Mathias Lechner

Mathias Lechner is the Co-founder and CTO of Liquid AI, as well as a Research Affiliate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, where he collaborates with Prof. Daniela Rus. He completed his PhD in 2022 at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), under the supervision of Tom Henzinger. Before his PhD, he earned his master’s (2017) and bachelor’s (2016) degrees in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).

In his research role at MIT, he focuses on developing robust and trustworthy machine learning models. His work has been published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence and presented at leading ML/AI conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICRA, and AAAI.

Alongside his colleague Djordje Zikelic, he received the 2023 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria for their work on proving safety in stochastic machine learning systems. In 2022, he received the Hyperion Research HPC Innovation Excellence Award for his work on Liquid neural networks, in collaboration with Ramin Hasani, and was honored as an Outstanding Reviewer at ICRA 2021. He also co-led the team that won the F1-Tenth Autonomous Racing Grand Prix at IFAC 2020 and received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award at TU Vienna in 2018 for his master’s thesis.‍