I am a Professor at IST Austria. My research focuses on high-performance algorithms for machine learning, and spans from purely theoretical results to practical implementations.
Before IST, I was a researcher at ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research, and a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CSAILI received my PhD from the EPFL, under the guidance of Prof. Rachid Guerraoui

In Fall 2023, I was a visiting professor at MIT.

My research is supported by an ERC Starting Grant, the Austrian FWF, and generous support from Amazon and Google.

I am also a Principal Machine Learning Researcher at Neural Magic.

You can find a list of recent projects and publications here.

Recent/future service: 

  • Editorship: Distributed Computing Journal and Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • DISC 2024 PC Chair
  • ICML 2024 Local Chair
  • Selected PCs: PODC 2024, NeurIPS 2023 (Area Chair), PODC 2022, PPoPP 2022, NeurIPS 2022, MLSYS 2020-2024, DCC 2021 (Program Chair), ICDCS 2021 (Track Chair), ALGOCLOUD 2017 (PC chair)

News:

I am extremely lucky to be able to work with the following students and postdocs:

  • Joel Rybicki (PostDoc @ IST)
  • Janne Korhonen (PostDoc @ IST)
  • Giorgi Nadiradze (PhD Student @ IST)
  • Alexandra Peste (PhD @ IST, co-advised with Christoph Lampert)
  • Aleksandr Shevchenko (PhD @ IST, co-advised with Marco Mondelli)
  • Ilya Markov (PhD Student @ IST)
  • Jen Iofinova (PhD Student @ IST)
  • Elias Frantar (PhD Student @ IST)
  • Nikita Koval (PhD Student @ ITMO, Researcher at JetBrains)

Visitors / Collaborators / Friends of the Lab: 

  • Prof. Faith Ellen (visiting February-May 2020)
  • Prof. Nir Shavit (visiting November 2019)
  • Prof. Thomas Sauerwald (visiting Oct 2019)
  • Prof. Gregory Valiant (visiting Nov 2018)
  • Prof. Robert Tarjan (visiting May 2018)
  • Dr. Frank McSherry (visiting May 2018)
  • Dr. Aleksandar Prokopec (visiting April 2018)
  • Prof. Ce Zhang (ETH)
  • Prof. Markus Pueschel (ETH)
  • Prof. Torsten Hoefler (ETH)

Alumni:

  • Kimia Noorbakhsh (Intern -> PhD Student @ MIT) 
  • Kaveh Alimohammadi (Intern -> PhD Student @ MIT) 
  • Shayan Talaei (Intern -> PhD Student @ Stanford) 
  • Peter Davies (PostDoc @ IST -> Lecturer at University of Surrey)
  • Bapi Chatterjee (PostDoc @ IST -> Faculty at IIIT Delhi)
  • Vitaly Aksenov (PostDoc @ IST -> Lecturer @ City University of London)
  • Trevor Brown (PostDoc @ IST -> Assistant Professor @ Waterloo)
  • Amirmojtaba Sabour (Intern @ IST -> PhD Student @ U of Toronto)
  • Vijaykrishna Gurunanthan (Intern @ IST -> PhD Student @Stanford)
  • Saleh Ashkboos (Intern @ IST -> PhD @ ETH Zurich)
  • Antonio Polino (MSc @ ETH -> Google Search)
  • Rati Gelashvili (PhD@MIT, now Research Lead at Aptos)
  • Justin Kopinsky (PhD@MIT, now Researcher at Jane Street)
  • Cédric Renggli (MSc Thesis (ETH Medal), with Torsten Hoefler, now PhD@ETH)
  • Nandini Singhal (Intern @ IST -> Microsoft Research)
  • Demjan Grubić (MSc, now at Google)
  • Syed Kamran Haider (Intern @ MSR, now Researcher @ NVIDIA)
  • Hyunjik Kim (Intern @ MSR -> Researcher at DeepMind)