Research webpage of Adrien Taylor
short biography
hello !
I am a research scientist at Inria, within the Thoth team in Grenoble.
Before that, I was in the Sierra team for about 9 years, where I became a permanent researcher. In 2017-2019, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the same team, working with Francis Bach. I completed a PhD at Université catholique de Louvain, in the department of mathematical engineering (part of the ICTEAM institute), where I was holding a F.R.S.-FNRS FRIA scholarship for my PhD under the supervision of François Glineur and Julien Hendrickx.
My research currently focuses on optimization (mostly first-order) and numerical analysis with a bit of control and machine learning. I find it particularly important to push toward reproducible (including theory) and understandable science, and many of my research projects have this orientation. I had the chance to be awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2024 (project CASPER) for working in this direction from fall 2024 to fall 2029.
tutorial & slides — selected sets of slides can be found here, together with references to tutorials to accelerated first-order methods and principled (and computer-assisted) worst-case analyses. Recent pedagogical resources related to performance estimation can be found here.
team — I am very fortunate to work with great collaborators, in Thoth team in Grenoble, as well as in the Sierra and Willow teams in Paris.
Within those teams, I am the happy supervisor of:
- Roland Andrews: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Justin Carpentier,
- Daniel Berg Thomsen: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Aymeric Dieuleveut,
- Lucas Haubert: numerical optimization engineer, working with (among others) Justin Carpentier,
- Manu Upadhyaya: postdoc at Inria Paris, co-advised with Aymeric Dieuleveut and Baptiste Goujaud,
- Weijia Wang: PhD student at Sorbonne Université, co-advised with Mohab Safey El Din and Simone Naldi,
- Julien Weibel: postdoc at Inria Paris, co-advised with Pierre Gaillard and Wouter Koolen.
Past PhD students and postdocs:
- Antoine Bambade: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Jean Ponce and Justin Carpentier,
- Baptiste Goujaud: PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique, co-advised with Aymeric Dieuleveut,
- Céline Moucer: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Francis Bach,
- Fabian Schaipp: postdoc at Inria Paris, co-advised with Umut Simsleki and Francis Bach.
Past PhD visitors/interns:
- Shuvomoy Das Gupta: PhD student from MIT,
- Anne Rubbens: PhD student from UCLouvain,
- Manu Upadhyaya: PhD student from Lund University,
- Si Yi Meng: PhD student from Cornell University (co-advised with Aymeric Dieuleveut and Baptiste Goujaud),
- Pierre Vernimmen: PhD student visiting from UCLouvain (co-advised with Baptiste Goujaud).
I was also fortunate to work closely with Mathieu Barré, Radu-Dragomir Alexandru, and Benjamin Dubois-Taine.
