 2024 We have finally released the paper derived from my M.Sc. thesis on Bayesian Neural Networks applied to Warm Dark matter detection! You can find the pre-print here. It has also been submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Oct 10, 2024 I will be giving a talk at the Galaxy Coffee, the seminar of the “Galaxies & Cosmology” Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
Oct 01, 2024 My master’s thesis is complete! Thanks to Heidelberg University (Institute for Theoretical Physics) and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. You can find it here. In this project, I use a Bayesian neural network to reconstruct the cosmic density fields from the Lyman-alpha forest. Based on those reconstructions, I constrain warm dark matter with unprecedented efficiency.
Sep 10, 2024 I will be joining the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems as a PhD. student, under the supervision of Dr. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez and as part of the IMPRS-TRUST program!