About
Samuel Vaiter
Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné
CNRS UMR 7351, Université Côte d'Azur
Parc Valrose 06108 NICE CEDEX 2, France
email: samuel.vaiter@cnrs.fr
github: @svaiter, bluesky: @samuelvaiter.com
Positions and Education¶
Since 2015, I am a tenured researcher at CNRS. My academic career and education is described below.
October 2025 — ongoing : CNRS senior researcher
(Directeur de Recherche)
Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné (LJAD, UMR 7351) — Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique
September 2025 — ongoing : Professor, part-time
(Professeur chargé de cours)
École Polytechnique, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées
September 2021 — September 2025 : CNRS junior
researcher (Chargé de Recherche)
Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné (LJAD, UMR 7351) — Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique
2021 : Habilitation in Applied
Mathematics
Université de Bourgogne — Dijon, France
Title: From optimization to algorithmic
differentiation: a graph detour.
Defense: January 14th, 2021.
Referees: Alexandre d’Aspremont (rev.), Francis Bach, Martin Burger
(rev.), Hervé Cardot, Marco Cuturi, Alexandre Gramfort, Jérôme Malick
(rev.), Joseph Salmon.
October 2015 — August 2021 : CNRS junior researcher
(Chargé de Recherche)
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne (IMB, UMR 5584) — Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique
October 2014 — September 2015 : Post-doctoral
researcher
Centre de Mathématiques Appliquée (CMAP, UMR 7641) — École
Polytechnique
Supervisor : Antonin Chambolle
Research area : Optimization on GPU for denoising, debluring and related
problems
2011—2014 : PhD in Applied
Mathematics
Université Paris-Dauphine — Paris, France
Title: Low Complexity Regularizations of
Inverse Problems.
Advisor: Gabriel Peyré.
Defense: July 10th, 2014.
Jury: Francis Bach, Emmanuel Candès (rev.), Antonin Chambolle, Albert
Cohen, Charles Dossal, Jalal Fadili, Rémi Gribonval (rev.), Gabriel
Peyré (adv.), Vincent Rivoirard.
2011 : MSc in Applied Mathematics
École Normale Supérieure de Cachan — Université Paris-Descartes — Paris,
France
2008 : BSc in Computer Science
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon — Université Claude Bernard — Lyon,
France
Team¶
Current members¶
- Marco Rando (2025-2027), postdoc.
- Guillaume Lauga (2025-2026), postdoc.
- Tùng Nguyễn Thanh (2025-2028?), PhD student co-supervised with Yassine Laguel.
- Christian Daniele (2025-2028?), PhD student co-supervised with Luca Calatroni.
- Fares El Khoury (2024-2027?), PhD student co-supervised with Michael Arbel.
Alumni¶
- Sophie Jaffard (2022-2025), PhD student co-supervised with Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (now postdoc at CBS Dresden).
- Matthieu Cordonnier (2021-2024), PhD student co-supervised with Nicolas Keriven and Nicolas Tremblay (now postdoc at RIKEN AIP).
- Mathieu Dagréou (2021-2024), PhD student co-supervised with Thomas Moreau and Pierre Ablin (now postdoc at Inria).
- Hashem Ghanem (2020-2023), PhD student co-supervised with Nicolas Keriven and Joseph Salmon (now at Expleo R&D).
- Quentin Klopfenstein (2018-2021), PhD student co-supervised with Hervé Cardot (now at Owkin).
Editorial activities¶
2024, 2025: Action Editor for the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025: Area Chair for the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
2023, 2024, 2025: Area Chair for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
2024, 2025: Area Chair for the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
2024: Area Chair for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)