Fellowships and honors

Awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2024 - 2026 Selected as Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, 2019 - 2023 Media mentions for my team's work in various news outlets:
e.g., Daily Echo, Yahoo News UK, and UKRI News Approved as Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2018 - present Selected as Member of the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Forum, 2017 - 2020 Approved as Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE, 2016 - present Listed in Optimization Top 10 Most Read Articles of 2014,
Taylor & Francis Journals, 2015 Listed in the Editor's Choices of Best Articles for the Optimization journal, 2014 - 2015 Featured Article for the SIAM Journal on Optimization from November 2012 - June 2013 Medal from the Technical University of Freiberg for outstanding PhD results (graduation with summa cum laude), 2012 Invited speaker, multiple single-track conferences/workshops; e.g., Continuous Optimization Stream (FoCM, Paris, June 2023), International Conference on Optimization and Equilibrium Problems (Dresden, August 2019), International Conference on Variational Analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization (Halle, June 2018), Invited Plenary 6th International Conference on Complementarity Problems (Berlin, August 2014)

Selection of recent grants and PhD studentships

Two International Mathematical Union Studentships (Co-I) for PhDs on bilevel optimization at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Limbe, 2023 - 2027 EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Small grant on the mathematics of Stackelberg games in machine learning, 2023 - 2024 Two Dstl Studentships (Co-I) for PhDs on game theory and methods for electronic warfare, 2023 - 2027 Decision Analysis Services Ltd Studentship for PhD project on optimising machine learning algorithms, 2022 - 2026 EPSRC Studentship for PhD project on Stackelberg games for adversarial learning, 2021 - 2025 EPSRC New Horizons grant approved for a project on two-level value functions approximations with applications, 2021 - 2023 Alan Turing Institute grant approved for the workshop on Optimization and Machine Learning, October 2019 EPSRC IAA Grant for a project on using data analytics to improve renewable energy production, April - September 2019 Decision Analysis Services Ltd Studentship for a project on Machine Learning for Time Series Analysis, 2018 - 2022 EPSRC First Grant approved for a project on Newton-type methods for bilevel optimization, 2017 - 2019 SIRDF Grant for a project on hierarchical optimization techniques for forecasting, 2017 - 2018 Southampton Vice Chancellor Studentship for a project on nonsmooth techniques for bilevel optimization, 2016 - 2019 Small Grant Award from the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2016