Moritz Miller

PhD Fellow at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems

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Max Planck Institute (IS)

Empirical Inference Department

72076 Tübingen, Germany

Hi! My name is Moritz and I am about to start my PhD. An incoming CLS fellow, I am co-advised by Bernhard Schölkopf and Gunnar Rätsch. Before, I completed my undergraduate studies in Mannheim spending a semester each at Harvard and NTU Singapore. Afterwards, I started my Master’s in Statistics at ETH Zurich. There, I have been particularly interested in theoretical statistics and the statistical foundations of machine learning.

I pursued my Master’s thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen. Next to Bernhard, Siyuan Guo and Jonas Peters have been co-advising this project. Published at NeurIPS 2025, I researched in-context counterfactual reasoning in Transformers.

Going forward, I intend to work on causality in foundation models with a particular focus on health care applications.

You can find my current curriculum vitae here.

news

Mar 25, 2026 Accepted offer for PhD fellowship with the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems
Nov 30, 2025 Will head to San Diego next week to present our work on in-context counterfactual reasoning :sun_with_face:

selected publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence
    Moritz Miller, Bernhard Schölkopf, and Siyuan Guo
    In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
    arXiv
  2. ArXiv Preprint
    Identifying Intervenable and Interpretable Features via Orthogonality Regularization
    Moritz Miller, Florent Draye, and Bernhard Schölkopf
    2026
    arXiv