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Jun 25, 2026 I successfully defended my PhD thesis First-Order Methods for Geodesically Convex Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds with distinction! Many thanks to my committee: Sebastian Pokutta, David Martínez-Rubio, Martin Skutella, Suvrit Sra, and Tobias Breiten.
Jun 19, 2026 New preprint on arXiv: Restart and Adaptive Acceleration in Stochastic Gradient Methods
Jun 09, 2026 The Agentic Researcher was accepted as an oral presentation at the ICML 2026 Workshop AI4Research!
May 12, 2026 New preprint on arXiv: Curvature-Dependent Lower Bounds for Frank-Wolfe
May 04, 2026 Two papers accepted at ICML 2026:
Apr 13, 2026 Teaching this semester: High-Dimensional Optimization and Learning at TU Berlin. Thursdays, 14:00–16:00, MAR 4.064. Course material on ISIS.
Mar 26, 2026 Gave a talk on “Lower Bounds for Frank-Wolfe on Strongly Convex Sets” at the SIERRA Seminar at INRIA Paris.
Mar 18, 2026 New preprint on arXiv: The Agentic Researcher: A Practical Guide to AI-Assisted Research in Mathematics and Machine Learning
Feb 23, 2026 I’m visiting Alexandre d’Aspremont at INRIA Paris from February to April 2026.
Feb 05, 2026 Two new preprints on arXiv: