Jan-Willem van de Meent
@jwvdm.bsky.social
Associate Professor (UHD) at the University of Amsterdam. Probabilistic methods, deep learning, and their applications in science in engineering.
We have a postdoc opening on the development of AI methods for accelerating computational fluid mechanics:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for Fluid Mechanics
Are you interested in developing AI methods that can make physics simulations orders of magnitude faster? If the answer is yes, please continue reading!
werkenbij.uva.nl
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We have a postdoc opening on the development of AI methods for accelerating computational fluid mechanics:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-in-ai-for-fluid-mechanics-netherlands-14589
Deadline for applications soon –– 28 Nov –– e-mail me if you are planning to apply!
Submit your work on to the @euripsconf.bsky.social workshop on on Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning!
differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...
Submission: 10 October
Notification: 31 October
Workshop: 6 or 7 December in Copenhagen
differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...
Submission: 10 October
Notification: 31 October
Workshop: 6 or 7 December in Copenhagen
Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning Workshop - EurIPS 2025
differentiable-systems.github.io
September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Submit your work on to the @euripsconf.bsky.social workshop on on Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning!
differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...
Submission: 10 October
Notification: 31 October
Workshop: 6 or 7 December in Copenhagen
differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...
Submission: 10 October
Notification: 31 October
Workshop: 6 or 7 December in Copenhagen
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At #ICML2025 this week?
Come check out our work on controlled generation, simulation-free latent SDEs, and risk monitoring in test-time adaptation, and chat with the awesome students that made it happen!
#SDE #Diffusion #FlowMatching #TTA #UncertaintyQuantification
Come check out our work on controlled generation, simulation-free latent SDEs, and risk monitoring in test-time adaptation, and chat with the awesome students that made it happen!
#SDE #Diffusion #FlowMatching #TTA #UncertaintyQuantification
July 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
At #ICML2025 this week?
Come check out our work on controlled generation, simulation-free latent SDEs, and risk monitoring in test-time adaptation, and chat with the awesome students that made it happen!
#SDE #Diffusion #FlowMatching #TTA #UncertaintyQuantification
Come check out our work on controlled generation, simulation-free latent SDEs, and risk monitoring in test-time adaptation, and chat with the awesome students that made it happen!
#SDE #Diffusion #FlowMatching #TTA #UncertaintyQuantification
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Are you interested in improving the #interpretability, #robustness and #safety of current AI systems with #causality and #RL?
Apply to our PhD position in Amsterdam 🚲🌷🇳🇱
Deadline: June 15
Apply to our PhD position in Amsterdam 🚲🌷🇳🇱
Deadline: June 15
New PhD position at the University of Amsterdam in @amlab.bsky.social on learning concepts with theoretical guarantees using #causality and #RL with me, Frans Oliehoek (TU Delft) and Herke van Hoof 💥
Deadline: 15 June
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Deadline: 15 June
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position on Learning Concepts with Theoretical Guarantees Using Causality and RL
Are you interested in improving the interpretability, robustness and safety of current AI systems? If the answer is yes, please continue reading!
werkenbij.uva.nl
June 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Are you interested in improving the #interpretability, #robustness and #safety of current AI systems with #causality and #RL?
Apply to our PhD position in Amsterdam 🚲🌷🇳🇱
Deadline: June 15
Apply to our PhD position in Amsterdam 🚲🌷🇳🇱
Deadline: June 15
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🐳 Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching
By @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social , @zmheiko.bsky.social ,
@sharvaree.bsky.social , @erikjbekkers.bsky.social ,
@wellingmax.bsky.social , @canaesseth.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social *
📜 As above - paper TBA soon 😉
🧵8 / 8
By @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social , @zmheiko.bsky.social ,
@sharvaree.bsky.social , @erikjbekkers.bsky.social ,
@wellingmax.bsky.social , @canaesseth.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social *
📜 As above - paper TBA soon 😉
🧵8 / 8
May 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🐳 Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching
By @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social , @zmheiko.bsky.social ,
@sharvaree.bsky.social , @erikjbekkers.bsky.social ,
@wellingmax.bsky.social , @canaesseth.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social *
📜 As above - paper TBA soon 😉
🧵8 / 8
By @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social , @zmheiko.bsky.social ,
@sharvaree.bsky.social , @erikjbekkers.bsky.social ,
@wellingmax.bsky.social , @canaesseth.bsky.social *, @jwvdm.bsky.social *
📜 As above - paper TBA soon 😉
🧵8 / 8
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🌊 Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation
By Andrés Guzmán-Cordero*, @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *,
@jwvdm.bsky.social
📜 This paper will be shared soon - keep your eyes open! 🤩
🧵7 / 8
By Andrés Guzmán-Cordero*, @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *,
@jwvdm.bsky.social
📜 This paper will be shared soon - keep your eyes open! 🤩
🧵7 / 8
May 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🌊 Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation
By Andrés Guzmán-Cordero*, @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *,
@jwvdm.bsky.social
📜 This paper will be shared soon - keep your eyes open! 🤩
🧵7 / 8
By Andrés Guzmán-Cordero*, @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social *,
@jwvdm.bsky.social
📜 This paper will be shared soon - keep your eyes open! 🤩
🧵7 / 8
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🐸 Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems
By @maxxxzdn.bsky.social , @jwvdm.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
🧵2 / 8
By @maxxxzdn.bsky.social , @jwvdm.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
🧵2 / 8
May 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🐸 Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems
By @maxxxzdn.bsky.social , @jwvdm.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
🧵2 / 8
By @maxxxzdn.bsky.social , @jwvdm.bsky.social , @wellingmax.bsky.social
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
🧵2 / 8
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Exciting news: AMLab is happy to have 7 papers accepted at #ICML2025! 🎉
See the thread below for the full list 📝 and meet us in Vancouver to discuss them further! 🇨🇦
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See the thread below for the full list 📝 and meet us in Vancouver to discuss them further! 🇨🇦
🧵1 / 8
May 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Exciting news: AMLab is happy to have 7 papers accepted at #ICML2025! 🎉
See the thread below for the full list 📝 and meet us in Vancouver to discuss them further! 🇨🇦
🧵1 / 8
See the thread below for the full list 📝 and meet us in Vancouver to discuss them further! 🇨🇦
🧵1 / 8
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🥇 3 Best Paper Awards for AMLab members!
1. Towards Variational Flow Matching on General Geometries by @olgatticus.bsky.social et al.
2. Generative Uncertainty in Diffusion Models by @metodjazbec.bsky.social et al.
3. SDE Matching by @gbarto.bsky.social et al.
Congrats to everyone! 🔥
1. Towards Variational Flow Matching on General Geometries by @olgatticus.bsky.social et al.
2. Generative Uncertainty in Diffusion Models by @metodjazbec.bsky.social et al.
3. SDE Matching by @gbarto.bsky.social et al.
Congrats to everyone! 🔥
May 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🥇 3 Best Paper Awards for AMLab members!
1. Towards Variational Flow Matching on General Geometries by @olgatticus.bsky.social et al.
2. Generative Uncertainty in Diffusion Models by @metodjazbec.bsky.social et al.
3. SDE Matching by @gbarto.bsky.social et al.
Congrats to everyone! 🔥
1. Towards Variational Flow Matching on General Geometries by @olgatticus.bsky.social et al.
2. Generative Uncertainty in Diffusion Models by @metodjazbec.bsky.social et al.
3. SDE Matching by @gbarto.bsky.social et al.
Congrats to everyone! 🔥
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Exciting project in Parkinson's disease! Patrik Verstreken's lab (verstrekenlab.sites.vib.be) and my lab are looking for a postdoc to develop and apply ML methods to the analysis of exciting brain-on-chip data. Please spread the word!
More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...
More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...
Postdoc position: Computational methods for neurodegeneration research - VIB
About the labs
The Verstreken Lab and the Gonçalves Lab are based in Leuven, Belgium and part of the
jobs.vib.be
April 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Exciting project in Parkinson's disease! Patrik Verstreken's lab (verstrekenlab.sites.vib.be) and my lab are looking for a postdoc to develop and apply ML methods to the analysis of exciting brain-on-chip data. Please spread the word!
More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...
More details at: jobs.vib.be/j/110908/pos...
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Our colleagues at Climate AI Nordics are seeking collabroators in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland 📣
Please reshare this with your networks if you have colleagues who might be interested in joining this team 🌍
Please reshare this with your networks if you have colleagues who might be interested in joining this team 🌍
Climate AI Nordics hits 140 members! 🎉 Using AI for climate resilience. Join our 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪 network, especially if you're in Iceland 🇮🇸, Faroe Island 🇫🇴, Greenland 🇬🇱 or Åland 🇦🇽! Let's build solutions. Sign up: climateainordics.com/join/ #ClimateAI
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Our colleagues at Climate AI Nordics are seeking collabroators in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland 📣
Please reshare this with your networks if you have colleagues who might be interested in joining this team 🌍
Please reshare this with your networks if you have colleagues who might be interested in joining this team 🌍
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CmdStanR v 0.9.0 released! According to Andrew Johnson, this should make Windows installation easier plus many other improvements and bug fixes discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstanr-v...
#Bayesian #MCMC
#Bayesian #MCMC
CmdStanR: v0.9.0 Release
Hello all, I’m excited to announce that we have now released CmdStanR v0.9.0! This is a minor release, wrapping up several months of bugfixes, quality-of-life improvements, and updates to documentatio...
discourse.mc-stan.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
CmdStanR v 0.9.0 released! According to Andrew Johnson, this should make Windows installation easier plus many other improvements and bug fixes discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstanr-v...
#Bayesian #MCMC
#Bayesian #MCMC
Just returned from an inspiring three weeks at AIMS (aims.ac.za) in Cape Town, where I taught Generative AI with @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social.
I was really impressed with these students, who are engaged, very hard working, and asked some of the best questions that I have ever had in class!
I was really impressed with these students, who are engaged, very hard working, and asked some of the best questions that I have ever had in class!
March 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Just returned from an inspiring three weeks at AIMS (aims.ac.za) in Cape Town, where I taught Generative AI with @eijkelboomfloor.bsky.social.
I was really impressed with these students, who are engaged, very hard working, and asked some of the best questions that I have ever had in class!
I was really impressed with these students, who are engaged, very hard working, and asked some of the best questions that I have ever had in class!
Excellent work by @maxxxzdn
that uses ideas from computational physics to design scalable transformers!
that uses ideas from computational physics to design scalable transformers!
🤹 Excited to share Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems
joint work with @wellingmax.bsky.social and @jwvdm.bsky.social
preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
code: github.com/maxxxzdn/erwin
joint work with @wellingmax.bsky.social and @jwvdm.bsky.social
preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
code: github.com/maxxxzdn/erwin
March 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Excellent work by @maxxxzdn
that uses ideas from computational physics to design scalable transformers!
that uses ideas from computational physics to design scalable transformers!
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We are hiring on the Generative Media team in London: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, apply before Feb 28.
We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, apply before Feb 28.
Research Scientist, Generative Media
London, UK
boards.greenhouse.io
February 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We are hiring on the Generative Media team in London: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, apply before Feb 28.
We work on Imagen, Veo, Lyria and all that good stuff. Come work with us! If you're interested, apply before Feb 28.
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Variational Flow Matching goes Riemannian! 🔮
In this preliminary work, we derive a variational objective for probability flows 🌀 on manifolds with closed-form geodesics, and discuss some interesting results.
Dream team: Floor, Alison & Erik (their @ below) 💥
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.12981
🧵1/5
In this preliminary work, we derive a variational objective for probability flows 🌀 on manifolds with closed-form geodesics, and discuss some interesting results.
Dream team: Floor, Alison & Erik (their @ below) 💥
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.12981
🧵1/5
February 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Variational Flow Matching goes Riemannian! 🔮
In this preliminary work, we derive a variational objective for probability flows 🌀 on manifolds with closed-form geodesics, and discuss some interesting results.
Dream team: Floor, Alison & Erik (their @ below) 💥
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.12981
🧵1/5
In this preliminary work, we derive a variational objective for probability flows 🌀 on manifolds with closed-form geodesics, and discuss some interesting results.
Dream team: Floor, Alison & Erik (their @ below) 💥
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.12981
🧵1/5
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Registration for the 2025 Accelerate conference in Toronto (Aug 11–14) opens soon! Be the first to know: zr2z766pxls.typeform.com/accelerate25
February 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Very excited about this line of work by Jacco, which opens up opportunities for more scalable modeling of fluids at the mesoscopic scale. I think this will be particularly promising in the context of applications to materials design!
🚨 Excited to share our work just published in Physical Review Letters with @wellingmax.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social, @berndensing.bsky.social, Marjolein Dijkstra and René van Roij: doi.org/10.1103/Phys....
Details below 👇
Details below 👇
Learning Neural Free-Energy Functionals with Pair-Correlation Matching
The intrinsic Helmholtz free-energy functional, the centerpiece of classical density functional theory, is at best only known approximately for 3D systems. Here we introduce a method for learning a ne...
doi.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Very excited about this line of work by Jacco, which opens up opportunities for more scalable modeling of fluids at the mesoscopic scale. I think this will be particularly promising in the context of applications to materials design!
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🚨 Excited to share our work just published in Physical Review Letters with @wellingmax.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social, @berndensing.bsky.social, Marjolein Dijkstra and René van Roij: doi.org/10.1103/Phys....
Details below 👇
Details below 👇
Learning Neural Free-Energy Functionals with Pair-Correlation Matching
The intrinsic Helmholtz free-energy functional, the centerpiece of classical density functional theory, is at best only known approximately for 3D systems. Here we introduce a method for learning a ne...
doi.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🚨 Excited to share our work just published in Physical Review Letters with @wellingmax.bsky.social, @jwvdm.bsky.social, @berndensing.bsky.social, Marjolein Dijkstra and René van Roij: doi.org/10.1103/Phys....
Details below 👇
Details below 👇
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Join us on 27 Feb in Amsterdam for the ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data ✨
sites.google.com/view/rl-and-...
Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC.
We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!
sites.google.com/view/rl-and-...
Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC.
We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!
January 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Join us on 27 Feb in Amsterdam for the ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data ✨
sites.google.com/view/rl-and-...
Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC.
We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!
sites.google.com/view/rl-and-...
Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC.
We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!
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Open #postdoc position in *Organic/Medicinal Chemistry* for generative #AI in Drug Discovery — join us @tueindhoven.bsky.social 💪🏻
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Deadline: Jan 15, 25
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/...
Repost appreciated!
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Deadline: Jan 15, 25
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/...
Repost appreciated!
Postdoc In Organic/Medicinal Chemistry for generative AI in Drug Discovery
De TU/e is voortdurend op zoek naar wetenschappelijk en niet-wetenschappelijk personeel om haar ambities waar te maken. Kijk hier voor ons actuele vacatureaanbod.
jobs.tue.nl
December 21, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Open #postdoc position in *Organic/Medicinal Chemistry* for generative #AI in Drug Discovery — join us @tueindhoven.bsky.social 💪🏻
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Deadline: Jan 15, 25
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/...
Repost appreciated!
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Deadline: Jan 15, 25
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/...
Repost appreciated!
Really enjoyed this talk from Arnaud! It is so refreshing when a speaker focuses on providing a lucid overview of methods and their connections, past and present. Something to aspire to for all of us.
The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...
BreimanLectureNeurIPS2024_Doucet.pdf
drive.google.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Really enjoyed this talk from Arnaud! It is so refreshing when a speaker focuses on providing a lucid overview of methods and their connections, past and present. Something to aspire to for all of us.
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When a bunch of diffusers sit down and talk shop, their flow cannot be matched😎
It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!
🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!
It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!
🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!
December 12, 2024 at 1:15 AM
When a bunch of diffusers sit down and talk shop, their flow cannot be matched😎
It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!
🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!
It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!
🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!
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If you're at #NeurIPS2024, join us this afternoon to talk diffusion, flows and all that jazz. Be there or be non-circular!
When a bunch of diffusers sit down and talk shop, their flow cannot be matched😎
It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!
🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!
It's time for the #NeurIPS2024 diffusion circle!
🕒Join us at 3PM on Friday December 13. We'll meet near this thing, and venture out from there and find a good spot to sit. Tell your friends!
December 13, 2024 at 6:28 PM
If you're at #NeurIPS2024, join us this afternoon to talk diffusion, flows and all that jazz. Be there or be non-circular!
Here are the dapper @metodjazbec.bsky.social and Alexander Timans, presenting their work on early-exit with risk control.
December 12, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Here are the dapper @metodjazbec.bsky.social and Alexander Timans, presenting their work on early-exit with risk control.