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Mar 03, 2026 Our paper “Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable Features in Single-Cell Foundation Models” with Flavia Pedrocchi was accepted at the Gen^2 workshop @ ICLR.
Feb 16, 2026 Our review paper “Representation learning of single-cell RNA-seq data” with Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze and Jan Lause was published in RNA.
Nov 22, 2025 Our paper “CanSig Benchmarks Methods for Reproducible Cancer Cell State Discovery from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data” was accepted in Cancer Research. This work was co-first authored with Josephine Yates.
Oct 01, 2025 We released our preprint “Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable Features in Single-Cell Foundation Models” with Flavia Pedrocchi. We trained sparse autoencoders on hidden representations of three single-cell foundation models to study their internal features.
Sep 09, 2025 I joined Cradle in Zurich as a machine learning research intern.
May 06, 2025 Our paper scSSL-Bench: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Single-Cell Data was accepted at ICML 2025 as a spotlight.
Dec 01, 2024 CancerFoundation was accepted at the AIDrugX workshop at NeurIPS. Our scSSL-Bench work with Philip Toma and Olga Ovcharenko was also accepted at the NeurIPS Self-Supervised Learning workshop.
Oct 01, 2024 I attended the first scverse conference in Munich and presented scTree as a poster. Marco Baumann’s thesis, scDIVA: Towards Domain Invariant Reference-Query Mapping, was also accepted as a poster.
Jul 01, 2024 scTree received a spotlight talk at the AccMLBio workshop and was accepted at the SPIGM workshop at ICML in Vienna.
Jul 01, 2023 CanSig was selected for a contributed talk at the Single Cell, Systems Biology and Data Analytics conference in Freiburg. Leander Diaz-Bone’s thesis was also presented as a poster.
Jun 01, 2023 I gave a contributed talk at the Basel Computational Biology Conference (BC2) in Basel.
Oct 01, 2022 CanSig received the Best Poster Award and was selected for a contributed talk at the Single Cell Genomics meets Data Science conference in Munich.
Sep 22, 2022 I started my PhD at ETH Zurich in the Boeva Lab.
Jan 01, 2021 I gave a contributed talk with Niklas Wahl at the 7th Annual Loma Linda Workshop on Particle Imaging and Radiation Treatment Planning.