π§ PhD Researcher @ EPFL working on AI-driven coral reef monitoring
π Information Retrieval Enthusiast - believing most problems stem from how we find and process information
π Published Researcher - [ICLR 2025] ColPali: Document Retrieval in Visual Space
- AI for environmental monitoring and conservation
- 3D reconstruction and semantic segmentation of coral reefs
- Temporal change detection and persistent spatial representations
- Vision Language Models and multimodal AI systems
- πͺΈ AI for ocean and environmental monitoring
- π Information retrieval as the foundation of AI problems
- π€ Agentic systems and autonomous workflows
- π₯ AI for healthcare and social good applications
- π‘οΈ AI safety, interpretability, and reliable systems
- π Applying AI to global challenges (environment, development, etc.)
- [ICLR 2025] Published ColPali - breakthrough in visual document retrieval
- PhD @ EPFL researching AI-driven coral reef monitoring (ECEO Lab, Sion)
- Production AI experience building agentic systems at Clade.co
- ETH ZΓΌrich MSc in ML & Signal Processing (84% GPA)
- Global perspective from 8-month volunteering travels across Asia



