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Postdoctoral Researcher
French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation – INRIA (France)
Manu Upadhyaya is a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Paris, working with Adrien Taylor, and his research interests center on continuous optimization and its applications. He earned his PhD from Lund University in 2025, where he worked on systematic and computer-aided analysis and design of first-order methods for structured optimization and inclusion problems under the supervision of Pontus Giselsson and Sebastian Banert. Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed an MSc in Engineering Physics (2020), an MSc in Finance (2020), and a BSc in Mathematics (2015), all from Lund University.