Peter Richt´arik:Curriculum Vitae 1. CONTACT DETAILS Address: 2221 Al-Khawarizmi Building, KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email:
[email protected] Website: https://richtarik.org Telephone: +966 (0) 54 4700-462 2. RESEARCHER IDs orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4380-5848 Web of Science Researcher ID: O-5797-2018 3. RESEARCH INTERESTS machine learning, federated learning, empirical risk minimization big data optimization, convex and non-convex optimization; 0th, 1st, and 2nd order optimization methods randomized algorithms, randomized coordinate descent, stochastic gradient descent, variance reduction randomized numerical linear algebra parallel and distributed computing, supercomputing, gradient compression 4. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2019{now Professor, Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2017{2019 Visiting Professor, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia1 2017{2019 Associate Professor, Computer Science, KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2016{2019 Associate Professor (Reader), Mathematics, University of Edinburgh 2013 Invited Visiting Scientist, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley 2009{2016 Assistant Professor (Lecturer), School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh 2007{2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics and Department of Mathematical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (host: Yu. Nesterov) 5. EDUCATION 2007 PhD, Operations Research, Cornell University