Research webpage of Adrien Taylor

short biography

hello !

I am currently a research scientist at Inria, within the SIERRA team. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the same team in 2017-2019, working with Francis Bach. I completed a PhD at Université catholique de Louvain, in the department of mathematical engineering (part of the ICTEAM institute), where I was holding a F.R.S.-FNRS FRIA scholarship for my PhD under the supervision of François Glineur and Julien Hendrickx.

My research currently focuses on optimization (mostly first-order) and numerical analysis with a bit of control and machine learning. I find it particularly important to push toward reproducible (including theory) and understandable science, and many of my research projects have this orientation. I had the chance to be awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2024 (project CASPER) for working in this direction from fall 2024 to fall 2029.

tutorial & slides — selected sets of slides can be found here, together with references to tutorials to accelerated first-order methods and principled (and computer-assisted) worst-case analyses.

team — I am very fortunate to work in the SIERRA team with great collaborators, among which:

• Roland Andrews: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Justin Carpentier,
• Daniel Berg Thomsen: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Aymeric Dieuleveut
• Si Yi Meng: visiting PhD student from Cornell, co-advised with Aymeric Dieuleveut and Baptiste Goujaud,
• Fabian Schaipp: postdoc at Inria Paris, co-advised with Umut Simsleki and Francis Bach,
• Weijia Wang: PhD student at Sorbonne Université, co-advised with Mohab Safey El Din and Simone Naldi,
• Julien Weibel: postdoc at Inria Paris, co-advised with Pierre Gaillard and Wouter Koolen.

Past PhD students:

• Antoine Bambade: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Jean Ponce and Justin Carpentier,
• Baptiste Goujaud: PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique, co-advised with Aymeric Dieuleveut,
• Céline Moucer: PhD student at ENS Paris, co-advised with Francis Bach.

Past PhD visitors/interns:

• Shuvomoy Das Gupta: PhD student from MIT,
• Anne Rubbens: PhD student from UCLouvain,
• Manu Upadhyaya: PhD student from Lund University.

I was also fortunate to work closely with Mathieu Barré, Radu-Dragomir Alexandru, and Benjamin Dubois-Taine.