My name is Max. I am a PhD student supervised by Prof. Thomas Gärtner in the machine learning research unit at TU Wien, Austria. Before that, I studied computer science at the University of Bonn under the supervision of Dr. Tamás Horváth. My main research interest is active and semi-supervised learning. The goal is to achieve novel sample and query complexity bounds for learning tasks on graphs using convexity theory. Additionally, I am working on graph representations that go beyond the Weisfeiler-Leman isomorphism test.
PhD in Computer Science, 2020 — Present
TU Wien, Austria
MSc in Computer Science, 2020
University of Bonn, Germany
BSc in Computer Science, 2017
University of Bonn, Germany
[Mai 2023] We are again organising the Mining and Learning with Graphs workshop (MLG) at ECMLPKDD in Torino. Submit your work!
[Mai 2023] Together with Pascal Welke, Fabian Jogl, and Thomas Gärtner we got our paper “Expectation-Complete Graph Representations with Homomorphisms” accepted to ICML 2023!
[Feb 2023] We are organising the 1st community event for machine learning PhD students in Vienna (C’Est La Wien)!
[Oct 2022] Happy to be recognised as a top reviewer (top 8%) of NeurIPS!
[Oct 2022] Workshop papers accepted at GLFrontiers@NeurIPS / LoG conference (with Pascal Welke and Thomas Gärtner) and NeurReps@NeurIPS (with Sohir Maskey, Ali Parviz, Hannes Stärk, Ylli Sadikaj, and Haggai Maron)!
[Sep 2022] Together with Marco Bressan, Andrea Paudice, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan), and Silvio Lattanzi (Google) we got our paper “Active Learning of Classifiers with Label and Seed Queries” accepted to NeurIPS 2022!
[Jul 2022] Happy to be recognised as an outstanding reviewer (top 10%) of ICML!
[Jul 2022] My colleague Fabian Jogl got our paper “Weisfeiler and Leman Return with Graph Transformations” accepted to MLG@ECMLPKDD 2022 and won the (community-voted) best poster award.
[Jul 2022] Together with a team lead by my colleague Tamara Drucks, we organised machine learning courses for children at the KinderUni Wien.
[Jun 2022] Our paper “Online Learning of Convex Sets on Graphs” got accepted to ECMLPKDD 2022!
[Jun 2022] I visited Marco Bressan and Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi at the University of Milan.
[Mai 2022] We are organising the Mining and Learning with Graphs workshop (MLG) at ECMLPKDD in Grenoble. Submit your work!
[Sep 2021] Our paper “Active Learning of Convex Halfspaces on Graphs” got
accepted to NeurIPS 2021!