Umut Şimşekli, PhD

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Research Faculty
INRIA - SIERRA team
École Normale Supérieure de Paris - Departement d'Informatique

Address: 2 rue Simone Iff, 75012, Paris
Office: C419
E-mail: name.surname@inria.fr


Briefly,
I am a Research Faculty (Chargé de Recherche) at
INRIA - SIERRA team and École Normale Supérieure, Computer Science Department. I received my PhD from Boğaziçi University, Computer Engineering Department in 2015. Before my current post, I was an associate professor at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris for four years and I spent one year as a visiting faculty at the University of Oxford, Department of Statistics. I am a laureate of the ERC Starting Grants, with my project DYNASTY: Dynamics-Aware Theory of Deep Learning (1.5M€, 2022-2027) and I am a chair at the PRAIRIE Institute. .

My research field is best described as Mathematical Machine Learning*. I am/have been an area chair at NeurIPS, ICML, COLT, AISTATS, ICASSP, and WASPAA, and I have served as an elected member of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing technical committee. I
am was also a professional bass guitar player. Previously, I was a member of the Turkish pop/jazz band Six Pack.
* I'm using the term "Mathematical Machine Learning" by imitating the role of "mathematical" in "Mathematical Physics" and "Mathematical Statistics".

Research Interests