My name is Emtiyaz Khan (also known as Emti) and I am a (tenured) team director at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo where I lead the Adaptive Bayesian Intelligence Team. I am also a visiting professor at Technical University Darmstadt (Germany), and soon will be joining as a full professor (W3) there (affiliated with Hessian.AI and the Center of Excellence on Reasonable AI). I have served as Program Chair of AISTATS 2025, ICLR 2024, and ACML 2022, and regularly serve as a Senior Area Chair, Area Chair, and reviewer in all major machine-learning venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and AISTATS). I am an Action Editor for the JMLR and TMLR. I am currently serving as General Chair of AISTATS 2026. Previously, I was a postdoc and then a scientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where I also taught two large machine learning courses and received a teaching award. I first joined EPFL as a post-doc with Matthias Seeger in 2013, was a scientist at EPFL in Matthias Grossglausser's lab from 2014-2016. Before that, I finished my PhD at UBC in 2012 under the supervision of Kevin Murphy.
The main goal of my research is to design AI systems that can quickly adapt to their surroundings, just like humans and animals. Over the years, my research has consistently shown that Bayesian principles provide promising ways to address this problem. I have enjoyed this journey and have had my own (personal) breakthroughs along the way. I enjoy making progress towards my goal, one day at a time. I do this because I believe in a slow and rigorous scientific process that aims to add value to existing knowledge. While I acknowledge its flaws, this is the only way I know how to have a consistent, positive impact on society. I care deeply about people and am committed to promoting well-being, inclusion, diversity, equity, privacy, and justice in society.
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