Samuel Kaski

Join our start-up research institute, or actually a scale-up which already includes ~40 machine learning research groups. Tell who you want to work with, or leave that open and we will do match-making.

- Postdocs: Call will open in January, DL early Feb www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr...

- Postdoc in my group, DL Jan 4 www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

Thinking of the next big move at the turn of the year? Here are some in Machine Learning and AI research, for PIs and postdocs:

@ellisinstitute.fi is looking for:

- PIs who will also get a tenure track professorship: DL Jan 12 www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2...

1/ Very happy with this spotlight paper at
@neuripsconf.bsky.social where we continue our "Amortize Everything" agenda.

After the Amortized Conditioning Engine (Chang et al., AISTATS, 2025) which amortizes all sorts of inference tasks, here with ALINE we amortize both inference & design.

We jointly amortize Bayesian inference and active data acquisition within a single architecture.

Excited to share our #NeurIPS2025 ✨Spotlight✨ paper “ALINE: Joint Amortization for Bayesian Inference and Active Data Acquisition”!

www.huangdaolang.com/aline/

Updated website: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...

Co-organized with Cen-You (Scott) Li, @conorhassan.bsky.social, @desirivanova.bsky.social as well as @samikaski.bsky.social & FCAI

YouTube video by ELLIS Meet the Board: Samuel Kaski (ELLIS Board Member | ELLIS Institute Finland)

👋 Meet the ELLIS Board!

This episode features @samikaski.bsky.social, Director of the @ellisinstitute.fi 🇫🇮 & Prof at @aalto.fi 🇫🇮 & @manchester.ac.uk 🇬🇧

He answers rapid-fire questions about the future of #AI and recommends this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.07259

Watch now 👉 youtu.be/ZP7HuurCDIU

Our launch event continues today with the ELLIS Institute Scientific Seminar at @aalto.fi! We'll introduce many of our new faculty, hear some engaging keynotes, and talk about how to bring new fundamentals of machine learning into reality.
cc @ellis.eu @samikaski.bsky.social @lrlaurahy.bsky.social

Ceremonial ribbon-cutting by Peter Sarlin (Institute Co-Founder & CEO at AMD Silo AI), Serge Belongie (ELLIS President), Petteri Orpo (Prime Minister of Finland), Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS Co-Founder), and Samuel Kaski (Institute Founding Director and ELLIS Fellow)

Opening remarks by Samuel Kaski (Institute Founding Director and ELLIS Fellow)

Opening remarks by Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS Co-Founder), and Serge Belongie (ELLIS President)

🚀 ELLIS Institute Finland 🇫🇮 officially opens today, launching a hub for cutting-edge AI research, talent development, and collaboration across academia, government & industry.

Opening remarks by @samikaski.bsky.social, @serge.belongie.com, Bernhard Schölkopf, PM Petteri Orpo & Peter Sarlin

Photos by Vesa-Matti Väärä

Finland's PM Petteri Orpo cuts the ribbon to open ELLIS Institute Finland along with @samikaski.bsky.social, @serge.belongie.com, Peter Sarlin, Bernhard Schölkopf. An inspiring morning of discussion on the future of AI research and collaboration in Europe, powered by @ellis.eu and partners 💪

ELLIOT Project Explore the ELLIOT Project, a Horizon Europe initiative developing open, multimodal foundation models for robust AI generalisation across real-world data.

The positions are funded by ERC, UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, and www.elliot-ai.eu

More about me and the group at kaski-lab.com

We do probabilistic machine learning, develop new principles and methods and apply them with collaborators in other domains, as AI4Research and AI4Science.

Direct link to Manchester call: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Direct link to Helsinki call: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

I am hiring to my group in @ellisinstitute.fi and @aifunmcr.bsky.social, DL Dec 1

Topics: Multimodal foundation models, out-of-distribution deployable machine learning, collaborative machine learning

kaski-lab.com

Very happy and also honoured to serve in a new way, not only thinking of our @ellisinstitute.fi , our very nice collaboration within Nordic AIR, or with Northern UK, but the whole of Europe. @ellis.eu is good for Europe!

"The recent expansion of @ellis.eu with two new institutes in @ellisinsttue.bsky.social and Finland shows that Europe has the vision, resources and drive to achieve the best AI research in the world.” Our director @samikaski.bsky.social joins the ELLIS Board, read more below! 👇
@csaalto.bsky.social

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025 A virtual info session for prospective PhD candidates will be held on October 1st with information about the whole PhD program, the call for applications, application materials, and timeline.

Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com

Highly recommended @ellis.eu UnConference workshop from the ELLIS Robust ML Program at @euripsconf.bsky.social

Amortized ProbML: Unlocking Probabilistic Machine Learning for Real-world Inference & Design (🇩🇰) ELLIS UnConference Workshop Copenhagen | 2 December, 2025

Do you like to train neural networks to solve all your nasty probabilistic inference and sequential design problems?
Do you love letter salads such as NPs, PFNs, NPE, SBI, BED?

Then no place is better than the Amortized ProbML workshop we are organizing at #ELLIS UnConference.

All the news from ELLIS Institute Finland is always up-to-date at www.ellisinstitute.fi/news

Our recent media coverage 🧵👇 with features in @hs.fi, Finland's public broadcaster Yle and the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series. cc @ellis.eu @okm.fi @csaalto.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/elli...

Tekoälyhype nosti huippututkijoiden palkat NBA-tähtien tasolle – silti Suomikin voi olla houkutteleva Teknologiayhtiöt kilpailevat tekoälytutkijoista jättipalkkioilla, mutta akateemisella vapaudella ei ole hintaa.

Suomessa on tehty 1970-luvulta lähtien tutkimusta, joka on mahdollistanut mullistuksia tekoälyn saralla.

Ellis-instituutin tarkoituksena on nostaa tämä kokonaisuus seuraavalle tasolle.

"Nyt on oikeasti mahdollista tehdä asioita maailmanluokassa, @samikaski.bsky.social sanoo.

yle.fi/a/74-20179689

Tekoälyhype nosti huippututkijoiden palkat NBA-tähtien tasolle – silti Suomikin voi olla houkutteleva Teknologiayhtiöt kilpailevat tekoälytutkijoista jättipalkkioilla, mutta akateemisella vapaudella ei ole hintaa.

Jenkeissä (ja muuallakin) tekoälytutkijoita houkutellaan akatemiasta yritysten labroihin valtavilla palkkioilla. Harvardissa ollaan jo huolissaan akateemisesta tutkimuksesta, kun opiskelijoita mukaansa vetävistä tutkijatohtoreista alkaa olla pula. Suomessa yritetään vastata tähän haasteeseen.

"Science is the best problem-solving tool that humanity has; science combined with AI can be even more powerful." This why it pays to invest in long-term, basic research, says
@samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow...
@ellis.eu

Thank you for the recognition @aalto.fi . The image does not show the rest of the team who deserve a big thank you! Onwards to the next stages then.

The institute's opening is part of the AI Summit, with distinguished speakers from across European business and government, as well as top researchers and leadership from the @ellis.eu network. An exciting two-day program that marks a milestone for AI & ML research. More info at aisummit.fi

Grand opening of @ellisinstitute.fi will be Nov 17-18: The first day will be a broad-audience AI Summit co-organized with AI Finland and Foundation PS in Turku, and the second day will be an @ellis.eu scientific seminar in Espoo for the invited AI and machine learning community. aisummit.fi

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Welcome new principal investigators! 9 leading scholars and rising stars in AI & machine learning are joining ELLIS Institute Finland, part of the @ellis.eu network. Read more about our new professors:
➡️ www.ellisinstitute.fi/PIs-2025

- Future PI's, postdocs, PhD students: calls will follow
- Companies, researchers in AI and other fields: we are seeking collaboration partners
- Finland and Europe: multiplicative effects coming from ELLIS

Stay tuned for further calls and research results!

@ellisinstitute.fi @ellis.eu

Welcome to the first 9 PIs of ELLIS Institute Finland - great to have you onboard! www.ellisinstitute.fi/PIs-2025

Now is time to start the action after the initial planning

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