Pascal Cerfontaine (Preferred)
Pascal Cerfontaine
Full Professor, Faculty of Information, Media and Electrical Engineering, Technische Hochschule Köln
Joined
September 2025
Names
Emails
****@th-koeln.de (Confirmed)
****@rwth-aachen.de (Confirmed)
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Career & Education History
Full Professor
Faculty of Information, Media and Electrical Engineering, Technische Hochschule Köln (th-koeln.de)
2025 – Present
Researcher
Technology Program, ASML Holding N.V. (asml.com)
2021 – 2024
Postdoc
Department of Physics, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (rwth-aachen.de)
2019 – 2020
PhD student
Department of Physics, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (rwth-aachen.de)
2013 – 2019
MS student
Department of Physics, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (rwth-aachen.de)
2010 – 2013
Undergrad student
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)
2011 – 2012
Undergrad student
Department of Physics, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (rwth-aachen.de)
2007 – 2010
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Hendrik Bluhm
2013 – 2019
PhD Advisor
David DiVincenzo
2013 – 2019
Expertise
contrastive learning
, domain adaptation
, representation learning
2024 – Present
reinforcement learning
, active learning
, surrogate modeling
2023 – Present
equivariant neural networks
, symmetry exploitation
, scientific ML
2022 – Present
autoencoders
, latent space representations
, generative modeling
2021 – Present
electron shuttling
, valley splitting
2019 – Present
error-corrected quantum memory
, qubits
2016 – Present
physics-informed neural networks
, PDE solvers
, operator learning
2016 – Present
Hamiltonian dynamics
, symmetry constraints
2014 – Present
quantum modeling
, decoherence
2012 – Present
semiconductor nanostructures
, device implementation
2012 – 2019