Fabian Gröger · Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL
Postdoc in the MLBio lab of Maria Brbić at EPFL working on representation learning and multimodal alignment. PhD from the University of Basel.
Education
Visiting Ph.D. · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
in the MLBio group under the supervision of Maria Brbić · Lausanne, Switzerland
Summer School · University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute
MLx Health & Bio and MLx Representation Learning & Generative AI · Oxford, United Kingdom
Ph.D. · University of Basel
in Biomedical Engineering, graduated summa cum laude. Thesis: The Geometry of Representations: From Hypothesis to Application in Medical Imaging · Basel, Switzerland
M.Sc. · Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
in Engineering · Lucerne, Switzerland
B.Sc. · Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
in Computer Science · Lucerne, Switzerland
Employment
Postdoctoral Researcher · MLBio Lab, EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Associate · Applied AI Research Lab (AAI), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
Rotkreuz, Switzerland
Data Scientist · Jaywalker Digital AG
Lucerne, Switzerland
Research Assistant · Applied AI Research Lab (AAI), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
Rotkreuz, Switzerland
Selected publications
Full list at /publications/.
- Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026. project arXiv:2602.14486 code
- With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025. project arXiv:2506.16895
- Intrinsic Self-Supervision for Data Quality Audits. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024. project arXiv:2305.17048 code
- CleanPatrick: A Benchmark for Image Data Cleaning. Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR), 2026. project arXiv:2505.11034
- Representation-Based Data Quality Audits for Audio. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026. project arXiv:2509.26291
- A Global Atlas of Digital Dermatology to Map Innovation and Disparities. Preprint, 2025. project arXiv:2601.00840
Awards & achievements
Swiss AI Initiative, Small Compute Grant · The SkinMap Factory
Controllable generative synthesis of equitable dermatology image data.