Principal Investigator

Rocío Mercado Oropeza

Assistant professor

PhD Students & Postdocs

Philip Harrison

Postdoc

Farzaneh Jalalypour

Postdoc

Richard Beckmann

Postdoc

Varvara Voinarovska

Industrial postdoc

Yossra Gharbi

PhD student

Télio Cropsal

PhD student

Emma Granqvist

Industrial PhD student

Stefano Ribes

PhD student

Pablo Martínez Crespo

PhD student

Yaochen Rao

PhD student

Nils Dunlop

PhD student

Sofia Larsson

Industrial PhD student

Giannis Savvas

PhD student

Kevin George

PhD student

Varun Ajith

PhD student

MSc & BSc Students

Lukáš Hudec

Research assistant (MPDSC)

Lovisa Moqvist

Research assistant (MPMCN)

Johan Baumann

Research assistant (MPDSC)

Co-Advised Students & Postdocs

  • • Guillaume Henon-Just, PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Simon Olsson
  • • Anand Sharma , PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Simon Olsson
  • • Mehdi Babaeivavdare , PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Ashkan Panahi
  • • Robin Rydbergh , PhD Life Sciences at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Michaela Wenzel
  • • Leo Andrekson , PhD Life Sciences at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Michaela Wenzel
  • • Beatrice Pavesi , PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Simon Olsson
  • • Camille Penot , Industrial PhD at KTH & AstraZeneca, main & co-advisors: Prof. Erik Lindahl, Dr. Ola Engkvist, Dr. Marco Klähn, & Dr. Werngard Czechtizky
  • • Jessica Bair , PhD Chemistry at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Christian Müller
  • • Ross Irwin , PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Simon Olsson
  • • Selma Moqvist , PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Simon Olsson
  • • Valter Schütz , PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Morteza Chehreghani
  • • Zhan-Yun Zhang , Postdoc at Uppsala University, main advisor: Prof. Chao Zhang
  • • (🎓) Christopher Kolloff , '26 PhD Computer Science & Engineering at Chalmers, main advisor: Prof. Simon Olsson

Alumni

It's been a pleasure to work with the following amazing people over the years:

  • • Hannes Öhman , '26 MSc Complex Adaptive Systems, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Felix Erngård , '26 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Alexander Persson , '26 MSc Algorithms, Languages, & Logic, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Noah Márquez Vara , '26 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Zoe (Siyu) Hu , '26 MSc Complex Adaptive Systems, University of Gothenburg
  • • Chai Chai , Multi-head meow-tention expert
  • • Tingting Mo , '26 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg 👉 link to thesis
  • • Andrea (Jia Xin) Zhu , '26 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg 👉 link to thesis
  • • Frida Jacobson , '26 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg 👉 link to thesis
  • • Yihuai Cai , Research Assistant, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Francisco Alejandro Erazo Piza , '25 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg
  • • Nils Dunlop , '25 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg
  • • Ranxuan Zhang , '25 MSc Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Dadi Andrason , '25 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Marcus Johansson , '25 MSc Complex Adaptive Systems, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Sofia Larsson , '25 MSc Complex Adaptive Systems, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Miranda Carlsson , '25 MSc Complex Adaptive Systems, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Frederik Lizak Johansen , Visiting PhD student, University of Copenhagen
  • • Amanda Dehlén , '24 MSc Algorithms, Languages, & Logic, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Pär Aronsson , '24 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Philip Ivers Ohlsson , '24 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Jin Ahmad , '24 BSc Chemistry, Karlstad University 👉 link to thesis
  • • Leo Andrekson , '24 MSc Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Anders Källberg , '24 MSc Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Elaheh Kazemi , Visiting PhD student, IMDEA Materials
  • • María Nuria Peralta Moreno , Visiting PhD student, University of Barcelona
  • • Mert Yurdakul , '23 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology
  • • Stefano Ribes , '23 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Kinga Jenei , '23 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg 👉 link to thesis
  • • Edwin Holst , '23 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Preetha Mutharasu , '23 MSc Data Science & AI, Chalmers University of Technology 👉 link to thesis
  • • Siva Manohar Koki , '23 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg 👉 link to thesis
  • • Supriya Kancharla , '23 MSc Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg 👉 link to thesis

Positive Reinforcement Learning Subgroup

Cloé

BarkOps engineer

Harvey

Meowchine learning specialist

Teddy

Tailgorithm developer

Group Photos

AIME Team Workshop, March 2026.
Left to right: Zoe, Yaochen, Jessica (main supervisor: Christian Müller), Sofia, Rocío, Christopher (main supervisor: Simon Olsson), Richard, Ross (main supervisor: Simon Olsson), Tingting, Noah, Andrea, Télio, Nils, Stefano, Pablo, Hannes, Emma, Camille (main supervisors: Ola Engkvist, Erik Lindahl), Lukáš, Alexander, Felix, Leo (main supervisor: Michaela Wenzel), Farzaneh, Giannis, Valter (main supervisor: Morteza Chehreghani). Not pictured: Varvara, Phil, Yossra, Robin (main supervisor: Michaela Wenzel).
Group photo taken at our team workshop on March 24th, 2026.

AIME Team Workshop, May 2025.
On stairs, left to right: Farzaneh, Rocío, Phil, Yossra, Beatrice (main supervisor: Simon Olsson), Richard, Jessica (main supervisor: Christian Müller), Emma, Yaochen, Camille (main supervisors: Ola Engkvist, Erik Lindahl), Miranda, Marcus. Bottom row, left to right: Nils, Filip (guest), Stefano, Pablo, Sofia, Francisco, Télio. Not pictured: Varvara, Ranxuan, Dadi.
Group photo taken at our team workshop on May 27th, 2025.

ML2MD Symposium, August 2024.
From left to right: Stefano, Télio, Farzaneh, Emma, Rocío, Pablo, Richard. Not pictured: Yossra, Phil.
Group photo taken at the ML2MD Symposiums on August 27th, 2024.

DSAI Retreat, June 2024.
From left to right: Farzaneh, Emma, Stefano, Télio, Yossra, Rocío. Not pictured: Phil.
Group photo taken at the DSAI retreat on June 4th, 2024.