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Education
- PhD, 2022–present. Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS): Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, and ETH Zürich. Advisors: Moritz Hardt, Nicolai Meinshausen, Peter Bühlmann.
- MSc Mathematical Finance, 2020–2022. Universität Konstanz.
- BSc Mathematics, 2021–2022. Universität Konstanz.
- BSc Mathematical Finance, 2017–2020. Universität Konstanz.
Fellowships and awards
- 2025: Google Ph.D. Fellowship in the category “Human-Computer Interaction”.
- 2025: MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize.
Publications
- Florian E. Dorner, Vivian Nastl, Moritz Hardt. “Limits to scalable evaluation at the frontier: LLM as Judge won't beat twice the data”. ICLR, oral, 2025. arXiv
- Vivian Nastl, Moritz Hardt. “Do causal predictors generalize better to new domains?”. NeurIPS, spotlight, 2024. arXiv Code
- Poster: Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics, June 2024
- Poster: Workshop “Humans, Algorithmic Decision-Making and Society” at ICML, July 2024
- Ana-Andreea Stoica, Vivian Nastl, Moritz Hardt. “Causal Inference from Competing Treatments”. ICML, 2024. arXiv
Talks
- Talk, Research presentation for a delegation of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, as part of Gunnar Rätsch's presentation of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, ETH Zürich December 2025
- Invited seminar, Causal Inference Seminar, Causal Inference Lab, Universität Potsdam November 2025
- Talk, 18th BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop on Economics and Management, Universität Bielefeld December 2023
Service
- Student representative, CLS, 2023–2026.
- Panel chair, “Future of ML and LLMs: How research methods are changing, how to use these tools responsibly in research, and which human skills stay relevant”, CLS 2026 Retreat, June 2026.
- Reviewer: ICLR 2024; ICML 2024, 2025, 2026; AAAI 2025; NeurIPS 2025.
Professional experience
- Student research assistant, 2018–2022. Chair of Statistics and Econometrics, Universität Konstanz. Advisor: Ralf Brüggemann.
Teaching experience
- Computational Statistics, ETH Zürich, 2025. Teaching assistant.
- Applied Econometrics, Universität Konstanz, 2022. Teaching assistant.
- Statistics I and II, Universität Konstanz, 2019–2022. Teaching assistant.
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