Emanuele Naldi

I am a researcher at the department of mathematics of the University of Genoa. I am also part of the MaLGa research group, under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Villa.

Before joining the University of Genoa I did my PhD in Braunschweig (Germany) in the research group of Prof. Dirk Lorenz. The position was within the TraDE-OPT project, funded by ITN Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. My PhD thesis is about "Investigating degenerate preconditioners for proximal point algorithms".

My wife is also a mathematician! See Francesca Bartolucci.

Talks:
8 July 2026: talk at EUROPT 2026, Linz, Austria

On 13 March 2026, I became a dad to a beautiful baby boy ❤️

Main research interests:

Nonconvex optimization via zeroth order and Langevin methods
Optimal transport and optimization algorithms in spaces of measures
Splitting and distributed methods for (convex or weakly convex) optimization
Learning regularizers for Plug-and-Play methods

Selected publications:

Weak topology and Opial property in Wasserstein spaces, with applications to gradient flows and proximal point algorithms of geodesically convex functionals (with Giuseppe Savaré). Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. 32, 725-750 (2021). https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/955
A Lipschitz spaces view of infinitely wide shallow neural networks (with Francesca Bartolucci, Marcello Carioni, José A. Iglesias, Yury Korolev, Stefano Vigogna). SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 58 (3), 2786-2828 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1718615
Graph and distributed extensions of the Douglas–Rachford method (with Kristian Bredies and Enis Chenchene). SIAM Journal on Optimization 34 (2), 1569-1594 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1137/22M1535097

Degenerate Preconditioned Proximal Point algorithms (with Kristian Bredies, Enis Chenchene and Dirk Lorenz). SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 2376–2401 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1448112
Splitting the Forward-Backward Algorithm: A Full Characterization (with Anton Åkerman, Enis Chenchene and Pontus Giselsson). arXiv preprint (2024). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.10999
Learning Firmly Nonexpansive Operators (with Kristian Bredies and Jonathan Chirinos-Rodriguez). arXiv preprint (2024). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.14156

Short Curriculum Vitae:

From November 2023: Postdoc researcher (assegnista di ricerca), University of Genoa, Italy
January 2025: PhD in Applied Mathematics, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action ITN Doctoral fellowship, TU Braunschweig
July 2020: MSc degree in Applied Mathematics, University of Pavia
September 2018: BSc degree in Mathematics, University of Pavia

Contacts:

emanuele.naldi@edu.unige.it

Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Degli Studi di Genova, Via Dodecaneso, 35, 16146 Genova, Italy

Links: Google scholar - Research Gate - ORCID

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