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Sahel Iqbal

I’m Sahel Iqbal, a third-year PhD student at Aalto University, Finland, where I work with Simo Särkkä. My main research focus is on developing accurate and efficient Monte Carlo algorithms for reinforcement learning and Bayesian experimental design (BED). Recently, I have also developed an interest in how similar algorithms can be used for inference-time alignment of diffusion and large language models.

For academic details, see my resume and my Google Scholar profile. I can be contacted on X and at my email sahel[dot]iqbal[at]aalto[dot]fi.

Outside work, my time is mostly taken up by reading, lifting weights, and writing JAX code. The projects that I’m actively working on are available on GitHub.

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