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May 27, 2026 I gave an invited talk on neuro-symbolic program synthesis at the USCKI symposium “Neuro ∧ Symbolic ⇒ AI” in Utrecht, alongside invited talks by Luc de Raedt and Emile van Krieken.
May 13, 2026 My talk and poster on Herb.jl got accepted at JuliaCon Global 2026 in Mainz, Germany (Aug 10-15). Happy to meet you there!
Apr 2, 2026 I gave an invited talk on “Neural Program Synthesis: Learning to Program from Trees” as part of the “Graphs and Data” seminar, where Neil Yorke-Smith also gave a talk.
Feb 1, 2026 We published our extended paper “Herb.jl: A Unifying Program Synthesis Library” on ArXiv, showing how to use and customize Herb for your own program synthesis applications.
Nov 28, 2025 We presented Herb.jl at PLNL 2025. The Pluto notebook from the talk is available online.
Jul 1, 2025 We published our first Herb-related paper “Modelling Program Spaces in Program Synthesis with Constraints” on ArXiv, introducing our solver BART and a new notion of syntactic constraints.
Jan 3, 2025 Our project from the first BioHackathon MENA led to the paper “Generating unseen diseases patient data using ontology enhanced generative adversarial networks” by Chang Sun and Michel Dumontier, published in npj Digital Medicine.
Jul 10, 2024 We presented Herb.jl at JuliaCon 2024 with a poster session and a talk by Tilman Hinnerichs (video).
Mar 1, 2024 My talk on Herb.jl got accepted for JuliaCon 2024
Nov 16, 2023 I was awarded a scholarship by the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) for my PhD.
Jul 24, 2023 I attended the first European Summer School of AI (ESSAI) in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Apr 14, 2023 I gave a talk at the “Neural Causal and Symbolic AI” workshop organized by the TAILOR network
Feb 7, 2023 I participated in the first BioHackathon MENA at CBRC, KAUST