Kenza Amara

I am an ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellow (ETH AI Center). My research interest is on explainability for language models, graph neural networks and transformer-based architectures, and its use for health and climate models. I am particularly interested in:

• LLM explainability (model-agnostic post-hoc xAI methods, evaluation, linguistic perturbations)
• Deep learning on graphs, GNN explainability, network analysis, graph theory.
• Multimodal explainability (image, text, graph).
• Generative AI for drug discovery.
• Applications in health, environmental sciences and social networks.

I am part of the ETH AI Center and IVIA lab led by Prof. Mennatallah El-Assady In the context of my co-supervisions, I work closely with the Social Networks Lab led by Prof. Ulrik Brandes and the IAC (Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science) led by Prof. Sebastian Schemm.

Prior to my PhD, I studied at École polytechnique, majoring in computer science and mathematics. I also hold a Master’s degree from ETH Zürich in environmental sciences and policy.