Jonas Kneifl

Jonas Kneifl

Postdoctoral Researcher

IDEAS Research Institute

Biography

Greetings! I hold a PhD in the field of Scientific Machine Learning, with a research background rooted in engineering cybernetics. My academic training spans mathematics, control theory, systems theory, and deep learning, shaping my interest in the principled understanding and modeling of complex dynamical systems.

In my research, I’m driven to efficiently approximate complex models by integrating established numerical methods with modern artificial intelligence techniques. I am particularly interested in approaches that combine physical insight with data-driven learning to achieve accurate, interpretable, and computationally efficient models.

Interests
  • Scientific Machine Learning
  • Surrogate Modeling
  • Generative AI
  • Mechanistic Interpretability
  • Representation Learning
Education
  • PhD in the field of Scientific Machine Learning, 2025

    University of Stuttgart

  • MSc in Engineering Cybernetics, 2020

    University of Stuttgart

  • BSc in Engineering Cybernetics, 2017

    University of Stuttgart

Research

Probing and steering what video generation models internally represent about physics.

Learning sparse, physically structured, and uncertainty-aware dynamics in latent spaces.

Fast, non-intrusive reduced-order models that replace expensive simulations.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
IDEAS Research Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher
May 2026 – Present Warsaw, Poland
Fundamental AI research in the fields of Computer Vision and Generative AI.
 
 
 
 
 
Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Research Associate
June 2020 – October 2025 University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Researcher in the field of Scientific Machine Learning within the cluster of excellence “Data-Integrated Simulation Science (SimTech)” and lecture assistant.
 
 
 
 
 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Visiting Researcher
September 2023 – September 2023 Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Development of a reduced-order modeling with uncertainty quantification framework using generative AI algorithms.
 
 
 
 
 
Artificial Intelligence Institute in Dynamic Systems
Research Intern
August 2022 – November 2022 University of Washington, Seattle (US)
Development of a multi-hierarchic surrogate modeling approach using graph convolutional neural networks and mesh simplification.

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