Nicolas Flammarion

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Biography
Nicolas Flammarion is a tenure-track assistant professor in computer science at EPFL. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, hosted by Michael I. Jordan. He received his PhD in 2017 from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where he was advised by Alexandre d’Aspremont and Francis Bach. In 2018 he received the prize of the Fondation Mathematique Jacques Hadamard for the best PhD thesis in the field of optimization. His research focuses primarily on learning problems at the interface of machine learning, statistics and optimization.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Computer Science
PhD Students
Andriushchenko Maksym, Pesme Scott William, Varre Aditya Vardhan, Vladarean Maria-Luiza,Courses
Machine learning
Optimization for machine learning
- Convexity, Gradient Methods, Proximal algorithms, Stochastic and Online Variants of mentioned methods, Coordinate Descent Meth