Kimon Fountoulakis

Biography

Kimon Fountoulakis, PhD, is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and an Associate Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he is a member of the Waterloo, AI Institute and the Scientific Computation Group. 

Dr. Kimon directs the Optimization, Analytics and Learning (OpAL) Lab, focusing on neural networks and optimization. He regularly publishes in venues such as NeurIPS and ICML, and serves as an Area Chair for both, as well as a Senior Program Committee member at the Annual AAAI Conference. His work has received an oral presentation (top 3% of submitted papers) at ICML 2023, and was selected for spotlight presentations (top 6%) at ICLR 2023 and ICML 2021.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow and Principal Investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Statistics and ICSI. Dr. Kimon received his PhD from the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and his undergraduate degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business. In 2022, he spent his sabbatical as a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Waterloo and New York. 

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