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 that faithfully explains practical machine learning, and building more efficient optimization algorithms for deep learning. Prior to his Ph.D., he received an M.S. in Computer Science (2022) from George Mason University, and a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science (2019) from The Ohio State University.