ETH Zürich (Data Analytics Lab) and MPI for Intelligent Systems (Empirical Inference)

Co-supervised by Thomas Hofmann and Bernhard Schölkopf, as part of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems.

ETH Zürich

With Distinction (GPA 5.98/6).

• Funded by a “la Caixa” Foundation Postgraduate Fellowship.
• Thesis: “Hamiltonian group actions and the Duistermaat–Heckman theorem” (6.0/6).

Complutense University of Madrid

Top GPA of both cohorts (~400 and ~500 students; 9.85/10 and 9.74/10).

• Dual program with the highest university-access requirements in Spain (25 spots of ~197,000 qualifying students in 2016).

R. Casado Noguerales, D. von Rütte, B. Schölkopf, T. Hofmann, A. Raoufi

Preprint (under review) · arXiv · code

R. Casado Noguerales, B. Schölkopf, T. Hofmann, A. Raoufi

Oral @ NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Diffusion Language Models · arXiv · code · blog

H. Gersbach*, R. Casado Noguerales*, S. Schenk* (*equal contribution)

Games and Economic Behavior · working paper

ETH Zürich, D-ITET

• Theory of deep learning: modeling MLPs using fuzzy logic and category theory.
• TA for the MSc courses: “Neural Network Theory” and “Learning, Classification, and Compression.”

ETH Zürich, D-MTEC

• Game theory of voting rules; paper in Games and Economic Behavior.

Complutense University of Madrid

• Algebraic topology. Funded by the “Collaboration with University Departments” grant.

EthonAI, Zürich (ETH spin-off, industrial AI)

• Optimized the core causal-AI algorithm for root-cause discovery: ~20% higher discovery rate, ~10× less memory, 5–10× faster.
• Led the design and delivery of time-series features (3 people, 2 months) on a research-based convolutional extractor, helping win a SaaS contract with a major multinational.
• Built an autonomous process control (APC) system for live industrial-process optimization, from research and algorithm design to backend.

Boston Consulting Group, Zürich

Awarded by the King and Queen of Spain; >1,300 applicants; average grant ≈ EUR 75,000.

Top academic record of each BSc cohort.

Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.