by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 15, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 20206 Scientist and Director Alibaba DAMO Academy (USA) Wotao Yin is an applied mathematician, scientist, and engineer currently serving as the director of the Decision Intelligence Lab at the Alibaba DAMO Academy, following a tenure as a Professor...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 14, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Associate Professor Lund University (Sweden) Pontus Giselsson is Associate Professor at the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University, and organizer of the ELLIIT focus period on Optimization for learning. His main research focus is...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 14, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation – Inria (France) Frederik Kunstner is a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Paris, working with Francis Bach. His research focuses on the intersection of...
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...
