Mathias Lechner, PhD

I am Co-founder and CTO of Liquid AI and also a Research Affilate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT working with Prof. Daniela Rus. I completed my PhD (2022) at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) supervised by Tom Henzinger. Prior to my PhD, I received my master (2017) and bachelor (2016) degrees in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).

Liquid AI is a research-driven company that builds a new generation of foundation models from first principles.

In my research role at MIT, I focus on developing robust and trustworthy machine learning models. My works have been published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence and at various ML/AI conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICRA, and AAAI.

Together with my colleague Djordje Zikelic I received the 2023 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for our work on proving safety in stochastic machine learning systems. With my colleague Ramin Hasani, I got the Hyperion Research 2022 HPC Innovation Excellence Award for my work on Liquid neural and was honored as Outstanding Reviewer at ICRA 2021. I co-lead the team that won the F1-Tenth - Autonomous Racing Grand Prix at IFAC 2020, and I received the Distinguished Young Alumni award at TU Vienna in 2018 for my MS thesis.

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