Mona Schirmer

About Me

Intro  Hi! I’m an ELLIS PhD student at the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab, supervised by Eric Nalisnick and co-supervised by Dan Zhang.

Research Interests  I’m broadly interested in safety and robustness. My current focus is on measuring and improving the alignment of generative models with human preferences. I am also interested in sequential settings such as time series modelling, continual learning, and sequential hypothesis testing. I enjoy applying ML to social science problems.

Bio  I earned a joint M.Sc. in statistics from TU Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin. I wrote my Master's thesis on continuous-time modeling under the supervision of Maja Rudolph at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. I spent some time in France, where I obtained an engineering degree in applied mathematics and economics from ENSAE. Earlier, I studied economics and political science at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Munich.

Publications

preprint
Between Rules and Reality: On the Context Sensitivity of LLM Moral Judgment
Adrian Sauter, Mona Schirmer
Preprint
facct
Aligning Recommendations with User Popularity Preferences
Mona Schirmer, Anton Thielmann, Pola Schwöbel, Thomas Martynec, Giuseppe Di Benedetto, Ben London, Yannik Stein
FAccT 2026
monitor
Monitoring Risks in Test-time Adaptation
Mona Schirmer*, Metod Jazbec*, Christian Naesseth, Eric Nalisnick
NeurIPS 2025
STAD
Temporal Test-Time Adaptation with State-Space Models
Mona Schirmer, Dan Zhang, Eric Nalisnick
TMLR 2025
DivDis
Beyond Top-Class Agreement: Using Divergences to Forecast Performance under Distribution Shift
Mona Schirmer, Dan Zhang, Eric Nalisnick
DistShift Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023
EconBERTa
EconBERTa: Towards Robust Extraction of Named Entities in Economics
Karim Lasri, Pedro Vitor Quinta de Castro, Mona Schirmer, Luis Eduardo San Martin, Linxi Wang, Tomáš Dulka, Haaya Naushan, John Pougué-Biyong, Arianna Legovini, Samuel Fraiberger
EMNLP Findings 2023
CRU
Modeling Irregular Time Series with Continuous Recurrent Units
Mona Schirmer, Mazin Eltayeb, Stefan Lessmann, Maja Rudolph
ICML 2022