Peter Richtarik | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | Slovak |
| Alma mater | Comenius University Cornell University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning |
| Institutions | KAUST |
| Thesis | Some algorithms for large-scale convex and linear minimization in relative scale (2007) |
| Academic advisors | Yurii Nesterov |
| Website | https://richtarik.org |
Peter Richtarik is a Slovak mathematician and computer scientist[1] working in the area of big data optimization and machine learning, known for his work on randomized coordinate descent algorithms, stochastic gradient descent and federated learning. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.