by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 14, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student George Mason University (USA) Michael Crawshaw is a final-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at George Mason University. His research focuses on optimization for machine learning, with the goal of developing optimization theory...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 12, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student ETH Zurich and an ETH AI Center Fellow (Switzerland) Ilyas Fatkhullin is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at ETH Zurich and an ETH AI Center Fellow. His research lies at the intersection of optimization theory and reinforcement...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 12, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Tenured Faculty Member CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). (Country) Dr. Sebastian Stich is a tenured faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 9, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL (Switzerland) Kimon Antonakopoulos completed his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, followed by a Master’s...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 7, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student Saarland University & CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Germany) Yuan Gao is a PhD student at Saarland University and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. He is a member of the Machine Learning and...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 7, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – KAUST (Saudi Arabia) Kaja Gruntkowska is a PhD student at KAUST, advised by Prof. Peter Richtárik. Her research focuses on developing the algorithmic and mathematical foundations...