About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Statistics, University of Michigan and am chiefly interested in generative models across both textual and non-textual modalities, with a particular emphasis on their interpretability and scientific applications.

Previously, I did research at UC Berkeley, where I was part of Project CETI, working on furthering our understanding of sperm whale communication using modern machine learning.

I also hold a degree in Mathematical Physics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and have worked in both the technology and financial industries in the time between my Physics and Statistics degrees.

Interests
  • Generative AI
  • AI for science
  • Interpretable Machine Learning
Education

  • M.A. Statistics, 2022

    University of California, Berkeley

  • M.Sc. (equivalent) Mathematical Physics, 2016

    University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Recent Publications

Andrej Leban (2025). Distributional Autoencoders Know the Score. NeurIPS 2025.

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Gašper Beguš, Ronald L. Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva, Shane Gero (2023). Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas. Open Mind (MIT Press).

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Gašper Beguš, Andrej Leban, Shane Gero (2023). Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference. On arXiv.

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Marco Miccheli, Andrej Leban, Andrea Tacchella, Andrea Zaccaria, Dario Mazzilli, Sébastien Bratières (2022). A Bayesian approach to translators' reliability assessment. On arXiv.

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Andrej Leban (2016). Time-dependent current through a quantum dot in the presence of a voltage probe. In the University of Ljubljana repository.

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Popular Topics

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