by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 20, 2026 | Lund 2026
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...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 19, 2026 | Lund 2026
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...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 15, 2026 | Lund 2026
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...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 15, 2026 | Lund 2026
Focus Period lund 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher Technical University Munich (Germany) Manish Krishan Lal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, working with Suvrit Sra. His research focuses on the mathematical foundations of optimization...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 15, 2026 | Lund 2026
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...
by Susanna Lönnqvist | Jan 15, 2026 | Lund 2026
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...
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 research focuses on...
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...
