Talks & Seminars

I speak across three communities that rarely share a room — experimental particle physics, statistics, and machine learning — and much of my work has come out of trying to make an idea legible to all of them at once.

Invited talks, seminars and panels

Sep 2026
Discovery through the lens of AI: scaling anomaly detection with learned representations
LPC Topic of the Week, LHC Physics Center, Fermilab, Batavia, IL
Apr 2026
Detecting statistical anomalies with sparse, self-organizing ensembles of local kernels
Statistical Physics for Ambitious Interpretability, Cambridge, MA · Event
Oct 2025
From high dimensions to statistical discovery: anomaly detection at scale in the era of latent spaces
STAMPS–NSBI Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA · Video
Mar 2025
Panelist, round table on goodness-of-fit tests via machine learning
PHYSTAT Informal Review (remote) · Event
Sep 2024
Statistical tests for anomaly detection at the LHC
PHYSTAT — Statistics meets ML in Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Imperial College London · Programme
Nov 2023
Uncertainty-aware ML models
From Physics to Medicine: XAI Workshop
Sep 2022
Seminar: New Physics Learning Machine (NPLM) at work
Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy · Event

Selected contributed talks

Sep 2025
Anomaly detection in the era of latent spaces
Building Big or Building Smart, MIAPbP, TU Munich · Slides
Jun 2025
From high dimensions to statistical discovery: a contrastive learning approach to anomaly detection
Anomaly Detection for HEP Workshop, Columbia University, Irvington, NY · Slides
May 2024
Boosting statistical anomaly detection via multiple testing with NPLM
ACAT 2024, Stony Brook University, NY · Event
Apr 2023
Unbiased detection of data departures from expectations with machine learning
Systematic Effects and Nuisance Parameters in Particle Physics Data Analyses, BIRS, Banff, Canada · Event
Aug 2022
New Physics Learning Machine (NPLM) at work
Hammers & Nails, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel · Event

Full list of talks and posters in my CV.