About Me

I'm currently doing a PhD at the University of Basel, advised by Professor Ilija Bogunovic and Professor Caglar Gulcehre. I hold an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL. My MSc thesis on diffusion language models was supervised by Justin Deschenaux and Prof. Caglar Gulcehre at the CLAIRE Lab.

Previously, I validated a BSc in Engineering from Bordeaux INP.

I was a research intern at Naver Labs Europe where I worked on Multi-Agent RL for fleets of robots. I also interned at Roche where I applied NLP to streamline processes in the Philanthropy department.

I have served as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2026, ICLR 2027, 2026, 2025, and the Pluralistic Alignment workshop (NeurIPS 2024).

Talks

• Fixed-Point Masked Generative Modeling @ Discrete Diffusion Reading Group (recording)

Research Interests

• Discrete Diffusion Models
• Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Foundation Models
• Reasoning

Personal

In my free time, I enjoy running, hitting the gym, practicing judo (placed 2nd at the French National Championship in 2018), biking, hiking, and photography.

Contact

I am always open to collaborations and interesting conversations.
Email: andrea.miele[at]unibas[dot]ch
Twitter: @andreamiele_