Travel

• ISMP 2024
  Presentation Benign nonconvexity of Burer-Monteiro SDP factorization for group synchronization
  Montreal, July 21–26, 2024
• EUROPT 2024
  Presentation Low rank of the matrix LASSO under RIP with consequences for fast large-scale algorithms
  Lund, Sweden, June 26–28, 2024
• NOPTA Workshop
  Poster presentation Sparse phase retrieval and PCA: an optimal convex approach and practical nonconvex algorithm
  Antwerp, April 8–12, 2024
• Georgia Tech Machine Learning Seminar
  Presentation Group synchronization and graph clustering via (benignly) nonconvex optimization
  Atlanta, Georgia, April 2, 2024
• UCLouvain INMA Seminar
  Presentation Benign nonconvexity in group synchronization and graph clustering
  Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 27, 2023
• ETH Zurich DACO Seminar
  Presentation Benign nonconvexity in overparametrized group synchronization
  Zurich, October 17, 2023
• International Mathematics Competition (IMC)
  Jury member and EPFL team leader
  Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, July 31–August 6, 2023
• FoCM 2023
  Poster presentation The rank-relaxed optimization landscape for orthogonal group synchronization on a general graph (workshop on Continuous Optimization)
  Paris, June 15–17, 2023
• ICASSP 2022
  Poster presentation Delta Distancing: A Lifting Approach to Localizing Items From User Comparisons
  Virtual and in Singapore, May 22–27, 2022
• AISTATS 2022
  Poster presentation Harmless interpolation in regression and classification with structured features
  Virtual conference, March 28–30, 2022
• Frontiers of Statistical Mechanics and Theoretical Computer Science
  Chicago, December 13–15, 2021
• IFDS–MADLab Workshop on Statistical Approaches to Understanding Modern ML Methods,
  Presentation Risk bounds for regression and classification with structured feature maps
  Madison, Wisconsin, August 2–4, 2021
• NeurIPS 2020,
  Poster presentation Sample Complexity and Effective Dimension for Regression on Manifolds
  Virtual conference, December 6–12, 2020
• IAS Workshop on Missing Data Challenges in Computation, Statistics and Applications,
  Presentation Low-rank matrix completion and denoising under Poisson noise
  Virtual conference, September 8–11, 2020
• Bernoulli–IMS One World Symposium,
  Presentation Sample Complexity and Effective Dimension for Regression on Manifolds
  Virtual conference, August 24–28, 2020
• High Dimensional Probability 2020,
  Presentation Effective dimension in sample-complexity bounds for Hilbert space regression
  Virtual conference, June 15–19, 2020
• Rice University DSP Seminar
  Presentation Low-rank matrix completion and denoising under Poisson noise
  Houston, Texas, October 8, 2019
• SPARS 2019 Workshop
  Presentation Low-rank matrix completion and denoising under Poisson noise
  Toulouse, France, July 1–4, 2019
  Finalist for Best Student Paper Award for extended abstract