Work Experience
Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Staff Research Scientist (2021–2024)
Senior Research Scientist (2020-2021)
Research Scientist (2019–2020)
$\sim$ Deep Learning: Agent Frontiers, with Simon Osindero
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Technology
Associate, Clare Hall
$\sim$ Co-teaching the course on Geometric Deep Learning for the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, alongside Pietro Liò
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research Assistant in Computational Biology
$\sim$ Artificial Intelligence Group, with Pietro Liò
Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montréal, Canada
Visiting Researcher
$\sim$ Unsupervised graph representation learning, with Devon Hjelm and Yoshua Bengio
Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montréal, Canada
Visiting Researcher
$\sim$ Graph neural networks, with Adriana Romero and Yoshua Bengio
Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research Associate
$\sim$ Deep learning for massive-scale medical time series data analysis, with Nic Lane
Jane Street Europe Limited, London, United Kingdom / New York, United States
Software Developer Intern
$\sim$ Financial software development in OCaml
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Undergraduate Researcher
$\sim$ Computer Architecture Group, with Simon Moore
Microsoft Development Center Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Intern Software Design Engineer
$\sim$ SQL Server Team, with Aleksandar Tomić
Education
Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science
$\sim$ “The resurgence of structure in deep neural networks”, supervised by Pietro Liò
Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Master of Arts (MA Hons. (Cantab.)), Computer Science
$\sim$ First Class Honours
Matematička gimnazija, Belgrade, Serbia
Mathematical Grammar School
$\sim$ Specialised Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science curriculum
Honours and Awards
Best Paper Runner-Up, Vancouver, Canada
Debunking Challenge at the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Scientific Methods for Understanding Deep Learning (SciForDL)
$\sim$ Awarded for “softmax is not enough (for sharp out-of-distribution)”
2023 Paper of the Year Runner-Up
Current Opinion in Structural Biology
$\sim$ Awarded for “Everything is Connected: Graph Neural Networks”
LoG 2024 Top Area Chair Award (Virtual)
Third Learning on Graphs Conference
$\sim$ Awarded to the top area chairs for LoG 2024
Estimathon® Winner at EEML 2024, Novi Sad, Serbia
Jane Street Capital
$\sim$ Member of team EESTIMATORI
LoG 2023 Top Area Chair Award (Virtual)
Second Learning on Graphs Conference
$\sim$ Awarded to the top area chairs for LoG 2023
Best Paper Award, Honolulu, United States
ICML 2023 Workshop on Knowledge and Logical Reasoning in the Era of Data-driven Learning (KLR)
$\sim$ Awarded for “Neural Priority Queues for Graph Neural Networks”
LoG 2022 Top Area Chair Award (Virtual)
First Learning on Graphs Conference
$\sim$ Awarded to the top area chairs for LoG 2022
Best Paper Award, New Orleans, United States
NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on New Frontiers in Graph Learning (GLFrontiers)
$\sim$ Awarded for “Expander Graph Propagation”
Best Paper Finalist (Virtual)
ICLR 2022 Workshop on Anchoring Machine Learning in Classical Algorithmic Theory (GroundedML)
$\sim$ Awarded for “Continuous Neural Algorithmic Planners”
OGB-LSC Top-3 Winner (Virtual)
Open Graph Benchmark Large-Scale Challenge @ KDD Cup 2021
$\sim$ Ranked in the top three entries in large-scale node classification and graph classification tracks
ICLR 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award (Virtual)
Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations
$\sim$ Awarded to the top reviewers for ICLR 2021
Best Short Paper Runner-Up (Virtual)
AAAI-21 International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI 2021)
$\sim$ Awarded for “Predicting Patient Outcomes with Graph Representation Learning”
ICML 2020 Top Reviewer Award (Virtual)
Thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning
$\sim$ Awarded to the top 33% reviewers for ICML 2020
NeurIPS 2019 Best Reviewer Award, Vancouver, Canada
Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
$\sim$ Awarded to the top 400 reviewers for NeurIPS 2019
ICLR 2019 Travel Award, New Orleans, United States
The 7th International Conference on Learning Representations
TeleSign Datathon Winner, Belgrade, Serbia
TeleSign
$\sim$ Winning entry for Telco traffic classification
Bronze Medal, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hack Cambridge 4D (Major League Hacking event)
$\sim$ Member of team N-hance (Ranked 3rd)
ICLR 2018 Travel Award, Vancouver, Canada
The 6th International Conference on Learning Representations
NIPS TSW 2017 Travel Award, Long Beach, United States
NIPS 2017 Time Series Workshop
ACM-ICPC NWERC 2017 – Gold Medal (Coach), Bath, United Kingdom
Association for Computing Machinery
$\sim$ Team Me[N]ta∭ca (Ranked 1st); ACM-ICPC 2017 World Finalist
Wiseman Prize, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
$\sim$ Awarded for commendable contributions to the work of the Department
Bronze Medal, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hack Cambridge Recurse (Major League Hacking event)
$\sim$ Member of team facejack (Ranked 3rd)
ACM-ICPC NWERC 2016 – Silver Medal, Bath, United Kingdom
Association for Computing Machinery
$\sim$ Member of team Me[∰]tallica (Ranked 8th)
Finalist, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hack Cambridge (Major League Hacking event)
$\sim$ Member of team Viral (Ranked Top-7)
ACM-ICPC NWERC 2014 – Bronze Medal, Linköping, Sweden
Association for Computing Machinery
$\sim$ Member of team Beuler (Ranked 12th)
Senior Scholar, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
$\sim$ Elected due to high performance in the Computer Science Tripos, Part IB
Junior Scholar, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
$\sim$ Elected due to high performance in the Computer Science Tripos, Part IA
Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust
$\sim$ Three-year maintenance scholarship, award value £7,000 per annum
Trinity Overseas Bursary, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
$\sim$ Three-year tuition scholarship, award value £24,543 per annum