Niclas Dern

I am a 3rd-year mathematics undergraduate student at the Technical University of Munich, currently visiting UC Berkeley supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. My research motivation is to make large-scale machine learning systems more robust, interpretable, and trustworthy, ideally in a principled manner.

In the past, I’ve interned at the Vector Institute, where I worked with Geoff Pleiss on theoretical properties of ensembles, and worked at the Helmholtz AI Institute with Niki Kilbertus and Elisabeth Ailer on estimating nonlinear causal effects in confounded environments. As I have a passion for EdTech, I also co-founded Mathis, an AI tutor that provides individualized feedback for math exams to German high school students.

I am an Atlas Fellow (2022) and a winner of the National Student Championships in Computer Science (Germany, 2020). In my free time, I enjoy reading, swimming, traveling, and meeting new people.