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Samuel Horváth

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

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Samuel Horváth is a Ph.D. candidate at Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), studying under the supervision of Professor Peter Richtarik in his research group. Education and Early Career Samuel studied Financial Mathematics at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and obtained his bachelor in 2017. Then, he joined the MS/PhD program in Statistics and Optimization at KAUST in 2017. In 2018, he had an internship (Machine Learning Intern) at Exponea for 3 months. Research Interest His research interest include Optimization for Big Data

Avetik Karagulyan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Optimization and Machine Learning

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Avetik Karagulyan have joined the team of Peter Richtarik at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a Postdoctoral fellow in November 2021. Education and Early Career Avetik Karagulyan has defended his thesis at Center of Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), Paris in June 2021 entitled as "Sampling with the Langevin Monte-Carlo" under the supervision of professor Arnak Dalalyan. In 2018, he received MSc Mathematics, Vision, Learning (MVA) diploma at ENS Paris-Saclay with highest honors. Avetik Karagulyan graduated from