Alison Pouplin

Hi there!

I am a researcher in the MLR team at Bayer, where I work on uncertainty quantification.

Before joining Bayer, I did a short postdoc at Aalto University with Vikas Garg and Markus Heinonen. And before that, I was lucky to do my PhD on a topic I still love the most: differential geometry in machine learning (mostly variational autoencoders), supervised by Søren Hauberg and Georgios Arvanitidis. You can read my thesis here.

Even though I am now in industry, I stay very much connected to the academic world, with ongoing collaborations and workshops (GRaM 2024, 2026).

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What's New

26 Jan 2026 paper

ICLR accepted two papers: The Spacetime of Diffusion Models: An Information Geometry Perspective (Oral) and Riemannian Variational Flow Matching for Material and Protein Design (Poster). A pleasure to work with Rafał, Olga and Floor.

23 Dec 2025 workshop

GRaM got accepted as a workshop at ICLR, our second edition! We have a call for proceedings, tiny papers, blogposts and a competition coming soon.

9 Sep 2025 talk

Gave a talk at GPSS on Links between Riemannian geometry and Gaussian Processes. Thank you Carl Henrik Ek and Mauricio Alvarez for the invitation!

1 Jun 2025 news

Started at Bayer in the MLR team.

9 May 2025 workshop

End of the wonderful workshop on Geometry for statistics and AI organised by Libby Baker, Stefan Sommer and Erlend Grong.