by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 14, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Associate Professor Lund University (Sweden) Pontus Giselsson is Associate Professor at the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University, and organizer of the ELLIIT focus period on Optimization for learning. His main research focus is...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 14, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 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...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 14, 2026 | Lund 2026
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...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 12, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student ETH Zurich and an ETH AI Center Fellow (Switzerland) Ilyas Fatkhullin is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at ETH Zurich and an ETH AI Center Fellow. His research lies at the intersection of optimization theory and reinforcement...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 12, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Tenured Faculty Member CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). (Country) Dr. Sebastian Stich is a tenured faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 9, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL (Switzerland) Kimon Antonakopoulos completed his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, followed by a Master’s...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 7, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student Saarland University & CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Germany) Yuan Gao is a PhD student at Saarland University and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. He is a member of the Machine Learning and...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 7, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – KAUST (Saudi Arabia) Kaja Gruntkowska is a PhD student at KAUST, advised by Prof. Peter Richtárik. Her research focuses on developing the algorithmic and mathematical foundations...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 7, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI – KAIST (South Korea) Jaeyoung Cha is a third-year PhD student at the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST, advised by Chulhee “Charlie” Yun (OptiML Lab). His research focuses...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 7, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher Uppsala University (Sweden) Hooman Maskan completed his PhD in Mathematical Statistics at Umeå University, where he worked under the supervision of Alp Yurtsever, funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and...
