Advanced Techniques in Optimization for Machine Learning and Imaging

About

Alessandro Benfenati is an Assistant Professor at the University of Milan Italy. He earned his Ph.D. in 2015 in Mathematics at the University of Ferrara Italy and became a Post-doctoral researcher in the same university. He then moved to Paris in 2016 where he continued his research activity at University Paris Est-Marne-la-valle e and at ESIEE as Post-Doctoral researcher. In 2019 he came back in Italy at University of Milan. His research interests span several areas from inverse problems in imaging framework using variational techniques to Deep Learning methods for data classification semantic segmentation and data generation. Its most recent interest regards explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) research employing Geometric Deep Learning.  Tatiana A. Bubba is an Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath UK. After obtaining her PhD in 2016 from the University of Ferrara Italy she became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki Finland where she was Academy Postdoc from 2020. In 2021 she relocated to UK with a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship at the University of Cambridge before taking her current post at the University of Bath in 2022. Her interest lies in computational inverse problems especially tomographic imaging and their interaction with regularisation theory and optimisation methods multiscale representation system like shearlets and deep learning strategies.  Federica Porta is an Assistant Professor in Numerical Analysis at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Italy. From the same university she obtained her PhD in 2015. After a postdoctoral research period at the University of Ferrara (Italy) she got her current position. Her research interest deals with the design and analysis of optimization methods for large-scale applications arising in image processing and machine learning.  Marco Viola is an Assistant Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the University College Dublin Ireland. He earned a PhD in Operations Research at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 2019. Later he moved to University of Campania L. Vanvitelli as a postdoc first and an assistant professor later before joining UCD on February 2023. His research is mainly devoted to nonlinear optimization with applications to machine learning deep learning and image processing.