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Postdoctoral Researcher

Technical University Munich (Germany)

Manish Krishan Lal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, working with Suvrit Sra. His research focuses on the mathematical foundations of optimization and machine learning, with an emphasis on projection-based methods and nonconvex geometry arising in modern learning paradigms. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia, where he worked with Heinz H. Bauschke and Xianfu Wang.