Oct 2025 — ongoing
CNRS Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche)
Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné (LJAD, UMR 7351) — CNRS
Samuel Vaiter
Directeur de Recherche — CNRS, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Nice
Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné — CNRS UMR 7351
Université Côte d'Azur — Parc Valrose
06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Positions & Education
Since 2015, I am a tenured researcher at CNRS.
Sep 2025 — ongoing
Professor, part-time
(Professeur chargé de cours)
École Polytechnique — Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées
Sep 2024 — ongoing
3IA Chairholder
3IA Côte d'Azur Institute — Université Côte d'Azur
Sep 2021 — Sep 2025
CNRS Junior Researcher (Chargé de Recherche)
Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné (LJAD, UMR 7351) — CNRS
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.
Oct 2015 — Aug 2021
CNRS Junior Researcher (Chargé de Recherche)
Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne (IMB, UMR 5584) — CNRS
Oct 2014 — Sep 2015
Post-doctoral Researcher
Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP, UMR 7641) — École
Polytechnique
Supervisor: Antonin Chambolle.Research area: Optimization on GPU for denoising, deblurring 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
- 2025–2027 Marco Rando, postdoc.
- 2025–2026 Guillaume Lauga, postdoc.
- 2025–2028? Tùng Nguyễn Thanh, PhD student, co-supervised with Yassine Laguel.
- 2025–2028? Christian Daniele, PhD student, co-supervised with Luca Calatroni.
- 2024–2027? Fares El Khoury, PhD student, co-supervised with Michael Arbel.
Alumni
- 2022–2025 Sophie Jaffard, PhD student, co-supervised with Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (now postdoc at CBS Dresden).
- 2021–2024 Matthieu Cordonnier, PhD student, co-supervised with Nicolas Keriven and Nicolas Tremblay (now postdoc at RIKEN AIP).
- 2021–2024 Mathieu Dagréou, PhD student, co-supervised with Thomas Moreau and Pierre Ablin (now postdoc at Inria).
- 2020–2023 Hashem Ghanem, PhD student, co-supervised with Nicolas Keriven and Joseph Salmon (now at Expleo R&D).
- 2018–2021 Quentin Klopfenstein, PhD student, co-supervised with Hervé Cardot (now at Owkin).
Editorial Activities
- 2024, 2025, 2026 Action Editor Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
- 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Area Chair Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Area Chair International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- 2024, 2025 Area Chair International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- 2024 Area Chair International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)