Hi, I'm Arif.

I'm a mathematician and informatician.

I think a lot about symmetry-informed machine learning, information geometry, differentiable programming, and the nature of intelligent behavior.

I co-founded DNTOX (based in Germany), where we're on a mission to reduce animal-based screening of chemicals regarding neurotoxicity by developing and offering alternative test methods.

Prior to this, I was a postdoc at Leibniz Institute IUF in Ellen Fritsche's group, supervised by Martin Scholze and Axel Mosig.

And before this, I received my graduate degree in mathematics and informatics, followed by a phd and postdoc position in Markus Reineke's Algebra working group at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, where I applied geometric-invariant theory to linear algebra-type classification problems.

And in the beginning, I was a student in the Algebra und Number theory group of the University of Wuppertal, Germany, supervised by Klaus Bongartz.

If there is some intersection with your interests, please get in touch.