Focus Period Lund 2026 Optimization for Learning

Invited Speakers

In the third week of the focus period, a three day symposium (May 6 – 8) is organized in Lund, with several invited top-level researchers. In their presentations, they provide a comprehensive overview of the field and their respective research, and point out key research challenges and opportunities.

The list of speakers will be updated continuously.

Jason Altschuler

Jason Altschuler

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Jeremy Bernstein

Jeremy Bernstein

Researcher, Thinking Machines Lab

Radu I. Boţ

Radu I. Boţ

Professor, University of Vienna

Jeremy Cohen

Jeremy Cohen

Research fellow, The Flatiron Institute

Alex Damian

Alex Damian

Research fellow, The Kempner Institute at Harvard University

Aaron Defazio

Aaron Defazio

Research Scientist, FAIR, Meta Superintelligence labs

Jelena Diakonikolas

Jelena Diakonikolas

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Pontus Giselsson

Pontus Giselsson

Associate Professor, Lund University

Niao He

Niao He

Associate Professor, ETH Zurich

Anastasia Koloskova

Anastasia Koloskova

Assistant Professor, University of Zurich

Nicolas Loizou

Nicolas Loizou

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Antonio Orvieto

Antonio Orvieto

Fellow, PI ELLIS Institute Tübingen & PI at MPI for Intelligent Systems

Peter Richtárik

Peter Richtárik

Professor, KAUST

Sebastian Stich

Sebastian Stich

Faculty at CISPA and member of ELLIS

Antonio Silveti-Falls

Antonio Silveti-Falls

Associate Professor, CentraleSupélec

Adrien Taylor

Adrien Taylor

Research Scientist, Inria Paris

Wotao Yin

Wotao Yin

Scientist and Director, Alibaba DAMO Academy

Chulhee Yun

Chulhee Yun

Assistant Professor, KAIST

Alp Yurtsever

Alp Yurtsever

Assistant Professor, Umeå University