Chris Criscitiello

Hi! I’m a PhD student in the math department at EPFL, working in the OPTIM team led by Nicolas Boumal.

I’m currently interested in nonconvex optimization, with a focus on providing theoretical guarantees. The types of optimization problems we consider usually arise from data science. Much of the work I do involves geometry in some way or another.

I did my bachelor’s in math at Princeton University. Between my BA and PhD, I worked at the startup Rose Technologies, primarily consulting for Better Mortage. During my PhD, I interned at Citadel Securities as a quantitative researcher, building models for high-frequency trading.

Find my CV here, google scholar here, and Github profile here.

I started a blog!