- Co-founder and CTO, Liquid AI231
- Research Affiliate, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)21
Mathias Lechner is a co-founder and the CTO of Liquid AI and a research affiliate at MIT CSAIL, where Lechner works with Daniela Rus. Lechner's personal page describes Liquid AI as a company founded in 2023 to build efficient foundation models, including the LFM2 language models. Lechner's research covers robust and trustworthy machine learning, liquid neural networks and the verification of learned controllers.123
At a glance
- Current roles
- Co-founder and CTO +1 more
- Sector
- Company
- Work listed
- 3
- Honors
- 3
- Sources cited
- 7
- Profile reviewed
Career
Lechner received bachelor's (2016) and master's (2017) degrees in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and completed a PhD at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in 2022, supervised by Tom Henzinger. Lechner became a research affiliate at MIT CSAIL, collaborating with Daniela Rus.12
Lechner co-founded Liquid AI with Ramin Hasani, Alexander Amini and Daniela Rus, and serves as its CTO. Lechner's page states that the company builds and releases LFM2 language models designed to run efficiently on CPUs and edge devices.321
Research
With Hasani, Lechner co-authored the 2020 papers on liquid time-constant networks and neural circuit policies, and the follow-up work on closed-form continuous-time models. Lechner's publication list also covers safety verification of stochastic and neural control systems, robot learning and multi-agent reinforcement learning.4561
Work and contributions
LFM (Liquid Foundation Models) Open weights
Listed among the authors of the LFM2 technical report, which documents Liquid AI's LFM2 family of foundation models.71
Neural circuit policies Published research
First author of "Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy", published in Nature Machine Intelligence in 2020.5
Liquid Time-constant Networks Published research
Second author, with Ramin Hasani as first author, of the paper introducing liquid time-constant networks.4
Timeline
- Received the Distinguished Young Alumni award at TU Wien for a master's thesis.12
- Co-authored "Liquid Time-constant Networks" with Ramin Hasani.4
- Published "Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy" in Nature Machine Intelligence as first author.5
- Completed a PhD at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, supervised by Tom Henzinger.12
- Co-founded Liquid AI and became its CTO.13
- Co-authored the LFM2 technical report describing Liquid AI's LFM2 models.7
Honors and recognition
Where they work
Related people
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- Ramin HasaniAlso at Liquid AI
- Maxime LabonneAlso at Liquid AI
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- Eric Michael SmithSafety and alignment · Language models
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