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Research

Machine Learning for Exoplanets

  • Characterization of exoplanet atmospheres from transmission spectroscopy
  • Searching for novel chemicals and biosignatures in the atmospheres of exoplanets using machine learning techniques for outlier and novelty detection
  • Population studies of exoplanets using machine learning
  • Symbolic regression as a tool for deriving analytical expressions for radiative transfer models.
  • Surrogate machine learning models as fast alternatives for Bayesian retrievals of exoplanet parameters
  • Unsupervised learning for feature engineering and dimensionality reduction using large synthetic spectral databases

Machine Learning applications in physics

  • Machine learning symmetries from first principles
  • Discovering symmetries in the latent space
  • Identifying the group theoretic structure of machine-learned symmetries
  • Symbolic regression for discovering new physics laws from large databases
  • Using machine learning for building particle physics models

Quantum Machine Learning

  • Invariant and equivariant quantum graph neural networks
  • Quantum transformers
  • QUBO optimization problems