Sepehr Elahi

I am a fourth-year Doctoral Assistant at the EDIC (Computer and Communication Sciences) department of EPFL. I am advised by Prof. Patrick Thiran of the INDY lab and Prof. Negar Kiyavash of the BAN group. My research focuses on causality, graph learning and interventions, parameterized algorithms, and, more broadly, mathematical machine learning.

I graduated summa cum laude with two BSc degrees in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Mathematics at Bilkent University in June 2022. I did research at Bilkent CYBORG with Prof. Cem Tekin from 2018 to 2022, where my research was focused on online decision making, contextual bandits, Gaussian processes, multi-objective optimization, and their applications to crowdsourcing/sensing, content recommendation, and item recommendation.

I have also worked on multiple projects and papers related to applications of ML and CV to other fields, including telecommunications, microfluidic droplets, and laser material processing. For a list of my publications, see my Google Scholar page.

Outside of work, I am an avid weightlifter and used to play Ultimate Frisbee at Lausanne FlyHigh.