Sara Pérez-Vieites

Sara Pérez-Vieites

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University and the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI), working on approximate inference and Bayesian experimental design.

Teaching and supervision

Teaching

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Mini-tutorials on Monte Carlo methods, Cyber-Physical Systems group, Aalto University (Oct-Nov 2024)
All materials are available in this GitHub repository, which includes slides and Python code to reproduce the examples from these tutorials:
  • Introduction to Monte Carlo and importance sampling (08/10/2024)
  • Introduction to sequential Monte Carlo (05/11/2024 and 19/11/2024)

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Guest lecturer, Aalto University (2024-2025)
Lectures in Stochastic Optimal Control in the course Digital and Optimal Control. Part of the Electrical Engineering and Automation master with major in Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems.

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Teaching Assistant, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2017-2019)
112 hours conducting workshops in Linear Systems.

Supervision

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Co-supervision of PhD student, Aalto University (2025-2029)
Juri Voloskin will focus on Bayesian experimental design (BED) and control for prognostics in industrial applications (collaborating with ABB).

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Co-supervision of B.Sc. thesis, Aalto University (Jan-Jun 2025)
Thesis title: Variational inference approaches to Bayesian optimal experimental design, Aditya Agrawal.