Ana Lucic

Dr. Ana Lucic is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, holding a joint appointment between the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) and the Informatics Institute. Her research focuses on interpretable machine learning for applications in science and society, with emphasis on Earth system modeling and AI for environmental forecasting.

• PhD in Explainable Machine Learning (University of Amsterdam, 2022)
• MSc/BSc in Mathematics (McMaster University, Canada)
• Former researcher at Microsoft Research AI for Science and Partnership on AI

Her recent work includes Aurora, a foundation model for Earth system forecasting published in Nature, and Clifford-Steerable CNNs at ICML 2024. Ana actively mentors PhD students and leads projects in mechanistic interpretability and geospatial machine learning. Scientific awards include top placements in ML competitions. She contributes to open science through reproducibility initiatives and collaborates with AI for climate consortia.