Jelena Diakonikolas

Jelena Diakonikolas is a Postdoctoral Associate at Boston University. She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Her research interests include large-scale optimization with a focus on first-order methods and their applications in engineered and networked systems. She is the recipient of a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship (2018), the Morton B. Friedman Prize for Excellence at Columbia Engineering (2017), and a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2015). In 2016, she was featured on the inaugural N^2 Women list of "10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Watch."

Program Visits

Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling, Fall 2021, Visiting Scientist

Foundations of Data Science, Fall 2018, Microsoft Research Fellow

Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Fall 2017, Visiting Postdoc