Olivier Fercoq

Télécom Paris

I am a professor at Telecom Paris in the Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information (LTCI).

Research interests

• First order optimization algorithms
• Primal-dual methods
• Complexity estimates
• Coordinate descent methods
• Web ranking
• Chemotherapy optimization
• Machine learning problems

Teaching

• Linear Optimisation
• Optimisation for machine learning
• Numerical methods for ODEs
• Probability
• Fourier analysis
• Signal processing: see APP drone

• Convex analysis
• Coordinate descent

• Stochastic optimization

Internship offer

From Spring 2025: Minimizing the smoothed gap to solve saddle point problems

PhD students

Eyal Vayness, supervised with Maxime Sangnier and Étienne Roquain, 2024-

Gabriel Gros, supervised with Radu Dragomir and Frédéric Pemptroad, 2024-

Andjela Todorovic, supervised with Florence d'Alché-Buc and Jhony Giraldo, 2023-2025

Ikhlas Enaieh, 2023-

Benoît Ginies, supervised with Gaël Richard, 2023-

Iyad Walwil, 2022-

Joël Garde, supervised with Hicham Janati, 2022-

Ololade Sowunmi, 2021

Antoine Back supervised with Paul Chollet and Patricia Desgreys, 2018-2022
Research engineer at Laboratoire de physique des 2 infinis - Irène Joliot-Curie

Louis Faury supervised with Flavian Vasille, Clément Calauzènes and Marc Abeille, 2018-2021
Research engineer at Helsing

Nidham Gazagnadou supervised with Robert Gower and Joseph Salmon, 2018-2021
Research scientist at Sony AI

Eugène Ndiaye supervised with Joseph Salmon, 2016-2018
Researcher in the Machine Learning Group @Apple in Paris

Project

AnR project APDO

Workshop and conference

Paris-Saclay Junior conference on Data Science and Engineering on 13th and 14th September 2018

Workshop "Optimisation, distributed computation and machine learning" on 29th September 2016 at Télécom ParisTech

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