I am very fortunate to be able to work with a team of amazing and very talented people. If you want to join my group, read the instructions here.

Team @ KAUST

Research Scientists

Mher Safaryan (10/2019-present)
Zhize Li (9/2019-present)
Adil Salim (2/2019-present)
Xun Qian (11/2018-present)
El Houcine Bergou (1/2018-1/2019)
Aritra Dutta (5/2017-5/2019)

Dmitry Kovalev (1/2020-present)
Elnur Gasanov (1/2020-present)
Samuel Horváth (1/2019-present)
Alibek Sailanbayev (1/2019-present)
Konstantin Mishchenko (9/2017-present)
Filip Hanzely (9/2017-present)

Egor Shulgin (1/2020-present)
Alyazeed Basyoni (8/2019-present)
Slavomír Hanzely (8/2019-present)
Elnur Gasanov (9/2018-12/2019)
Dmitry Kovalev (9/2018-12/2019)
Samuel Horváth (8/2017-12/2018)
Alibek Sailanbayev (8/2017-12/2018)

Othmane Sebbouh (Ecole Polytechnique), 5/2020-present
Ahmed Khaled (Cairo University), 4/2020-present
Eduard Gorbunov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 2/2020-3/2020
Alexander Rogozin (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2020-2/2020
Aleksandr Beznosikov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2020-2/2020
Grigory Malinovsky (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2020-2/2020
Hoang H. Nguyen (Minerva Schools at KGI), 10/2019-present
Ahmed Khaled (Cairo University), 6/2019-9/2019
Sélim Chraibi (Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes), 4/2019-9/2019
Ľudovít Horváth (Comenius University), 2/2019-3/2019
Igor Sokolov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2019-2/2019
Eduard Gorbunov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2019-2/2019
Vladislav Elsukov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2019-2/2019
Egor Shulgin (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2019-2/2019
Sarah Sachs (Technical University Munich), 3/2018-8/2018
Dmitry Kovalev (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2018-2/2018
Elnur Gasanov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2018-2/2018
Eduard Gorbunov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2018-2/2018
Slavomír Hanzely (Comenius University), 1/2018-2/2018
Aashutosh Tiwari (IIT Kanpur), 5/2017-7/2017
Atal Sahu (IIT Kanpur), 5/2017-7/2017, now: PhD student @ KAUST

Robert Mansel Gower (3/2016–6/2016)
current position: Assistant Professor, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France
Ademir Ribeiro (10/2014–3/2015)
current position: Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Zheng Qu (1/2014–8/2015)
current position: Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Olivier Fercoq (10/2012–7/2014)
current position: Assistant Professor, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France
Rachael Tappenden (2/2012–7/2014)
current position: Assistant Professor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Jakub Mareček (1/2012–6/2012)
current position: Researcher Staff Member, IBM Research, Ireland

Filip Hanzely (9/2016–7/2017)
current position: PhD student @ KAUST
Nicolas Loizou (10/2015–6/2019)
thesis: Randomized iterative methods for linear systems: momentum, inexactness and gossip
next position: postdoc at MILA, Montréal
Theo Pavlakou (9/2015–2017)
co-supervised with Iain Murray
current position: Google
Robert Mansel Gower (3/2015–3/2016)
thesis: Sketch and project: randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems and inverting matrices
current position: Assistant Professor, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France
Dominik Csiba (9/2014–present)
thesis: Data sampling strategies in stochastic algorithms for empirical risk minimization
current position: Team Leader for Algorithms, Innovatrics, Bratislava, Slovakia
Jakub Konečný (8/2013–6/2017)
thesis: Stochastic, distributed and federated optimization for machine learning
current position: Research Scientist, Google, Beijing, China
Martin Takáč (9/2010–3/2014)
thesis: Randomized coordinate descent methods for big data optimization
current position: Assistant Professor, Lehigh University, USA

Luca Bravi (3/2015–6/2015)
visiting PhD student from University of Florence, Italy
Minnan Luo (9/2012–2/2013)
visiting PhD student from Tsinghua University, China
current position: Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Theo Pavlakou (2015)
George Papamakarios (2014), IRDS project (report)
Juraj Labant (2016), Data Scientist at Department of Education, United Kingdom
Jakob Kisiala (2015), dissertation, Credit Model Risk Quant at Royal Bank of Scotland
Arefin Md. Rajib (2015), Faculty at Mathematics Department, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Yijun Zheng (2015)
Li Tao (2015)
Tong Ma (2014)
Rui Zhong (2014), Tencent, Beijing
Yu Yu (2013)
Tingting Tao (2013)
Meimei Wang (2013), Citigold Associate at Citibank China
Meensuk Punlavee (2013)
Alexander Banks-Watson (2012), Senior Supply Chain Optimization Consultant, Opex Analytics
Christos Delivorias (2012), Quant at SWIP
Mihyun Jang (2012)
Chao Yu (2011), Royal Bank of Scotland
William Hulme (2011), NHS Blood & Transplant, as of '14: PhD studies HERC
James Boffin (2011), Data Scientist, Aviva
Marilena Karanika (2010), Modelling & Analytics Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland
Robie King (2010)
Jinwen Lin (2010)

Miro Psota (2016-2017, Comenius University)
Sean Ryan (2015-2016, Edinburgh Mathematics) - Stochastic methods for solving large linear systems
Mojmír Mutný (2015, Edinburgh Physics), now: PhD student @ ETH Zurich
Debadri Mukherjee (2014, Edinburgh Informatics), now: analyst & JP Morgan Chase & Co
Mojmír Mutný (2014, Edinburgh Physics) [code]
Iliana Peneva (2012, Edinburgh Mathematics), now: Oxford
Bartosz Filipecki (2011, Edinburgh Mathematics), now: postdoc @ Chemnitz
Edward Cumberlege (2011, Edinburgh Mathematics), now: Director @ Sagamore Investments
Bartosz Filipecki (2010, Edinburgh Mathematics)