Research scientist (Chargé de recherche) at CNRS, Nice, France

Vita

I am a CNRS researcher at the interface of mathematics and computer science. My current host lab is the Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné of Université Côte d'Azur located in the beautiful city of Nice.

My research interests cover in particular the mathematical foundation of machine learning, especially linked to optimization. In particular, I work on graph machine learning, algorithmic differentiation, (stochastic ∨ bilevel ∨ nonsmooth) optimization. I am currently an Area Chair for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and Action Editor for TMLR. I am also PI of the research projet ANR PRC ANR MAD and 3IA Côte d'Azur chairholder. More information are available on my About page.

Five recent representative publications

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1. Jérôme Bolte, Tung Lê, Edouard Pauwels, SV. Geometric and computational hardness of bilevel programming. Mathematical Programming. 2025
2. Yann Traonmilin, Rémi Gribonval, SV. A theory of optimal convex regularization for low-dimensional recovery. Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA 13(2):66pp. 2024.
3. Nicolas Keriven, SV. What functions can Graph Neural Networks compute on random graphs? The role of Positional Encoding. NeurIPS. 2023.
4. Edouard Pauwels, SV. The Derivatives of Sinkhorn-Knopp Converge. SIAM Journal on Optimization 33(3):1494–1517. 2023.
5. Mathieu Dagréou, Pierre Ablin, SV, Thomas Moreau. A framework for bilevel optimization that enables stochastic and global variance reduction algorithms. NeurIPS. 2022. (Oral paper).