Applied and Interpretable
Machine Learning

People

Lead

Serkan Ayvaz

Associate Professor of Software Engineering

Machine learning, software architecture and data-intensive systems, from predictive maintenance on production lines to retrieval for language models. PhD in Computer Science, Kent State University.

Members

Riccardo Terrenzi

PhD Fellow

Dataset search: content-based table retrieval, generated metadata, and provenance in retrieval over knowledge graphs. MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Ane Cathrine Holst Merrild

PhD Fellow

Toygar Tanyel

Visiting Researcher

Explainability and the philosophy of machine learning: counterfactuals, causal abstraction and mechanistic interpretability. Production experience in medical AI CE marked under the MDR and in multi-agent systems.

Phongsakon Mark Konrad

Research Collaborator

Has played in different backyards of machine learning, from medical imaging and flood detection to the internals of language models; now interested in causality and deep learning theory. MSc Machine Learning student at the University of Tübingen; BSc in Software Engineering from SDU.

Rebecca De Rosa

Research Assistant

Has explored different corners of AI research, from vulnerability detection to language models; now focusing on retrieval-augmented generation and AI applications in mental health. Holds a master’s degree in Cybersecurity Engineering.

Tim Lukas Adam

Research Collaborator

Applied AI for agentic and autonomous systems, with a focus on language models and computer vision. Incoming MSc Autonomous Systems student at DTU; BSc in Software Engineering from SDU.

Undergraduate Researchers

Bartosz Bobkiewicz

Undergraduate Researcher

Manish Raj Moriche

Undergraduate Researcher

Interested in machine learning and software engineering, particularly automated program repair, AI-assisted software development, and interpretable machine learning. BSc Software Engineering student at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

Vladimír Jakabovic

Undergraduate Researcher

Luigi Colluto

Undergraduate Researcher

Interested in AI-assisted software engineering and software security, particularly vulnerability discovery, remediation, and secure software maintenance. BSc Software Engineering student at SDU.

Members of the group seated around a table at the Centre for Industrial Software.
At the Centre for Industrial Software, SDU Sønderborg.