Nadav Hallak
Assistant Professor, The Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, The Technion

Contact:

Nadav Hallak,
Assistant Professor
The Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, The Technion
Office: Bloomfield Building, room 508
Phone: +972-77-887-4415
E-mail: ndvhllk@technion.ac.il

Research Interests:

• Continuous Optimization: Theory and Algorithms

• First and Second Order Methods

• Nonconvex Optimization

• Sparse Optimization: Theory and Algorithms

• Applications in Machine Learning, Engineering, Finance and Science

News (March 2024):

• Research Projects for undergrads:

• Numerical investigation of online nonconvex optimization algorithms in market / game-theory applications

• Numerical investigation of optimization methods with relative-error gradient (compressed gradient, zero-order gradient approximation, gradient quantization)

• Potential Research Topics

  • Augmented Lagrangian approach to non-convex composite problems

  • Optimization methods with stochastic relative-error gradient (compressed gradient, zero-order gradient approximation, gradient quantization)

  • Stochastic quadratic optimization with hidden convexity

• Postdoc position available