About me

I am a postdoc at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, where I am affiliated with the UBS-IDSIA AI Lab. Previously, I was with the Amazon ML and Forecasting Team in Berlin, and was a postdoc at the School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

I received my PhD in Computer Science from EPFL in 2025.

My research focuses on machine learning, time-series and signal analysis, network science and causality. For more details, please find my C.V. here (last updated June 2026).

Contact: firstname [dot] lastname [at] idsia [dot] ch

Selected Publications

  1. Mert Kayaalp and Oleg Szehr, Signal recovery from time and frequency samples, arXiv:2603.16242

  2. Mert Kayaalp, Caner Turkmen, Oleksandr Shchur et al., Test-time efficient pretrained model porfolios for time series forecasting, ICLR 2026

  3. Mert Kayaalp and Ali H. Sayed, Causal influences over social learning networks, Journal of Machine Learning Research