Samuel Kaski

Samuel Kaski

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Aalto University

University of Manchester

Biography

I am a Machine Learning Professor operating 50-50 in the UK and Finland. In Finland I lead the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI, and in the UK the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals AI-FUN. Part of my research group is at Aalto University and part in the University of Manchester.

News

  • ELLIS Institute Finland established. Stay tuned for more news and call for PI/Prof positions
  • I am hiring: Postdocs in Helsinki, DL February 2, 2025, and Manchester, UK, DL February 7, 2025; PhD students in Manchester, DL January 31, 2025. You can also choose to work with me and collaborators at FCAI: Postdoc, PhD student, DL February 2, 2025
  • CAIHU: AAAI Bridge Program: Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans, Feb 25, 2025

Earlier events:

Research interests

  • Probabilistic modelling and Bayesian inference
  • Collaborative AI for decision making and design
  • Collaboration with many fields including health, medicine, biology, user interaction, cognitive science, neuroscience; especially when formulated as virtual simulation-based laboratories
  • Timely in ML: distribution shifts, multiple tasks and sources, generative models, experimental design, simulation-based inference, humans in the loop and theory of mind, privacy-preserving learning

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Representative Recent Publications

All papers in Google Scholar and my group’s pages. Or old-school list.

(2024). Learning Robust Statistics for Simulation-based Inference under Model Misspecification. In NeurIPS 2023.

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(2023). Characterizing personalized effects of family information on disease risk using graph representation learning. In MLHC 2023.

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(2023). Virtual laboratories: Transforming research with AI.

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(2023). Online Simulator-Based Experimental Design for Cognitive Model Selection. Computational Brain & Behavior.

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(2023). Compositional Sculpting of Iterative Generative Processes. In NeurIPS 2023.

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(2023). Noise-Aware Statistical Inference with Differentially Private Synthetic Data. In AISTATS 2023.

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(2023). Differentiable user models. In UAI 2023.

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(2023). Zero-shot assistance in sequential decision problems. In AAAI 2023.

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(2023). Toward AI assistants that let designers design. AI Magazine.

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(2022). Human-in-the-loop assisted de novo molecular design. Journal of Cheminformatics.

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(2022). Likelihood-Free Inference by Ratio Estimation. Bayesian Analysis, 17.

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(2022). Parallel MCMC Without Embarrassing Failures. In ICML 2022.

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(2022). Tackling covariate shift with node-based Bayesian neural networks. In ICML 2022.

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Tekoäly ja tulevaisuus
Collaborative Machine Learning for Science
Tutorial: User modeling for cooperative AI
AI Fundamentals @Manchester and why they matter
AI Fundamentals @Manchester and why they matter