Burak Varıcı

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Pradeep Ravikumar.

Previously, I recently obtained my Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering (ECSE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), advised by Ali Tajer. I was also an IBM AI Horizons Scholar and worked with several collaborators, including Karthikeyan Shanmugam and Prasanna Sattigeri.

My research interests are centered on causal inference from interventions and identifiable representation learning. During my Ph.D., I have focused on leveraging the shared causal mechanisms and the role of interventions across different data environments. Specifically, I have been developing methodology for causal representation learning, sequential intervention design, and causal structure learning.