Abdellah Rahmani

Il - He/him

EPFL STI IEM LTS4
ELD 241 (Bâtiment ELD)
Station 11
CH-1015 Lausanne

EPFLETUEDOCEDEE

Expertise

Graphs, Graph Neural network, Causal structure learning, Representation learning, Latent and Efficient Reasoning, Pretraining, Test time Scaling
I am a PhD candidate at EPFL, advised by Prof. Pascal Frossard. My research focuses on building robust, efficient AI models with reasoning capabilities across different data modalities. I started by developing Meta-GNN, a personalized and highly efficient model for epilepsy detection specifically designed to operate on wearable devices. We then advanced to modeling causal reasoning capabilities by learning temporal causal structures from non-stationary data, resulting in Castor and Fantom frameworks. Currently, my work aims to make Large Reasoning Models more computationally efficient. Before joining EPFL, I completed my master’s degree at ENS Paris-Saclay (Mathematiques, Vision et Apprentissage: MVA), where I explored various aspects of AI and statistics. I also gained industry experience interning at Deezer Research, working on cross-domain recommendation.

Prix et distinctions

3rd place in my theis in 180 seconds

EDEE

2024

Doc.Mobility fellowship

EDOC

2026

Master's Valorization scholarship

LTS4

2022

Publications représentatives

Flow-Based Non-stationary Temporal Regime Causal Structure Learning

A. Rahmani, P. Frossard
Published in NeurIPS, 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in 2025

Causal Temporal Regime Structure Learning

A. Rahmani, P. Frossard
Published in AISTATS - The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in 2025

A META-GNN approach to personalized seizure detection and classification

A. Rahmani, A. Venkitaraman, P. Frossard
Published in ICASSP - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in 2023