Akshay Ramachandran

Akshay Ramachandran will be an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Computer Science department starting July 2025. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at ENS Lyon hosted by Professor Omar Fawzi in the QINFO group. Before that he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI). He was fortunate to be hosted by Professor Daniel Dadush in the Networks and Optimization (N&O) group as well as Professor Michael Walter who has moved to Ruhr Universitat Bochum. They are interested in generalizations of convex analysis and convex optimization algorithms to non-Euclidean spaces with a special focus on applications to numerical linear algebra, quantum information theory, geometric invariant theory, and high dimensional statistics.

He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science. He was very fortunate to be advised by Lap Chi Lau. Before UWaterloo, he spent four wonderful years at UC Berkeley, graduating in May 2016 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. At UC Berkeley, he was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to work with Luca Trevisan and Nikhil Srivastava.