About me

I am an assistant professor of AI and Optimization at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning at the University of Zurich. I am looking for PhD students and postdocs. If you are interested, please visit the following links: PhD position, postdoc position.

My research interests include machine learning, optimization, and their intersections with decentralized and collaborative learning, and privacy. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University at STAIR lab with Prof. Sanmi Koyejo. I completed my Ph.D. at EPFL, Switzerland in the laboratory of Machine Learning and Optimization (MLO), supervised by Prof. Martin Jaggi. My PhD was supported by a Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning. During my PhD I also spent some time at FAIR (Facebook AI Research), and Google Research. My PhD thesis received ELLIS PhD Awards and EPFL Thesis Distinction Award.

News

• I am excited to announce that I will join the University of Zurich as an assistant professor in August this year!

I am looking for PhD students and postdocs starting from the fall. (flexible) My research interests include topics related to optimization, federated learning, machine learning, privacy, and unlearning. Both in theory and practice (e.g. related to LLM). If you are interested in working with me please apply! PhD position, postdoc position

• 12/2024: I was honored to receive ELLIS PhD Awards and EPFL Thesis Distinction Award for my PhD thesis!

• 10/2024: I am honored to be selected as a Rising Star in EECS by MIT!

• 02/2024: I successfully defended my PhD thesis named "Optimization Algorithms for Decentralized, Distributed and Collaborative Machine Learning". Link to thesis

Publications

Selected Talks and Presentations

Get In Touch

My email:

anastasiia.koloskova@[uzh].ch