Gauthier Gidel
Gauthier Gidel
Pronouns: he/him
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Operational Research, University of Montreal
Assistant Professor, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, University of Montreal, University of Montreal
- Joined October 2017
Names
Emails
****@inria.fr (Confirmed)
, ****@umontreal.ca (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@mila.quebec (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Operational Research, University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)
2020 – 2025
Assistant Professor
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, University of Montreal, University of Montreal (mila.umontreal.ca)
2020 – 2025
Research intern
Google (google.com)
2019 – 2020
PhD student
University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)
2017 – 2020
Research intern
Element AI (elementai.com)
2019 – 2019
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Simon Lacoste-Julien
2017 – 2020
Expertise
Optimization, non-convex
Present
Optimization, generalization, implicit regularization
Present
Optimization, saddle point
Present
Optimization, generative modeling
Present
Game theory
Present
Adversarial examples
Present
Generative Models
Present
Generative Flow Networks
Present
Robustness of LLM safety alignment
Present