Arber Zela

Research Interests:

  • Automated Deep Learning
  • Multi-objective Optimization
  • Tabular and Time Series Foundation Models
  • Evolutionary and Emergent Computation

 

Biography

Before joining LIONS, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen. I completed my PhD in the ELLIS programme at the University of Freiburg, supervised by Frank Hutter and co-supervised by Yee Whye Teh at the University of Oxford. Since 2025, I am also an ELLIS Member. My research focuses on designing efficient and adaptive intelligent systems, including sub-quadratic sequence models, multi-objective optimization algorithms, and emergent computation. Other than research, I enjoy practicing Wushu, cooking and philosophy.

Evolving Many Worlds: Towards Open-Ended Discovery in Petri Dish NCA via Population-Based Training

U. Berdica; J. Foerster; F. Hutter; A. Zela 

2026. ALIFE 2026 Artificial Life Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and Online, 2026-08-17 – 2026-08-21. DOI : 10.1162/isal.a.1015.

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