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The successful candidate will work on a project in the AI and Optimization Lab with Prof. Anastasia Koloskova. The emphasis of the doctoral project is theory, or the intersection of theory and practice in areas such as optimization for machine learning, privacy, unlearning, distributed optimization or federated learning.

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