Sammy Sharief
Curriculum Vitae

The journey so far

PhD candidate in physics at Université Paris-Saclay, working at the intersection of astronomy, machine learning, and statistics.

Education

Dec 2025 — Present

PhD in Physics

Université Paris-Saclay · Paris, France

Machine learning for cosmology and high-dimensional inverse problems. Advisors: François Lanusse, Tobias Liaudat & Samuel Farrens.

Sept 2023 — Sept 2025

M.Sc. in Computer Science

University of Montréal · Montréal, QC

Generative-model evaluation and uncertainty quantification. Advisor: Laurence Perreault-Levasseur.

Aug 2019 — May 2023

B.Sc. in Computer Science + Astronomy

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Minor in Informatics

Liberal Arts & Sciences. Advisor: Gautham Narayan.

Awards & Fellowships

2025

MSCA COFUND Doctoral Fellow

DeMythif.AI · Université Paris-Saclay

Selected for the COFUND DeMythif.AI doctoral programme of excellence, cofunded by the European Union's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).

Research & projects

Oct 2024 — Apr 2026 · Paris, France

MIRA — PhD Project

ICML 2026 Main Conference Spotlight
Feb 2024 — Jan 2025 · Montréal, QC

PQMass — Master's Project

Accepted to ICLR 2025
May 2023 — Aug 2023 · Champaign, IL

DECam Data Reduction — Research Assistant

Young Supernova Experiment
Jun 2022 — Aug 2022 · Austin, TX

Learning SESNA with ML — NSF REU Intern

Poster at AAS 241
Jun 2021 — Aug 2021 · Rochester, NY

Light Deflection near Kerr–Newman Black Holes — NSF REU Intern

Poster at AAS 241
Jan 2021 — Apr 2023 · Champaign, IL

YSE DR1 — Research Student

Accepted to ApJ

Talks & Posters

July 2026 · Seoul, South Korea

MIRA: A Score for Conditional Distribution and Model Comparison

Poster · ICML 2026
June 2026 · Grenoble, France

Assessing Posterior Accuracy in Latent Space Solvers for High-Dimensional Inverse Problems

Poster · Grenoble AI for Physical Sciences workshop
Feb 2026 · Chicago, USA

Uncertainty Quantification for Generative Models in Astrophysics

Talk · NSF-funded SkAI Institute
August 2025 · Vancouver, Canada

Pokie: Posterior Accuracy and Model Comparison

Poster · ML4Astro ICML 2025 Workshop
Apr 2025 · Singapore

PQMass: Probabilistic Assessment of the Quality of Generative Models

Poster · ICLR 2025
May 2024 · Canada

PQMass and its Applicability to Astrophysics

Talk · Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ)
May 2023 · Illinois, USA

Learning SESNA with Machine Learning

Poster · Astronomy Festival (AstroFest 2023)
Jan 2023 · Seattle, USA

Learning SESNA with Machine Learning

Poster · Astronomy Association Society
Jan 2023 · Seattle, USA

Light Deflection near Kerr-Newman black hole spacetime

Poster · Astronomy Association Society