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
Postdocs
PhD Students
MS Students
Research Interns
- Bokun Wang (University of California, Davis), 9/2020-present
- Eduard Gorbunov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 9/2020-present
- Wenlin Chen (University of Cambridge), 8/2020-9/2020
- Rustem Islamov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 6/2020-present
- Othmane Sebbouh (Ecole Polytechnique), 5/2020-6/2020
- Ahmed Khaled (Cairo University), 4/2020-11/2020
- 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), 10/2019-12/2019
- 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
Visitors
- Sebastian Stich (EPFL), 11/2019
- Dmitriy Grishchenko (Grenoble), 11-12/2019
- Xiuxian Li (Nanyang Technological University), 9/2019
- Xavier Bresson (NTU Singapore), 4/2019
- Alexey Kroshnin (Moscow & Lyon), 4/2019
- Nicolas Loizou (Edinburgh), 4/2019-5/2019
- Dmitry Kamzolov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), 1/2019-2/2019
- Robert Gower (Télécom ParisTech), 12/2018
- Sebastian Stich (EPFL), 10-11/2018
- Thomas Möllenhoff (Munich), 8/2018
- Nicolas Loizou (Edinburgh), 1/2018-3/2018
- Matthias Ehrhardt (University of Cambridge), 1/2018-2/2018
- Nicolas Loizou (Edinburgh), 10/2017-11/2017
- Robert Gower (Télécom ParisTech), 10/2017
- Nikita Doikov (HSE Moscow), 10/2017-11/2017
- Sebastian Stich (EPFL), 10/2017
- Martin Takáč (Lehigh), 5/2017
- Alibek Sailanbayev (Nazarbayev University), 4/2017
- Jakub Konečný (Edinburgh), 4/2017
- Filip Hanzely (Edinburgh), 4/2017-5/2017
- Dmitriy Grishchenko (HSE Moscow), 4/2017
- Konstantin Mishchenko (ENS/Paris Dauphine), 4/2017
- Nicolas Loizou (Edinburgh), 3/2017-5/2017
Team @ University of Edinburgh
Postdocs
- 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
PhD Students
- Filip Hanzely
(9/2016–7/2017)
current position: Research Assistant Professor at TTIC
- Nicolas Loizou (10/2015–6/2019)
thesis: Randomized iterative methods for linear systems: momentum, inexactness and gossip
current 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: Associate Professor, Lehigh University, USA
Visiting PhD Students
- 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
Master Students
- 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)
Undergraduate Research Interns and Students
- 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)
Visitors