Name: Akshay Ramachandran
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Bio:
I will be an Assistant Professor at the
University of British Columbia in the
Computer Science department starting July 2025. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at ENS Lyon hosted by Professor
Omar Fawzi in the QINFO group. Before that I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI). I am fortunate to be hosted by Professor
Daniel Dadush in the
Networks and Optimization (N&O) group as well as Professor
Michael Walter who has moved to
Ruhr Universitat Bochum. I'm interested in generalizations of convex analysis and convex optimization algorithms to non-Euclidean spaces with a special focus on applications to numerical linear algebra, quantum information theory, geometric invariant theory, and high dimensional statistics.
I completed my Ph.D. at the
University of Waterloo's
Cheriton School of Computer Science. I was very fortunate to be advised by
Lap Chi Lau. Before UWaterloo, I spent four wonderful years at
UC Berkeley, graduating in May 2016 with a degree in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. At UC Berkeley, I was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to work with
Luca Trevisan and
Nikhil Srivastava.
