Peter Richtarik

Biography

Prof PETER RICHTARIK Specialises in mathematics, computer science. He is working as Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

Research Interest

Prof. Richtarik's research interests lie at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, numerical linear algebra, high performance computing and applied probability. He is interested in developing zero, first, and second-order algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization problems described by big data, with a particular focus on randomized, parallel and distributed methods. He is the co-inventor of federated learning, a Google platform for machine learning on mobile devices preserving privacy of users' data.