| 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: |