Welcome!


I'm Maya, an AI researcher interested in the application of Machine Learning to unsolved problems in Science, as well as in a broad range of topics such as Self-Organisation, Collective Learning and Open-Endedness.

I'm currently working on AI for automated discovery in Science as a postdoctoral researcher at Syensqo and LoF-CNRS, where I develop curiosity-driven exploration methods for the discovery of novel chemical formulations. Before that I obtained my Ph.D. in Machine Learning under the supervision of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Clément Moulin-Frier at the FLOWERS team at Inria Bordeaux; together with the Poietis biotech company. During my Ph.D, I also worked with Dr. Michael Levin and his team at the Levin Lab at Tufts University.

Previously, I have been at University College of London where I completed my Master of Science (MSc) in computer vision and at Télécom Paristech where I did my Master of Engineering (MEng). I also spent a year as an AI research intern at Siemens Healthineers, Princeton N.J., working on deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms for healthcare. My extended CV can be found here.

News:

  • 09/2024: Very grateful to have received a best thesis award for my work, thank you CSS France!
  • 07/2024: Excited to start exploring applications of curiosity-driven AI for chemistry at the LoF-CNRS lab 🧪
  • 04/2024: New simple-foc-assistant tutorial to learn how to build a SimpleFOC AI Assistant with RAG
  • 03/2024: New sketch-transformer tutorial to train transformers+MDN to generate human-like sketches
  • 02/2024: Our paper about AI-driven discovery of GRN behaviors got accepted into the eLife journal
  • 12/2023: Co-organized the Agent Learning in Open-Endedness Workshop held at NeurIPS 2023 🌱
  • 11/2023: Defended my thesis "Curiosity-driven AI for Science: Automated Discovery of Self-Organized Structures". Thank you to my amazing jury Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Sebastian Risi, Melanie Mitchell, Jeff Clune, and Nicolas Brodu; and supervisors Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Clément Moulin-Frier and Marc Nicodème 🙏
  • 09/2023: New tutorial serie on how to use diversity search to explore behaviors of biological networks
  • 07/2023: Our Flow Lenia paper won the best paper award at ALife 2023 conference 👾

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