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

Samuel Vaiter

Positions and Education

Since 2015, I am a junior (permanent) researcher 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

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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

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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.

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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

Alumni

Prizes

2017: Inform. Inf. prize by Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

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2015: PhD thesis award (Prix Jeunes Chercheurs) by Fondation Dauphine

2015: PhD thesis award by Programme Gaspard Monge (PGMO), Fondation Hadamard

Editorial activities

Since 2024: Action Editor for the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

Since 2022: Area Chair for the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Since 2023: Area Chair for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Since 2024: Area Chair for the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

2024: Area Chair for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

Grants

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€)

Events

2024-12-16 (5 days): Conference IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) at Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, France
2024-09-23 (3 days): Workshop Learning and Optimization in Côte d'Azur at Université Côte d'Azur in Sophia-Antipolis, France
2023-08-24 (1 day): Minisymposium ICIAM'23 Bilevel optimization in machine learning and imaging sciences at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan
2022-11-07 (5 days): Workshop Machine Learning and Signal Processing on Graphs at Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques in Marseille, France
2022-10-11 (4 days): Workshop Workshop GdR Mathematics of Optimization and Applications at Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, France
2020-06-01 (5 days): Workshop Optimization & Control at Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France (canceled due to COVID)
2020-03-09 (5 days): Workshop Optimization for Machine Learning at Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques in Marseille, France
2019-05-02 (2 days): Workshop Graph signals : learning and optimization perspectives at Université de Montpellier in Montpellier, France
2018-08-29 (3 days): Conference Processus et Échantillonnage at Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France
2018-05-03 (1 day): Workshop Parcimonie et applications at Université de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France
2015-12-02 (3 days): Workshop Journées du GdR MOA 2015 at Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France

Services

2024-2028: Member (appointed) of the scientific council of Réseau Thématique MAIAGES (MAthématiques de l'Imagerie, Apprentissage et GEométrie Stochastique)
2023-2027: Member (appointed) of the Conseil national des universités 26 (Applied Math)
2023-2026: Member (elected) of the scientific council of SMAI-MODE group
2023-2025: Member (appointed) of the scientific council of the Académie Systèmes Complexes
2020-2021: Co-head of the Statistics, Probability, Optimization and Control team at IMB, Dijon, France
2017-2021: Member (appointed) of lab council of IMB, Dijon, France