Niao He

Focus Period lund 2026 Associate Professor ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Niao He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, and leading the Optimization & Decision Intelligence (ODI) Group. She is also a core faculty member...

Jelena Diakonikolas

Focus Period lund 2026 Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) Jelena Diakonikolas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Sciences and (by courtesy) the Department of Statistics, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also an...

Jeremy Bernstein

Focus Period lund 2026 Researcher Thinking Machines Lab (USA) Jeremy Bernstein is a machine learning researcher based in San Francisco, California. He works at Thinking Machines Lab.   His goal is to uncover the computational and statistical laws of natural and...

Adrien Taylor

Focus Period lund 2026 Research Scientist French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation – Inria (France) Adrien Taylor is currently a research scientist at Inria Paris, within the SIERRA team. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher in...

Dimitrios Oikonomou

Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student Johns Hopkins University (USA) Dimitrios Oikonomou completed his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, followed by a Master’s in Data Science and Machine Learning...

Roland Andrews

Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation – Inria (France) Roland Andrews is a second-year PhD student supervised by Adrien Taylor and Justin Carpentier in the SIERRA and WILLOW teams at Inria (Paris)....

Henrik Åkesson

Focus Period Linköping University 2026 PhD Student Linköping University (Sweden) Henrik Åkesson received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science and engineering from Linköping University, Sweden in 2022 and 2024, respectively. He is currently pursuing the...

Rustem Islamov

Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student University of Basel (Switzerland) Rustem Islamov is a PhD student at University of Basel working on Optimization under the supervision of Prof. Aurelien Lucchi. His research focuses on adaptive algorithms, their interaction with loss...

Bingcong Li

Focus Period lund 2026 Postdoctoral Research Associate ETH Zurich (Switzerland) Bingcong Li (https://bingcongli.github.io/) received his B.Eng degree (with highest honors) in Information Science and Engineering from Fudan University in 2017, and a Ph.D. degree in...

Radu I. Boţ

Focus Period lund 2026 Professor University of Vienna (Austria) Radu I. Boţ is Professor of Applied Mathematics with Emphasis on Optimization at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna and a founding member of the Research Platform “Data Science@Uni...