Andrei Manolache

IMPRS-IS and ELLIS PhD Student. ML Researcher at Bitdefender. Interested in robust & trustworthy Geometric Deep Learning. šŸ‡·šŸ‡“ āž”ļø šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ

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Hi there šŸ‘‹! Iā€™m Andrei, I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems and ELLIS, under the co-supervision of Mathias Niepert (University of Stuttgart) and Karsten Borgwardt (ETH ZĆ¼rich & MPI-B). I am also a Machine Learning Researcher at Bitdefenderā€™s Theoretical Research Laboratory. I got a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bucharest. In the past I have also worked as a Software Engineer for NXP Semiconductors.

Iā€™ve served as a reviewer for EMNLP 2022, ICML 2022/2023, NeurIPS 2022/2023. I got a Best Reviewer award for NeurIPS 2022 and 2023.

My Ph.D. research focuses on the design and development of Geometric Deep Learning methods where the robustness and trustworthiness of such models are an integral part of the research. My Masterā€™s thesis involved deep anomaly detection in text (full thesis).

news

Jan 26, 2024 One paper on Graph Rewiring at ICLR 2024 šŸ¤©!
Nov 21, 2023 I got a Best Reviewer award at NeurIPS 2023!
Oct 7, 2023 One long paper at EMNLP 2023! āœØ
Oct 1, 2023 One paper at the ICDM 2023 AI for Time Series workshop!
Jun 20, 2023 One paper at the ICML 2023 Differentiable Almost Everything workshop!
Oct 6, 2022 One short paper accepted at EMNLP 2022! šŸ¤©
Oct 4, 2022 I became a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Stuttgart! šŸŽ‰
Jul 16, 2022 Two papers accepted (VeriDark & AnoShift) at the NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks track! šŸ¤©
Jul 6, 2022 I attended the 2022 edition of the East European Summer School as a Teaching Assistant!
Jul 23, 2021 I presented our paper, DATE: Detecting Anomalies in Text via Self-Supervision of Transformers at the ICML 2021 UDL Workshop!
Jul 7, 2021 I attended the 2021 edition of the East European Summer School as a Participant and won a Best Poster award!
Jun 6, 2021 I presented our paper, DATE: Detecting Anomalies in Text via Self-Supervision of Transformers at NAACL 2021!
Jun 1, 2021 I got my Masterā€™s degree from the University of Bucharest! (Thesis)
May 7, 2021 Me and my team from the University of Bucharest have won the 1st prize at the ICLR 2021 Computational Geometry & Topology Challenge!
Aug 25, 2020 Me and my team have won the 1st prize at the 2020 PyTorch Summer Hackaton with our healthcare assistant, https://devpost.com/software/pytorchxai!

selected publications

  1. ICLR24
    Probabilistically Rewired Message-Passing Neural Networks
    Chendi Qian,Ā Andrei Manolache,Ā Kareem Ahmed, and 4 more authors
    Jan 2024
  2. EMNLP23
    AD-NLP: A Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Natural Language Processing
    Matei Bejan,Ā Andrei Manolache,Ā andĀ Marius Popescu
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Dec 2023
  3. EMNLP22
    Rethinking the Authorship Verification Experimental Setups
    Florin Brad,Ā Andrei Manolache,Ā Elena Burceanu, and 3 more authors
    Dec 2022
  4. NeurIPS22
    VeriDark: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Authorship Verification on the Dark Web
    Andrei Manolache,Ā Florin Brad,Ā Antonio Barbalau, and 2 more authors
    Dec 2022
  5. NeurIPS22
    AnoShift: A Distribution Shift Benchmark for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
    Marius Drăgoi,Ā Elena Burceanu,Ā Emanuela Haller, and 2 more authors
    Dec 2022
  6. NAACL21
    DATE: Detecting Anomalies in Text via Self-Supervision of Transformers
    Andrei Manolache,Ā Florin Brad,Ā andĀ Elena Burceanu
    In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies Jun 2021