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NoDescription - Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025The University of Genoa (UNIGE), located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality with an excellent track record to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.
Our University has benefited from several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship is part of the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges.
The MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training, and networking costs.
The research projects will have a duration of 2 or 3 years.Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development.The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass MSCA@UniGe.
Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-day online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal.
This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposals, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organization of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point, and other experts.The masterclass will take place in May/June 2025.Research Focus: I work in the field of optimization for machine learning and inverse problems.
My main interest is the development and application of mathematical optimization techniques to enhance the performance, efficiency, and interpretability of models and algorithms.
Optimization plays a crucial role in training machine learning models.
The goal is to minimize an empirical error, which is an approximation of the true objective function, perturbed by stochastic noise.
In modern applications, the problem is often high dimensional, and most successful optimization methods are based on simple iterative procedures, such as gradient descent or stochastic gradient descent.
I am interested in many challenges related to the behavior of gradient-based methods such as convergence in the nonconvex setting, implicit regularization properties, and scalable, adaptive, asynchronous, and distributed implementations.Research Group: MaLGa is a joint research center between computer science and mathematics.
Its activities span a wide range of diverse but connected topics, including Computer Vision, Computational Harmonic Analysis, Data Science, Statistical Learning, and Optimization.For the MSCA-PF 25 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025), postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.More info on MSCA PF is available at the following link: #J-18808-Ljbffr