Hi my name is Katarina! I am a PhD Student at University of Oxford supervised by Prof Michael Bronstein and Dr İsmail Ceylan. My research focuses on simulation-free generative models and the application of geometric deep learning to simulate temporal evolution and learn dynamics of large-scale real-world dynamical systems such as cancer tissue and transaction networks.

I previously completed a research internship at Network Science Institute in Boston in Barabasi Lab, where I focused on leveraging LLMs to identify potential drug repurposing candidates and learn underlying disease mechanisms in gene networks.

I hold MEng in Engineering Science from University of Oxford, where I was a recipient of Simon and June Li full-ride Oxford scholarship awarded on the basis of outstanding academic merit. I completed my Master’s thesis at Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance under supervision of Prof Xiaowen Dong and Dr Jan-Peter Calliess, where I was developing multi-period optimization algorithms for trading in the FX markets.

In summer 2020, I worked as an Investment Banking Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs (London office) as part of Leveraged Finance Team. After graduating from University of Oxford in 2021, I worked as a Private Equity Analyst at The Carlyle Group (London office) where I was specializing in real estate acquisitions across the European markets.

Recent News

• April 2025: I am travelling to ICLR 2025 conference in Singapore, let’s catch up! :)
• March 2025: Our paper Curly Flow Matching for Learning Non-gradient Field Dynamics has been accepted at ICLR 2025 LMRL and MLGenX Workshops. Shout out to my awesome collaborators Lazar Atanackovic, Kacper Kapuśniak, Michael Bronstein, Joey Bose and Alexander Tong!
• October 2024: I started my PhD at the University of Oxford with Prof Michael Bronstein and Dr İsmail Ceylan!
• July 2024: Our paper Temporal Graph Rewiring with Expander Graphs has been accepted at ICML 2024 GRaM Workshop. Shout out to my awesome collaborators Andy Huang, Farimah Poursafaei, and Petar Veličković!
• November 2023: I started my research internship at Network Science Institute in Boston with Barabasi Lab!