Summary
Ana Lucic is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam with eight years of experience bridging ML research and real-world impact. Her work spans interpretability, AI safety, and AI for science, including core contributions to Aurora, a foundation model for weather and climate developed at Microsoft. She combines rigorous theoretical training (PhD in AI, MSc/BSc in Mathematics & Statistics) with hands-on model deployment from financial credit risk systems to physics-informed ML for PDEs. She has led user-centered, multistakeholder research on explainable ML in safety-critical domains, translating technical advances into practical evaluation frameworks. Known for applying mathematical insight to complex simulation problems, she focuses on models that are both interpretable and scientifically grounded. Based in the Netherlands, she balances academic teaching with industry-scale research collaborations that influence climate and safety-critical applications.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics at McMaster University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
English, Croatian, Dutch