Below is a list of conferences, and workshops I am/was involved with as an organizer, co-organizer, or a program committee member.

Upcoming Events

1. ICML 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024
   • Area Chair
2. ISMP 2024, Montreal, Canada, July 21-26, 2024
   • Co-organizer of the stream "1f: Random Methods for Continuous Optimization" (with Lin Xiao and Simon Lacoste-Julien)
3. ICLR 2024, Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024
   • Area Chair

Past Events

1. NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, USA, December 10-16, 2023
   • Area Chair
2. ICML 2023, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 23-29, 2023
   • Area Chair
3. ICLR 2023, Kigali, Rwanda, May 1-5, 2023,
   • Area Chair
4. Rising Stars in AI Symposium, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February 19-21, 2023
   • co-organizer
5. NeurIPS 2022, New Orleans, USA, November 26 - December 4, 2022
   • Area Chair
6. MobiCom'22 FedEdge Workshop (ACM Workshop on Data Privacy and Federated Learning Technologies for Mobile Edge Network - Research Track), Sydney, Australia, October 24, 2022
   • Program Committee Member
7. ICML 2022, Physical Conference, July 17-23, 2022
   • Area Chair
8. ICLR 2022, Virtual Meeting, April 25-29, 2022
   • Area Chair
9. Rising Stars in AI Symposium, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, March 13-15, 2022
   • co-organizer
10. NeurIPS 2021, Virtual, December 6-14, 2021
    • Area Chair
11. ICML 2021, Virtual, July 18-24, 2021
    • Area Chair
12. OP20: SIAM Conference on Optimization, postponed until 2021
    • Scientific Committee Member. Jointly responsible for the invitation of plenary and tutorial speakers.
13. RSEML 2021: Towards Robust, Secure and Efficient Machine Learning, AAAI 2021 Workshop, February 2-9, 2021
    • Program Committee Member
14. IJCAI 2021, Montreal, Canada, 2021
    • Senior Program Committee Member
15. ICLR 2021, Vienna, Austria, May 4-8, 2021
    • Area Chair
16. NeurIPS 2020, Virtual, December 5-12, 2020
    • Area Chair
17. IJCAI 2020: International Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality, Yokohama, Japan, July 13, 2020
    • Program Committee Member
18. IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, Yokohama, Japan, July 11-17, 2020
    • Senior Program Committee Member
19. ICML 2020: International Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality, Virtual, July 17-18, 2020
    • Program Committee Member
20. ICML 2020, Virtual, July 12-18, 2020
    • Expert Reviewier
21. NeurIPS 2019, Montreal, Canada, December 8-14, 2019
    • Program Committee Member
22. KAUST-Tsinghua-Industry workshop on AI, KAUST, November 23-26, 2019
    • Local Coorganizer
23. IJCAI 2019, Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019
    • Senior Program Committee Member
24. ICML 2019, Long Beach, California, June 9-15, 2019
    • Area Chair
25. Sparse Approximation and Sampling, The Alan Turing Institute, London, May-June 2019
    • This is a joint workshop of the Isaac Newton Institute and The Alan Turing Institute
    • This is one of three workshops which are part of a 6 month programme on "Approximation, sampling and compression in high dimensional problems" held at the Isaac Newton Institute during January - June 2019.
    • Workshop organizers: Robert Calderbank (Duke, USA), Anders Hansen (Cambridge, UK),
      Peter Richtarik (KAUST, KSA - University of Edinburgh, UK - The Alan Turing Institute, UK), Miguel Rodrigues (UCL, UK).
    • Scientific Advisory Committee: Robert Calderbank (Duke, USA), Emmanuel Candes (Stanford, USA), Ronald DeVore (Texas A&M, USA), Ingrid Daubechies (Duke, USA), Arieh Iserles (Cambridge, UK)
26. AISTATS 2019, Okinawa, Japan, April 16-18, 2019
    • Program Committee Member
27. NeurIPS 2018, Montreal, Canada, December 2-8, 2018
    • Program Committee Member
28. ICML 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-15, 2018
    • Program Committee Member
29. ISMP 2018, Bordeaux, France, July 1-6, 2018
    • I am co-organizing the stream 4.a Learning: Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Huge-Scale Optimization.
    • Stream organizers: Alexandre d’Aspremont, Olivier Beaumont, Peter Richtarik, Suvrit Sra.
    • If you want to a propose a session within this stream, get in touch.
30. ICLR 2018, Vancouver, Canada, April 30 - May 3, 2018
    • Program Committee Member
31. Optimization and Big Data 2018 , KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February 5-8, 2018.
    • I am co-organzing this workshop with Marco Canini.
    • Past editions of the event were held in Edinburgh, Scotland: OBD 2015, OBD 2013, OBD 2012. The 2018 event is funded by KAUST Office for Sponsored Research, and co-funded by the Alan Turing Institute.
32. AAAI 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2-7, 2018
    • Program Committee Member
33. NeurIPS 2017, Long Beach, California, December 4-9, 2017
    • Program Committee Member
34. NeurIPS 2016, Barcelona, Spain, February 2-7, 2016
    • Program Committee Member
35. GlobalSIP 2016, Symposium on Distributed Information Processing, Optimization, and Resource Management over Networks; IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Greater Washington, D.C., USA, Barcelona, Spain, December 7-9, 2016
    • Program Committee Member
36. IMA Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, Birmingham, United Kingdom, September 7-9, 2016
    • I am co-organizing 2 mini-symposia.
37. ICML 2016, New York City, New York, June 19-24, 2016
    • Program Committee Member
38. International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data, Rome, Italy, April 23-25, 2016
    • Program Committee Member
39. Mathematical Perspectives on Big Data, Edinburgh, Scotland, December 10-11, 2015
    • This is a joint meeting of the London Mathematical Society and the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, marking the end of the 150th anniversary celebrations of LMS.
40. Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Large Scale Inverse Problems, Alan Turing Institute Scoping Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, December 2-4, 2015
    • Organizer
41. Distributed Machine Learning and Optimization, Alan Turing Institute Scoping Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 25-27, 2015
    • Organizer
42. OR 2015, Vienna, September 1-4, 2015
    • I am putting together one invited session in the Continuous Optimization stream. Speakers and talk titles:
    • Alexander Gasnikov (Moscow): Addaptive sum randomization technique in network-applications
    • Myself (Edinburgh): SDNA: Stochastic Dual Newton Ascent for empirical risk minimization
    • Dominik Csiba (Edinburgh): Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent with Adaptive Probabilities
43. 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Pittsburgh, July 12-17, 2015
    • I am putting together two invited sessions. The speakers and talk titles are:
    • Volkan Cevher (EPFL): Constrained convex minimization via model-based excessive gap
    • Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh): Distributed optimization with arbitrary local solvers
    • Zheng Qu (Edinburgh): Randomized dual coordinate ascent with arbitrary sampling
    • Audrey Repetti (University of Paris-Est): Convergence analysis of block-coordinate primal-dual algorithms with arbitrary random sampling
    • P.R. (Edinburgh): Stochastic dual Newton ascent for empirical risk minimization
    • Lin Xiao (Microsft): Communication-efficient distributed optimization of self-concordant empirical loss
44. 13th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 8-10, 2015
    • Programme Committee Member
    • Plenary Speakers: Sven Leyffer (Argonne), Lieven Vandenberghe (UCLA), Serge Gratton (CERFACS)
45. ICML 2015, Lille, France, July 6-11, 2015
    • Program Committee Member
46. AISTATS 2015, San Diego, California, May 9-12, 2015
    • Program Committee Member
47. Optimization and Big Data 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 6-8, 2015
    • Keynote speaker: Arkadi Nemirovski (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Following the success of two previous workshops which I established in 2012 and organized in 2012 and 2013, this is the third workshop in the series.
48. International BASP Frontiers Workshop 2015, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, January 25-30, 2015
    • I am putting together an invited session on Optimization within the Signal Processing Stream (in total, there are 3 streams with 3 sessions in each).
    • Speakers: Amir Beck (Technion), Volkan Cevher (Lausanne), Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh), Julien Mairal (INRIA), Jean-Christophe Pesquet (Universite Paris-Est; keynote speaker), Carola Schoenlieb (Cambridge).
49. Workshop: Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software, Edinburgh, Scotland, December 5, 2014
    • I am co-organizing this event with James Maddison.
50. IMA Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, Birmingham, September 3-5, 2014
    • I am co-organizing two minisymposia at this event:
    • 1. First-Order Methods and Big Data Optimization (with Z. Qu and J. Konecny)
    • Speakers: Coralia Cartis (Oxford), Quoc Tran Dinh (Lausanne), Francois Glineur (Louvain), Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh), Martin Jaggi (ETH Zurich), Simon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA / Ecole Normale Superieure), Zheng Qu (Edinburgh), Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh).
      
    • 2. Optimisation and Decomposition for Image Processing and Related Topics (with T. Valkonen and C. Schoenlieb)
    • Speakers: Olivier Fercoq (Edinburgh), Maria Hanel (University of Bayreuth), Andreas Hauptmann (University of Helsinki / AJAT Ltd), Andreas Langer (University of Graz), Thomas Pock (Technical University of Graz), Tuomo Valkonen (Escuela Politcnica Nacional de Quito).
51. SIAM Conference on Optimization, San Diego, California, May 19-22, 2014
    • Lin Xiao (Microsoft), Zhaosong Lu (SFU) and myself are organizing a symposium (consisting of 6 minisymposia) on Coordinate Descent Methods.
    • Here is the detailed programme
    • Speakers: Amir Beck (Technion), Joseph Bradley (Berkeley), Alexandra Chouldechova (Stanford), Cong D. Dang (Florida), Miro Dudik (Microsoft), Olivier Fercoq (Edinburgh), Yin Tat-Lee (MIT), Chih-Jen Lin (NTU), Zhaosong Lu (SFU), Tom Luo (Minnesota), Yurii Nesterov (Louvain), Andrei Patrascu (Bucharest), Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh), Taiji Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Martin Takac (Edinburgh), Rachael Tappenden (Edinburgh), Xiaocheng Tang (Lehigh), Ambuj Tewari (Michigan), Ji Liu (Wisconsin-Madison), Lin Xiao (Microsoft), Tong Zhang (Rutgers), Zaikun Zhang (Coimbra)
52. 4th International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal, July 27-August 1, 2013
    • I am organizing the "Convex and nonsmooth optimization" cluster (with F. Glineur).
53. Optimization and Big Data, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1-3, 2013
    • I am the organizer of this workshop.
    • Speakers: Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Jerusalem), Anatoli Juditsky (Joseph Fourier University), myself (Edinburgh), Imre Polik (SAS), Olivier Fercoq (Edinburgh), Zaid Harchaoui (INRIA), Richard Samworth (Cambridge), Steve Wright (Wisconsin-Madison; keynote speaker), Martin Takac (Edinburgh), Martin Jaggi (Ecole Polytechnique), Jacek Gondzio (Edinburgh), Robert Freund (MIT), Des Higham (Strathclyde)
54. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, October 14-17, 2012
    • I organized the session "Gradient methods for large-scale optimization" (programme)
    • Speakers: Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh), Oliver Devolder (Louvain), Martin Takac (Edinburgh), Guanghui Lan (Florida)
55. 3rd IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation, Birmingham, September 10–12, 2012
    • I organized the minisymposium ''Gradient methods for large-scale optimization'' (programme)
    • Speakers: Raphael Hauser (Oxford), Guillaume Obozinski (INRIA/ENS), Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh), Michel Baes (ETH Zurich), Martin Takac (Edinburgh), Vinh Xuan Doan (Warwick), Rachael Tappenden (Edinburgh), Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb (Cambridge)
56. 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Berlin, Germany, August 19–24, 2012
    • I organized a session on "Coordinate descent methods"
    • Speakers: P.R. (Edinburgh), Martin Takac (Edinburgh), Rachael Tappenden (Edinburgh)
57. Advances in Large-Scale Optimization, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24–25, 2012
    • I conceived and organized this workshop.
    • Speakers: Yurii Nesterov (Louvain; keynote speaker), Mark Schmidt (INRIA), Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh), Alexandre D'Aspremont (Ecole Polytechnique), Jacek Gondzio (Edinburgh), Michal Kocvara (Birmingham), Coralia Cartis (Edinburgh), Nati Srebro (TTI Chicago)
58. 24th Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, Glasgow, Scotland, June 28–July 1, 2011
    • I have organized 2 minisymposia at this conference:
    • Minisymposium 1:"Optimization and Applications".
      Speakers: Olivier Devolder (Louvain-la-Neuve), Martin Takac (Edinburgh), Michal Kocvara (Birmingham)
    • Minisymposium 2: "Compressed Sensing: algorithms and theory".
      Speakers: Jeffrey Blanchard (Grinnell), P.R. (Edinburgh), Martin Lotz (Edinburgh), Andrew Thompson (Edinburgh)