Jelena Diakonikolas (Preferred)
Jelena Diakonikolas
Pronouns: she/her
Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Joined July 2020
Names
Emails
****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@cs.wisc.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@jelena-diakonikolas.com (Confirmed)
, ****@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
Expertise
coordinate descent, stochastic gradient methods
Present
convex optimization, oracle lower bounds
Present
convex optimization, non-convex optimization, dynamical systems
Present
variational inequalities
2017 – Present
min-max optimization
2017 – Present
nonconvex optimization
2016 – Present
convex optimization
2015 – Present