Laboratoire Mathématiques & Interactions J.A. Dieudonné
CNRS
UMR 7351, Université Côte d’Azur
Parc Valrose 06108 NICE CEDEX 2,
France
Email: samuel.vaiter@cnrs.fr
Positions and Education
Since 2015, I am a junior (permanent) resear (now postdoc at Inria)cher at CNRS. My academic career and education is described below.
September 2021 – ongoing: CNRS researcher (Chargé de
Recherche classe normale)
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 researcher (Chargé
de Recherche classe normale)
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 students & postdocs
Fares El Khoury (2024-2027?), PhD student co-supervised with Michael Arbel.
Sophie Jaffard (2022-2025?), PhD student co-supervised with Patricia Reynaud-Bouret.
Alumni
Matthieu Cordonnier (2021-2024?), PhD student co-supervised with Nicolas Keriven and Nicolas Tremblay.
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).
Prizes
Editorial activities
Grants
As a PI
MAD (2025–2029)
Mathematics of Automatic Differentiation, role: PI
Funding: Agence nationale de la recherche - Projet de recherche collaborative , id: ANR-24-CE23-1529 (571 k€)
GraVa (2018–2024)
Variational Methods for Graph Signals, role: PI
Funding: Agence nationale de la recherche - Jeunes Chercheuses Jeunes Chercheurs , id: ANR-18-CE40-0005 (182 k€)
RAGA (2018–2021)
Régularisation sur Graphe, role: PI
Funding: ANER Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté , id: ANER RAGA G048CVCRB-2018ZZ (34 k€)
DECONVIMMUNE (2018–2021)
Construction d'un nouveau modèle de déconvolution pour estimer les composants immunitaires cellulaires dans l'objectif d'une meilleure évaluation du pronostic des patients, role: Team leader
Funding: Plan Cancer INSERM , id: Plan Cancer 18CP134-00 (500 k€)
ABS (2017)
Accélération et réduction du biais pour les modèles structurés, role: PI
Funding: CNRS Défi InFIniti, Mission pour l’interdisciplinarité (5 k€)