Manu Upadhyaya

Focus Period lund 2026 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...

Wotao Yin

Focus Period lund 20206 Scientist and Director Alibaba DAMO Academy (USA) Wotao Yin is an applied mathematician, scientist, and engineer currently serving as the director of the Decision Intelligence Lab at the Alibaba DAMO Academy, following a tenure as a Professor...

Pontus Giselsson

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...

Frederik Kunstner

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...

Michael Timothy Crawshaw

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...

Ilyas Fathkullin

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...

Sebastian Stich

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...

Kimon Antonakopoulos

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...

Yuan Gao

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...

Kaja Gruntkowska

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...