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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 Information Security and a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). His research focuses on the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and statistics, with an emphasis on efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for training models over decentralized datasets.
He obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich and held postdoctoral positions at UCLouvain and EPFL. His work has been recognized with a Meta Research Award (2022), a Google Research Scholar Award (2023), and an ERC Consolidator Grant (CollectiveMinds, 2024).