Florian Schäfer

S1317 CODA
756 W Peachtree St
Atlanta, GA 30332
I’m Florian Schäfer, assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I received my PhD in applied and computational mathematics at Caltech, working with Houman Owhadi. Before that, I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mathematics at the University of Bonn.
My research interests lie at the interface of numerical computation, statistical inference, and competitive games. To learn more, have a look at these high-level summaries or the defense of my thesis.
I am currently hiring PhD students. If you have a strong background in computational mathematics and the above seems interesting (or you have a project in mind that I might find interesting), feel free to reach out!
news
Feb 4, 2023 | Paper on variational inference with double KL minimization now on the arXiv! First authors are Jian Cao and Myeongjong Kang from the group of Matthias Katzfuss. |
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Jan 20, 2023 | Congratulations to Qi Zeng, for getting his paper on Competitive Physics-Informed Networks accepted at ICLR 2023! Joint work with Yash Kothari and Spencer Bryngelson. |
Jan 20, 2023 | I am giving an invited plenary talk at the Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium (GSCS 2023) on Saturday February 18. |
Dec 21, 2022 | New version of our paper on the recovery of elliptic solvers from matrix-vector products now on the arXiv. With greatly extended experiments, plenty of new figures, and theoretical results on the recovery of the continuous Green’s function. Joint work with Houman. |
Nov 30, 2022 | Congratulations to Jiawei for having his paper on ZerO Initialization for deep neural networks accepted at TMLR! |
selected publications
- Sparse Cholesky factorization by Kullback-Leibler minimizationSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 2021
- Sparse recovery of elliptic solvers from matrix-vector productsarXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05351 2022