Bio
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Biosketch
Simone Brugiapaglia is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University. He received his PhD in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (MOX Laboratory) in 2016.
Dr. Brugiapaglia was a post-doctoral fellow at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Spring 2016 and at Simon Fraser University from 2016 to 2019, where he held a Postdoctoral Training Centre in Stochastics Fellowship from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) from 2016 to 2018. He was awarded a Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in 2019.
Dr. Brugiapaglia has co-authored two books and more than 25 scientific publications, including book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference proceedings. His work has been published in venues such as SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Mathematics of Computation, Neural Computation, Numerische Mathematik, and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He has supervised more than 20 trainees at the post-doctoral, graduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests include mathematics of data science, machine learning, numerical analysis, and their applications.
Short CV
Positions
2024-now: Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
2019-2024: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
2016-2019: Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. (Mentors: B. Adcock and P. F. Tupper)
2016: Postdoctoral Fellow at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. (Mentor: F. Nobile)
Education
2012-16: Ph.D. - MOX, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. (Advisors: S. Perotto and S. Micheletti)
2010-12: Master's Degree in Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy. (Advisor: L. Gemignani)
2007-10: Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy. (Advisor: D. A. Bini)
Fellowships and Awards
2019: IMA 19th Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (2nd place)
2017: Spotlight talk prize at the SFU Postdoc Research Day 2017
2016–18: Postdoctoral fellowship from the PIMS Postdoctoral Training Center in Stochastics
2012–15: PhD scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
2010–12: INdAM Scholarship for graduate students (Ranked 2nd on a national level in Italy)
2007–10: INdAM Scholarship for undergraduate students (Ranked 25th on a national level in Italy)