Yassine Taoudi-Benchekroun

Hi! I am Yassine – born and raised in sunny and beautiful Morocco.

I am a 3rd year PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Benjamin Grewe and Melika Peyvand at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), ETH Zurich. I am particularly interested in the topics of Compositionality and Planning in A.I., and am always on the lookout on what can we learn from Cognitive science and Neuroscience on how our intelligence comes to be. You can work with me by browsing through my open projects or by contacting me.

When I’m not doing research, I organize an event series where I invite people who do great things to come and share them in my living room; it’s called Composing Villagers – and you could join too!

I have been blessed with the love of music (not so much with talent for it, but never mind that); I am lucky to play in a band called Provincial Penguin Travel Agency (PPTA), where we mostly play funk music. I also hold a particular love for the universe of Opera and Orchestral Music, which pushed me to pick up orchestral conducting in my London days. I have had the chance to form a small ensemble - the Boyce Camerata - with whom I gave several concerts in different London venues.

I sometimes give talks about my research and related topics. I also frequently teach programming and machine learning to teens and adults, and very much enjoy it. I particularly enjoy creating fun teaching material, and telling funny dad jokes while presenting ideas I’m passionate about.

If I’m neither doing science nor music, you can find me reading literature, running around Zurich, swimming in Zürisee, writing some random thoughts, and making fun of my Italian flatmates in their own language.