Andres Felipe Posada Moreno

Postdoc Researcher — Foundation Models for Dynamical Systems & eXplainable AI

Hi there! Since September 2024, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering (DSME) at RWTH Aachen University. I completed my PhD under the supervision of Sebastian Trimpe, and was an associate doctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Internet of Production” funded by the DFG.

Currently, I am focused on Foundation Models for Dynamical Systems, exploring transformer-based models pretrained on synthetic data for prediction and control tasks. This research is funded by the JUPITER AI Factory (JAIF), part of the EuroHPC initiative. I also continue my work on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), developing methods for concept extraction and localization in deep neural networks.

Prior to that, I completed a bachelor’s degree in mechatronics engineering at the EIA University, a master’s degree in engineering at the Arts et Métiers ParisTech, worked on agroindustrial applications of IoT and AI at Asimetrix, and worked as a researcher on applied AI at the IMA Cybernetics Lab, RWTH Aachen University, in the context of the QUISS project.

Research Interests

Foundation Models for Dynamical Systems Transformer-based models pretrained on synthetic data for prediction and control of dynamical systems.
eXplainable Artificial Intelligence Concept extraction and localization methods for understanding deep neural networks.
Applied AI Industrial applications of AI across manufacturing, quality control, and transport.

Projects

JUPITER AI Factory (JAIF) EuroHPC AI Factory built around Europe’s first exascale supercomputer.
Internet of Production (IoP) DFG-funded excellence cluster on using AI in production engineering.
QUISS Using AI for damage recognition in rail transport.

Education

PhD in Artificial Intelligence — RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2024)
M.Sc in General Engineering, Mechatronics Expertise — Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France (2014)
B.Sc in Mechatronics Engineering — EIA University, Colombia (2012)

Selected Publications

Sailing Towards Zero-Shot State Estimation using Foundation Models Combined with a UKF (2025) Holtmann, T., Stenger, D., Posada-Moreno, A., Solowjow, F., Trimpe, S. — CDC 2025 Details | DOI
On Foundation Models for Dynamical Systems from Purely Synthetic Data (2024) Ziegler, M., Posada-Moreno, A.F., Solowjow, F., Trimpe, S. Details | arXiv
ECLAD: Extracting Concepts with Local Aggregated Descriptors (2023) Posada-Moreno, A.F., Surya, N., Trimpe, S. — Pattern Recognition Details | DOI
Scalable Concept Extraction in Industry 4.0 (2023) Posada-Moreno, A.F., Müller, K., Brillowski, F., Solowjow, F., Gries, T., Trimpe, S. — xAI Conference Details | DOI

Contact

Email: andres.posada@dsme.rwth-aachen.de
Location: Aachen, NRW 52070, Germany
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