Kathlén Kohn
Associate professor
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Researcher
About me
My main research interests are in algebraic geometry, as well as its computational aspects and applications to data science and artificial intelligence. I enjoy to investigate connections to discrete geometry, combinatorics, representation theory, tropical geometry, statistics, machine learning, computer vision, and music!
I am a member of the Digital Futures Strategic Research Committee and Chair of the Working Group Learn.
I am SIAM Program Director for the Activity Group on Algebraic Geometry.
I am a WASP Fellow and Leader of WASP Cluster 'Mathematical Foundations of AI'.
I am an ELLIS member.
I am on the editorial board of Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning.
News
I give one of KTH's public lectures / KTH:s öppna föreläsningar: Varför funkar AI (inte)? En föreläsning om geometrin bakom tekniken
I give a keynote at the BeNeLux Math Congress and an invited talk at the ICLR GRaM Workshop.
I give a course on the Algebraic Geometry of Neural Networks at the INABAG 2026 School in Siena, Italy.
I co-organize a Wallenberg Advanced Scientific Forum on Symmetries in Neural Networks.
I co-organize a Semester Program at ICERM (Brown University) on Metric Algebraic Geometry and a Mittag-Leffler Workshop on the same topic.
SIAM SIGEST award 2024: A Bridge between Invariant Theory and Maximum Likelihood Estimation
More Info
Personal website
https://kathlenkohn.github.io/
My research is supported by:
- Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)
- WASP NESTNeural3D
(3D Scene Perception, Embeddings and Neural Rendering) - Göran Gustafsson stiftelse UU/KTH
- Swedish Foundations' Starting Grant Algebraic Vision(2025-2030) funded byRagnar Söderbergs stiftelse
About WASP
Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) is Sweden's largest individual research program ever, a major national initiative for strategically motivated basic research, education and faculty recruitment. The program addresses research on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems acting in collaboration with humans, adapting to their environment through sensors, information and knowledge, and forming intelligent systems-of-systems.
The vision of WASP is excellent research and competence in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and software for the benefit of Swedish industry.
Read more: https://wasp-sweden.org/
The graduate school within WASP is dedicated to provide skills needed to analyze, develop, and contribute to the interdisciplinary area of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and software. Through an ambitious program with research visits, partner universities, and visiting lecturers, the graduate school actively supports forming a strong multi-disciplinary and international professional network between PhD-students, researchers and industry.
Read more: https://wasp-sweden.org/graduate-school/
Courses
Degree Project in Mathematics, Second Cycle (SF278X), examiner
Groups and Rings (SF1678), teacher, course responsible, examiner