{"id":13303,"date":"2019-08-19T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=13303"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T21:07:32","slug":"avladu","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/profiles\/avladu\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Vladu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Postdoctoral Associate working with<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/aene\/\">Alina Ene<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/orecchia\/index.html\">Lorenzo Orecchia<\/a>. I received my PhD from<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/math.mit.edu\/\">MIT Math<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>in 2017, where I benefited from the brilliant advising of<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/math.mit.edu\/~kelner\/\">Jonathan Kelner<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/madry\/\">Aleksander M\u0105dry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I work on multiple aspects of convex (and non-convex) optimization. My work so far attempted to combine tools from convex geometry and continuous optimization in order to obtain improved algorithms for classical discrete problems.<\/p>\n<p>I am also interested in various aspects of Deep Learning, particularly understanding what enables models to generalize, and how the training methods we use affect generalization.<\/p>\n<h4>Personal Website<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianvladu.org\/\">https:\/\/www.adrianvladu.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13303\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}