I defended my PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science in June 2017
Member of LEAR and BiPoP Teams, INRIA, Grenoble University



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Research

During my PhD I worked with my supervisors Anatoli Iouditski (director), Zaid Harchaoui (co-encadrant), Jerome Malick (co-encadrant) on on large-scale non-smooth optimization for machine learning.
Slides of my PhD defense

Interests

• Convex Optimization
• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision

In particular

• Smoothing of nonsmooth loss functions
• Trace norm regularized optimization
• Collaborative filtering
• Multi class classification
• Frank-Wolfe / conditional gradient type methods

Publications

• F. Pierucci, Z. Harchaoui, J. Malick, 2014 - A smoothing approach for composite conditional gradient with nonsmooth loss - Conférence d'Apprentissage Automatique (Cap'2014)
  
  BibTeX

  @conference{pierucci2014,
         title={A smoothing approach for composite conditional gradient with nonsmooth loss},
         author={Pierucci, Federico and Harchaoui, Zaid and Malick, J{\'e}r{\^o}me},
         year={2014},
         journal={Conf{\'e}rence d'Apprentissage Automatique}
  }
  

  Slides

International experiences

• [15 mai-12 june 2015] Visit of Courant Institute of New York University, to present my work, implement code for robust statistics and have scientific exchanges with the other researchers - New York (USA);
• [December 10, 2013] Together with Zaid Harchaoui and Martin Jaggi, I co-organized NIPS 2013 Workshop on Greedy Algorithms, Frank-Wolfe and Friends - A modern perspective as part of NIPS 2013 - the 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - Tahoe (USA);
• [July 30, 2013 ] One presentation at ICCOPT conference about Conditional gradient algorithm for machine learning with non-smooth loss and decomposable regularization - Lisbon (Portugal).

Seminars

• BiPoP seminar 2015 - my slides on Smoothing convex functions for non-differentiable optimization
• Emanuel Candès reading group - Slides
• LEAR–XRCE Reading Group

Workshop co-organization

• [November 5, 2014] Together with Jerome Malick I co-organized the Grenoble Optimization Day workshop.
• [December 10, 2013] Together with Zaid Harchaoui and Martin Jaggi, I co-organized NIPS 2013 Workshop on Greedy Algorithms, Frank-Wolfe and Friends - A modern perspective as part of NIPS 2013 - the 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
  

Affiliations

• SAM Team - Mathematical statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing
• Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann - The applied mathematics and computer science laboratory in Grenoble
• ED MSTII - Doctoral school for computer sciences, applied and pure mathematics in Grenoble
• Université Joseph Fourier - The science and technology University of Grenoble

Teaching

• [Fall 2012, fall 2013, fall 2014] Mathematics MAT11a 192 hours equivalent TD - Département licence sciences et technologies - Grenoble University
  

Professional Affiliations

• Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)