Moritz Miller

ETH Statistics graduate applying for PhDs

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Max Planck Institute (IS)

Empirical Inference Department

72076 Tübingen, Germany

Hi! My name is Moritz and I am currently applying for PhD programmes in Europe. During my undergraduate studies in Mannheim, I have had the opportunity to spend a semester each at Harvard and NTU Singapore. Afterwards, I started my Master’s in Statistics at ETH Zurich. There, I have been particularly interested in theoretical statistics and the statistical foundations of machine learning.

I pursued my Master’s thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen. Advised by Bernhard Schölkopf, Siyuan Guo, and Jonas Peters, I researched in-context counterfactual reasoning in Transformers. Our work has been published at NeurIPS 2025.

You can find my current curriculum vitae here.

news

Nov 30, 2025 Will head to San Diego next week to present our work on in-context counterfactual reasoning :sun_with_face:
Oct 31, 2025 After my Master’s at ETH, I am now applying for PhD programs in Europe

selected publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Counterfactual reasoning: an analysis of in-context emergence
    Moritz Miller, Bernhard Schölkopf, and Siyuan Guo
    In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
    arXiv
  2. ArXiv Preprint
    Identifying Intervenable and Interpretable Features via Orthogonality Regularization
    Moritz Miller, Florent Draye, and Bernhard Schölkopf
    2026
    arXiv