Jelena Diakonikolas

Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Joined
July 2020

Names

Jelena Diakonikolas (Preferred)

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)
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****@cs.wisc.edu (Confirmed)
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****@jelena-diakonikolas.com (Confirmed)
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****@wisc.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor
Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison (wisc.edu)
2020 – Present
Postdoc
Statistics, University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2018 – 2019
Postdoc
Computer Science, Boston University (bu.edu)
2016 – 2018
PhD student
Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, Columbia University (ee.columbia.edu)
2011 – 2016
PhD student
Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (columbia.edu)
2011 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
Peter Bartlett
2018 – Present
Postdoc Advisor
Michael Mahoney
2018 – Present
Family
Ilias Diakonikolas
2013 – Present
Postdoc Advisor
Michael I Jordan
2018 – 2019
Postdoc Advisor
Lorenzo Orecchia
2016 – 2018
PhD Advisor
Gil Zussman
2011 – 2016
PhD Advisor
Clifford Stein
2011 – 2016

Expertise

coordinate descent
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stochastic gradient methods
Present
convex optimization
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oracle lower bounds
Present
convex optimization
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non-convex optimization
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dynamical systems
Present
variational inequalities
2017 – Present
min-max optimization
2017 – Present
nonconvex optimization
2016 – Present
convex optimization
2015 – Present

Publications

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Co-Authors

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