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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 optimization theory and machine learning, aiming to build a better understanding on how to train ML models. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia where he worked with Mark Schmidt. His thesis has received the CAIAC Best Doctoral Dissertation Award and an AAAI/ACM SIGAI Honorable Mention, and his work on the EM algorithm won the AISTATS 2021 best paper award.