Nezihe Merve Gürel

I am an assistant professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) since the spring of 2023. I am a member of the Pattern Recognition Laboratory within the Intelligent Systems Department. I am interested in improving robustness, reliability, and reasoning abilities of machine learning systems while making them speedy, efficient, and automated at the same time, mirroring or surpassing the capabilities of human intelligence.

Prior to my appointment at TU Delft, I obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and was advised by Ce Zhang. Throughout my PhD, I also got affiliated with the Human-Centered AI Lab of Stanford University and visited Guomics Lab at the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study. I was also named the recipient of the Generation Google Scholarship and secured Cisco Research Center University Funding. Before my doctoral studies, I obtained my masters degree from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, where I was a research scholar at the Information Theory Laboratory. During and after my master studies, I was also a researcher at IBM Research in Zurich and worked on building denoising algorithms for modern radio telescopes.

Service: I am a reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR and AISTATS, and organized and served as a program committee member for several workshops within these conferences. I had been a board member and the vice president of Women in Machine Learning between 2021 and 2023, and currently leading the joint efforts of Affinity Groups in ML.